Layne Tom Jr.
Layne Tom Jr.( June 19, 1927 – January 14, 2015) was an American actor.
He holds the sole distinction of having played three different Charlie Chan sons: as Charlie Chan Jr. in" Charlie Chan at the Olympics"( 1937), as Tommy Chan in" Charlie Chan in Honolulu"( 1938), and in 1940's" Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise" as Willie Chan, Chan's number seven son.
He also appeared with child star Shirley Temple in" Stowaway"( 1936) as an uncredited Chinese Boy in the Musical Band.
He was credited as Mako with Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, and C. Aubrey Smith in" The Hurricane( 1937)", and as an uncredited extra in" San Francisco"( 1936) with stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy.
After he got out of the Navy when World War II ended, he turned down a five- year movie contract with Monogram Pictures to go to college instead to become an architect.
He only returned to show business to film two documentaries about Charlie Chan: and" Legacy of Charlie Chan" as himself.
His daughter Kiana Tom is a television host, star of" Kiana's Flex Appeal" fitness series and one of the most widely recognized fitness experts in the world.
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Charlie Chan at the Opera is considered by many to be the best Warner Oland Charlie Chan film, probably due to the presence of Boris Karloff as the principal suspect, as well as faux operatic music composed by Oscar Levant.
This is the 13th film starring Oland as Chan; it was directed by H. Bruce Humberstone for 20th Century- Fox in 1936.
Oland and Demarest also appeared in The Jazz Singer( 1927).
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum is a 1940 mystery film starring Sidney Toler as detective Charlie Chan.
Revisiting an old case results in fresh deaths.
H. Bruce Humberstone
H. Bruce" Lucky" Humberstone( November 18, 1901 – October 11, 1984) was a movie actor( as a child), a script clerk, an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan and, ultimately, a director.
Charles S. Belden
Charles Spencer Belden( April 21, 1904 – November 3, 1954) was an American screenwriter and journalist, known for writing screenplays to several Charlie Chan films in the 1930s, notably" Charlie Chan at the Opera"( 1936).
His 1932 short story" The Wax Works" served as the basis for the 1933 film" Mystery of the Wax Museum".
He was married to stage actress Beth Milton in the early 1930s and to actress Joan Marsh who had starred in" Charlie Chan on Broadway"( 1937), from 1938 to 1943.
He was born in 1904 in Montclair, New Jersey and died November 3, 1954 in Motion Picture Country Hospital at the age of 50.
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a 1939 American film directed by Norman Foster, starring Sidney Toler as the fictional Chinese- American detective Charlie Chan, that takes place on Treasure Island during San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition( 1939- 940).
Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami( 22 June 1940 – 4 July 2016) was an Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet, photographer, and film producer.
An active film- maker from 1970, Kiarostami had been involved in the production of over forty films, including shorts and documentaries.
Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the" Koker" trilogy( 1987– 1994)," Close- Up"( 1990)," The Wind Will Carry Us"( 1999), and" Taste of Cherry"( 1997), which was awarded the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
In later works," Certified Copy"( 2010) and" Like Someone in Love"( 2012), he filmed for the first time outside Iran: in Italy and Japan, respectively.
His films" Where Is the Friend ’s Home? Close- Up", and" The Wind Will Carry Us" were ranked among the 100 best foreign films in a 2018 critics' poll by BBC Culture.
" Close- Up" was also ranked one of the 50 greatest movies of all time in the famous decennial" Sight& Sound" poll conducted in 2012.
Kiarostami had worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and had designed credit titles and publicity material.
He was also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.
He was part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Bahram Beyzai, Nasser Taghvai, Ali Hatami, Masoud Kimiai, Dariush Mehrjui, Sohrab Shahid- Saless and Parviz Kimiavi.
These filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues.
Kiarostami had a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary- style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras.
He is also known for his use of Persian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films.
Kiarostami's films contain a notable degree of ambiguity, an unusual mixture of simplicity and complexity, and often a mix of fictional and documentary elements.
The concepts of change and continuity, in addition to the themes of life and death, play a major role in Kiarostami's works.
Charlie Chan at the Circus
Charlie Chan at the Circus is the 11th film produced by Fox starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
A seemingly harmless family outing drags a vacationing Chan into a murder investigation.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Duncan Cramer.
10 on Ten
10 on Ten is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami.
It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Looking to his own art for inspiration, Abbas Kiarostami reflects on his techniques of filming and how he taped certain sequences in" Ten" in 2001.
Charlie Chan at the Race Track
Charlie Chan at the Race Track is the 12th film in the 20th Century Fox- produced Charlie Chan series starring Warner Oland in the title role.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, 10 On Ten or Charlie Chan At The Opera?