Sidney Toler

Born: 1874-04-26

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney Toler,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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That's Entertainment!

as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1974-06-21

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50...

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Call of the Wild

as Joe Groggins
Released: 1935-08-09

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska...

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Upperworld

as Officer Moran
Released: 1934-04-19

A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go...

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Blonde Venus

as Detective Wilson
Released: 1932-09-23

In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a...

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Our Relations

as Captain of SS Periwinkle
Released: 1936-09-15

Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and...

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Gold Is Where You Find It

as Harrison McCooey
Released: 1938-02-12

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic...

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Three Godfathers

as Professor Amos Snape
Released: 1936-03-06

In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the...

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Double Wedding

as Mr. Keough, Margit's Butler
Released: 1937-10-15

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her...

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Romance in Manhattan

as Police Sergeant
Released: 1935-01-11

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New...

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Speak Easily

as Stage Director
Released: 1932-08-13

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

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Dangerous Money

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1946-10-12

A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger,...

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Strictly Dishonorable

as Mulligan
Released: 1931-12-01

A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor,...

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Operator 13

as Major Allen
Released: 1934-06-08

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen,...

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White Savage

as Wong
Released: 1943-04-23

A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.

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Dark Alibi

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1946-05-25

After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some...

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King of the Jungle

as Neil Forbes
Released: 1933-03-10

A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to...

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Radio Patrol

as Sgt. Tom Keogh
Released: 1932-06-02

A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing...

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Charlie Chan in Reno

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1939-06-16

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of...

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The Mysterious Rider

as Frosty Kilburn
Released: 1938-09-21

Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was...

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That Certain Woman

as Détective Lieutenant Neely
Released: 1937-08-30

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

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The Trap

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1946-11-30

When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach...

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Dead Men Tell

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1941-03-28

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie...

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Spitfire

as Jim Sawyer
Released: 1934-03-08

Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft...

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Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1944-05-20

To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the...

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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1940-05-02

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four...

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Dark Hazard

as John Bright
Released: 1934-01-31

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His...

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Disbarred

as G.L. 'Mardy' Mardeen
Released: 1939-01-06

The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the...

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Blondie of the Follies

as Pete
Released: 1932-09-01

New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When...

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Here Comes the Groom

as Detective Weaver
Released: 1934-06-21

Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to...

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A Night to Remember

as Inspector Hankins
Released: 1942-12-10

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the...

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Law of the Pampas

as Fernando "El Melancolio" Lopez Ramirez
Released: 1939-11-03

Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt...

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Black Magic

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1944-08-19

Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult. This movie had an...

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The Gorgeous Hussy

as Daniel Webster
Released: 1936-08-28

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that...

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Charlie Chan in Panama

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1940-03-01

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would...

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The World Changes

as Mr. Hodgens
Released: 1933-11-25

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as...

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If I Were King

as Robin Turgis
Released: 1938-09-28

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in...

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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1940-09-06

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper...

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The Daring Young Man

as Warden Palmer
Released: 1935-07-17

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl...

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1939-08-31

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a...

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City in Darkness

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1939-11-15

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating...

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Registered Nurse

as Frankie Sylvestrie
Released: 1934-04-06

In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two...

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The Phantom President

as Prof. Aikenhead
Released: 1932-09-23

Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for...

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Wide Open Faces

as Sheriff
Released: 1938-04-18

A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.

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Give Us This Night

as First Carabiniere
Released: 1936-03-06

After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman...

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Heritage of the Desert

as Nosey
Released: 1939-06-23

John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick...

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Murder Over New York

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1940-12-13

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in...

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The Red Dragon

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1945-08-01

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with...

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Shadows Over Chinatown

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1946-06-27

In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing...

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Strangers in Love

as McPhail
Released: 1932-03-05

Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother...

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The Scarlet Clue

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1945-05-11

Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while...

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Charlie Chan in The Jade Mask

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1945-01-26

The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government...

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Isle of Forgotten Sins

as Capt. Krogan aka Carruthers
Released: 1943-08-15

An evil sea captain and the forces of nature threaten two divers' search for a fortune in gold...

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Charlie Chan in Honolulu

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1938-12-30

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his...

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The Trumpet Blows

as Pepi Sancho
Released: 1934-04-14

In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife....

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Madame X

as Dr. Merivel
Released: 1929-08-17

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney...

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The Shanghai Cobra

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1945-09-29

Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number...

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Is My Face Red?

as Tony Mugatti
Released: 1932-06-17

William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and...

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Tom Brown of Culver

as Maj. Wharton
Released: 1932-06-30

Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter.

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The Billion Dollar Scandal

as Carter B. Moore
Released: 1933-01-06

An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes...

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One Wild Night

as Lawton
Released: 1938-06-02

Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of...

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Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1944-02-14

Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to...

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The Narrow Corner

as Ryan, the Go-Between
Released: 1933-07-08

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

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Castle in the Desert

as Charlie Chan
Released: 1942-02-02

Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a...

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The Way to Love

as Pierre
Released: 1933-10-20

Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his...

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The Longest Night

as Captain Holt
Released: 1936-10-02

Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner.

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King of Chinatown

as Dr. Chang Ling
Released: 1939-03-17

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of...

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Orchids to You

as Nick Corsini
Released: 1935-08-09

An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's...

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He Learned About Women

as Wilson
Released: 1933-03-02

He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and...

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It's in the Bag!

as Detective Sully
Released: 1945-04-21

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

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Up the River

as Jeffrey Mitchell
Released: 1938-12-09

A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison...

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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack

as General Kai Ling [Chs. 1-5, 13]
Released: 1943-01-05

A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a...

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Charlie Chan in Rio

as Lt. Charlie Chan
Released: 1941-09-05

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan...

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Over the Counter

as Mr. Drake
Released: 1932-10-15

In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with...

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This Is the Life

as Professor Lafcadio F. Breckenridge
Released: 1935-10-07

A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is...

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White Shoulders

as William Sothern
Released: 1931-05-17

In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and...

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The Kid from Kokomo

as Judge William 'Gashouse' Bronson
Released: 1939-05-23

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer...

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