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William Ching

William Ching

Actor · 1913 – 1989 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Ching, also credited as William Brooks, Bill Ching and William Brooks Ching (born 2 October 1913, St. Louis, Missouri - died 1 July 1989, Tustin, California) was a United States character actor who appeared in almost 20 films and on television during the later 1940s and throughout the 1950s. By the early 21st century Ching was most widely noted for his supporting role in Rudolph Maté's 1950 film noir drama D.O.A. as Halliday, who slips "luminous poison" into the drink of an accountant visiting San Francisco for the weekend, along with his role as the overbearing boyfriend of Katharine Hepburn's character in George Cukor's 1952 Tracy-Hepburn comedy Pat and Mike. Ching began his career as a professional singer, appearing in musical comedies such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro (1947). His first film role was in 1946. He signed with Republic Pictures in 1947 and for the next dozen years acted mostly in westerns and dramas. His last major acting credit was in a 1959 episode of the television series 77 Sunset Strip. William Ching died of congestive heart failure in 1989 at the age of 75 and is buried at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Ching, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies23

  • Movie7.6

    In a Lonely Place

    1950 · 682 votes

  • Movie6.9

    D.O.A.

    1949 · 206 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Pat and Mike

    1952 · 76 votes

  • Movie5.4

    Give a Girl a Break

    1953 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Scared Stiff

    1953 · 44 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Buck Privates Come Home

    1947 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie5.8

    Tall Man Riding

    1955 · 18 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Wild Blue Yonder

    1951 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Escort West

    1959 · 12 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Oh! Susanna

    1951 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.0
  • Movie6.0

    The Moonlighter

    1953 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Showdown

    1950 · 6 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Sea Hornet

    1951 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Never Wave at a WAC

    1953 · 15 votes

  • Movie5.3

    Belle Le Grand

    1951 · 3 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Bal Tabarin

    1952 · 1 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Michigan Kid

    1947 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Song of Scheherazade

    1947 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.2

    My World Dies Screaming

    1958 · 11 votes

  • Movie5.2

    The Mysterious Mr. M

    1946 · 3 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Surrender

    1950 · 6 votes

Series8

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV5.3
  • TV5.3
  • TV6.7

    Lux Video Theatre

    1950 · 7 votes

  • TV6.5

    Racket Squad

    1951 · 4 votes

  • TV6.6

    Letter to Loretta

    1953 · 7 votes

  • TV8.0

    Panic!

    1957 · 1 votes