Charlie Chan

…for the popular literary creation Charlie Chan. A wise Chinese-American detective on the Honolulu police force, Charlie Chan is the protagonist of a series of mystery detective novels that spawned popular feature films, radio dramas, and comic strips.

…three films (1939–40) in the Charlie Chan series starring Sidney Toler (Charlie Chan in Reno, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, Charlie Chan in Panama).

…assigned to the highly successful Charlie Chan series starring Warner Oland, and he made some of the best entries in the franchise, including Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936), Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), with Boris Karloff supplying the villainy, and Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937). Time…