Sidney Toler Chosen For Charlie Chan Role
A FTER a search of several months, 20th Century-Fox has found 'tie actor to carry on the famous “Charlie Chan" role, played so long and sue eessfully by the late Warner Gland The new Charlie Chan will be Sidmy Toler, distinguished stage and screen character actor. Toler was not one of the hundred.' interviewed and tes originally for the role. It wa while his most recent picture was .being screened for editing that Sol. M. Wurtzel was struck by Toler’s resemblance to the “Chan" ere ated by Warner Gland After subsequent screen testing. Darryl F Znnnck i: ’reed with Wurtzel’s op’tiion and Toler was signed. He will make his first appearance as “Chan” in “Charlie Chau in Honolulu.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 14
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