---
name: "Roland Winters"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/roland-winters"
fi1m_id: "roland-winters"
imdb_id: "nm0935996"
tmdb_id: 83822
wikidata_id: "Q7360500"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 November 1904"
died: "22 October 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T07:45:03.607819+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Roland Winters

## Identity

Roland Winters

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/roland-winters
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** roland-winters
- **IMDb ID:** nm0935996
- **TMDB ID:** 83822
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7360500
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Winters, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7360500, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935996/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83822

Actor. Born 22 November 1904 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Died 22 October 1989.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 November 1904, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 22 October 1989
- **Also known as:** Roland Winternitz
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Winters, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7360500, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935996/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/83822

## Biography

Roland Winters (born Roland Winternitz) was an American actor. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 22 November 1904 and died in Englewood, New Jersey, on 22 October 1989.

Winters is best remembered for portraying Charlie Chan in six Monogram Pictures films made between 1947 and 1949: *The Chinese Ring*, *Docks of New Orleans*, *Shanghai Chest*, *The Golden Eye*, *The Feathered Serpent* and *Sky Dragon*. He had earlier worked in radio and on the stage before entering films in the mid-1940s.

His other screen credits include the role of Dr. Ruric in *Bigger Than Life* (1956), Fred Gates in *Blue Hawaii* (1961) and appearances in television series such as *Bewitched* and *Perry Mason*. He also performed on Broadway.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bigger Than Life* (1956), Fi1m 85, as Dr. Ruric — [page](https://film.one/film/bigger-than-life.md)

## Complete filmography (63)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *You Can't Go Home Again* (1979), as Judge Bland
- *The Dain Curse* (1978), series, as Hubert Collinson
- *Miracle on 34th Street* (1973), as Mr. Gimbel
- *Adam's Rib* (1973), series, as Judge Ransom
- *Loving* (1970), as Plommie
- *Doc* (1969), as Watkins
- *The Carol Burnett Show* (1967), series, as Various Characters
- *Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.* (1964), series, as Dan Merrill
- *The Addams Family* (1964), series, as Ralph J. Hulen
- *Bewitched* (1964), series, as McMann
- *Archie* (1964), as Mr. Weatherbee
- *Big Deal in Laredo* (1962), as Henry Drummond
- *The Lucy Show* (1962), series, as Dean Bennett
- *The Alfred Hitchcock Hour* (1962), series, as Ivar West
- *Follow That Dream* (1962), as Judge
- *Everything's Ducky* (1961), as Capt. Bollinger
- *Blue Hawaii* (1961), as Fred Gates
- *The Defenders* (1961), series, as Jeff Brubaker
- *A String of Beads* (1961), Actor
- *The Iceman Cometh* (1960), series, as The General (Piet Wetjoen)
- *Cash McCall* (1960), as Gen. Andrew Danvers
- *The Computer Comes to Marketing* (1960), as Ned
- *Play of the Week* (1959), series, Actor
- *Startime* (1959), series, as Fannington
- *Never Steal Anything Small* (1959), as Doctor
- *Jet Pilot* (1957), as Col. Sokolov
- *Perry Mason* (1957), series, as Archer Bryant
- *Top Secret Affair* (1957), as Sen. Burdick
- *Bigger Than Life* (1956), as Dr. Ruric — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/bigger-than-life.md)
- *Broken Arrow* (1956), series, as James Perry
- *So Big* (1953), as Klaas Pool
- *She's Working Her Way Through College* (1952), as Fred Copeland
- *Schlitz Playhouse of Stars* (1951), series, as Boss
- *Follow the Sun* (1951), as Dr. Graham
- *Raton Pass* (1951), as Sheriff Perigord
- *Inside Straight* (1951), as Alexander Tomson
- *Sierra Passage* (1950), as Sam Cooper
- *The West Point Story* (1950), as Harry Eberhart
- *The Jack Benny Program* (1950), series, as General Sneed #1
- *To Please a Lady* (1950), as Dwight Barrington
- *Lux Video Theatre* (1950), series, as General Millet, Greenleaf
- *Between Midnight and Dawn* (1950), as Leo Cusick
- *Convicted* (1950), as Vernon Bradley, Attorney
- *The Underworld Story* (1950), as Stanley Becker
- *Killer Shark* (1950), as Jeffrey White
- *Captain Carey, U.S.A.* (1950), as Manfredo Acuto
- *Guilty of Treason* (1950), as Soviet Comissar Belov
- *Malaya* (1949), as Bruno Gruber
- *A Dangerous Profession* (1949), as Jerry 'Mac' McKay
- *Once More, My Darling* (1949), as Col. Head
- *Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff* (1949), as T. Hanley Brooks
- *Sky Dragon* (1949), as Charlie Chan
- *Tuna Clipper* (1949), as E.J. Ransom
- *The Feathered Serpent* (1948), as Charlie Chan
- *Kidnapped* (1948), as Capt. Hoseason
- *The Return of October* (1948), as Colonel Wood
- *Cry of the City* (1948), as Ledbetter
- *The Golden Eye* (1948), as Charlie Chan
- *The Shanghai Chest* (1948), as Charlie Chan
- *Docks of New Orleans* (1948), as Charlie Chan
- *The Chinese Ring* (1947), as Charlie Chan
- *Kraft Television Theatre* (1947), series, Actor
- *Citizen Kane* (1941), as Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall (uncredited) — Fi1m 93, [page](https://film.one/film/citizen-kane.md)

## Gallery

- ![Roland Winters](https://film.one/media/person/3874664/gallery-678fc29a0008.jpg) Roland Winters — film trailer screenshot (RKO), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Roland_Winters_in_A_Dangerous_Profession_trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Roland Winters](https://film.one/media/person/3874664/gallery-f4eaf2e925b4.jpg) Roland Winters — Image via TMDB

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