![]() To play Chan, Oland merely brushed his eyebrows up and had a few drinks to make his speech more halting and to put a grin on his face - like the perpetually congenial Chinese sleuth. ![]() The actor who played Charlie Chan in that and 40 other films was Warner Oland like Sidney Toler, the actor who succeeded him in the role, Oland was Caucasian - Swedish, in fact! But, to Hollywood, Oland looked vaguely Asiatic. ![]() Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American Historyĭepending on your cultural politics, you'll find the following scene from the 1934 film Charlie Chan in London either charming or wince-making: Our venerable detective is being congratulated by a British official for his cleverness in discovering the true identity of a dastardly criminal. ![]()
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