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Sidney Toler is a Actor and Theatre Play American born on 26 april 1874 at Warrensburg (USA)
Sidney Hooper Toler (April 28, 1874 – February 12, 1947) was an American actor, playwright, and theatre director. Of primarily Scottish ancestry, he was the second non-Asian actor to play the role of Charlie Chan.
In 1943, Toler married Viva Tattersall (née Vera Tattersall, 1898-1989), a British-born actress who also co-wrote several plays with Toler, including Ritzy (1930) and Dress Parade (1929). Their marriage lasted until Toler's death in 1947. The couple had no children.
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Birth name Hooper G. Toler, Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 26 april 1874 at Warrensburg (USA)
Death 12 february 1947 (at 72 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 26 april 1874 at Warrensburg (USA)
Death 12 february 1947 (at 72 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
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Toler's first wife was Vivian Marston, an American actress of Spanish and Canadian ancestry, whom he married in 1907 and who occasionally used the surname Marston-Toler professionally. She died in 1943. The couple had no children.In 1943, Toler married Viva Tattersall (née Vera Tattersall, 1898-1989), a British-born actress who also co-wrote several plays with Toler, including Ritzy (1930) and Dress Parade (1929). Their marriage lasted until Toler's death in 1947. The couple had no children.
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That's Entertainment! (1974)
, 2h15Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities, Musical films, Documentary films about films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli
Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating77%
Cette nostalgique leçon d'histoire recèle les trésors cachés des plus grandes comédies musicales de la MGM ainsi que de nombreux autres extraits merveilleux mais moins célèbres, avec Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Eleanor Powell et même Clark Gable chantant et dansant. « Il était une fois Hollywood » est une véritable gourmandise pour cinéphiles et amateurs de comédies musicales.
Dangerous Money (1946)
, 1h6Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Sidney Toler, Gloria Warren, Victor Sen Yung, Rick Vallin, Joseph Crehan, Willie Best
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating62%
Aboard an ocean liner in the South Pacific, US Treasury agent Scott Pearson confidentially asks Charlie Chan for help. There have been two attempts on his life. Chan rescues him from a third, but not the fourth (a knife in the back). The captain asks Chan to complete the dead man's mission and find out who is responsible for the recent surfacing of counterfeit dollars and stolen art. Chan declines, citing urgent business in Australia, but sets out to find the murderer.
Dark Alibi (1946)
, 1h1Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Benson Fong, Mantan Moreland, Teala Loring, Joyce Compton, Ben Carter
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating64%
Thomas Harley, an ex-convict who served time in prison eight years ago, is wrongfully arrested for a bank robbery he didn't commit. The police have found fingerprints on the crime scene, incriminating Harley, even though he was present at the Carey Theatrical Warehouse at the time of the crime.
Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, Mantan Moreland, Al Bridge, John Gallaudet, Mary Gordon
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating64%
Chan investigates a murder for profit racket in San Francisco. Toller was in poor health during the filming of this, and so much of the film is carried by the comedic interplay between #2 Son (Victor Sen Yung) and chauffeur, Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland).
The Trap (1946)
, 1h2Directed by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung, Larry J. Blake, Kirk Alyn, Rita Quigley
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating60%
Calamity ensues at the beach villa in Malibu, California, where Cole King's theatre ensemble resides, when one of the showgirls, Adelaide, is challenging Marcia, who is Cole's girl and the star of the show.
It's in the Bag! (1945)
, 1h27Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jack Benny, William Bendix, Don Ameche, Rudy Vallée, Jerry Colonna, Robert Benchley
Roles Detective Sully
Rating66%
, 1h6Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Hardie Albright, Frank Reicher, Cyril Delevanti, Al Bridge
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating61%
Charlie Chan, son fils n° 4, Eddie, et son chauffeur, Birmingham Brown, examinent le meurtre présumé d'un scientifique excentrique dans un manoir fantasmagorique. Le corps est introuvable et chacun à une bonne raison de vouloir la mort de ce personnage au mauvais caractère.
The Scarlet Clue (1945)
, 1h5Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Benson Fong, Mantan Moreland, Virginia Brissac, Robert Homans, I. Stanford Jolley
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating62%
Charlie Chan and his son Tommy and their block-head driver Birmingham Brown investigate the shenanigans and suspects that results from a furtive gang trying to steal radar secrets from a radio station.
The Shanghai Cobra (1945)
, 1h4Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong, Joan Barclay, Addison Richards, Cyril Delevanti
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating63%
When three bank employees are killed with cobra venom, Detective Chan recalls an oddly similar case ten years earlier in Shanghai. Benson Fong and Mantan Moreland, return as Tommy "Number Three Son" Chan, and Birmingham Brown.
The Red Dragon (1945)
, 1h2Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Fortunio Bonanova, Benson Fong, Willie Best, Robert Emmett Keane, Barton Yarborough
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating62%
Black Magic (1944)
, 1h7Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Joseph Crehan, Oliver Hardy, Jacqueline deWit, Geraldine Wall
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating63%
Charlie postpones his trip home to Honolulu help with the investigation of murder involving Number One Daughter (Frances Chan) and an easily spooked chauffeur (Mantan Moreland).
Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong, Joan Woodbury, Ian Keith, Sam Flint
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating62%
Charlie Chan investigates the locked-room murder of a chess expert with the aid of bumbling Number Three Son (Benson Fong) and knuckle-headed taxi driver (Mantan Moreland).
Directed by Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Arthur Loft, George J. Lewis, Sarah Edwards, Benson Fong
Roles Charlie Chan
Rating61%
In the two years since the last Charlie Chan feature film (Castle in the Desert), Charlie Chan is now an agent of the U.S. government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investigate the murder of the inventor of a highly advanced torpedo. Aiding Chan is his overeager but dull-witted Number Three son Tommy (Benson Fong) and his Number Two Daughter Iris Chan (Marianne Quon). Also involved in the case is the bumbling and easily frightened Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland) who works as a limo driver for one of the suspects.
Directed by Ray Taylor, Lewis D. Collins
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Tom Brown, Rose Hobart, Edgar Barrier, Marjorie Lord, Keye Luke, Sidney Toler
Roles General Kai Ling [Chs. 1-5, 13]
Rating63%
In 1941, an American aviator, 'Smilin' Jack' Martin wishes to resign as an advisor to the Nationalist Chinese Army in order to return to the United States to enlist as an aviator in America's military buildup prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He is delayed when the Chinese discover that the neutral Tibetan like Mandon "Province" contains a secret road from India to China crucial for the Allied war effort. Determined to obtain the secret for themselves, or equally determined to have the secret destroyed is the Japanese espionage organisation "The Black Samurai" and the German intelligence agent Fräulein von Teufel who masquerades as an American newspaper reporter.
Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943)
, 1h18Directed by Edgar George Ulmer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard, Sidney Toler, Frank Fenton (Moran), Veda Ann Borg, Rita Quigley
Roles Capt. Krogan aka Carruthers
Rating46%
Somewhere on one of the English-speaking South Sea Islands, at an indefinite present time, with no mention of the fact that it is the middle of World War II, Marge (Gale Sondergaard) is the proprietress of a nightclub/restaurant/gambling hall/brothel called "Isle of Forgotten Sins". In the morning, she knocks on the doors of the individual rooms of her sleeping hostesses, Olga (Betty Amann), Bobbie (Patti McCarty), Mimi (Marian Colby) and Christine (Tala Birell) announcing, "get up, the Southern Queen is here". Riding in a launch from the ship is an inspector from the "Criminal Investigation Bureau" who compares a fingerprint card with a photograph of "Betty Nelson" to one with a photo of a somewhat older "Marge Williams", shows it to the commissioner (unbilled C. Montague Shaw) and tells him, "we'll go there tonight". Marge, surrounded by eight hostesses, is asked by one, "what can we do to please him?" and answers, "he doesn't want to be pleased, he's looking for an excuse to close us up". As the sarong-clad girls leave, one of them, Diane (Rita Quigley) tells Marge, "oh, I suppose it's silly of me but I feel so self-conscious in this costume" and Marge responds, "I know how it is when your modesty's taking a beating, don't let it get you down".