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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: Cold omelet like fish out of sea - does *not* improve with *age*.


Charlie Chan: Roses and romance like tenor in opera - sing most persuasive love song.


Charlie Chan: Humble presence is of no more consequence than one drop of rain in cloudburst.


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Oland got a big break when the actress Alla Nazimova spotted him performing Shakespeare and signed him to her 1906 touring company of Ibsen's plays.

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

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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