Layne Tom Jr. (born Richard Layne Tom, Jr.) (June 19, 1927 – January 14, 2015)[1] was an American actor. [2], Tom only returned to show business to film two documentaries about Charlie Chan: Layne Tom, Jr: The Adventures of Charlie Chan, Jr. and Legacy of Charlie Chan as himself. Keye Luke returned to the Chan mysteries, which were now being produced by Monogram and starred Roland Winters as Chan. The names became a guarantee of box office success, and so Charlie was constantly paired with one of the '2 Lins'. He holds the distinction of having played three different Charlie Chan sons: as Charlie Chan Jr. in Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937), as Tommy Chan in Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), and in 1940's Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise as Willie Chan, Chan's number seven son. While Charlie Chan waits at the hospital, his "number two" son Jimmy intercepts a message intended for Charlie about a murder on board the freighter Susan B. Jennings. The short film is a documentary and narrative hybrid bio-pic focusing on the earlier life and work of Keye Luke during the 1920s-1940s, a pioneering Asian American actor and painter most known for his roles as the Number One Son, Lee Chan, in the popular Charlie Chan films of the 1930s, and as the very first Kato in the 1940s Green Hornet, decades before Bruce Lee. He was credited as Mako with Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, and C. Aubrey Smith in The Hurricane (1937), and as an uncredited extra in San Francisco (1936) with stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. He sees Lee Chan and Su Toy having some romance together wondering if any future grandchildren will be able to see the circus, too. (Victor) After he got out of the Navy when World War II ended, he turned down a five-year movie contract with Monogram Pictures to attend the University of Southern California instead to become an architect. Layne Tom, Jr: The Adventures of Charlie Chan, Jr. "Layne Tom Jr., a Son of Charlie Chan in Three Films, Dies at 87," by Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, Feb. 11 2015, http://www.drberlin.com/memphis2004/story.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Layne_Tom_Jr.&oldid=1000407574, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 January 2021, at 23:57. She often played dowagers or spinsters in numerous Hollywood movies of … Jimmy wants to prove his investigative skills to his father and so boards the Jennings pretending to be Charlie Chan, with his younger brother Tommy (Layne Tom Jr.) in tow. Tom attended John H. Francis Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles. Charlie Chan in Honolulu From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charlie Chan in Honolulu is a 1939 American film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. The film is the first appearance of both Toler as Chan and Jackie Chan, Hong Kong-born Chinese stuntman, actor, and director whose perilous acrobatic stunts and engaging physical humor made him an action-film star in Asia and helped to bring kung fu movies into the American mainstream. Benson Fong and Mantan Moreland, return as Tommy "Number Three Son" Chan, and Birmingham Brown.. The Chinese Ring is a 1947 American film directed by William Beaudine.. His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Directed by William Beaudine. After college, Jean (she used her middle name) began working in the movies and worked in 20 films, including The Good Earth, The Man from Button Willow, and This time his usual sidekick, "Number One Son" Lee Chan, has been replaced by Lee's own son, Lee Chan, Jr. It was adapted for Broadway two years later, re-titled Chaplin – A Musical. Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American film, television, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best (CBS, then NBC, then CBS again), and the physician … He is frequently accompanied, and irritated, by his Number Two Son, Cast. Synopsis. He also appeared with child star Shirley Temple in Stowaway (1936) as an uncredited Chinese Boy in the Musical Band. He designed the flagship Bank of America building in Los Angeles' Chinatown, as well as fire stations, banks, courthouses, libraries, shopping centers, civic centers. The title credit mentions "Charlie Chan" as appearing in the film, as if he were an actor and not a fictional character portrayed by Toler. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. Cast. Charlie Chan in Egypt is the eighth of 16 20th Century Fox Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland in the title role. The freighter is on its way from Shanghai to Honolulu under the leadership of Captain Johnson (Robert Barrat). Plot. He holds the distinction of having played three different Charlie Chan sons: as Charlie Chan Jr. in Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937), as Tommy Chan in Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), and in 1940's Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise as Willie Chan, Chan's number seven son. The House Without a Key is a 1925 novel by Earl Derr Biggers, the first of the Charlie Chan mysteries.Set in 1920s Hawaiʻi, the novel acquaints the reader with the look and feel of the islands from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, describing social class structures and customs of the era. The ruse doesn't last long and soon the real Chan arrives on board, interrogating a motley assortment of crooks, heiresses and crew as he works to solve a crime whose only witness is secretary Judy Haynes (Phyllis Brooks). It was released in 1935. Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund, October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: Dr. With Brigitte Lin, Joan Lin and Chin Han, the four eventually became known as the "Two Chins, Two Lins" (二秦二林) which became iconic of 1970s romance films in China. Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first Black actor to … The film is the first appearance of both Toler as Chan and Victor Sen Yung as "number two son" Jimmy. In 2006, Thomas Meehan and Christopher Curtis created another musical, Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, which was first performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in 2010. The Golden Eye is a 1948 American film directed by William Beaudine and starring Roland Winters in his fourth appearance as Sen Yung made his first significant acting debut in the 1938 film Charlie Chan in Honolulu, as the Chinese detective's "number two son," Jimmy Chan. His daughter Kiana Tom is a television host, star of Kiana's Flex Appeal fitness series and one of the most widely recognized fitness experts in the world. Two musicals, Little Tramp and Chaplin, were produced in the early 1990s. TMC article on "Charlie Chan in Honolulu", Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, Charlie Chan Matches Wits with the Prince of Darkness, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charlie_Chan_in_Honolulu&oldid=959086646, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 May 2020, at 02:47. The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers.It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot.. Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright. [3], Tom died in 2015 in his home in Huntington Beach, California, age 87.[4]. Charlie Chan in the Secret Service is a 1944 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.It is the first film made by Monogram Pictures after the series was dropped by 20th Century Fox, and it marks the introduction of Number Three Son (Benson Fong) and taxi driver (later Chan's chauffeur), Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland). Stereotypes of East Asians in the United States are ethnic stereotypes found in American society about first-generation immigrants, and American-born citizens whose family members immigrated to the United States, from East Asian countries (China, Japan, and South Korea) as well as some Southeast Asian countries. First appearing onscreen in Charlie Chan at the Opera as an extra, he returned to the series and is best remembered playing Number Three Son "Tommy Chan" opposite Sidney Toler in six Charlie Chan movies between 1944 and 1946, replacing Victor Sen Yung's Number Two Son, Jimmy. Sarah Edwards (October 11, 1881 – January 7, 1965) was a Welsh-born American film and stage actress. Charlie Chan agrees to obtain a lifetime pass to the circus for his family. Ross Martin (born Martin Rosenblatt, March 22, 1920 – July 3, 1981) was an American radio, voice, stage, film and television actor.Martin was best known for portraying Artemus Gordon on the CBS Western series The Wild Wild West, which aired from 1965 … Toler's portrayal of the Chinese detective in Charlie Chan in Honolulu was very well received. The Trap is a 1946 crime film directed by Howard Bretherton and starring Sidney Toler and Victor Sen Yung.The main premise is that two members of a show troupe are murdered, and detective Charlie Chan is called in to solve the case. In this movie, Sidney Toler replaced the recently deceased Warner Oland as Charlie Chan and Sen Yung replaced Oland's "number one son" Lee, who had been played by Keye Luke. When three bank employees are killed with cobra venom, Detective Chan recalls an oddly similar case ten years earlier in Shanghai. Charlie Chan in Rio is a 1941 film featuring the Asian detective Charlie Chan.It was the tenth film to feature Sidney Toler as the title character, who is called upon to investigate the death of a suspected murderer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung. The film opens with Detective Chan rushing to the hospital to be with his daughter as she prepares to give birth to his first grandchild. Plot. While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor. Winters was born Roland Winternitz on November 22, 1904 in Boston, Massachusetts, the The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (sometimes abbreviated as The Amazing Chan Clan) is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, animated by Eric Porter Studios in Australia and broadcast on CBS from September 9, 1972 to December 30, 1972, with reruns continuing through the summer of 1973 and in syndication from 1976 to 1982. Chan’s movies included Drunken Master, Police Story, Rush Hour, and Rumble in the Bronx. Charlie Chan in Honolulu is a 1939 American film directed by H. Bruce Humberstone, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. Early years. With Sidney Toler, Phyllis Brooks, Victor Sen Yung, Eddie Collins. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. "Number One Son" appeared in the last two Chan features, The Feathered Serpent (1948), along with "Number Two Son" Besides Toler, there was another change in the series. While Charlie Chan and his number one son, Lee, are aboard a New York-bound transatlantic liner returning from Germany in their previous adventure (Charlie Chan at the Olympics), they have a run-in with a mysterious woman, named Billie Bronson, who secretes a package in the trunk of the Chans. Charlie Chan is brought in when an archaeologist disappears while excavating ancient art treasures in Egypt. Charlie Chan and his two eldest sons, investigate a murderous gang who is forcing an archaeologist to search for a treasure in Mexico. The prime suspect in the killings is a shadowy lady known as the Dragon Queen, but soon Chan's suspicions fall elsewhere. Retired detective Charlie Chan is asked for his help by the San Francisco police to solve a new series of murders. Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan; Mantan Moreland as Birmingham Brown; Benson Fong as Tommy Chan; James Cardwell as Ned Stewart Synopsis. 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