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Sidney Toler (born Hooper G. Toler Jr., April 28, 1874 – February 12, 1947) was an American actor, playwright and theatre director. The second European-American actor to play the role of Charlie Chan on screen, he is best remembered for his portrayal of the Chinese-American detective in 22 films made between 1938 and 1946. Before becoming Chan, Toler played supporting roles in 50 motion pictures and was a highly regarded comic actor on the Broadway stage.
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15 October 1937
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.
11 January 1935
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia.
18 April 1938
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
01 August 1945
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
14 February 1944
Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo.
17 June 1932
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit.
15 September 1936
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins.
23 May 1939
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.
13 December 1940
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
09 August 1935
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields.
12 October 1946
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
05 March 1932
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when the latter dies.
21 June 1934
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety.
01 March 1940
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic.
28 March 1941
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, a recalcitrant sea captain and several suspicious passengers - and a second murder.
21 April 1945
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.
06 September 1940
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard.
27 June 1946
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
19 August 1944
Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.
16 June 1939
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers).
20 May 1944
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.
12 February 1938
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands.
08 June 1934
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become one of his operators and infiltrate enemy territory.
05 January 1943
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
06 April 1934
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation.
23 April 1943
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.
25 November 1933
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr.
02 March 1933
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and written by Lloyd Corrigan, Ray Harris and Harlan Thompson.
09 December 1938
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s.
06 March 1936
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Arizona desert.
26 January 1945
The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and involves the disappearance of a scientist named Harper, who was working on an extremely important serum.
23 June 1939
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance, he is befriended by rancher Andrew Naab and his son, Marvin.
29 September 1945
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders.
21 June 1974
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
02 June 1932
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.
31 August 1939
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader.
02 May 1940
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.
05 September 1941
In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer's own murder.
23 September 1932
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire.
30 December 1938
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
28 April 1934
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
08 July 1933
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.
10 March 1933
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
06 January 1939
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader.
21 September 1938
Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wanted for murder.
10 December 1942
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book.
31 January 1934
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems.
02 October 1936
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.
02 June 1938
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four men who had all withdrawn large sums of money from the local bank in Stockton, Ohio.
30 June 1932
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.
17 March 1939
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
17 May 1931
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then begins pampering her with jewels and furs.
06 January 1933
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.
17 July 1935
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke).
25 May 1946
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigation Charlie finds the men are innocent and that the fingerprint evidence used to convict them had been forged.
20 October 1933
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city.
11 May 1945
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
30 November 1946
When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted.
