Dave Willock

Acting

Born Aug 13, 1909

From Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died Nov 12, 1990

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.

Dave Willock

Known For

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Spellbound

It Came from Outer Space

Revenge of the Creature

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

4 for Texas

Golden Boy

The Hard Way

Filmography — Acting

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Spellbound

It Came from Outer Space

Revenge of the Creature

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

4 for Texas

Golden Boy

The Hard Way

State of the Union

The Ladies Man

Hustle

Action in the North Atlantic

Frankie and Johnny

No Man of Her Own

Roadblock

The Male Animal

The Patsy

The Geisha Boy

Louisa

Black Friday

Queen of Outer Space

Send Me No Flowers

Emperor of the North

Hellzapoppin'

The Legend of Lylah Clare

For Me and My Gal

Dixie Dugan

You Were Never Lovelier

The Merry Widow

So This Is New York

Battle Zone

Pin Up Girl

The Delicate Delinquent

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

Darling, How Could You!

Love Is Better Than Ever

Chicago Deadline

The Buster Keaton Story

The Affairs of Martha

The Gang's All Here

The Grissom Gang

Good Girls Go to Paris

Over My Dead Body

Flat Top

Caught in the Draft

Lucky Jordan

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Two Yanks in Trinidad

Let's Face It

Just This Once

A Girl in Every Port

Three Texas Steers

She Knew All the Answers

Blondie Takes a Vacation

This Love of Ours

Wives and Lovers

Too Many Husbands

Sealed Verdict

Remains to Be Seen

Bring on the Girls

Brother Rat and a Baby

This Time for Keeps

Roar of the Crowd

Granny Get Your Gun

The Fleet's In