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The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907, where he was a member of The Lampoon. He worked briefly as a journalist for The Plain Dealer in 1907, [2] and then for the Boston Traveller until 1912, before turning to fiction. Many of his plays and ...
The character of Charlie Chan was created by Earl Derr Biggers.In 1919, [1] while visiting Hawaii, Biggers planned a detective novel to be called The House Without a Key.He did not begin to write that novel until four years later, however, when he was inspired to add a Chinese-American police officer to the plot after reading in a newspaper of Chang Apana and Lee Fook, two detectives on the ...
Absurdly cryptic, pseudo-Confucian sayings rolled off his tongue." She identifies his creation in 1925, by a white man named Earl Derr Biggers, and locates him alongside other racist stereotypes such as Fu Manchu, Stepin Fetchit, Sambo, Aunt Jemima, and more.
Earl Derr Biggers (character) Samuel Newman (original story) Samuel Newman W. Scott Darling (screenplay) ... Tommy, who is the son of private detective Charlie Chan ...
The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers and is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California. [1] The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier.
Charlie Chan in the Secret Service is a 1944 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as Charlie Chan.It is the first film made by Monogram Pictures after the series was dropped by 20th Century Fox, and it marks the introduction of Number Three Son (Benson Fong) and taxi driver (later Chan's chauffeur), Birmingham Brown (Mantan Moreland).
Earl Derr Biggers vacationed in Hawaii in 1920 [5] where he was inspired to begin to write the novel House Without a Key. While reading Honolulu newspapers in the New York library in 1924, he read about the exploits of Apana Chang. Biggers then created a new character based on Chang for his novel, inserting him a quarter of the way through the ...
Edward Trevor as Fred Gage, Henrietta's son-in-law, married to Janice; he is the accountant for the estate and knows the layout of Colby House Herbert Mundin as Mrs Lowell's butler, Baxter, who despite the butler stereotype decidedly did not do it; he provides comic relief throughout the film