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 po...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Escort West
1959
as Capt. Howard Poole
Seeking a new place to call home, former Confederate soldier Ben Lassiter (Victor Mature) and his daughter meet Beth (Elaine Stewart), whose fiancé is...
My World Dies Screaming
1958
as Mark Snell (as Bill Ching)
A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her recurring nightmare.
Tall Man Riding
1955
as Rex Willard
Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and breaking up his relationship with Ordway's daughter,...
The Magnificent Matador
1955
as Jody Wilton
Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who h...
Give a Girl a Break
1953
as Anson Prichett
When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis suggests casting an unknow...
The Moonlighter
1953
as Tom Anderson
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they don't...
Scared Stiff
1953
as Tony Warren
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated isla...
Never Wave at a WAC
1953
as Lt. Col. Schuyler 'Sky' Fairchild
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many d...
Pat and Mike
1952
as Collier Weld
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets fluste...
Bal Tabarin
1952
as Don Barlow
Story of a girl who witnesses murder of notorious international jewel thief. Afraid that the gang will attack her, she flees to Paris.
The Wild Blue Yonder
1951
as Lt. Ted Cranshaw
Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful n...
The Sea Hornet
1951
as Sprowl
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later wh...
Oh! Susanna
1951
as Cpl. Donlin
Unable to keep peace between frontier Indians and the US Cavalry, a heroic Captain risks court-martial to prevent bloodshed.
Belle Le Grand
1951
as Bill Shanks
Upon her release from prison for a murder she didn't commit, a woman finds that her younger sister has been placed in an orphanage. Determined to do w...
Surrender
1950
as John Beauregard Hale
Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of b...
The Showdown
1950
as Mike Shattay
Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has the ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money...
In a Lonely Place
1950
as Ted Barton
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
D.O.A.
1949
as Halliday
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determi...
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
1947
as Jim Simpson
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a not...
Michigan Kid
1947
as Steve Randolph Prescott
A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.
Buck Privates Come Home
1947
as 2nd Lieutenant, Mess Officer (uncredited)
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up runnin...
Song of Scheherazade
1947
as Midshipman
A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
The Mysterious Mr. M
1946
as Jim Farrell
An evil scientist known as "Mr. M." uses a drug he has developed called "hypnotreme" to help steal submarine equipment. Federal agent Grant Farrell is...
Because I Love Him
N/A
as david hughes
A successful career woman sacrifices her own future to devote herself to her husband who only has one year to live.