Screenplay: Earl Derr Biggers

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Warner Oland · Boris Karloff · Keye Luke · William Demarest

Plot Regarded by many as the best of the Charlie Chan series. The opera star Gravelle suffers amnesia. He is a recent escapee from an insane asylum, accused of murdering fellow...

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Sidney Toler · Victor Sen Yung · Cesar Romero · Douglas Fowley

Plot A novelist friend of Charlie's appears to have committed suicide. At the international Exposition held on San Francisco Bay's Treasure Island Charlie shows that Zodiac, a phony mystic who blackmails...

Direction Pete Walker

Cast Vincent Price · Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Desi Arnaz Jr.

Plot An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the...

Direction Hamilton MacFadden

Cast Warner Oland · Sally Eilers · Bela Lugosi · Dorothy Revier

Plot Movie star Sheila Fayne is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro first. Tanaverro confronts her about the unsolved...

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Arthur Loft · Gwen Kenyon

Plot Charlie Chan is an agent of the U.S. government assigned to investigate the mysterious death of an inventor.

Direction Clive Donner

Cast Peter Ustinov · Lee Grant · Angie Dickinson · Michelle Pfeiffer

Plot Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also...

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Sidney Toler · Jean Rogers · Lionel Atwill · Mary Nash

Plot Inspector Chan investigates a group of travelers, one of whom is a saboteur.

Direction Harry Lachman

Cast Warner Oland · Francis Ford · George Brasno · Keye Luke

Plot While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.

Direction Eugene Forde · George Hadden

Cast Warner Oland · Drue Leyton · Donald Woods · Paul Harvey

Plot Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.

Direction William Beaudine

Cast Roland Winters · Warren Douglas · Mantan Moreland · Louise Currie

Plot Princess Mei Ling pays a visit to the Chan residence, where upon being admitted by man-of-all-work Birmingham Brown she refuses to give her name, but hands Birmingham her ring to...

Direction David Howard

Cast Juan Torena · Manuel Arbó · Ana María Custodio · Rafael Calvo

Plot This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer...

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Frances Chan · Joseph Crehan

Plot Because Charlie Chan plans to return to Honolulu, he no longer needs the services of Birmingham, who gets a job as butler for William and Justine Bonner, two apparently phony...

Direction Phil Rosen

Cast Jack La Rue · Thelma Todd · Gail Patrick · Russell Hopton

Plot A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.

Direction John G. Blystone

Cast Warner Oland · Alexander Kirkland · H.B. Warner · Marian Nixon

Plot Charlie is the intended murder victim here, and he avoids death only by chance. To find the murderer (since, of course, murder does occur), Charlie must outguess Scotland Yard and...

Direction Phil Karlson

Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Benson Fong · James Cardwell

Plot When three employees of a bank are found murdered with cobra venom, Charlie Chan connects the homicides to a case he had worked in Shanghai in 1937. Even though he...

Direction H. Bruce Humberstone

Cast Warner Oland · Katherine DeMille · Pauline Moore · Allan Lane

Plot When an experimental plane is hijacked and its pilot murdered, the new guidance system that will allow it to fly unmanned is stolen. Charlie traces the strategically important invention to...

Direction Terry O. Morse

Cast Sidney Toler · Mantan Moreland · Victor Sen Yung · Tanis Chandler

Plot Chinese detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) is on his way to San Francisco to take over a murder case when he meets a woman, Mrs. Conover (Mary Gordon), who is...

Direction Frederick de Cordova

Cast Dane Clark · Martha Vickers · Sydney Greenstreet · Alan Hale

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Allan Jones · Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Nancy Kelly

Direction Eugene Forde

Cast Sidney Toler · Don Beddoe · Lionel Atwill · Marjorie Weaver