William Ching

Known for ActingBorn 1913-10-02Died 1989-07-01Saint 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Bal Tabarin

Michigan Kid

Perry Mason

In a Lonely Place

The Wild Blue Yonder

Oh! Susanna

D.O.A.

Four Star Playhouse

Lux Video Theatre

Letter to Loretta

Song of Scheherazade

Scared Stiff

Racket Squad

Pat and Mike

Buck Privates Come Home

The Sea Hornet

My World Dies Screaming

Escort West

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

The Magnificent Matador

The Showdown

The Moonlighter

Tall Man Riding

Give a Girl a Break

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Belle Le Grand

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

The Mysterious Mr. M

Never Wave at a WAC

Surrender

Panic!

The Last Stop