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Actor, Warner Oland, was born Johan Verner Ölund on Oct 3, 1879 in Nyby, Sweden. Oland died at the age of 58 on Aug 6, 1938 in Stockholm, Sweden and was laid to rest in Southborough Rural Cemetery in Southborough, MA.

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Charlie Chan: Drop of water on thirsty tongue more precious than gold in purse.


Professor John Thurston: Why should anyone have committed such a fantastic crime?
Charlie Chan: Very strange. Might almost believe in power of ancient goddess.


Charlie Chan: Many strange crimes committed in sewers of Paris.


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Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 461-462. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Buried in Southborough Rural Cemetery, Southborough, Massachusetts. His gravestone, a rough oval, was made from one of the steps of his beloved home in this town.

He didn't need make-up when he played Charlie Chan; all he would do is curl down his moustache and curl up his eyebrows. In fact, the Chinese often mistook him for one of their own countrymen. He attributed this to the fact that his Russian grandmother was of Mongolian descent.

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