Chester Gan

Chester Gan

Born: July 4, 1908
Died: June 29, 1959
in Grass Valley, California, USA

Movies for Chester Gan...

Squadron of Doom
Title: Squadron of Doom
Character: Kai Chek
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
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Crash Dive
Title: Crash Dive
Character: Lee Wong
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart, has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors, for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
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China
Title: China
Character: Japanese General
Released: April 21, 1943
Type: Movie
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...
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China Girl
Title: China Girl
Released: December 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.
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Heart of the Golden West
Title: Heart of the Golden West
Character: Popen's Chinese Cook
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
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Flying Tigers
Title: Flying Tigers
Character: Mike
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
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Busses Roar
Title: Busses Roar
Released: September 19, 1942
Type: Movie
A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.
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Across the Pacific
Title: Across the Pacific
Character: Capt. Higoto
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled 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 traveller Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
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Moontide
Title: Moontide
Character: Henry Hirota
Released: May 29, 1942
Type: Movie
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
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Escape from Hong Kong
Title: Escape from Hong Kong
Character: Tamoto
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
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The Maltese Falcon
Title: The Maltese Falcon
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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Burma Convoy
Title: Burma Convoy
Character: Keela
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
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Rawhide Rangers
Title: Rawhide Rangers
Character: Sing Lo
Released: July 18, 1941
Type: Movie
A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers.
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The Get-Away
Title: The Get-Away
Character: Sam, Black's Butler
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
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Singapore Woman
Title: Singapore Woman
Character: Waiter at Crow's Nest (uncredited)
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
A fallen woman seeks redemption at a Singapore rubber plantation. Melodrama.
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Man-Made Monster
Title: Man-Made Monster
Character: Chinese Boy, Wong
Released: March 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
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Victory
Title: Victory
Character: Wang
Released: December 21, 1940
Type: Movie
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
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The Carson City Kid
Title: The Carson City Kid
Character: Wong Lee
Released: July 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identity being unknown, takes a job in Jessup's saloon. Here he see Jessup cheat Waren out of his money. Warren then robs Jessup posing as the Kid but gets caught. To gain his freedom, Laramie identifies Warren as the Kid. Realizing Jessup is the man that killed his brother, the Kid must find a way to clear Warren and get Jessup.
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Pals of the Silver Sage
Title: Pals of the Silver Sage
Character: Ling
Released: April 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Six-year-old Sugar Grey has inherited a ranch, which she will lose to her cousin Jeff Grey if a certain number of cattle aren't delivered on time.
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'Til We Meet Again
Title: 'Til We Meet Again
Character: Hong Kong Policeman (uncredited)
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
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My Little Chickadee
Title: My Little Chickadee
Character: Chinese Train Passenger (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Westbound Stage
Title: Westbound Stage
Character: Charlie
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A wagon train crossing the plains comes across the remains of other wagon trains that have been attacked by looters. Soon they too are attacked.
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Barricade
Title: Barricade
Character: Mongol Bandit Leader
Released: December 8, 1939
Type: Movie
In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Title: Torchy Runs for Mayor
Character: Ling - Ward's Assistant (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
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King of Chinatown
Title: King of Chinatown
Character: Mr. Foo
Released: March 17, 1939
Type: Movie
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
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The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Title: The Mystery of Mr. Wong
Character: Sing
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Detective James Lee Wong must find the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him into the heart of Chinatown and to the dreaded "House of Hate" to find the deadly gem before it can kill again.
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Nancy Drew... Reporter
Title: Nancy Drew... Reporter
Character: Mandarin Cafe Headwaiter (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
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Blackwell's Island
Title: Blackwell's Island
Character: Wong (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
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North of Shanghai
Title: North of Shanghai
Character: Policeman 'C'
Released: January 24, 1939
Type: Movie
In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
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Shadows Over Shanghai
Title: Shadows Over Shanghai
Character: Lun Sat Li
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet.
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The Mexicali Kid
Title: The Mexicali Kid
Character: Mo Cort-Chinese Cook
Released: September 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Looking for the killer of his brother, Jack saves the outlaw known as the Mexicali Kid who had collapsed on the desert. Jack joins up with the Kid who leads him to Gorson. Gorson is after a ranch and gets Jack to pose as the heir to the ranch. After the papers are signed he plans to have jack killed. But the Kid recognizes Gorson's henchmen as the men Jack is after and decides to help him.
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Air Devils
Title: Air Devils
Character: Hotel Waiter
Released: May 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Wong - McCooey's Servant (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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International Settlement
Title: International Settlement
Character: Green Dragon Proprietor
Released: February 4, 1938
Type: Movie
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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Mannequin
Title: Mannequin
Character: Chinese Waiter (Uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Jessie, a young working class woman, seeks to improve her life by marrying her boyfriend, only to find out that he is no better than what she left behind.
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Love Is a Headache
Title: Love Is a Headache
Character: Louie, Peter's Butler (uncredited)
Released: January 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
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Wells Fargo
Title: Wells Fargo
Character: Chinese Workman
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.
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Slave Ship
Title: Slave Ship
Character: Crew Member
Released: June 16, 1937
Type: Movie
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
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The Mighty Treve
Title: The Mighty Treve
Character: Chang
Released: January 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.
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Mad Holiday
Title: Mad Holiday
Character: Vendor (uncredited)
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A temperamental film star's vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder.
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Ace Drummond
Title: Ace Drummond
Character: Kai-Chek
Released: October 18, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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Sea Spoilers
Title: Sea Spoilers
Character: Oil
Released: September 30, 1936
Type: Movie
Bob Randall, temporarily in command of the Coast Guard vessel Niobe, expects a promotion and the captaincy of his ship. Instead, he is replaced by Lieutenant Mays, son of the area commander. Mays is afflicted with a fear of the sea, although he has served well in Coast Guard aviation. His father, however, thinks Mays can overcome his fear by taking command of the Niobe. When seal poachers kidnap Bob Randall's girlfriend Connie, Bob and Mays disagree about the proper means of rescuing her and capturing the seal poachers. When Mays's inexperience and phobia foil their attempts at rescue, Bob comes up with his own plan.
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Small Town Girl
Title: Small Town Girl
Character: Wing (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Kay is a girl living in a small rural town whose life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night, she meets young, handsome, and rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while drunk and then proceeds to take her out on a night on the town. Kay likes the stranger, and when the drunken Bob decides that they should get married, Kay hesitates little before consenting. The morning after the affair, Bob, once sober, regrets his mistake. His strict and upright parents, however, insist that the young couple pretend marriage for 6 months before divorcing, in order to avoid bad publicity. Bob resents Kay for standing in the way of him and his fiancée, Priscilla, but Kay still hopes that he'd have a change of heart.
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Sutter's Gold
Title: Sutter's Gold
Character: Charlie - Chinese Waiter
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
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Klondike Annie
Title: Klondike Annie
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
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The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Title: The Adventures of Frank Merriwell
Character: Lumber Camp Cook
Released: January 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A 12-episode serial in which scholastic sports star Frank Merriwell leaves school to search for his missing father. His adventures involve a mysterious inscription on a ring, buried treasure, kidnaping and Indian raids. He saves his father and returns to school just in time to win a decisive baseball game with his remarkable pitching and hitting.
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Last of the Pagans
Title: Last of the Pagans
Character: Chinese Cook (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Two South Sea Islanders fall in love, followed by a hurricane.
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East of Java
Title: East of Java
Character: Crewman
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
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Moonlight on the Prairie
Title: Moonlight on the Prairie
Character: Barbara's Cook
Released: November 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.
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Stormy
Title: Stormy
Character: Chinaman (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.
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China Seas
Title: China Seas
Character: Rickshaw Boy (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
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The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Title: The Mysterious Mr. Wong
Character: Tung's Secret Service Agent
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
Mr. Wong is a "harmless" Chinatown shopkeeper by day and relentless blood-thirsty pursuer of the Twelve Coins of Confucius by night. With possession of the coins, Mr. Wong will be supreme ruler of the Chinese province of Keelat, and his evil destiny will be fulfilled. A killing spree follows in dark and dangerous Chinatown as Wong gets control of 11 of the 12 coins. Reporter Jason Barton and his girl Peg are hot on his trail, but soon find themselves in serious trouble when they stumble onto Wong's headquarters.
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Shivers
Title: Shivers
Released: December 24, 1934
Type: Movie
To get some creative inspiration, mystery writer Harry moves into a haunted house.
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Fighting Thru
Title: Fighting Thru
Character: Wong
Released: August 29, 1934
Type: Movie
Cattlemen Protective Agent Reb Russell arrives to try and stop the cattle rustling. He gains a friend when he saves Jack Thorn from Lenahan and his men. They hire on at the Lund ranch and when her cattle are rustled and she is kidnaped they follow the trail, It's Lenahan and his gang and Reb soon finds himself a prisoner.
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The Red Rider
Title: The Red Rider
Character: Wing
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of "Scotty McKee (J.P. McGowan). Davidson allows Slade to escape from jail and follows him to aid him in proving his innocence.
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Lazy River
Title: Lazy River
Character: Kee's Henchman
Released: March 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.
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Meet the Baron
Title: Meet the Baron
Character: Chinese Man (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1933
Type: Movie
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.