Charlie Chan Franchise

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This franchise lists the films and television series featuring and inspired by Charlie Chan.

Charlie Chan was created by Earl Derr Biggers in 1919 while visiting Hawaii. It wasn't until four years later that he began to write the novel born from that visit after reading a newspaper account of two detectives on the Honolulu police force. Biggers conceived the character as an alternative to stereotypes: "Sinister and wicked Chinese are old stuff, but an amiable Chinese on the side of law and order has never been used."

Do not include titles where he has only a supporting or cameo role.