Jack Rice

{{Short description|American actor (1893–1963)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Jack Rice

| image = Jack Rice in Niagara Falls (1941).jpg

| caption = Rice in Niagara Falls (1941)

| birth_name = Earl Clifford Rice

| birth_date = {{birth date|1893|5|14}}

| birth_place = Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1968|12|14|1893|5|14}}

| death_place = Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| resting_place = Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1920–1963

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Jack Rice (born Earl Clifford Rice; May 14, 1893 – December 14, 1968) was an American actor best known for appearing as the scrounging, freeloading brother-in-law in Edgar Kennedy's series of short domestic comedy films at the RKO studio, and also as "Ollie" (a.k.a. "Oliver Merton" and "Oliver Shaw") in around a dozen of Columbia Pictures's series of the Blondie comic strip.{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/76119-Jack-Rice|publisher=American Film Institute|title=JACK RICE|accessdate=November 7, 2018}}

Death

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Rice died in Woodland Hills at the age of 75. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.

Selected filmography

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