Why weren't Chinese actors cast as Chinese detective Charlie Chan? Because the movies were made in Hollywood in a less enlightened time, when it wasn't deemed inappropriate for Edward G. Robinson or ...

Sidney Toler was nobody's fool. After playing Charlie Chan in 11 films for 20th Century Fox, he learned that the studio was phasing out its B-picture unit and with it the Chan series, so he bought the ...

Three Monogram titles with Sidney Toler (and the first with Roland Winters) as the Chinese-American detective are included in “The Charlie Chan Collection,” Warner Home Video’s first regular ...

Charlie Chan was a borderline case that straddled the lines of acceptability. On the one hand, he was a positive, self-determined Asian character long before such characters were normally visible. On ...

There’s no getting around the fact that the vintage Charlie Chan mystery movies of the 1930s and ‘40s are, to put it mildly, politically incorrect in this day and age because three of the actors who ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Writer Earl Derr Biggers created Charlie Chan, a fictional Chinese-American sleuth ...