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William Ching
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…
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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.
Filmography
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1959
Escort West
Movie Capt. Howard Poole
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1958
My World Dies Screaming
Movie Mark Snell (as Bill Ching)
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Glenn McKay
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1957
Panic!
TV show
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1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV show
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1956
The Last Stop
Movie Joseph
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1955
Tall Man Riding
Movie Rex Willard
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1955
The Magnificent Matador
Movie Jody Wilton
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1953
Give a Girl a Break
Movie Anson Prichett
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1953
Letter to Loretta
TV show Bill Adams
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1953
The Moonlighter
Movie Tom Anderson
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1953
Scared Stiff
Movie Tony Warren
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1953
Never Wave at a WAC
Movie Sky Fairchild
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1952
Four Star Playhouse
TV show
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1952
Pat and Mike
Movie Collier Weld
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1952
Bal Tabarin
Movie Don Barlow
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1951
The Wild Blue Yonder
Movie Lt. Ted Cranshaw
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1951
The Sea Hornet
Movie Sprowl
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1951
Racket Squad
TV show
- 1951
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1951
Oh! Susanna
Movie Cpl. Donlin
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1951
Belle Le Grand
Movie Bill Shanks
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1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show
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1950
Surrender
Movie John Beauregard Hale
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1950
The Showdown
Movie Mike Shattay
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1950
In a Lonely Place
Movie Ted Barton
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1949
D.O.A.
Movie Halliday
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1947
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Movie Jim Simpson
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1947
Michigan Kid
Movie Steve Randolph Prescott
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1947
Buck Privates Come Home
Movie 2nd Lieutenant, Mess Officer (uncredited)
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1947
Song of Scheherazade
Movie Midshipman
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1946
The Mysterious Mr. M
Movie Jim Farrell
