# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-ching
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:42:48.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-ching"
name: "William Ching"
slug: "william-ching"
description: "William Brooks Ching was an American character actor who appeared in numerous films and on television during the later 1940s and 1950s. Ching may be best known for his supporting role in Rudolph Maté's 1950 film noir D.O.A. along with his role as the overbearing boyfriend of Katharine Hepburn's character in George Cukor's 1952 comedy Pat and Mike."
tagline: "American actor (1913-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Ching_in_DOA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1913-10-02"
deathDate: "1989-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.99
  momentum:             10.18263582966226
  historical:           9.226496000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0157893/"
    handle:    "nm0157893"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%86%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "ولیم چنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ching"
    title: "William Ching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "ويليام تشينغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "ويليام تشينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%86%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "ویلیام چینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ching"
    title: "William Ching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ching"
    title: "William Ching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ching"
    title: "William Ching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ching"
    title: "William Ching"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%8C%EB%A6%AC%EC%97%84_%EC%B9%AD"
    title: "윌리엄 칭"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568502"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/81183"
    title: "William Ching"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump