One Son, Lee Chan. Considering that Charlie Chan was such a breakthrough — as not only the hero, but the smartest guy in the films — in an era of Asian villains and the “Yellow Peril,” it seemed kind ...

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 ...