Dave Willock

Acting · 1.0 popularity

Age

116

Movies

Born: August 13, 1909 – November 12, 1990
From: 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.

Works

94 films

Spellbound

19457.4

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

19397.8

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

19647.3

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

19627.9

Send Me No Flowers

19646.8

Frankie and Johnny

19665.6

4 for Texas

19635.1

The Gang's All Here

19435.9

It Came from Outer Space

19536.3

Emperor of the North

19736.8

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

19726.3

The Patsy

19646.2

Queen of Outer Space

19584.7

Revenge of the Creature

19555.6

The Geisha Boy

19586.3

You Were Never Lovelier

19427.1

Hustle

19755.7

Action in the North Atlantic

19437.1

The Ladies Man

19616.3

The Legend of Lylah Clare

19686.0

Hellzapoppin'

19417.2

The Merry Widow

19526.3

Princess O'Rourke

19436.5

No Man of Her Own

19506.9

Golden Boy

19396.5

Let's Go Navy!

19518.0

State of the Union

19486.8

The Grissom Gang

19716.7

The Delicate Delinquent

19576.4

Black Friday

19406.0

Roadblock

19515.9

Harvard Here I Come

19415.8

Wives and Lovers

19634.4

The Buster Keaton Story

19575.2

The Male Animal

19424.5

Cracked Nuts

19417.0

Too Many Husbands

19406.5

She Knew All the Answers

19416.6

Mr. District Attorney

19415.8

S.O.S Tidal Wave

19396.8

So This Is New York

19486.7

Son of Dinosaurs

19896.2

Ten Seconds to Hell

19596.2

The Fabulous Dorseys

19475.8

Brother Rat and a Baby

19406.1

The Affairs of Martha

19426.6

Pin Up Girl

19446.3

Lucky Jordan

19427.4

Good Girls Go to Paris

19397.1

Granny Get Your Gun

19405.7

Just This Once

19524.4

Earthed 2 - Never Enough Dirt

20055.7

Chicago Deadline

19496.7

Darling, How Could You!

19517.2

Caught in the Draft

19415.9

Louisiana Purchase

19416.7

Dixie Dugan

19436.5

A Girl in Every Port

19525.2

Remains to Be Seen

19536.0

Over My Dead Body

19428.0

The Runaround

19466.5

The Hard Way

19436.4

Louisa

19506.5

Bring on the Girls

19456.3

For Me and My Gal

19426.5

Flat Top

19524.6

Three Texas Steers

19395.0

The Amazing Mr. Williams

19396.0

Two Yanks in Trinidad

19424.0

Love Is Better Than Ever

19526.6

Let's Face It

19435.4

This Time for Keeps

19428.0

Men of the Sky

19425.8

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

19728.0

Sealed Verdict

19487.0

Frisco Lil

19428.3

The Fleet's In

19427.3

The Searching Wind

19468.0

She Has What It Takes

19439.0

Niagara Falls

19416.7

Four Jills in a Jeep

19446.8

Legion of Lost Flyers

19395.0

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs

19858.2

Belle of Old Mexico

19509.0

Battle Zone

19525.5

Stork Bites Man

194710.0

Blondie Takes a Vacation

19396.3

This Love of Ours

19456.0

Roar of the Crowd

19538.0

He Hired the Boss

19435.3

Joe Palooka, Champ

19468.0

Priorities on Parade

19427.0

A Shot in the Dark

19415.7

Prehistoric World

1989