Acting
Dave Willock
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dave Willock (August 13, 1909 – November 12, 1990) was an American character actor. Willock appeared in 181 films and television series from 1939 to 1989. Born in 1909, Willock began his professional career in vaudeville in 1931, teaming with his boyhood friend Jack Carson in a comedy song and dance routine. For a time in the mid-1930s he was a reporter and editor for a Milwaukee newspaper. He first appeared on screen in Good Girls Go to Paris (1939), in an uncredited bit part. He teamed with Carson again when Carson invited him to write for his radio show; Willock wrote and played the part of Carson's nephew Tugwell on The Jack Carson Show from 1943–1949. Willock and Cliff Arquette had their own radio and television shows in the early 1950s. Both versions were called Dave and Charley; the radio version was heard circa 1950, but the television version of it was on the air for only three months in early 1952. In the 1961–1962 season, he played Harvey Clayton, father of the 1920s teenager Margie Clayton, portrayed by Cynthia Pepper in ABC's Margie. He appeared on an episode of Dragnet as an ex-vaudevillean who is cheated out of $9,000 that he found on a sidewalk. In 1966, he had an uncredited role as the bartender in the Elvis Presley vehicle Frankie and Johnny. Willock is probably most familiar to modern audiences from his performance as Baby Jane Hudson's father in the opening scenes of the cult classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). He played seven different characters on CBS's Green Acres with Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor, mostly portraying clerks or elevator operators. Willock also did voice acting for animated roles, such as the offscreen narrator on Wacky Races (1968) and as father Augustus "Gus" Holiday on The Roman Holidays (1972). He appeared in a television commercial for "The Great American Soups", directed by American satirist Stan Freberg, alongside tap-dancing star Ann Miller. He died of complications due to stroke on November 12, 1990 at the age of 81. He is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery. For his contribution to the television industry, Dave Willock has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6358 Hollywood Boulevard.
Movies with Dave Willock
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Send Me No Flowers
1964
Spellbound
1945
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964
The Ladies Man
1961
4 for Texas
1963
Frankie and Johnny
1966
Emperor of the North
1973
The Geisha Boy
1958
Revenge of the Creature
1955
The Gang's All Here
1943
State of the Union
1948
It Came from Outer Space
1953
The Patsy
1964
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972
Black Friday
1940
Flat Top
1952
The Grissom Gang
1971
You Were Never Lovelier
1942
The Merry Widow
1952
Golden Boy
1939
For Me and My Gal
1942
The Male Animal
1942
Princess O'Rourke
1943
Hustle
1975
The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968
No Man of Her Own
1950
The Hard Way
1943
Pin Up Girl
1944
Wives and Lovers
1963
Queen of Outer Space
1958
Hellzapoppin'
1941
Action in the North Atlantic
1943
Just This Once
1952
Ten Seconds to Hell
1959
Caught in the Draft
1941
Roadblock
1951
Too Many Husbands
1940
Mr. District Attorney
1941
The Fleet's In
1942
Son of Dinosaurs
1989
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940
The Affairs of Martha
1942
She Knew All the Answers
1941
Let's Face It
1943
The Delicate Delinquent
1957
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
Louisa
1950
So This Is New York
1948
Darling, How Could You!
1951
Louisiana Purchase
1941
Sealed Verdict
1948
Harvard Here I Come
1941
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939
Granny Get Your Gun
1940
Men of the Sky
1942
Lucky Jordan
1942
Niagara Falls
1941
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939
Blondie Takes a Vacation
1939
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946
Battle Zone
1952
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
1985
Remains to Be Seen
1953
Let's Go Navy!
1951
Chicago Deadline
1949
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
Bring on the Girls
1945
This Time for Keeps
1942
A Girl in Every Port
1952
Love Is Better Than Ever
1952
The Searching Wind
1946
Belle of Old Mexico
1950
Over My Dead Body
1942
Cracked Nuts
1941
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
Dixie Dugan
1943
Three Texas Steers
1939
The Runaround
1946
Legion of Lost Flyers
1939
The Fabulous Dorseys
1947
She Has What It Takes
1943
Stork Bites Man
1947
A Shot in the Dark
1941
Priorities on Parade
1942
Roar of the Crowd
1953
This Love of Ours
1945
Four Jills in a Jeep
1944
Prehistoric World
1989
He Hired the Boss
1943
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
1972
Frisco Lil
1942
Earthed 2 - Never Enough Dirt
2005
TV Shows with Dave Willock
Perry Mason
1957
Bonanza
1959
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Adam-12
1968
My Three Sons
1960
Hogan's Heroes
1965
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Love, American Style
1969
Burke's Law
1963
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Mister Ed
1961
The Virginian
1962
Green Acres
1965
Petticoat Junction
1963
The Lucy Show
1962
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
The Munsters
1964
Gunsmoke
1955
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Telephone Time
1956
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
The Jack Benny Program
1950
That Girl
1966
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Dennis the Menace
1959
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957
Stagecoach West
1960
Vacation Playhouse
1963
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Real McCoys
1957
Wacky Races
1968
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Wichita Town
1959
Nanny and the Professor
1970
Temple Houston
1963
My Mother the Car
1965
The Lone Wolf
1954
The Immortal
1970
Run, Buddy, Run
1966
Letter to Loretta
1953
The Cara Williams Show
1964
Margie
1961
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
1968
The Roman Holidays
1972
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Not for Hire
1959
Boots and Saddles
1957