
Dave Willock
Born August 13, 1909 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Frankie and Johnny

Spellbound

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Emperor of the North

Send Me No Flowers

It Came from Outer Space

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

The Ladies Man

Action in the North Atlantic

The Legend of Lylah Clare

The Fleet's In

The Gang's All Here

State of the Union

Revenge of the Creature

The Patsy

No Man of Her Own

You Were Never Lovelier

The Geisha Boy

Hustle

The Merry Widow

Brother Rat and a Baby

The Grissom Gang

For Me and My Gal

4 for Texas

Queen of Outer Space

Darling, How Could You!

Hellzapoppin'

The Buster Keaton Story

Remains to Be Seen

A Girl in Every Port

So This Is New York

The Delicate Delinquent

Good Girls Go to Paris

A Shot in the Dark

This Love of Ours

Let's Go Navy!

Ten Seconds to Hell

Caught in the Draft

Love Is Better Than Ever

Let's Face It

She Knew All the Answers

The Affairs of Martha

Four Jills in a Jeep
TV Shows

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Twilight Zone

The Virginian

The Donna Reed Show

My Three Sons

Petticoat Junction

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Hogan's Heroes

The Lucy Show

Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Beverly Hillbillies

Burke's Law

Gunsmoke

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Green Acres

The Streets of San Francisco

The Jack Benny Program

The Ford Television Theatre

That Girl

The Real McCoys

The Munsters

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

Alias Smith and Jones

Dennis the Menace

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Mister Ed

Telephone Time

Stagecoach West

Nanny and the Professor

The Lone Wolf

The Wonderful World of Disney

Letter to Loretta

My Mother the Car

Temple Houston

Wichita Town

Wacky Races

The Immortal

The Cara Williams Show

The Tom Ewell Show

Run, Buddy, Run

Margie

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Boots and Saddles

The Roman Holidays
More Movies

S.O.S Tidal Wave

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

Bring on the Girls

Harvard Here I Come

Golden Boy

This Time for Keeps

Two Yanks in Trinidad

Too Many Husbands

Pin Up Girl

The Male Animal

Sealed Verdict

Son of Dinosaurs

Wives and Lovers

Over My Dead Body

Blondie Takes a Vacation

Just This Once

Roar of the Crowd

Roadblock

Granny Get Your Gun

Chicago Deadline

She Has What It Takes

Niagara Falls

The Hard Way

Lucky Jordan

Black Friday

Princess O'Rourke

He Hired the Boss

Three Texas Steers

Legion of Lost Flyers

Men of the Sky

The Runaround

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs

Belle of Old Mexico

Flat Top

Louisa

Mr. District Attorney

Louisiana Purchase

Prehistoric World

Battle Zone

Priorities on Parade

Dixie Dugan

The Fabulous Dorseys

Joe Palooka, Champ

Stork Bites Man

Cracked Nuts




