Chester Gan
Acting
Biography
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Born: July 4, 1908
Place of Birth: Grass Valley, California, USA
Known For
The Maltese Falcon
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
Vagabond Lady
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
Gold Is Where You Find It
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
China
Shortly before Pearl Harbor, American opportunist Jones and partner Johnny are in China to sell oil to the invading Japanese army. Cynical about the sufferings of the Chinese, Jones meets compassionate teacher Carolyn Grant while travelling cross-country to Shanghai. Sparks fly between these strong-willed characters, neither budging an inch. But when Jones witnesses a Japanese atrocity, his feelings toward his customers (and Carolyn) begin to change...
Busses Roar
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
Singapore Woman
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
Across the Pacific
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
Ace Drummond
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to find out why a mysterious villain known only as 'The Dragon' is trying to prevent the newly formed International Airways from setting up an airport there. Ace meets Peggy Trainor (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her archaeologist father who has disappeared. Together they search for answers to the puzzles.
Klondike Annie
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
My Little Chickadee
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Filmography
as Lee Wong
as Japanese General
as Popen's Chinese Cook
as Mike
as Yamanito
as Capt. Higoto
as Henry Hirota
as Tamoto
as Bit Part (uncredited)
as Keela
as Sing Lo
as Sam, Black's Butler
as Waiter at Crow's Nest (uncredited)
as Chinese Boy, Wong
as Wang
as Wong Lee
as Ling
as Hong Kong Policeman (uncredited)
as Chinese Train Passenger (uncredited)
as Charlie
as Mongol Bandit Leader
as Ling - Ward's Assistant (uncredited)
as Mr. Foo
as Sing
as Mandarin Cafe Headwaiter (uncredited)
as Wong (uncredited)
as Policeman 'C'
as Lun Sat Li
as Chinese Sergeant (uncredited)
as Mo Cort-Chinese Cook
as Hotel Waiter
as Wong - McCooey's Servant (uncredited)
as Green Dragon Proprietor
as Chinese Waiter (Uncredited)
as Louie, Peter's Butler (uncredited)
as Chinese Workman
as Capt. Nui
as Crew Member
as Chang
as Chinese Cook
as Vendor (uncredited)
as Kai-Chek
as Oil
as Wing (uncredited)
as Charlie - Chinese Waiter
as Lumber Camp Cook
as Chinese Cook (uncredited)
as Crewman
as Barbara's Cook
as Chinaman (uncredited)
as Rickshaw Boy (uncredited)
as Japanese Fisherman (uncredited)
as Tung's Secret Service Agent
as Wong
as Wing
as Kee's Henchman
as Chinese Man (uncredited)
as Chinese Guard (uncredited)
as Bandit (uncredited)