Career
Ching may be best known for his supporting role in Rudolph Maté"s 1950 film noir, Doctorate.O.A. 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.
One of his best parts was as a semi-good guy/semi-villain in the Randolph Scott western Tall Manitoba Riding (1955). In 1958 he played murderer Glenn McKay in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Corresponding Corpse." His last major acting cr was in a 1959 episode of the television series 77 Sunset Strip.
William Ching died of congestive heart failure in 1989, aged 75. and is buried at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California.