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as Mark Snell (as Bill Ching)

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Never Wave at a WAC

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1953
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1953
The Moonlighter

as Tom Anderson

1953
Pat and Mike

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1952
Bal Tabarin

as Don Barlow

1952
The Wild Blue Yonder

as Lt. Ted Cranshaw

1951
Belle Le Grand

as Bill Shanks

1951
In a Lonely Place

as Ted Barton

1950
D.O.A.

as Halliday

1949
The Showdown

as Mike Shattay

1950
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

as Jim Simpson

1947
Michigan Kid

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1947
William Ching William Ching

Birthday

1913-10-02

Place of Birth

St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

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.
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