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	Sidney Toler Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sidney Toler was cast to replace Warner Oland as the new Charlie Chan in 1938.
		Toler was already in his mid sixties when he took on the Charlie Chan role.
		Toler was in his seventies and slowed down considerably in later episodes.
	members.aol.com /meow103476/biotoler.html (208 words)

	DVD Times - The Charlie Chan Chanthology
		Sidney Toler is a charming Charlie Chan who by this point had eased into this role and was a seasoned professional.
		Toler offers a lot of charm and pleasantry to his character as he bemoans about his family members trying to help him solve a case when they should be off studying.
		Sidney Toler continues to be engaging as Charlie and despite not being Asian he has made the role his role and embraced it fully.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=12032 (4019 words)

	Toler Opera House
		In Dec. 1900, the Auditorium was purchased by Colonel H. Toler and was renamed the Toler Opera House.
		Toler was an influential Wichitan who owned a nationally recognized stock farm northeast of the city.
		Toler’s wife, Sallie, took an active part in the theater and encouraged her son, Sidney, to study acting.
	members.cox.net /wichitahpa/Toler_Opera_House.html (591 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Charlie Chan Chanthology -- Sidney Toler - DVD - Subtitled / Mixed Media Set / B&W
		Sidney Toler, who inherited the role in 1938, stayed on as Chan, accompanied by Benson Fong as “number three son” Tommy and African-American comedian Mantan Moreland as chauffeur Birmingham Brown.
		Sidney Toler returns as the famed oriental detective, who, per the title, is now a government agent.
		The venerable Chinese detective (Sidney Toler) is this time assigned by the government to establish the whereabouts of Harper (Frank Reicher), a scientist experimenting with a formula that may turn wood into solid steel.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=27616908384&pwb=1 (1208 words)

	Sidney Toler
		SIDNEY TOLER: Charlie Chan Carries On Following the death of Warner Oland, Twentieth Century-Fox began the search for a new Charlie Chan.
		Sidney Toler was born in Warrensburg, Missouri on April 28, 1874.
		Toler's Chan, rather than merely mimicking the character that Warner Oland had portrayed, had a somewhat sharper edge that was well suited for the rapid changes of the times, both political and cultural, that were on the horizon.
	charliechanfamily.tripod.com /id10.html (696 words)

	Charlie Chan on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) arrives in the City of Light for a reunion with his war buddies, only to find those lights dimmed by a city-wide flout.
		THE CHINESE CAT (1944) Leah Manning (Joan Woodbury) enlists Chan's (Sidney Toler) help in solving the murder of her stepfather (Sam Flint), whose slain body was found in his hermetically sealed study.
		THE JADE MASK (1945) Chan (Sidney Toler) is assigned to establish the whereabouts of Harper (Frank Reicher), a scientist experimenting with a formula that may turn wood into solid steel.
	www.spiritone.com /~dennisharmon/dennisflicks/toler.htm (1891 words)

	Home Theater Forum - HTF Review: The Charlie Chan Chanthology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Toler was not the only change though, as Victor Sen Yung came aboard to play “number two son” Jimmy Chan, while the previous Chan films, beginning with Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) featured Keye Luke as “number one son”, Lee Chan.
		Sidney Toler’s portrayal of Charlie Chan was not only very well received by audiences, but he also brought about some interesting changes to the character, instead of simply aping what Warner Oland had done.
		The relationship between Toler and 20th Century Fox lasted for four years and eleven Charlie Chan films, but the series was shelved by Fox in 1942, as the escalation of World War II decimated the foreign markets that had made the films profitable.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/printpost.php?postid=2254851 (3533 words)

	Classic Images: Sidney Toler
		Sidney Toler, a Missouri-born character actor in his mid-Sixties, was then cast as the new Charlie Chan.
		Sidney Toler, Sen Yung and the writers here nail down the formula for a successful Chan picture.
		Toler's double take here is one of the cleverest moments in the series.
	www.classicimages.com /1997/october97/toler.html (3042 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Shanghai Cobra
		Toler is great a usual, but the film is also helped by a fresh approach from a new director, and a better than average whodunit plot.
		When Oland died in 1938, the role was re-cast to Sidney Toler until Fox shut down the series in 1942.
		Toler lobbied hard for the character, and poverty row studio Monogram brought the series back to life two years later with a new string of cut-rate Chan films.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/shanghaicobra.php (1396 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Jade Mask
		It was actor Warner Oland (Werewolf of London) who made Charlie Chan a hot property at Twentieth Century Fox, but his replacement, Sidney Toler, solidified the Chan films as one of the longest standing franchises in cinema history.
		Most of this is due to Toler, who was still in top form as the unflappable Inspector Chan, a Confucius-like detective who always got his man, or more likely in the Monogram films, his spy.
		Toler pins back his eyes, shoots off toothy grins, and drops the articles from his speech, creating a plausibly racist Asian caricature.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/jademask.php (1304 words)

	Amazon.ca: Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sidney Toler plays Chan while Sen Yung is again cast in the role of Jimmy Chan.
		This particular Chan episode is one of the best of the Sidney Toler vehicles, and unlike most other Chan films actually generates considerable atmosphere with its tale of a killer run wild in a mysterious wax museum, where all is not as it seems.
		There are the chills of the wax museum setting, the whodunit aspect, the revenge plot of the gangster, some locked-in-an-old-dark-house elements, plus the comedy of #2 Chan (Toler) and his pithy interaction with #2 son.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6301798252 (413 words)

	The Who's Who of Charlie Chan's Family
		Sidney Toler and Victor Sen Yung in Charlie Chan in Rio (1941).
		Jimmy sometimes is hired on with temporary jobs onboard freighters during college vacations but he often lands in jail because of some kind of misunderstanding with the police who doesn't believe that his father is the famous Charlie Chan.
		Two films later, Sidney Toler died in 1947 and Roland Winters was picked to carry on the role of Charlie Chan for Monogram's final six films.
	www.drberlin.com /chan_family/story-pg2.htm (3247 words)

	Charlie Chan In Cyberspace: February 2005
		Fong is cast with Sidney Toler as his honorable father in six Monogram entries but is dropped from the series after completing Dark Alibi (1946).
		Toler died on February 12, 1947 after a long illness from intestinal cancer and Roland Winters was tapped to continue the Chan role in The Chinese Ring (1947).
		Charlie Chan and his number two son, Jimmy, along with chauffeur Birmingham Brown are all on a bus heading south to San Francisco during a rainy night to investigate a murder case involving an unidentified armless, legless, headless torso.
	cyberspacechan.blogspot.com /2005_02_01_cyberspacechan_archive.html (6947 words)

	charlie chan
		Toler's Chan was the closest interpretation to Biggers' original, irascible Chan character.
		Under his hand, Toler created a funnier, wittier Chan whose proverbs are usually directed as familial gibes toward his sons.
		When Toler died, the magic behind Charlie Chan lost its luster.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /MONTH_SPOTS/00/02/chan.htm (723 words)

	CHARLIE CHAN MYSTERY TOUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		When a soon-to-be-divorced woman is accused of murdering her husband's girlfriend, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) travels to Reno to investigate.
		Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is invited to a wax museum to participate in a radio broadcast but soon finds himself in danger.
		Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is asked to solve a murder committed by someone on-board a world cruise.
	www.foxmoviechannel.com /month/chan/index.asp (612 words)

	Amazon.ca: Charlie Chan in Rio: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Sidney Toler plays Charlie who is chasing a killer in Rio.
		Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) and son Jimmy (Victor Sen Yung) travel to Rio to arrest a woman accused of a murder in Hawaii--but before the killer is taken into custody she becomes the victim of foul play herself.
		Although the Charlie Chan films are sometimes accused of perpetuating racial stereotypes, they were in fact no more stereotypical than other serial-style films (Blondie and Dr. Kildare come to mind) of the era--and as the series progressed the patronization found in the earliest films was rapidly discarded.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6301798279 (569 words)

	CharlieChan.net: Sidney Toler
		idney Toler had fifty films under his belt before he first played Charlie Chan for Fox.
		By the 1920's, Toler was a star of the New York stage, and in 1930 he went to Hollywood.
		hen Warner Oland died in 1938, Fox paired Toler with "#2 son" Victor Sen Yung, and the series carried on, the first offering being "Charlie Chan in Honolulu." Both Noah Beery and Leo Carrillo had screen-tested to replace Oland, but Toler won the role.
	www.charliechan.net /toler.html (242 words)

	Charlie Chan on Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Ask the Fox Movie Channel, who caved to activists' complaints last summer and all but cancelled their summer "Chan Mystery Tour (a few films were ultimately shown, accompanied by a one-sided discussion by some of the offended parties).
		Toler had secured the rights to the Chan character from the original author’s widow and originally tried to work out financing to continue the series through Twentieth Century Fox.
		Charlie’s offspring are often at the receiving end of Charlie's attitude, probably deservedly so-- sons Tommy and Eddie Chan (Benson Fong and Edwin Luke) make appearances and provide the usual comic-relief, as do daughters Iris and Frances (played by Marianne Quon and Frances Chan).
	www.charliechan.net /chanthology.html (651 words)

	Amazon.com: Charlie Chan: In the Secret Service (1944) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		They must have dug Sidney up from the grave; he is falling apart and his sneer look more like a grimace.
		Sidney Toler plays the part of Charlie Chan and he is joined by Benson Fong as Tommie Chan and Marianne Quon as Iris Chan.
		Sidney Toler returns as detective Charlie Chan in this Monogram picture after being dropped from 20th Century Fox in 1942.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302717264?v=glance (1283 words)

	Movie Serials, cliffhangers and reviews: Todd Gault's Movie Serial Experience
		A bit player, Sidney Toler made brief appearances in "The Phantom President" (1932), "Here Comes the Groom" (1934), and Laurel and Hardy's "Our Relations" (1936).
		Toler would play the character in eleven films until 20th Century Fox decided to end the series after "Castle in the Desert" (1942).
		The studio that finally took Toler up on his offer to make more Chan films was the Poverty Row studio Monogram, starting with "Charlie Chan in the Secret Service" (1944).
	www.serialexperience.com /showarticle.php?fldRecNum=79 (200 words)

	Scifilm -- Musings, CASTLE IN THE DESERT (1942)
		Charlie Chan receives a letter from a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia, who thinks she is being framed for murder.
		I've covered several of the Charlie Chan movies so far, but this is the first one I've seen to feature Sidney Toler rather than Warner Oland.
		I've generally heard that Sidney Toler was nowhere near as popular in the role as Oland, and I have to admit that I prefer Oland as well; his performances as Chan always seemed unassuming and thoughtful, whereas Toler just seems to be uninvolved.
	www.scifilm.org /musings2/musing909.html (192 words)

	Scifilm -- Musings, THE JADE MASK (1945)
		A scientist who was developing a gas to make wood as hard as steel is murdered, and Charlie Chan is called in to investigate.
		It's another Charlie Chan movie, but this one was made nine years later than CHARLIE CHAN'S SECRET after the title role had changed actors (Warner Oland to Sidney Toler) and the series had moved from 20th Century Fox to Monogram.
		My other problem was with Sidney Toler, who for me never served as an adaquate replacement for Warner Oland; whereas Oland always seemed totally involved in the story around him, Toler always comes across as distracted and somewhat bored, and he also lacked the authority that Oland brought to the role.
	www.scifilm.org /musings3/musing1386.html (153 words)

	Sony Pictures - Home Entertainment
		CHARLIE CHAN IN THE SECRET SERVICE: The World War II years, filled with espionage and spies of all sorts, were perfect for the foibles of Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler).
		Charlie (Sidney Toler) surmises that nearly everybody has a motive – but even he doesn’t yet realize how dangerous these ghoulish swindlers really are!
		Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is called to investigate a strange and complicated series of mysterious murders by cobra venom.
	www.sonypictures.com /homevideo/catalog/catalogDetail_DVD027616908384.html (679 words)

	Sidney Toler - The Charlie Chan Chanthology - Review - Uncut.co.uk
		Sidney Toler - The Charlie Chan Chanthology - Review - Uncut.co.uk
		Sadly not the classic'30s capers starring Warner Oland as the philosophical Chinese detective but those of his replacement Sidney Toler after the Chan franchise had been sold off to the poverty-stricken studios of Monogram.
		Of the six films here, 1944's mildly diverting chess murder mystery The Chinese Cat is the best of an admittedly ropey bunch, which also includes Meeting At Midnight and The Jade Mask.
	www.uncut.net /film/sidney_toler/reviews/174 (181 words)

	Robert's Hard to find Videos
		Castle in the Desert (1942 - Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan)
		Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938 - Sidney Toler)
		Charlie Chan in Panama (1940 - Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan)
	www.robertsvideos.com /browse.php3?catid=25 (699 words)

	mgm.com
		George Chandler (Joe), Janet Warren (record machine operator), Sidney Toler (Charlie Chan), Mantan M
		Walter Fenner (Inspector Harry Davis), Sidney Toler (Charlie Chan)
		Sidney Toler (Charlie Chan), Arthur Loft (Bradford Harris)
	www.mgm.com /title_clip.do?title_star=SHANGCOB (83 words)

	Charlie Chan in Rio movie for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Starring: Sidney Toler, Mary Beth Hughes, Victor Jory, Sen Yung
		Comments: Detective Chan works with the local police in Rio de Janeiro to solve a pair of murders.
		Sidney Toler, Mary Beth Hughes, Victor Jory, Sen Yung
	www.1stvideo.com /detail2.asp?Product_ID=1003922&PRelRefNum=1&TAN=1 (335 words)

	Amazon.com: Charlie Chan in the Secret Service: DVD: Phil Rosen,Sidney Toler,Mantan Moreland,Arthur Loft,Gwen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Starring: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland Director: Phil Rosen Rating
		Actors: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Arthur Loft, Gwen Kenyon, Sarah Edwards, See more
		Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan, Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown, Arthur Loft as Inspector Jones, Secret Service, Gwen Kenyon as Inez Arranto, Sarah Edwards as Mrs.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00020X85W?v=glance (1546 words)

	Charlie Chan Films on Home Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Charlie Chan in Treasure Island — Sidney Toler
		Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum — Sidney Toler
		Charlie Chan Castle in the Desert— Sydney Toler
	www.rareserials.com /charlie.htm (215 words)

	AMCTV.com SHOW - The Trap
		Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) investigates a series of murders at a beach house in this murder mystery directed by Howard Bretherton (Gun Smoke, Night Raiders).
		With the aid of "number one son" Jimmy Chan (Viction Sen Yung) and chauffeur Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland), Chan gets down to solving the murders.
		Larry Blake, Tanis Chandler, Mantan Moreland, Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Young
	www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=4294-1-EST (81 words)

	Sidney Toler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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