Jack Rice

Who was Jack Rice?

Jack Rice was an American actor best known for appearing as the scrounging, freeloading brother-in-law in Edgar Kennedy'sseries of short domestic comedy films at the RKO studios, and also as "Ollie" in around a dozen of Columbia film studio's series of the Blondie comic strip, which starred Penny Singleton. He also played roles in many other shorts, feature films and TV. A versatile character actor with an extenisve resume both in motion pictures and television, He appeared in the films Son of Flubber, That Touch of Mink, Ransom'!, The Spirit of 1976, The Pride of St. Louis, Blondie's Big Deal, Little Orphan Annie, Walking on Air and The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock. He also appeared in the television programs, Bonanza, Checkmate and I Love Lucy.