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    United States and China. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University...
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  • (1932) is the sixth and last mystery in the Charlie Chan series of Earl Derr Biggers; Biggers was planning on continuing the series, but died in 1933 before...
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  • his fifth of many performances as Charlie Chan. It is based on the Earl Derr Biggers 1930 novel Charlie Chan Carries On. The famed detective seeks to unmask...
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  • Charlie Chan (category Novels by Earl Derr Biggers)
    fictional Honolulu police detective created by author Earl Derr Biggers for a series of mystery novels. Biggers loosely based Chan on Hawaiian detective Chang...
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  • Michael Armstrong is based on the 1913 novel Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers, which was also adapted into a famous play that gave birth in turn...
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  • Earl Best (1947–2021), American community organizer known as the 'Street Doctor' Earl Derr Biggers (1884–1933), American novelist and playwright Earl...
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  • The Black Camel (1929) is the fourth of the Charlie Chan novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It tells the story of a Hollywood star (Shelah Fane), who is stopping...
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    first as an officer, then as a detective. He was acknowledged by Earl Derr Biggers as the inspiration for his fictional Chinese American detective character...
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    The House Without a Key is a 1925 novel by Earl Derr Biggers, the first of the Charlie Chan mysteries. Set in 1920s Hawaiʻi, the novel acquaints the reader...
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    Chan series, it was based on the 1930 novel of the same title by Earl Derr Biggers. It is now considered a lost film; however, Fox simultaneously filmed...
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  • actor Sōjin Kamiyama as Chan. The film is an adaptation of the 1926 Earl Derr Biggers novel The Chinese Parrot. Another version of the novel was filmed...
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  • Carries On (1930) is the fifth novel in the Charlie Chan series by Earl Derr Biggers. Inspector Duff, a Scotland Yard detective and friend of Chan's, first...
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  • is the third novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is set almost exclusively in California (as opposed to Chan's...
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  • the 1927 silent film The Chinese Parrot, based upon the novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Both are considered lost films. An audio recreation accompanied by...
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    Dorothy Revier. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the second film to star Oland as detective Charlie Chan, and...
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  • dictionary. Agony column may refer to: The Agony Column, a novel by Earl Derr Biggers A column of a newspaper that contains advertisements of missing relatives...
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  • Oland as the Oriental detective Charlie Chan. It was based on the Earl Derr Biggers novel The House Without a Key (1925). Oland made a series of Charlie...
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    stories with an Asian hero after the death of Charlie Chan's creator Earl Derr Biggers.[citation needed] In various other media, Mr. Moto has been portrayed...
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  • extreme cruelty. Charlie Chan, a fictional character created by author Earl Derr Biggers loosely based on Chang Apana (1871–1933), a real-life Chinese-Hawaiian...
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  • 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...
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  • Seven Keys to Baldpate (novel) (category Novels by Earl Derr Biggers)
    Seven Keys to Baldpate is a 1913 novel by Earl Derr Biggers. A bestseller, it was adapted by George M. Cohan into a play, which in turn was adapted several...
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  • Cliff Biggers, comic-book writer and journalist Clyde Biggers, American college football coach Dan Biggers, American television actor Earl Derr Biggers (1884–1933)...
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  • M. C. Beaton (1936–2019) Larry Beinhart E. C. Bentley (1875–1956) Earl Derr Biggers (1884–1933) Cara Black (1951–) Emery Bonett (1906–1995) John Bonett...
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  • film series Charlie Chan, a Chinese-American detective created by Earl Derr Biggers Charlie Cotton, from the British soap opera EastEnders Charlie Cotton...
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    the popular mystery novel, play and films Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers, and was eventually accepted to be the "true" Baldpate by the author...
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  • which in turn was based on the 1915 Broadway play of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers. This version is a remake of the 1918 silent version, also with the...
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    to Baldpate is a 1913 play by George M. Cohan based on a novel by Earl Derr Biggers. The dramatization was one of Cohan's most innovative plays. It baffled...
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  • One Night in the Tropics (category Films based on works by Earl Derr Biggers)
    Dorothy Fields. The film is based on a 1914 novel, Love Insurance by Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan. It was filmed as a silent movie in 1919...
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    starred Arliss. The film was based on the short story "Idle Hands" by Earl Derr Biggers. In one of his early film roles, James Cagney had a brief but key...
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    Paramount. The film is based on Cohan's 1913 play of the 1913 novel by Earl Derr Biggers. Cohan himself stars in this silent version along with Anna Q. Nilsson...
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