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.

[1] Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Rice died in Woodland Hills at the age of 75.

He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.

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