Warner Oland
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo is a 1937 American movie directed by Eugene Forde. The main character is Charlie Chan, a Chinese-Hawaiian detective. This was the sixteenth and final Charlie Chan film with Warner Oland portraying Chan. The film features Keye Luke as Charlie's son Lee and character actor Harold Huber as a French police inspector.
Starring: Virginia Field•Wallace Beery•John Barrymore
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) is possibly the most topical Charlie Chan film, as it features actual footage from the 1936 Berlin Olympics. There is also a scene where Charlie crosses the Atlantic in the Hindenburg. This is the 14th film starring Warner Oland as Chan and produced by Fox.
Starring: Virginia Field•Sessue Hayakawa
Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)
Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) is a Charlie Chan film. This is the 15th film starring Oland as Chan and produced by Fox.
Starring: Virginia Field•Wallace Beery
Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
Charlie Chan at the Circus is the 11th film produced by Fox starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. A seemingly harmless family outing drags a vacationing Chan into a murder investigation.
Starring: Virginia Field•Wallace Beery
Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
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. This is the 13th film starring Oland as Chan; it was directed by H. Bruce Humberstone for 20th Century-Fox in 1936.
Starring: Virginia Field•Douglas Fairbanks•Wallace Beery
Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
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.
Starring: Virginia Field•Wallace Beery
Charlie Chan's Secret (1936)
Charlie Chan's Secret is a 1936 American mystery film directed by Gordon Wiles and starring Warner Oland, Henrietta Crosman and Rosina Lawrence. It is the tenth film in Fox's Charlie Chan series featuring Oland as the detective.
Starring: Virginia Field•Edmund Lowe
Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)
Charlie Chan in Egypt is the eighth of 16 20th Century Fox Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland in the title role. It was released in 1935.
Starring: Virginia Field•Mae Murray•Helene Chadwick
Charlie Chan in Paris (1935)
Charlie Chan in Paris is the seventh film produced by Fox with Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Long thought lost, it is available on DVD as part of Twentieth Century Fox Home Video's Charlie Chan Collection, Vol. 1. Hamilton MacFadden directed some early scenes before Lewis Seiler took over. It is the first entry in the series to feature actor Keye L...
Starring: Virginia Field•Florence Vidor
Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935)
Charlie Chan in Shanghai is the ninth Charlie Chan film produced by Fox Film Corporation with the title character played by Warner Oland.
Starring: Virginia Field•Henry Hull•May McAvoy
Shanghai (1935)
Shanghai is a 1935 film directed by James Flood, produced by Walter Wanger, distributed by Paramount Pictures, and starring Loretta Young and Charles Boyer. The picture's supporting cast features Warner Oland, Alison Skipworth, Charley Grapewin, Olive Tell and Keye Luke, and the running time is 75 minutes.
Starring: Virginia Field•Betty Blythe•Hale Hamilton
Werewolf of London (1935)
Werewolf of London is a 1935 horror film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Henry Hull as the titular werewolf. The supporting cast includes Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews, and Spring Byington. Jack Pierce, who is best known for creating the iconic makeup worn by Boris Karloff in the 1931 film Frankenstein, created the film's wer...
Starring: Virginia Field•Estelle Taylor•Billie Dove
Charlie Chan in London (1934)
Charlie Chan in London is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde. The film stars Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. This is the sixth film produced by Fox with Warner Oland as the detective, and the second not to be lost, after The Black Camel (1931).
Starring: Virginia Field•Boris Karloff•Esther Ralston
Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)
Charlie Chan's Courage (1934) is the fifth film in which Warner Oland played detective Charlie Chan. It is a remake of the 1927 silent film The Chinese Parrot, based upon the novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Both are considered lost films.
Starring: Virginia Field•Jacqueline Logan•Mary Astor
Mandalay (1934)
Mandalay is a 1934 American pre Code drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and written by Austin Parker and Charles Kenyon based on a story by Paul Hervey Fox. The film stars Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland and Lyle Talbot, and features Ruth Donnelly and Reginald Owen.
Starring: Virginia Field•Marian Nixon•Pola Negri
Before Dawn (1933)
Before Dawn is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Irving Pichel and written by Garrett Fort. The film stars Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges and Gertrude Hoffman. It is one of the few Oland films from this period in which he does not play an Asian character. The film was released on August 4, 1933 by RKO Pictur...
Starring: Virginia Field•Victor McLaglen
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933)
Charlie Chan's Greatest Case (1933) is an American pre-Code murder mystery film starring Warner Oland as the Oriental detective Charlie Chan. It was based on the Earl Derr Biggers novel The House Without a Key (1925).
Starring: Virginia Field•Dolores Costello•Mary Brian
Charlie Chan's Chance (1932)
Charlie Chan's Chance is a 1932 American pre-Code murder mystery film, the third to star Warner Oland as detective Charlie Chan. It is based on the 1928 novel Behind That Curtain by Earl Derr Biggers, who also contributed to the film. The film is considered to be lost.
Starring: Bela Lugosi•Virginia Field•George Jessel
The Black Camel (1931)
The Black Camel is a 1931 American pre-Code mystery film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Warner Oland, Sally Eilers, Bela Lugosi, and Dorothy Revier. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the second film to star Oland as detective Charlie Chan, and the sole surviving title of the first five Chan film...
Starring: Virginia Field•June Collyer•Florence Fair
Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
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. It is the first appearance of Warner Oland as Charlie Chan. Part of the long-running Charlie Chan series, it was based on the 1930 novel of the same title by Earl Derr Biggers. It is now c...
Starring: Virginia Field•Al Jolson
Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
Daughter of the Dragon is a 1931 American pre-Code crime mystery film directed by Lloyd Corrigan, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Anna May Wong as Princess Ling Moy, Sessue Hayakawa as Ah Kee, and Warner Oland as Dr. Fu Manchu. The film was made to capitalize on Sax Rohmer's then current book, Daughter of Fu Manchu, which Paramount did...
Starring: William Demarest•Virginia Field•Sally Eilers
Dishonored (1931)
Dishonored is a 1931 pre-Code romantic spy film about a female spy for Austria-Hungary during World War I. It was co-written, directed, and edited by Josef von Sternberg for Paramount Pictures. The costume design was by Travis Banton. The film stars Marlene Dietrich, Victor McLaglen, Gustav von Seyffertitz, and Warner Oland.
Starring: Virginia Field•Kay Francis•John Garrick
The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)
The Drums of Jeopardy is a 1931 American pre-Code horror film directed by George B. Seitz and starring Warner Oland, June Collyer and Lloyd Hughes. It is the second film adaptation of Harold McGrath's novel of the same name, and stars Oland as Dr. Boris Karlov.
Starring: Virginia Field•Ray Milland•Virginia Cherrill
Dangerous Paradise (1930)
Dangerous Paradise is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen and Warner Oland.
Starring: Virginia Field•Charles Boyer•Heather Angel
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Rowland V. Lee. It is the second of three films starring Warner Oland as the fiendish Fu Manchu, who returns from apparent death in the previous film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929), to seek revenge on those he holds responsible for the death of his wife and child.
Starring: Virginia Field•Donald Woods
Chinatown Nights (1929)
Chinatown Nights, also known as Tong War, is a 1929 film starring Wallace Beery and begun as a silent film then finished as an all-talking sound one via dubbing. Directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures, Chinatown Nights also stars Florence Vidor, former wife of director King Vidor, who did not dub her own voice and quit th...
Starring: Virginia Field•Pat Paterson•Drue Leyton
The Faker (1929)
The Faker is a 1929 American silent melodrama film, directed by Phil Rosen. It stars Jacqueline Logan, Charles Delaney, and Warner Oland, and was released on January 2, 1929.
Starring: Virginia Field•Rita Hayworth•Jon Hall
The Mighty (1929)
The Mighty is a 1929 American action film directed by John Cromwell.
Starring: Virginia Field•Keye Luke•Rosina Lawrence
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929)
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Warner Oland as Dr. Fu Manchu. It was the first Fu Manchu film of the talkie era. Since this was during the transition period to sound, a silent version was also released in the United States, although only the sound version exists today. The...
Starring: Virginia Field•Donald Woods
Good Time Charley (1927)
Good Time Charley is a 1927 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. and directed by Michael Curtiz. The film apparently had a Vitaphone soundtrack of music and effects. It was considered to be a lost film. However, as of January 2021, the film is listed as extant at the Library of Congress.
Starring: Virginia Field•Tom Mix•Clara Kimball Young
The Jazz Singer (1927)
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length motion picture with both synchronized recorded music score as well as lip-synchronous singing and speech. Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and effectively marked the end o...
Starring: Virginia Field•John Barrymore•Antonio Moreno
A Million Bid (1927)
A Million Bid is a 1927 silent drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello. It is based on the 1908 play, Agnes, by Gladys Rankin Drew writing under the pseudonym "George Cameron".
Starring: Virginia Field•Theda Bara•Edmund Lowe
Sailor Izzy Murphy (1927)
Sailor Izzy Murphy is a 1927 comedy-drama film released from Warner Bros. Pictures starring George Jessel, Audrey Ferris, Warner Oland and John Milijan. The film was a follow up to a previous film starring Jessel titled Private Izzy Murphy. The premiere was set for October 8, 1927, at Warners' Theater, two days after the premiere of The Jazz Singer...
Starring: Virginia Field•Milton Sills•Douglas Fairbanks
What Happened to Father? (1927)
What Happened to Father? is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by John G. Adolfi and written by Charles R. Condon. It is based on the 1909 short story of the same name by Mary Roberts Rinehart that was originally serialized in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The film stars Warner Oland, Flobelle Fairbanks, and William Demarest. A previous v...
Starring: Virginia Field•Montagu Love•Francis X. Bushman
When a Man Loves (1927)
When a Man Loves is a 1927 American silent historical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The picture stars John Barrymore and features Dolores Costello in the frequently filmed story of Abbe Prevost's 1731 novel Manon Lescaut. The lovers suffer, but the film has an optimistic ending, as they head to Am...
Starring: Alma Rubens•Virginia Field•Edmund Lowe
Don Juan (1926)
Don Juan is a 1926 American romantic adventure film directed by Alan Crosland. It is the first feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects, though it has no spoken dialogue. The film is inspired by Lord Byron's 1821 epic poem of the same name. The screenplay was written...
Starring: Alma Rubens•Virginia Field•Mae Murray•Irene Castle
The Marriage Clause (1926)
The Marriage Clause is a 1926 silent film drama directed by Lois Weber and starring Francis X. Bushman and Billie Dove. It was produced and released by Universal Pictures. The film marked a return to directing for Weber, who had taken a break for a few years.
Starring: Virginia Field•Gladys Hulette•Elsie Ferguson
Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925)
Don Q, Son of Zorro is a 1925 American silent swashbuckler romance film and a sequel to the 1920 silent film The Mark of Zorro. It was loosely based upon the 1909 novel Don Q.'s Love Story, written by the mother-and-son duo Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard. The story was reworked in 1925 into a vehicle for the Johnston McCulley character Zorro. Th...
Starring: Virginia Field•May McAvoy•Irene Castle
Flower of Night (1925)
Flower of Night is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Paul Bern. Famous Players-Lasky produced the film with Paramount Pictures releasing. Joseph Hergesheimer provided an original story for the screen.
Starring: Virginia Field•Betty Blythe
Riders of the Purple Sage (1925)
Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Lynn Reynolds and starring Tom Mix, Mabel Ballin, and Warner Oland. Based on the 1912 novel Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, the film is about a former Texas Ranger who pursues a corrupt lawyer who abducted his married sister and niece. His search leads him to a rem...
Starring: Mabel Ballin•Virginia Field•Estelle Taylor
The Winding Stair (1925)
The Winding Stair is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, and Warner Oland. It is based on the 1923 novel of the same name by the British writer A.E.W. Mason.
Starring: Virginia Field•Billie Dove•Mary Astor
Curlytop (1924)
Curlytop is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Shirley Mason, Wallace MacDonald, and Warner Oland. It is based on one of the short stories collected in Limehouse Nights by Thomas Burke.
Starring: Virginia Field•Pola Negri
The Twin Pawns (1919)
The Twin Pawns is a 1919 American silent film drama directed by Leonce Perret and starring Mae Murray. It is yet another film taken from Wilkie Collin's novel The Woman in White. The film was released by Pathé Exchange.
Starring: Virginia Field•Dolores Costello
The Witness for the Defense (1919)
The Witness for the Defense is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Elsie Ferguson, Warner Oland, and Wyndham Standing.
Starring: Virginia Field•Helene Costello
Convict 993 (1918)
Convict 993 is a lost 1918 silent film directed by William Parke and starring Irene Castle. It was distributed by the Pathé Exchange Company.
Starring: Virginia Field•George Jessel•Al Jolson
The Naulahka (1918)
The Naulahka is a 1918 American silent adventure film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Antonio Moreno, Helene Chadwick and Warner Oland. It was made for a reported cost of $100,000 leading the studio to claim it was the most expensive film ever made, although many earlier productions had in fact been made with larger budgets. It is based...
Starring: William Demarest•Virginia Field•George Jessel
The Yellow Ticket (1918)
The Yellow Ticket is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by William Parke and starring Fannie Ward. It is based on Michael Morton's 1914 play The Yellow Ticket. This screen adaptation of the play is currently classified as a lost film.
Starring: Clara Kimball Young•Audrey Ferris•Virginia Field
The Cigarette Girl (1917)
The Cigarette Girl is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by William Parke and starring Gladys Hulette, Warner Oland and William Parke Jr.
Starring: Virginia Field•Theda Bara
The Rise of Susan (1916)
The Rise of Susan is a 1916 American silent film made by the Peerless Film Company and distributed by World Film which starred Clara Kimball Young. Remnants of a print survive in the Library of Congress missing several reels. A fuller version may exist at the George Eastman House.
Starring: Fannie Ward•Virginia Field
Destruction (1915)
Destruction is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Will S. Davis and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost. Destruction is based on the 1901 Émile Zola novel Travail ("Labor").
Starring: Gladys Hulette•Virginia Field
Sin (1915)
Sin is a 1915 American silent drama film written and directed by Herbert Brenon and starring Theda Bara. It was produced by Fox Film Corporation and shot at the Fox Studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The film is now considered to be lost.
Starring: Gladys Hulette•Virginia Field