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Charlie Chan

Index Charlie Chan

Charlie Chan is a fictional character created by Earl Derr Biggers. [1]

173 relations: African Americans, Alfred Andriola, American Broadcasting Company, Angie Dickinson, Animated series, Behind That Curtain, Behind That Curtain (film), Bill Pronzini, Black Magic (1944 film), Blue Network, Box set, Buddhism, Castle in the Desert, Chang Apana, Character (arts), Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo, Charlie Chan at the Circus, Charlie Chan at the Olympics, Charlie Chan at the Opera, Charlie Chan at the Race Track, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Charlie Chan at Treasure Island, Charlie Chan Carries On, Charlie Chan Carries On (film), Charlie Chan in City in Darkness, Charlie Chan in Egypt, Charlie Chan in Honolulu, Charlie Chan in London, Charlie Chan in Panama, Charlie Chan in Paris, Charlie Chan in Reno, Charlie Chan in Rio, Charlie Chan in Shanghai, Charlie Chan in the Secret Service, Charlie Chan on Broadway, Charlie Chan's Chance, Charlie Chan's Courage, Charlie Chan's Greatest Case, Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise, Charlie Chan's Secret, Charlton Comics, Chinese Americans, Chink, Clive Donner, Comic book, Comic strip, Comics, Crestwood Publications, Dangerous Money, ..., Dark Alibi, Daryl Duke, David Howard (director), DC Comics, Dead Men Tell, Dell Comics, Derwin Abrahams, Detective, Docks of New Orleans, Earl Derr Biggers, Ed Begley, Ellery Queen, Eugene Forde, Film, Fox Film, Frank Chin, Fu Manchu, FX Movie Channel, George Kuwa, George Takei, Get Smart, Gold Key Comics, Gordon Wiles, Great Depression, H. Bruce Humberstone, Hamilton MacFadden, Hanna-Barbera, Harry Lachman, Hawaii, Herbert I. Leeds, Honolulu, Honolulu Police Department, Howard Bretherton, Irving Cummings, J. Carrol Naish, Jack Kirby, James Tinling, Jodie Foster, Joe Simon, Joey Forman, John G. Blystone, Keeper of the Keys, Keye Luke, Lesley Selander, Lewis Seiler, Lon Chaney, Lost film, Louis King, Lucy Liu, Male, Mantan Moreland, Manuel Arbó, McNaught Syndicate, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Michael Avallone, Michael Collins (author), Miramax, Model minority, Mongols, Monogram Pictures, Mr. Moto, Mr. Moto's Gamble, Murder by Death, Murder Over New York, Mutual Broadcasting System, National Review, Norman Foster (director), Pathé, Paul Leni, Pearl Harbor, Peter Lorre, Peter Sellers, Peter Ustinov, Phil Karlson, Phil Rosen, Portrayal of East Asians in American film and theater, Radio program, Roland Winters, Ross Martin, Santos Ortega, Shadows Over Chinatown, Shanghai Chest, Sidney Toler, Signifying monkey, Silent film, Sky Dragon, Sojin (actor), Sound film, Spanish language, Spencer Gordon Bennet, Standard Chinese, Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States, Swedes, Television Programs of America, Television show, Terry O. Morse, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, The Black Camel, The Black Camel (film), The Chinese Cat, The Chinese Parrot, The Chinese Parrot (film), The Chinese Ring, The Feathered Serpent (1948 film), The Golden Eye, The House Without a Key, The House Without a Key (serial), The Jade Mask, The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, The New York Times, The Red Dragon, The Return of Charlie Chan, The Scarlet Clue, The Shanghai Cobra, The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film), The Trap (1946 film), There Were Thirteen, Universal Pictures, Victor Sen Yung, Walter Connolly, Warner Oland, William Beaudine, Yellow Peril. Expand index (123 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alfred Andriola

Alfred James Andriola (May 24, 1912 – March 29, 1983) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Kerry Drake, for which he won a Reuben Award in 1970.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Angie Dickinson

Angeline "Angie" Dickinson (née Brown; born September 30, 1931) is an American actress.

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Animated series

An animated series is a set of animated works with a common series title, usually related to one another.

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Behind That Curtain

Behind That Curtain (1928) is the third novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers.

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Behind That Curtain (film)

Behind That Curtain is a 1929 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Irving Cummings, starring Warner Baxter and featuring Boris Karloff.

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Bill Pronzini

Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction.

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Black Magic (1944 film)

Black Magic, later retitled Meeting at Midnight for television, is a 1944 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.

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Blue Network

The Blue Network (previously the NBC Blue Network) was the on-air name of the now defunct American radio network, which ran from 1927 to 1945.

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Box set

A box set or boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) packaged in a box, for sale as a single unit.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Castle in the Desert

Castle in the Desert is a 1942 film featuring the Asian detective Charlie Chan.

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Chang Apana

Apana Chang (December 26, 1871 – December 8, 1933) was a Chinese-Hawaiian member of the Honolulu Police Department, first as an officer, then as a detective.

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Character (arts)

A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).

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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen is a 1981 comedy–mystery film directed by Clive Donner that stars Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson and Lee Grant.

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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo

Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo is a 1937 American movie directed by Eugene Forde.

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Charlie Chan at the Circus

Charlie Chan at the Circus is the 11th film produced by Fox starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan at the Olympics

Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) is possibly the most topical Charlie Chan film, as it features actual footage from the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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Charlie Chan at the Opera

Charlie Chan at the Opera is considered by many to be the best Warner Oland Charlie Chan film, probably due to the presence of Boris Karloff as the principal suspect, as well as faux operatic music composed by Oscar Levant.

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Charlie Chan at the Race Track

Charlie Chan at the Race Track is the 12th film in the 20th Century Fox-produced Charlie Chan series starring Warner Oland in the title role.

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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum is a 1940 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as detective Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a 1939 American film directed by Norman Foster, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, that takes place on Treasure Island during San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition.

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Charlie Chan Carries On

Charlie Chan Carries On (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers.

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Charlie Chan Carries On (film)

Charlie Chan Carries On is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Warner Oland, John Garrick and Marguerite Churchill.

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Charlie Chan in City in Darkness

Charlie Chan in City in Darkness, also titled City in Darkness, is a 1939 mystery film starring Sidney Toler in his fourth performance as detective Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan in Egypt

Charlie Chan in Egypt is the eighth of 16 20th Century Fox Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland in the title role.

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Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Charlie Chan in Honolulu is a 1939 American film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan in London

Charlie Chan in London is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde.

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Charlie Chan in Panama

Charlie Chan in Panama is a 1940 mystery film starring Sidney Toler.

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Charlie Chan in Paris

Charlie Chan in Paris is the seventh film produced by Fox with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan in Reno

Charlie Chan in Reno is a 1939 American film directed by Norman Foster, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan, based on an original story "Death Makes a Decree" by Philip Wylie.

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Charlie Chan in Rio

Charlie Chan in Rio is a 1941 film featuring the Asian detective Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan in Shanghai

Charlie Chan in Shanghai is the ninth Charlie Chan film produced by Fox with the title character played by Warner Oland.

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Charlie Chan in the Secret Service

Charlie Chan in the Secret Service is a 1944 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan on Broadway

Charlie Chan on Broadway is a Charlie Chan film.

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Charlie Chan's Chance

Charlie Chan's Chance is a 1932 American pre-Code murder mystery film, the third to star Warner Oland as detective Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan's Courage

Charlie Chan's Courage (1934) is the fifth film in which Warner Oland played detective Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan's Greatest Case

Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933) is an American pre-Code murder mystery film starring Warner Oland as the Oriental detective Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise is a 1940 murder mystery film starring Sidney Toler in his fifth of many performances as Charlie Chan.

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Charlie Chan's Secret

Charlie Chan's Secret is the tenth Fox-produced film in the Charlie Chan series with Warner Oland as the detective.

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Charlton Comics

Charlton Comics was an American comic book publishing company that existed from 1945 to 1986, having begun under a different name (T.W.O. Charles Company) in 1944.

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Chinese Americans

Chinese Americans, which includes American-born Chinese, are Americans who have full or partial Chinese ancestry.

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Chink

Chink (also chinki, chinky, chinkie, chinka, chinkapoo or chinker) is an English-language ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese ethnicity.

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Clive Donner

Clive Stanley Donner (21 January 1926 – 6 September 2010Ronald Bergan, The Guardian, 7 September 2010) was a British film director who was a defining part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing But the Best, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and What's New Pussycat?.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Comics

a medium used to express ideas by images, often combined with text or other visual information.

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Crestwood Publications

Crestwood Publications, also known as Feature Publications, was a magazine publisher that also published comic books from the 1940s through the 1960s.

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Dangerous Money

Dangerous Money is a 1946 American film directed by Terry O. Morse, featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.

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Dark Alibi

Dark Alibi is a 1946 American film directed by Phil Karlson featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.

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Daryl Duke

Daryl Duke (8 March 1929 – 21 October 2006) was a Canadian film and TV director.

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David Howard (director)

David Howard (October 6, 1896 – December 21, 1941) was an American film director.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.

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Dead Men Tell

Dead Men Tell is a 1941 mystery film starring Sidney Toler, who played Charlie Chan in 22 feature films, beginning with Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), and ending with The Trap (1946).

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Dell Comics

Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines.

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Derwin Abrahams

Derwin Abrahams (1903–1974) was an American film director.

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Detective

A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.

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Docks of New Orleans

Docks of New Orleans is a 1948 American film featuring Roland Winters in his second appearance as Charlie Chan.

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Earl Derr Biggers

Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright.

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Ed Begley

Edward James Begley Sr. (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an American actor of theatre, radio, film, and television.

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Ellery Queen

Ellery Queen is a crime fiction house name created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and later used by other authors under Dannay and Lee's supervision.

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Eugene Forde

Eugene Forde (1898–1986) was an American film director.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Fox Film

The Fox Film Corporation was an American company that produced motion pictures, formed by William Fox on 1 February 1915.

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Frank Chin

Frank Chin (born February 25, 1940) is an American author and playwright.

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Fu Manchu

Dr.

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FX Movie Channel

FX Movie Channel (FXM) is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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George Kuwa

George Kuwa (7 April 1885 – 13 October 1931) was a Japanese and American Issei (Japanese immigrant) film actor of the silent era.

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George Takei

George Hosato Takei (born Hosato Takei, April 20, 1937) is an American actor, director, author, and activist.

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Get Smart

Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre that was popular at the time.

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Gold Key Comics

Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing created for comic books distributed to newsstands.

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Gordon Wiles

Gordon Wiles (October 10, 1904 – October 17, 1950) was an American art director and film director.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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H. Bruce Humberstone

H.

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Hamilton MacFadden

Hamilton MacFadden (April 26, 1901 – January 1, 1977) was an American actor, screenwriter and film director.

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Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. (simply known as Hanna-Barbera and also referred to as H-B Enterprises, H-B Production Company and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.) was an American animation studio that served as a division of Warner Bros. Animation until it was absorbed by them.

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Harry Lachman

Harry B. Lachman (June 29, 1886 – March 19, 1975) was an American artist, set designer, and film director.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Herbert I. Leeds

Herbert I. Leeds (1900 – May 15, 1954) was an American film director.

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Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaiokinai.

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Honolulu Police Department

The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii, headquartered in the Alapa'i Police Headquarters in Honolulu CDP.

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Howard Bretherton

Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, San Diego, California) was an American film director, film editor, and the father of film editor David Bretherton.

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Irving Cummings

Irving Camisky (October 9, 1888 – April 18, 1959) was an American movie actor, director, producer and writer.

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J. Carrol Naish

Joseph Patrick Carroll Naish (January 21, 1896 – January 24, 1973), known professionally as J. Carrol Naish, was an American character actor.

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Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators.

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James Tinling

James Tinling (May 8, 1889 in Seattle - May 14, 1967 in Los Angeles) was an American film director.

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Jodie Foster

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer.

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Joe Simon

Joseph Henry "Joe" Simon (born Hymie Simon; October 11, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher.

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Joey Forman

Joey Forman (November 18, 1929 – December 9, 1982) was an American comedian and comic actor.

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John G. Blystone

John G. Blystone (December 2, 1892 – August 6, 1938) was an American film director.

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Keeper of the Keys

Keeper of the Keys (1932) is the sixth and last mystery in the Charlie Chan series of Earl Derr Biggers; Biggers was planning on continuing the series, but died in 1933 before he could.

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Keye Luke

Keye Luke (Cantonese: Luk Shek Kee; June 18, 1904 – January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-American actor.

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Lesley Selander

Lesley Selander (May 26, 1900 – December 5, 1979) was an American film director of Westerns and adventure movies.

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Lewis Seiler

Lewis Seiler (September 30, 1890 – January 8, 1964) was an American film director.

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Lon Chaney

Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter.

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Lost film

A lost film is a feature or short film that is no longer known to exist in any studio archives, private collections, or public archives, such as the U.S. Library of Congress.

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Louis King

Louis King (born June 28, 1898, Christiansburg, Virginia – died September 7, 1962) was an American actor and film director of westerns and adventure movies in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

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Lucy Liu

Lucy Alexis Liu (born Lucy Alexis Liu Yu Ling, December 2, 1968) is an American actress, voice actress, director, producer, singer and artist.

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Male

A male (♂) organism is the physiological sex that produces sperm.

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Mantan Moreland

Mantan Moreland (September 3, 1902 – September 28, 1973) was an American actor and comedian most popular in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Manuel Arbó

Manuel Arbó (18 July 1898 – 25 May 1973) was a Spanish film actor.

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McNaught Syndicate

The McNaught Syndicate (1922–1989) was an American newspaper syndicate founded in 1922.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Michael Avallone

Michael Angelo Avallone (–) was an American author of mystery, secret agent fiction, and novelizations of TV and films.

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Michael Collins (author)

Michael Collins is the best-known pseudonym of Dennis Lynds (January 15, 1924 – August 19, 2005), an American author who primarily wrote mystery fiction.

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Miramax

Miramax (also known as Miramax Films) is an American entertainment company known for producing and distributing films and television shows.

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Model minority

A model minority is a demographic group (whether based on ethnicity, race or religion) whose members are perceived to achieve a higher degree of socioeconomic success than the population average.

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Mongols

The Mongols (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

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Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation is a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, mostly on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

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Mr. Moto

Mr.

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Mr. Moto's Gamble

Mr.

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Murder by Death

Murder by Death is a 1976 American satirical mystery comedy film with a cast featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, Nancy Walker, and Estelle Winwood, written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore.

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Murder Over New York

Murder Over New York is a 1940 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.

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Mutual Broadcasting System

The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network; corporate name Mutual Broadcasting System, Inc.) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999.

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National Review

National Review (NR) is an American semi-monthly conservative editorial magazine focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.

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Norman Foster (director)

Norman Foster (born Norman Foster Hoeffer, December 13, 1903 – July 7, 1976) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter.

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Pathé

Pathé or Pathé Frères (styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896.

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Paul Leni

Paul Leni (8 July 1885 – 2 September 1929), born Paul Josef Levi, was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionist filmmaking, making Backstairs (Hintertreppe, 1921) and Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett, 1924) in Germany, and The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Chinese Parrot (1927), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and The Last Warning (1929) in the U.S.

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Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu.

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Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; 26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American actor.

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers, CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer.

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Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, (né von Ustinov; or; 16 April 192128 March 2004) was a British actor, voice actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter.

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Phil Karlson

Phil Karlson (born Philip N. Karlstein; July 2, 1908 – December 12, 1982) was an American film director.

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Phil Rosen

Phil Rosen (May 8, 1888 – October 22, 1951) was an American film director and cinematographer.

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Portrayal of East Asians in American film and theater

Portrayals of East Asians in American film and theatre has been a subject of controversy.

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Radio program

A radio program (radio programme in the United Kingdom) or radio show is a segment of content intended for broadcast on radio.

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Roland Winters

Roland Winters (born Roland Winternitz; November 22, 1904 – October 22, 1989)DeLong, Thomas A. (1996).

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Ross Martin

Ross Martin (born Martin Rosenblatt, March 22, 1920 – July 3, 1981) was a Polish-born American radio, voice, stage, film and television actor.

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Santos Ortega

Santos Edward Ortega (June 30, 1899 – April 10, 1976) was an American actor and comedian.

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Shadows Over Chinatown

Shadows Over Chinatown is a 1946 film directed by Terry O. Morse.

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Shanghai Chest

Shanghai Chest is a 1948 American film directed by William Beaudine and featuring Roland Winters in his third appearance as Charlie Chan.

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Sidney Toler

Sidney Toler (born Hooper G. Toler Jr., April 28, 1874 – February 12, 1947) was an American actor, playwright and theatre director.

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Signifying monkey

The signifying monkey is a character of African-American folklore that derives from the trickster figure of Yoruba mythology, Esu Elegbara.

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Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).

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Sky Dragon

Sky Dragon (also titled Murder in the Air) is a 1949 mystery film, the sixth in which Roland Winters portrayed Charlie Chan.

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Sojin (actor)

Sōjin Kamiyama or just Sōjin (上山 草人; January 30, 1884 – July 28, 1954) was a Japanese film actor.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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Spencer Gordon Bennet

Spencer Gordon Bennet (January 5, 1893 – October 8, 1987) was an American film producer and director.

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Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese, also known as Modern Standard Mandarin, Standard Mandarin, or simply Mandarin, is a standard variety of Chinese that is the sole official language of both China and Taiwan (de facto), and also one of the four official languages of Singapore.

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Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States

Stereotypes of East Asians are ethnic stereotypes found in American society about first-generation immigrants, and American-born citizens whose family members immigrated to the U.S., from East Asian countries, such as China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Sweden.

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Television Programs of America

Television Programs of America, Inc (TPA) was a New York-based US television production company in the 1950s.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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Terry O. Morse

Terry O. Morse (January 30, 1906 – May 19, 1984) was an American film director and editor.

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The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan

The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (sometimes abbreviated as The Amazing Chan Clan) is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, animated by Eric Porter Studios in Australia and broadcast on CBS from September 9, 1972 to December 30, 1972, with reruns continuing through the summer of 1973.

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The Black Camel

The Black Camel (1929) is the fourth of the Charlie Chan novels by Earl Derr Biggers.

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The Black Camel (film)

The Black Camel is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film based on the novel of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers.

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The Chinese Cat

The Chinese Cat (also titled Murder in the Funhouse) is a 1944 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.

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The Chinese Parrot

The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers.

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The Chinese Parrot (film)

The Chinese Parrot (1927) is a silent film, the second in the Charlie Chan series.

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The Chinese Ring

The Chinese Ring is a 1947 American film directed by William Beaudine.

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The Feathered Serpent (1948 film)

The Feathered Serpent (also titled Charlie Chan in the Feathered Serpent) is a 1948 mystery film, the fifth of six in which Roland Winters portrayed Charlie Chan.

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The Golden Eye

The Golden Eye is a 1948 American film directed by William Beaudine and starring Roland Winters in his fourth appearance as Charlie Chan.

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The House Without a Key

The House Without a Key is a novel that was written in 1925 by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first of the Charlie Chan mysteries written by Biggers. The novel, which takes place in 1920s Hawaiokinai, spends time acquainting the reader with the look and feel of the islands of that era from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, and describes social class structures and customs which have largely vanished in the 21st century.

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The House Without a Key (serial)

The House Without a Key is a 1926 American mystery film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet.

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The Jade Mask

The Jade Mask is a 1945 film featuring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan and the only appearance of Number Four Son, Eddie Chan, played by Edwin Luke, the real-life younger brother of Keye Luke, who had depicted Number One Son throughout the 1930s.

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The New Adventures of Charlie Chan

The New Adventures of Charlie Chan is a British-American crime drama series that aired in the United States in syndicated television from June 1957, to 1958.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Red Dragon

The Red Dragon is a 1946 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, who has to sift through a host of suspects for three murders.

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The Return of Charlie Chan

The Return Of Charlie Chan is a 1973 American film.

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The Scarlet Clue

The Scarlet Clue is a 1945 American film directed by Phil Rosen.

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The Shanghai Cobra

The Shanghai Cobra is a 1945 mystery film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.

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The Thief of Bagdad (1924 film)

The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks.

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The Trap (1946 film)

The Trap is a 1946 crime film directed by Howard Bretherton.

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There Were Thirteen

There Were Thirteen (Spanish: Eran trece) is a 1931 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by David Howard and starring Juan Torena, Ana María Custodio and Rafael Calvo.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Victor Sen Yung

Victor Sen Yung (October 18, 1915 – November 9, 1980) was an American character actor, best known for playing Jimmy Chan in the Charlie Chan films and Hop Sing in the western series Bonanza.

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Walter Connolly

Walter Connolly (April 8, 1887 – May 28, 1940) was an American character actor who appeared in almost fifty films between 1914 and 1939.

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Warner Oland

Warner Oland (October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: the Honolulu Police detective, Lieutenant Charlie Chan; Dr.

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William Beaudine

William Washington Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film actor and director.

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Yellow Peril

The Yellow Peril (also Yellow Terror and Yellow Spectre) is a racist color-metaphor that is integral to the xenophobic theory of colonialism: that the peoples of East Asia are a danger to the Western world.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan

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