Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 02, 1913
Died
Jul 01, 1989
Place of Birth
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Credits
32 titles
William Ching
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Escort West
Capt. Howard Poole
My World Dies Screaming
Mark Snell (as Bill Ching)
Perry Mason
Glenn McKay
Panic!
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The Last Stop
Joseph
Tall Man Riding
Rex Willard
The Magnificent Matador
Jody Wilton
Give a Girl a Break
Anson Prichett
Letter to Loretta
Bill Adams
The Moonlighter
Tom Anderson
Scared Stiff
Tony Warren
Never Wave at a WAC
Sky Fairchild
Four Star Playhouse
Pat and Mike
Collier Weld
Bal Tabarin
Don Barlow
The Wild Blue Yonder
Lt. Ted Cranshaw
The Sea Hornet
Sprowl
Racket Squad
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Oh! Susanna
Cpl. Donlin
Belle Le Grand
Bill Shanks
Lux Video Theatre
Surrender
John Beauregard Hale
The Showdown
Mike Shattay
In a Lonely Place
Ted Barton
D.O.A.
Halliday
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Jim Simpson
Michigan Kid
Steve Randolph Prescott
Buck Privates Come Home
2nd Lieutenant, Mess Officer (uncredited)
Song of Scheherazade
Midshipman
The Mysterious Mr. M
Jim Farrell