Warner Oland, Sydney Toler and Roland Winters have all played which fictional detective?
"three more films (although the second one was purely a cameo appearance). Firmly locked into such roles, he was cast as Charlie Chan in the international detective mystery film ""Charlie Chan Carries On"" (1931) and then in director Josef von Sternberg's 1932 classic film ""Shanghai Express"" opposite Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong. The enormous worldwide box office success of his Charlie Chan film led to more, with Oland starring in 16 Chan films in total. The series, Jill Lepore later wrote, ""kept Fox afloat"" during the 1930s, while earning Oland $40,000 per movie. Oland took his role seriously, studying"
"Roderick Thorp Roderick Mayne Thorp, Jr. (September 1, 1936 – April 28, 1999) was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedural/crime novels. His 1966 novel ""The Detective"" was made into a 1968 film of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra as Detective Joe Leland. He is however better known for its sequel, the bestselling novel ""Nothing Lasts Forever"", which is the basis for the film ""Die Hard"", starring Bruce Willis. Two other Thorp novels, ""Rainbow Drive"" and ""Devlin"", were adapted into TV movies. Thorp was born in Bronx, New York City. As a young college graduate, Thorp worked at"
"Grant Bowler Grant Bowler (born 18 July 1968) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor who has worked in American, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian film, television, and theatre. He is known for playing the role of Constable Wayne Patterson in ""Blue Heelers"" and Wolfgang West in ""Outrageous Fortune"". He also appeared as Wilhelmina Slater's love interest Connor Owens in ""Ugly Betty"". In 2010, he hosted ""The Amazing Race Australia"". He starred as Joshua Nolan on the Syfy television series ""Defiance"". Bowler has been the voiceover for """" for the Seven Network since 2004. He also provided the voiceover for a"
"Scott William Winters Scott William Winters (born August 5, 1965) is an American actor. Winters grew up on Long Island and Scottsdale, Arizona. He attended Brophy College Preparatory, a Jesuit school in Phoenix, Arizona. Winters has three siblings: brothers Dean (an actor) and Bradford (a poet/writer), and a sister, Blair Winters. Scott is best known for playing Cyril O'Reily in the HBO drama ""Oz"" opposite his brother, Dean, who appeared as Cyril's brother, Ryan. Winters had a notable role in the film ""Good Will Hunting"" as Clark, a pompous rival for Minnie Driver's attention who is bested by Matt Damon."
"He reprised the role, along with Damon and Ben Affleck, in a parody scene in ""Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"". He played Det. Stan Hatcher, a recurring character on the TV series ""NYPD Blue"". He appeared in a few episodes of Season 6 of ""24"", as FBI Agent Samuels, and in Season 3 of ""The Americans"" as EST seminar leader Lawrence. He made an appearance in the show ""The Book of Daniel"", in an episode that was only aired online. Scott William Winters Scott William Winters (born August 5, 1965) is an American actor. Winters grew up on Long"
"a widely used crowdfunding platform. Stephen Walters Stephen Walters (born 22 May 1975) is an English actor. A regular in British television and film, he has played a wide range and variety of character roles in both drama and comedy. Walters is most commonly associated with unpredictable, complex figures. He was nominated for a Royal Television Society Best Actor award in 2013 for his role in the Sky Arts drama ""Ragged"". In 1989, whilst at Saint Wilfrids secondary school, Walters was cast in ITV's British Children's anthology series ""Dramarama"", portraying Corporal Tomkins, in the series seven episode entitled ""Ghost Story""."
"and he also auditioned for the role of Justin Morgan. In the same year, Wall appeared in the miniseries ""Brock"" as Tony Roberts. Benedict Wall Benedict Wall (born 17 June) is a New Zealand film, theatre and television actor. From 2011, Wall played Owen Sutherland in the New Zealand soap opera ""Shortland Street"". He has also appeared in ""Outrageous Fortune"", """", ""Breaker Morant: The Retrial"" and ""Pirates of the Airwaves"". Wall co-wrote and directed the short film ""Best Mates"". In 2016, he took over the role of Duncan Stewart in the Australian soap opera ""Home and Away"". He also appeared"
"Xander Berkeley Alexander Harper Berkeley (born December 16, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles of Sheriff Thomas McAllister on the crime drama ""The Mentalist"", George Mason on the political thriller series ""24"", Percy Rose on the action thriller series ""Nikita"", and the Man on ""The Booth At The End"". His notable film roles include Todd Voight in """", Gregory in AMC's ""The Walking Dead"" and Trevor Lyle in ""Candyman"". Berkeley was born on December 16, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York, but has lived most of his life in New Jersey. He is of Scottish"
"Stephen Walters Stephen Walters (born 22 May 1975) is an English actor. A regular in British television and film, he has played a wide range and variety of character roles in both drama and comedy. Walters is most commonly associated with unpredictable, complex figures. He was nominated for a Royal Television Society Best Actor award in 2013 for his role in the Sky Arts drama ""Ragged"". In 1989, whilst at Saint Wilfrids secondary school, Walters was cast in ITV's British Children's anthology series ""Dramarama"", portraying Corporal Tomkins, in the series seven episode entitled ""Ghost Story"". Walters' second professional role was"
"Taylor. Second was ""The Village,"" where he played Crispin Ingham, a sadistic teacher from Derbyshire. Director Antonia Bird cast Walters in the latter and he was devastated to hear of her sudden death not long after filming. Though a second series of ""The Village"" was commissioned, Walters was unable to reprise his role due to a scheduling conflict with filming ""Outlander"" (2014–2016). Walters also reunited with previous co-star Sean Bean in ""Tracie's Story"", a critically acclaimed episode of 2013's ""The Accused"", penned by Jimmy McGovern. Walters worked extensively with director Brian Kelly in 2014. He filmed three episodes of NBC's"
"Kristian Schmid Kristian Schmid (born 28 November 1974) is an Australian actor best known for his roles as Todd Landers in ""Neighbours"" and Leading Seaman Robert Dixon in ""Sea Patrol"". Schmid was born in Geelong, Australia to Hungarian parents. He is the cousin of Krista Vendy who was also a regular in ""Neighbours"". Schmid is best known for playing Todd Landers in the Australian soap opera ""Neighbours"" from 1988 until 1992. He then appeared as Adam Newman in the British children's science fiction television series The Tomorrow People in 1995. While on a four-year work permit in the UK, he"
"William Alland William Alland (March 4, 1916 – November 11, 1997) was an American film producer and writer, mainly of western and science fiction/monster films, including ""This Island Earth"", ""It Came From Outer Space"", ""Tarantula"", ""The Deadly Mantis"", ""The Mole People"", ""The Colossus of New York"", ""The Space Children"", ""The Creature from the Black Lagoon"" and its two sequels. He worked frequently with director Jack Arnold. Alland is also remembered for his acting role as reporter Thompson who investigates the meaning of ""Rosebud"" in Orson Welles's ""Citizen Kane"" (1941). Alland entered films as an actor, perhaps best remembered as the"
"Dane Cook, ""Lucky Dog"" with Amy Smart, and the family movie, ""Zooey to the Max"". Grant Bowler Grant Bowler (born 18 July 1968) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor who has worked in American, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian film, television, and theatre. He is known for playing the role of Constable Wayne Patterson in ""Blue Heelers"" and Wolfgang West in ""Outrageous Fortune"". He also appeared as Wilhelmina Slater's love interest Connor Owens in ""Ugly Betty"". In 2010, he hosted ""The Amazing Race Australia"". He starred as Joshua Nolan on the Syfy television series ""Defiance"". Bowler has been the voiceover"
"Eric Winter Eric Barrett Winter (born July 17, 1976) is an American actor, producer, author and former fashion model, best known as ""TV's Eric Winter"". Also known for his television roles as FBI Special Agent Craig O'Laughlin on CBS drama series ""The Mentalist"" (2010–2012), and Dash Gardiner on the Lifetime fantasy-drama series ""Witches of East End"" (2013–2014). He is known for his film roles in ""Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay"" (2008) and ""The Ugly Truth"" (2009). Winter was born on July 17, 1976 in La Mirada, California. Winter graduated from UCLA with a degree in Psychology. To pay"
"moments. Todd Landers Todd Robert Landers is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera ""Neighbours"", played by Kristian Schmid. He made his first on-screen appearance on 15 February 1988. Todd died on 13 July 1992, but reappeared as a spirit in the following episode. Schmid was 12 years old when decided to sign himself up for an acting course in Melbourne. Three weeks later, Jan Russ, ""Neighbours<nowiki>'</nowiki>"" casting director, came to the school to hold auditions for the show. Russ said she was looking for a teenage boy, around 14 or 15, to play the role of"
"Todd Landers Todd Robert Landers is a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera ""Neighbours"", played by Kristian Schmid. He made his first on-screen appearance on 15 February 1988. Todd died on 13 July 1992, but reappeared as a spirit in the following episode. Schmid was 12 years old when decided to sign himself up for an acting course in Melbourne. Three weeks later, Jan Russ, ""Neighbours<nowiki>'</nowiki>"" casting director, came to the school to hold auditions for the show. Russ said she was looking for a teenage boy, around 14 or 15, to play the role of Todd"
"""Foyle's War"". Other credits include ""Without Motive"", ""Promoted to Glory"", ""Bomber"", and ""Have Your Cake and Eat It"". He is co-creator, with SAS veteran Chris Ryan of popular ITV action show ""Ultimate Force"", which ended in 2007. Rob Heyland Rob Heyland (born 2 April 1954) is a British actor turned television writer. His first TV role was as a police constable in a 1982 episode of ""The Professionals"" entitled ""Cry Wolf"". He is perhaps best known for his role as Donald Turner in the popular BBC series ""One By One"" about a zoo vet. He also starred in the late"
"David Hoflin David Hoflin (; born 25 February 1979) is a Swedish-born Australian actor. He is most famous for playing Jason Bates in ""Ocean Girl"" between 1994 and 1998, and Oliver Barnes in ""Neighbours"" between 2007 and 2008. He has appeared in TV shows such as ""Ocean Girl"", ""The Flying Doctors"", ""Head Start"", ""A Country Practice"", ""McLeod's Daughters"", ""Supernatural"", ""State Coroner"", and ""The Lost World"". Hoflin was ten when he starred in his first role alongside Meryl Streep and Sam Neill in ""Evil Angels"" (released as ""A Cry in the Dark"" outside of Australia and New Zealand), a film about"
"Eddie Byrne Eddie Byrne (31 January 1911 – 21 August 1981) was an Irish actor. Outside Ireland he is probably best known for his minor role as General Willard in ""Star Wars"" (1977), but viewers of horror films might also remember him as the sceptical Inspector Mulrooney in ""The Mummy"" (1959) and as the kindly Dr. Reginald Landers in ""Island of Terror"" (1966). He also appeared as Inspector O'Neill in the film ""Jack the Ripper"" (1959). Eddie Byrne was born in Birmingham, England, but lived in Dublin for most of his life. He was married to Kitty, and had four"
"performed as Jacob Marley's ghost in the 1999 television film adaptation of ""A Christmas Carol"". In 2009 he played the role of the archbishop in the feature film ""The Young Victoria"". Bernard Lloyd Bernard Lloyd (born 30 January 1934) is a Welsh actor noted for his television roles. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Perhaps his most famous role is as The Traveller, the man who tries to unravel signalman Denholm Elliott's predicament in the 1976 ""Ghost Story for Christmas"", ""The Signalman"". He also played William Holman Hunt in"
"The Detective (novel) The Detective is a thriller/detective novel by author Roderick Thorp, first published hardcover in 1966. It was made into the 1968 movie of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, as Detective Joe Leland. Billed as, ""An adult look at police life,"" ""The Detective"" went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 1968 and one of the strongest box-office hits of Sinatra's acting career. A 1979 sequel, ""Nothing Lasts Forever"", was later made into the 1988 film ""Die Hard"", which spawned a series totalling five films. Joe Leland, a private detective, begins investigating a case for"
"Bernard Lloyd Bernard Lloyd (born 30 January 1934) is a Welsh actor noted for his television roles. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Perhaps his most famous role is as The Traveller, the man who tries to unravel signalman Denholm Elliott's predicament in the 1976 ""Ghost Story for Christmas"", ""The Signalman"". He also played William Holman Hunt in the 1975 Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood drama ""The Love School"". Beginning his TV career in ""Redcap"" in 1965, he has played roles in """", ""Inspector Morse"", ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" and ""Lewis"". He also"
"Oliver Ackland Oliver Ackland (born 9 November 1979) is an Australian actor. In 2012, Ackland was seen in the comedy horror film, ""100 Bloody Acres"", directed by Colin and Cameron Cairnes, Richard Gray’s feature ""Blinder"" and the ABC telemovie, ""The Mystery of a Hansom Cab"". Most recently, he appeared as ‘Toby Raven’ in the mini-series realisation of Tim Winton’s ""Cloudstreet"", directed by Matthew Saville, and as ‘Rhys’ in ""The Slap"", adapted from the novel by Christos Tsiolkas. Ackland’s other television credits include ""All Saints"", ""Always Greener"", ""Young Lions"" and ""Outriders"". He also appeared in the telemovie ""Emerald Falls"" and co-starred"
"a detective agency owned by his father. He would later teach literature and lecture on creative writing at schools and universities in New Jersey and California, and also wrote articles for newspapers and magazines. Thorp died of a heart attack in Oxnard, California. Roderick Thorp Roderick Mayne Thorp, Jr. (September 1, 1936 – April 28, 1999) was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedural/crime novels. His 1966 novel ""The Detective"" was made into a 1968 film of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra as Detective Joe Leland. He is however better known for its sequel, the bestselling novel ""Nothing"
"refused to speak to detectives. On February 1, 2018, Wagner was named a ""person of interest"" in the death of Natalie Wood by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner Jr. (; born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television, best known for starring in the television shows ""It Takes a Thief"" (1968–70), ""Switch"" (1975–78), and ""Hart to Hart"" (1979–84). He also had a recurring role as Teddy Leopold on the TV sitcom ""Two and a Half Men"" and has a recurring role as Anthony DiNozzo Sr. on the police procedural"
"the winter. Broadcast in July 2012, it consists of adaptations of ""An Event in Autumn"", ""The Dogs of Riga"" and ""Before the Frost"". While the novel ""Before the Frost"" has Wallander's daughter Linda as its protagonist detective, the story was adapted for television so that Wallander himself became the lead. The BBC ""Wallander"" series concluded in May 2016 with a three-episode fourth series consisting of an adaptation of ""The White Lioness"" and a two-episode adaptation of Mankell's final Wallander novel, ""The Troubled Man"". Mankell's friend and writer Jan Guillou used Kurt Wallander in the 10th book of his Carl Hamilton-series"
"Rob Heyland Rob Heyland (born 2 April 1954) is a British actor turned television writer. His first TV role was as a police constable in a 1982 episode of ""The Professionals"" entitled ""Cry Wolf"". He is perhaps best known for his role as Donald Turner in the popular BBC series ""One By One"" about a zoo vet. He also starred in the late 1980s in the Pepperami advertising campaign ""Venus Fly Trap"" and ""Piranha"". Heyland has since turned to script writing, contributing six episodes of ""Between The Lines"" (which he also created), two of ""Thief Takers"", and an episode of"
"Robert Wagner Robert John Wagner Jr. (; born February 10, 1930) is an American actor of stage, screen, and television, best known for starring in the television shows ""It Takes a Thief"" (1968–70), ""Switch"" (1975–78), and ""Hart to Hart"" (1979–84). He also had a recurring role as Teddy Leopold on the TV sitcom ""Two and a Half Men"" and has a recurring role as Anthony DiNozzo Sr. on the police procedural ""NCIS"". In movies, Wagner is known for his role as Number Two in the ""Austin Powers"" trilogy of films (1997, 1999, 2002), as well as for ""A Kiss Before"
"in season one (""The Affair"", episode 4), Dr. Vanessa Sedgwick in season two (""The Genius"", episode 20), and Iris Vogel in season three (""The Psychic"", episode 13). Nana Visitor and Roddy McDowall made several guest appearances as well. After season three, Kene Holliday was fired. Matlock hired a young, former North Carolina deputy sheriff, Conrad McMasters (played by Clarence Gilyard, Jr.), to be his new private detective. Like Tyler, Conrad would also go undercover to gather information about cases. However, the two characters were different in their personalities and approach to the job. Tyler was a stocktrader and carried himself"
"Ron Howard Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor. Howard is best known for playing two high-profile roles in television sitcoms in his youth and directing a number of successful feature films later in his career. Howard first came to prominence playing young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith) in the sitcom ""The Andy Griffith Show"" from 1960 through 1968. During this time he also appeared in the musical film ""The Music Man"" (1962) and the comedy film ""The Courtship of Eddie's Father"" (1963). In 1973, he played"
"on the ABC television network between February 1989 and May 1989 as part of the ABC Mystery Movie rotation. Aaron Elkins Aaron Elkins (born Brooklyn July 24, 1935) is an American mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver—the 'skeleton detective'. Elkins's father was a machinist, his mother a homemaker. Elkins graduated from Hunter College in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts, after which he studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earned master of arts degrees at the University of Arizona (1960) and California State University, Los Angeles (1962), and received a"
"children: Frank Byrne, Susan Byrne, Michael Byrne & Catherine Byrne. He died of a stroke in Dublin in 1981. Eddie Byrne Eddie Byrne (31 January 1911 – 21 August 1981) was an Irish actor. Outside Ireland he is probably best known for his minor role as General Willard in ""Star Wars"" (1977), but viewers of horror films might also remember him as the sceptical Inspector Mulrooney in ""The Mummy"" (1959) and as the kindly Dr. Reginald Landers in ""Island of Terror"" (1966). He also appeared as Inspector O'Neill in the film ""Jack the Ripper"" (1959). Eddie Byrne was born in"
"the help of Buddy Kantor, a highly eccentric comedian/filmmaker, to chronicle his exploits. In the end, however, Buddy's inflated ego and tenuous grasp on reality may prove to be too much, even for the Clown Prince of Crime. By Dwayne McDuffie, Val Semeiks, and Dan Green By Bill Willingham and Tom Fowler By Tom Peyer, Tony Harris, and Wade von Grawbadger By John Wagner and Chris Brunner By Devin Grayson, Jean-Jacques Dzialowski, and George Rodriguez By A.J. Lieberman and Greg Scott By Dylan Horrocks, Ramon Bachs, and Jon Holdredge Stephanie Brown and Orpheus are savagely murdered by the returning Black"