Warner Oland Academy is a non-profit organization with the purpose of spreading informing on Warner Oland and the movies in which he appears. Born in Bjurholm, Västerbotten, Sweden, in the late 17th century he was to become one of many who followed his parents overseas during the emigration. In America Wärner Ölund changed his name into Warner Oland when he was making a career in Hollywood and becoming Sweden's, beside Greta Garbo, most famous actor, mainly as the chinese detective Charlie Chan. He passed on during a visit to Sweden in 1938. In fact, a few days after his first revisit to his childhood home, Bjurholm. The film about Warner Oland, Kinesen från Bjurholm (The Chinese from Bjurholm), is premiering on Swedish television January 11 2004.
