Sidney Toler
Birthday: 1874-04-26
Place of Birth: Warrensburg, Missouri, USA
Biography: 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.
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Blondie of the Follies
New York City tenement dwelling neighbors Blondie and Lottie are longtime best friends. When Lottie ...
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Double Wedding
A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-control...
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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a wor...
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City in Darkness
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the mu...
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Charlie Chan in Reno
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murde...
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Charlie Chan in Honolulu
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his fathe...
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Blonde Venus
In an effort to be able to afford expensive treatment for her gravely ill American husband, a retire...
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White Shoulders
In this drama, an impoverished young woman meets a millionaire who marries her on the spot and then ...
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Castle in the Desert
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle...
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Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more m...
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Dead Men Tell
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan...
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Charlie Chan in Panama
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destro...
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Murder Over New York
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New...
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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and ...
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Charlie Chan in the Secret Service
Charlie Chan is an agent of the US government working in Washington DC and he is assigned to investi...
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The Shanghai Cobra
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of mu...
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Charlie Chan in Rio
In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan beco...
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Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings...
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Shadows Over Chinatown
In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives ...
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The Scarlet Clue
Chinese sleuth Charlie Chan discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investi...
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The Jade Mask
The latest assignment for respected detective Charlie Chan has come directly from the government and...
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The Red Dragon
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets...
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Dangerous Money
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie...
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Dark Alibi
After three men are convicted of bank robberies, Charlie becomes suspicious. After some investigati...
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The Trap
When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, ...
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Our Relations
Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Har...
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Madame X
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney Gen...
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Law of the Pampas
Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a heard of cattle. Bay guy Ralph Merritt gets...
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A Night to Remember
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect ...
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Radio Patrol
A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing hou...
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Dark Hazard
Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling c...
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If I Were King
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his ...
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The Gorgeous Hussy
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know h...
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King of Chinatown
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice a...
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Isle of Forgotten Sins
An evil sea captain and the forces of nature threaten two divers' search for a fortune in gold in th...
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Three Godfathers
In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeopl...
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White Savage
A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess....
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Orchids to You
An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's mar...
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The Trumpet Blows
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His y...
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Here Comes the Groom
Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit ...
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Registered Nurse
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surg...
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Romance in Manhattan
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New Yor...
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The Longest Night
Love with a clerk and a robbery by gangsters preoccupy a department store's new owner....
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The World Changes
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen...
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Disbarred
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of...
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The Narrow Corner
An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island....
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Wide Open Faces
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy....
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Is My Face Red?
William Poster writes a gossip column for the Morning Gazette. He will write about anyone and everyo...
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Over the Counter
In this musical short, the son of a department store owner replaces the regular sales girls with cho...
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a ...
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The Mysterious Rider
Ben Wade and his partner Frosty return to Bellounds' ranch where twenty years earlier Wade was wante...
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Call of the Wild
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold f...
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Upperworld
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably un...
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Operator 13
American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of...
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Strangers in Love
Fredric March essays a dual role in this story of a ne'er-do-well who impersonates his brother when ...
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One Wild Night
Frenzied comedy starring June Lang as a reporter investigating the mysterious disappearances of four...
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That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year hi...
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Spitfire
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by th...
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King of the Jungle
A white youth raised in the jungle by animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilizati...
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Heritage of the Desert
John Abbott returns to the desert land he owns, and after being wounded by hired gunman Chick Chance...
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This Is the Life
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--an...
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It's in the Bag!
The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in....
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The Phantom President
Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for sav...
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Give Us This Night
After being introduced to the world of opera, a fisherman (Jan Kiepura) falls for a woman (Swarthout...
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The Daring Young Man
The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a...
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Tom Brown of Culver
Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter....
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He Learned About Women
He Learned About Women is a 1932 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Lloyd Corrigan and writte...
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The Best of Laurel and Hardy
Compilation of the mismatched but immortal pair's various films and shorts....
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The Kid from Kokomo
Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston...
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret...
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Strictly Dishonorable
A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boor...
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The Way to Love
Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved c...
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The Billion Dollar Scandal
An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved wi...
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Up the River
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape ...
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In the Nick of Time
The mortgage of an elderly couple is about to be foreclosed, but their daughter vows to get a job in...
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Massacre
Upon the death of his father, who was the tribal chieftain, Joe Thunder Horse returns to the reserva...
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The World Changes
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen...
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