
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.
Filmography

Earthed 2 - Never Enough Dirt

Son of Dinosaurs

Prehistoric World

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs

Hustle

Emperor of the North

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

The Grissom Gang

Frankie and Johnny

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Send Me No Flowers

The Patsy

4 for Texas

Wives and Lovers

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

The Ladies Man

Ten Seconds to Hell

Queen of Outer Space

The Delicate Delinquent

The Buster Keaton Story

Revenge of the Creature

It Came from Outer Space

Roar of the Crowd

Remains to Be Seen

Flat Top

Battle Zone

The Merry Widow

Just This Once

Love Is Better Than Ever

A Girl in Every Port

Roadblock

Darling, How Could You!

Let's Go Navy!

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

Spellbound

This Love of Ours

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
