Dave Willock
Acting
- Born:
- 1909-08-13
- Died:
- 1990-11-12
- Place of birth:
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Earthed 2 - Never Enough Dirt
Son of Dinosaurs
Prehistoric World
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
Hustle
Emperor of the North
The Streets of San Francisco
The Roman Holidays
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
The Grissom Gang
Alias Smith and Jones
The Immortal
Nanny and the Professor
Love, American Style
Adam-12
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
Wacky Races
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Run, Buddy, Run
That Girl
Frankie and Johnny
Hogan's Heroes
Green Acres
My Mother the Car
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Send Me No Flowers
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
The Munsters
The Cara Williams Show
The Patsy
4 for Texas
Petticoat Junction
Burke's Law
Temple Houston
Wives and Lovers
Vacation Playhouse
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Lucy Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
Margie
The Ladies Man
Mister Ed
Stagecoach West
My Three Sons
The Tom Ewell Show
Not for Hire
Dennis the Menace
The Twilight Zone
Wichita Town
Bonanza
Ten Seconds to Hell
The Geisha Boy
The Donna Reed Show
Queen of Outer Space
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Real McCoys
Perry Mason
Boots and Saddles
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
The Delicate Delinquent
The Buster Keaton Story
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Telephone Time
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Gunsmoke
Revenge of the Creature
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Lone Wolf
Letter to Loretta
It Came from Outer Space
Roar of the Crowd
Remains to Be Seen
Flat Top
Battle Zone
The Ford Television Theatre
The Merry Widow
Just This Once
Love Is Better Than Ever
A Girl in Every Port
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Roadblock
Darling, How Could You!
Let's Go Navy!
The Jack Benny Program
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Louisa
Belle of Old Mexico
No Man of Her Own
Chicago Deadline
Sealed Verdict
So This Is New York
State of the Union
Stork Bites Man
The Fabulous Dorseys
The Searching Wind
The Runaround
Joe Palooka, Champ
This Love of Ours
Spellbound
Bring on the Girls
Pin Up Girl
Four Jills in a Jeep
The Gang's All Here
Princess O'Rourke
Let's Face It
Action in the North Atlantic
She Has What It Takes
He Hired the Boss
Dixie Dugan
The Hard Way
You Were Never Lovelier
Lucky Jordan
For Me and My Gal
Men of the Sky
Priorities on Parade
The Affairs of Martha
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Frisco Lil
The Male Animal
This Time for Keeps
The Fleet's In
Over My Dead Body
Louisiana Purchase
Hellzapoppin'
Harvard Here I Come
Niagara Falls
Caught in the Draft
Cracked Nuts
She Knew All the Answers
A Shot in the Dark
Mr. District Attorney
Too Many Husbands
Black Friday
Granny Get Your Gun
Brother Rat and a Baby
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Legion of Lost Flyers
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Golden Boy
Blondie Takes a Vacation
Good Girls Go to Paris
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Three Texas Steers