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词条 Sidney Toler
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  1. Early life and career

  2. Charlie Chan series

  3. Personal life

  4. Later years and death

  5. Filmography

  6. References

  7. External links

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| name = Sidney Toler
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| birthname = Hooper G. Toler Jr.
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1874|4|28|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Warrensburg, Missouri, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1947|2|12|1874|4|28|mf=y}}
| death_place = Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
| occupation = {{Flatlist|
  • Actor
  • playwright
  • theatre director

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| years_active = 1903–1947
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  • {{marriage|Vivian Marston|1906|1943}}
  • {{marriage|Vera Tattersall Orkow|1943|1947}}

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}}Sidney Toler (born Hooper G. Toler Jr., April 28, 1874 – February 12, 1947) was an American actor, playwright and theatre director. The second European-American actor to play the role of Charlie Chan on screen, he is best remembered for his portrayal of the Chinese-American detective in 22 films made between 1938 and 1946. Before becoming Chan, Toler played supporting roles in 50 motion pictures and was a highly regarded comic actor on the Broadway stage.[1]

Early life and career

Hooper G. Toler Jr., who was called Sidney Toler from childhood, was born April 28, 1874, in Warrensburg, Missouri.[1][2][3] He showed an early interest in the theater, acting in an amateur production of Tom Sawyer at the age of seven.[2] He left the University of Kansas and became a professional actor in 1892, playing the heavy in a performance of a melodrama called The Master Man in Kansas City.[2][4][5] In 1894 he joined the Corse Payton company and toured for four years. His success in leading roles at the Lee Avenue Academy in Brooklyn brought an invitation to join the company of Julia Marlowe. He toured with her for two years, playing the Duke of Buckingham in When Knighthood Was in Flower.[2][6]

In Brooklyn, Toler played leads with the Columbia Theatre Stock Company and sang baritone with the Orpheum Theatre's operatic stock company. In 1903, he made his Broadway debut in the musical comedy, The Office Boy.[2][7]

Over the next nine years Toler had his own theatre companies in Portland, Maine, and Halifax, Nova Scotia—at one point having 12 stock companies on the road. He began a prolific career as a playwright, writing The Belle of Richmond, The Dancing Master, The House on the Sands and more than 70 other plays. One particular success was a war play called The Man They Left Behind, which was presented by 67 companies in a period of three months and by 18 different companies in a single week.[2][6]

In 1921 Paramount Pictures released two films based on Toler's plays: The Bait, adapted from The Tiger Lady,[8] and A Heart to Let, based on Agatha's Aunt, which Toler adapted from a novel by Harriet Lummis Smith.[9] Three of his plays reached Broadway: The Golden Days (1921), which starred Helen Hayes, The Exile (1923), and Ritzy (1930).[2][7]

Toler earned fame as an actor on the Broadway stage, working for David Belasco for 14 years.[2] He was best known for his comedy roles,[10] from the detective-butler in On the Hiring Line (1919)—a performance that The New York Times called "one of the comedy high spots of the week"[6]—to Cool Kelly the iceman in It's a Wise Child (1929–30).[2]

In 1929 Toler made his first film, Madame X ,[11] and in 1931, after the Boston run of It's a Wise Child, he moved to Hollywood.[2] He played supporting roles in films including White Shoulders (1931), Tom Brown of Culver (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), The Phantom President (1932), The World Changes (1933), Spitfire (1934), Operator 13 (1934), The Call of the Wild (1935), Three Godfathers (1936), The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), Double Wedding (1937), The Mysterious Rider (1938) and Law of the Pampas (1939).[11]

Charlie Chan series

Following the death of Warner Oland, Twentieth Century-Fox began the search for a new Charlie Chan. Thirty-four actors were tested before the studio decided on Sidney Toler. Twentieth Century-Fox announced its choice on October 18, 1938, and filming began less than a week later on Charlie Chan in Honolulu, which had been originally scripted for Warner Oland and Keye Luke. Toler's portrayal of the Chinese detective in Charlie Chan in Honolulu was very well received. Besides Toler, there was another change in the series. Sen Yung, as Number Two Son Jimmy, replaced Number One Son Lee, who had been played by Keye Luke. Toler's Chan, rather than merely mimicking the character that Oland had portrayed, had a somewhat sharper edge that was well suited for the rapid changes of the times, both political and cultural. When needed, Charlie Chan now displayed overt sarcasm, usually toward his son Jimmy.

Through four years and eleven films, Toler played Charlie Chan for Twentieth Century-Fox. However, in 1942, following the completion of Castle in the Desert, Fox concluded the series. The wartime collapse of the international film market may have been a factor, but the main reason was that Fox was curtailing virtually all of its low-budget series. Fox's other "B" series—Jane Withers, Michael Shayne, The Cisco Kid—also ended that year. Only Laurel and Hardy remained in Fox's "B" unit, until it shut down at the end of 1944.

With Fox no longer producing Chan films, Toler immediately sought the screen rights to the Charlie Chan character from Eleanor Biggers Cole, the widow of Chan's creator, Earl Derr Biggers. Toler had hoped that if he could find someone to produce new Charlie Chan films, starring himself, he might get Fox to distribute them. Fox declined, but Toler sold the idea to Monogram Pictures, a lower-budget film studio. Phil Krasne, a Hollywood lawyer who invested in film productions, partnered with James Burkett to produce the Monogram Chans.

With the release of Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944), the effects of a more limited budget were apparent. Production values were no match for those of Fox; Monogram's budgets were typically about 40% of what Fox's had been. In fairness to Monogram, the films did gradually improve, with The Chinese Cat, The Shanghai Cobra, and Dark Alibi often cited as favorites by fans. Cast changes were again made: Sen Yung's Jimmy was replaced by Benson Fong as Number Three Son Tommy, and Mantan Moreland played the ever-present and popular Birmingham Brown, who brought comedy relief (and black audiences) to the series. Monogram's Charlie Chan films boasted tricky screenplays with many surprise culprits and murder devices, and were profitable and successful.

Personal life

On August 29, 1906, Toler married actress Vivian Marston (born Josephine Gasper) of Boston, Massachusetts.[12][13][14] She died in Hollywood on October 7, 1943, after an illness of seven months.[15] Four weeks later, he married sculptor Vera Tattersall Orkow,[16] a British-born actress credited as Viva Tattersall when she and Toler performed together and co-wrote the plays Dress Parade (1929) and Ritzy (1930).[17][18] Their marriage lasted until Toler's death in 1947.

Later years and death

By the end of 1946, age and illness were affecting Toler. Diagnosed with cancer, the 72-year-old Toler was so ill during the filming of Dangerous Money (1946) and Shadows over Chinatown (1946) that he could hardly walk. Monogram hired Toler's original foil, "Number Two Son" Victor Sen Yung, for Toler's last two films, quite probably to ease the burden on Toler. Toler mustered enough strength to complete his last film, The Trap, which was filmed in July–August 1946 and released in November that same year. (Yung and Moreland relieved Toler of much of the action in The Trap). Toler's Monogram output matched his Fox output: 11 films for each studio.

Sidney Toler died on February 12, 1947, at his home in Los Angeles from intestinal cancer.[2] Monogram continued the series with actor Roland Winters, who appeared in six more feature films as Charlie Chan.

Filmography

Year Title RoleNotes
1929 Madame X Merivel [11]
1929{{sortname>The|Gay Nineties; or, The Unfaithful Husband|nolink=1}}[19]{{Rp>37}}
1929 In the Nick of Time[19]{{Rp>45}}
1930{{sortname>The|Devil's Parade|nolink=1}}[19]{{Rp>52}}
1931 White ShouldersWilliam|Sothern|nolink=1}} [11]
1931 Strictly Dishonorable Mulligan [11]
1932 Strangers in LoveDetective|McPhail|nolink=1}} [11]
1932 Radio PatrolTom|Koegh|nolink=1}} [11]
1932 Is My Face Red?Tony|Mugatti|nolink=1}} [11]
1932 Tom Brown of CulverMajor|Wharton|nolink=1}} [11]
1932 Speak Easily Stage director [11]
1932 Blondie of the Follies Pete [11]
1932 Blonde VenusDetective|Wilson|nolink=1}} [11]
1932{{sortname>The|Phantom President}} Aikenhead [11]
1932 Over the CounterMr.|Drake|nolink=1}} Short film[20]
1932 He Learned About Women Wilson [11]
1933{{sortname>The|Billion Dollar Scandal}}Carter B.|Moore|nolink=1}} [11]
1933 King of the JungleNeil|Forbes|nolink=1}} [11]
1933{{sortname>The|Narrow Corner|The Narrow Corner (film)}} [11]
1933{{sortname>The|Way to Love}} Pierre [11]
1933{{sortname>The|World Changes}} Hodgens [11]
1934 MassacreThomas|Shanks|nolink=1}} [11]
1934 Dark HazardJohn|Bright|nolink=1}} [11]
1934 SpitfireJim|Sawyer|nolink=1}} [11]
1934 Registered NurseFrankie|Sylvestrie|nolink=1}} [11]
1934{{sortname>The|Trumpet Blows}}Pepe|Sancho|nolink=1}} [11]
1934 Upperworld Moran [11]
1934 Operator 13Major Allan|Pinkerton|Allan Pinkerton}} [11]
1934 Here Comes the GroomLieutenant Detective|Weaver|nolink=1}} [11]
1935 Romance in Manhattan Police sergeant [11]
1935{{sortname>The|Daring Young Man}}Warden|Palmer|nolink=1}} [11]
1935 Champagne for Breakfast Judge [11]
1935 Orchids to YouNick|Corsini|nolink=1}} [11]
1935{{sortname>The|Call of the Wild|The Call of the Wild (1935 film)}}Joe|Groggins|nolink=1}} [11]
1935 This Is the LifeProfessor Lafcadio F.|Breckenridge|nolink=1}} [11]
1936 Three GodfathersProfessor|Snape|nolink=1}} [11]
1936 Give Us This Night1st|Carabiniere|nolink=1}} [11]
1936{{sortname>The|Gorgeous Hussy}}Daniel|Webster}} [11]
1936 Our RelationsShip's|captain|nolink=1}} [11]
1936{{sortname>The|Longest Night|The Longest Night (1936 film)}}Captain|Holt|nolink=1}} [11]
1937 That Certain WomanDetective|Neely|nolink=1}} [11]
1937 Double Wedding Keogh [11]
1938 Gold Is Where You Find ItHarrison|McCooey|nolink=1}} [11]
1938 Wide Open Faces Sheriff [11]
1938 One Wild Night Lawton [11]
1938{{sortname>The|Mysterious Rider|The Mysterious Rider (1938 film)}}Frosty|Kilburn|nolink=1}} [11]
1938 If I Were KingRobin|Turgis|nolink=1}} [11]
1938 Up the RiverJeffrey|Mitchell|nolink=1}} [11]
1938 Charlie Chan in HonoluluCharlie|Chan}} [11]
1939 DisbarredG. L. "Mardy"|Mardeen|nolink=1}} [11]
1939 King of ChinatownDr. Chang|Ling|nolink=1}} [11]
1939{{sortname>The|Kid from Kokomo}}Judge|Bronson|nolink=1}} [11]
1939 Charlie Chan in RenoCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1939 Heritage of the Desert Nosey [11]
1939 Charlie Chan at Treasure IslandCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1939 Law of the PampasFernando|Ramiriez|nolink=1}} [11]
1939 City in DarknessCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1940 Charlie Chan in PanamaCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1940 Charlie Chan's Murder CruiseCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1940 Charlie Chan at the Wax MuseumCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1940 Murder Over New YorkCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1941 Dead Men TellCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1941 Charlie Chan in RioCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1942 Castle in the DesertCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1942{{sortname>A|Night to Remember|A Night to Remember (1942 film)}}Inspector|Hankins|nolink=1}} [11]
1943{{sortname>The|Adventures of Smilin' Jack|The Adventures of Smilin' Jack (serial)}}General Kai|Ling|nolink=1}} Serial[20]
1943 Isle of Forgotten Sins Krogan [11]
1943 White Savage Wong [11]
1944 Charlie Chan in the Secret ServiceCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1944{{sortname>The|Chinese Cat}}Charlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1944 Black MagicCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1945{{sortname>The|Jade Mask}}Charlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1945 It's in the Bag!Detective|Sully|nolink=1}} [11]
1945{{sortname>The|Scarlet Clue}}Charlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1945{{sortname>The|Shanghai Cobra}}Charlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1946{{sortname>The|Red Dragon}}Charlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1946 Dark AlibiCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1946 Shadows Over ChinatownCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1946 Dangerous MoneyCharlie|Chan|nolink=1}} [11]
1946{{sortname>The|Trap|The Trap (1946 film)}}Charlie|Chan|nolink=1}} (final film role)[11]

References

1. ^Sidney Toler. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database online]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/02/13/archives/sidney-toler-dies-film-charlie-cm-veteran-stage-screen-star-played.html|title=Sidney Toler Dies. Film Charlie Chan. Veteran Stage, Screen Star Played Chinese Detective Since 1939. Had Been Playwright|last=|first=|date=February 13, 1947|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=September 28, 2016|registration=yes}}
3. ^Sidney Toler. Ancestry.com, U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 [database online]. Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2005. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
4. ^{{cite book|last=Katz |first=Ephraim |authorlink=Ephraim Katz |editor1-last=Klein |editor1-first=Fred |editor2-last=Nolen |editor2-first=Ronald Dean |title=The Film Encyclopedia|publisher=HarperPerennial |location=New York |year=1998 |edition=3rd|pages=1362–1363 |isbn=0-06-273492-X}}
5. ^{{cite book |editor1-last=Hanaford |editor1-first=Harry Prescott |editor2-last=Hines |editor2-first=Dixie |date=1914 |title=Who's who in Music and Drama |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tpafAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=Hooper+G.+Toler&source=bl&ots=W6vGU5AF74&sig=xridlk-PR-LUCMJcOdSBmc9Caho&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidtpaAnrLPAhUo6YMKHSmdCXkQ6AEITDAH#v=onepage&q=Hooper%20G.%20Toler&f=false |location=New York |publisher=H. P. Hanaford |page=303 |oclc=21786350 }}
6. ^1 2 {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/11/02/archives/whos-who-on-the-stage.html|title=Who's Who on the Stage|last=|first=|date=November 2, 1919|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=September 29, 2016|registration=yes}}
7. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/sidney-toler-8679|title=Sidney Toler – Broadway Cast & Staff {{!}} IBDB|last=League|first=The Broadway|website=www.ibdb.com|access-date=June 18, 2018}}
8. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=2702 |title=The Bait |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |accessdate=September 29, 2016}}
9. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9626 |title=A Heart to Let |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |accessdate=September 29, 2016}}
10. ^{{cite magazine |last=Toler |first=Sidney |date=May 1930 |title=There's an Urge in Acting |magazine=Theatre Magazine |page=36 }}
11. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 {{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&TBL=PN&Type=CA&ID=140684|title=Sidney Toler|last=|first=|date=|website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films|publisher=American Film Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405040119/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&TBL=PN&Type=CA&ID=140684|archive-date=April 5, 2014|dead-url=|access-date=September 28, 2016}}
12. ^Josephine Gaspar. Ancestry.com, New York, New York, Marriage Index 1866–1937 [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
13. ^{{cite book |last=Briscoe |first=John |date=1908 |title=The Actors' Birthday Book |url=https://archive.org/stream/actorsbirthdaybo02brisuoft#page/54/mode/1up |location=New York |publisher=Moffat, Yard and Company |page=54 }}
14. ^Hooper G. Toler Jr. Ancestry.com, U.S., Consular Registration Certificates, 1907–1918 [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
15. ^{{cite news |last= |first= |date=October 9, 1943 |title=Mrs. Sidney Toler |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/10/09/archives/1mrs-sidney-togk.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=September 28, 2016 }}
16. ^{{cite news |last= |first= |date=November 12, 1943 |title=Sidney Toler of Screen Weds |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/11/12/archives/sidney-toler-of-screen-weds.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=September 28, 2016 }}
17. ^{{cite news |last= |first= |date=January 19, 1930 |title=Gossip of the Rialto |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/01/19/archives/gossip-of-the-rialto-his-majesty-goes-to-the-playmrs-campbell-comes.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=September 28, 2016 }}
18. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/viva-tattersall-61879|title=Viva Tattersall – Broadway Cast & Staff {{!}} IBDB|last=League|first=The Broadway|website=www.ibdb.com|access-date=June 18, 2018}}
19. ^1 2 {{cite book |last=Liebman |first=Roy |date=2003 |title=Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts |url= |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |isbn=978-0786446971 }}
20. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f2403fe |title=Sidney Toler |website=BFI Film & TV Database |publisher=British Film Institute |accessdate=September 29, 2016}}

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