1. Roland Winters's father was born in Austria and his mother in Germany.
10 Facts About Roland Winters
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Monogram Pictures selected Winters to replace Sidney Toler in the Charlie Chan film series after Toler's death just as Toler had been chosen to succeed Warner Oland after Oland's death.
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Roland Winters was 44 when he made the first of his six Chan films, The Chinese Ring in 1947.
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Roland Winters had character roles in three other feature films while he worked on the Chan series.
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Roland Winters is considered by some fans to be the least effective of the Chan impersonators, but other observers are quick to defend Winters's portrayals.
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Roland Winters brought with him a badly needed breath of fresh air to the series.
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Roland Winters was in the movies So Big and Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, and played Elvis Presley's father in Blue Hawaii and a judge in the Elvis film Follow That Dream.
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Roland Winters made appearances as the boss on the early TV series Meet Millie, guest-starred in the premiere episode of Colgate Theatre in 1958 and in a 1965 episode of The Cara Williams Show, and made appearances in the courtroom drama Perry Mason.
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Roland Winters portrayed Mr Gimbel in Miracle on 34th Street in 1973.
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Roland Winters died at the age of 84 as the result of a stroke at the Actor's Fund Nursing Home in Englewood, New Jersey on October 22,1989.