Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers, reportedly inspired by the career of Honolulu policeman Chang Apana. Sourced A thousand pardons. Assault and battery not permitted without license from boxing...
The Chinese detective Charlie Chan remains author Earl Derr Biggers' (1884-1933) greatest legacy. Biggers based his fictional Asian sleuth on Chang Apana, a Chinese American police detective who lived in Honolulu. Biggers' introduced...
Charlie Chan is a fictional Chinese American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers, reportedly in part under inspiration from the career of Chang Apana. Chan is the hero of a number of books and dozens of movies. At first a sergeant (but later...
Six movies about the Asian detective created by Earl Derr Biggers make up MGM Home Entertainment's new "The Charlie Chan Collection." The films star Sidney Toler as the supersleuth, a role he played in more than 40 films from 1937 to 1947. ...
"YOU ARE MURDERER." With these words Charlie Chan, pride of the Honolulu police, a man of few words and no articles, would wrap up another film in the popular series of mysteries in which he starred in the 1930s and '40s. But this...
Some people are good at what they do. Other people are better. Bobby Short was the best. Preserving the art of the Great American Songbook was his life's work, and nobody did more for the cause. When cabaret queen Mabel Mercer, his friend and sometime...
