Dave Willock
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: August 13, 1909
Day of Death: November 12, 1990 (81 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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Actor Cab Driver (uncredited)
She Has What It Takes
Actor Sgt. Pat Casey
The Gang's All Here
Actor Bellboy (Uncredited)
The Hard Way
Actor Phil (uncredited)
Dixie Dugan
Actor Sailor
He Hired the Boss
Actor Barney Hilliard
Let's Face It
Actor Convoy Speaker (uncredited)
Action in the North Atlantic
Actor Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Princess O'Rourke
1942
Actor Student in Bookstore (uncredited)
The Male Animal
Actor Angelo Palacio
Lucky Jordan
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Frisco Lil
Actor Hotel Acuña Bellboy (uncredited)
You Were Never Lovelier
Actor Sailor
The Fleet's In
Actor Bob 'Sir Galahad' Gladdens
Men of the Sky
Actor Milkman (uncredited)
The Affairs of Martha
Actor Sailor
Over My Dead Body
Actor Soda Jerk
This Time for Keeps
Actor Push Gasper
Priorities on Parade
Actor Elevator Operator (uncredited)
For Me and My Gal
Actor Messenger (uncredited)
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1941
Actor Bellboy (uncredited)
Niagara Falls
Actor Bellhop (uncredited)
Louisiana Purchase
Actor Radio Technician
Cracked Nuts
Actor Elevator Operator (uncredited)
A Shot in the Dark
Actor Student
Harvard Here I Come
Actor Hypo
Mr. District Attorney
Actor Messenger Boy
She Knew All the Answers
Actor Orchestra Trombone Player (uncredited)
Hellzapoppin'
Actor Colonel's Orderly (uncredited)
Caught in the Draft
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Actor Bellboy (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Actor Hotel Desk Clerk
Three Texas Steers
Actor Student (uncredited)
Good Girls Go to Paris
Actor Arena Call Boy
Golden Boy
Actor Senate Guard (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Actor Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Blondie Takes a Vacation
Actor Page
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Actor Blinky, the Radioman
Legion of Lost Flyers