Warner Oland, Sydney Toler and Roland Winters have all played which fictional detective?
Portrayal of East Asians in American film and theater status alongside its humor and Grand Guignol sets and torture sequences. The film was suppressed for many years, but has since received critical re-evaluation and been released on DVD uncut. In a series of films in the 1930s and '40s, Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was played by white actors Warner Oland, Sidney Toler and Roland Winters. The Swedish-born Oland, unlike his two successors in the Chan role, actually looked somewhat Chinese, and according to his contemporaries, he did not use special makeup in the role. He also played East Asians in other films, including "Shanghai Express", "The Painted Veil", and
Warner Oland of the Fu Manchu character in film. Oland continued to appear onscreen as an Asian, probably more often than any other white actor in the history of cinema. In "Old San Francisco", Oland played an Asian unsuccessfully impersonating a white man. Oland was the first actor to play a werewolf in a major Hollywood film, biting the protagonist, played by Henry Hull, in "Werewolf of London" (1935). Once again, Oland's character was Asian. A box office success, "The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu" made Oland a star, and during the next two years he portrayed the evil Dr. Fu Manchu in