Dave Willock

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: Acting

Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1909-08-13

Died: 1990-11-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1939	Three Texas Steers	Hotel Desk Clerk	49
2	1939	S.O.S Tidal Wave	Page	57
3	1939	Good Girls Go to Paris	Student (uncredited)	71
4	1939	Blondie Takes a Vacation	Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)	62
5	1939	Golden Boy	Arena Call Boy	65
6	1939	Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Senate Guard (uncredited)	79
7	1939	Legion of Lost Flyers	Blinky, the Radioman	40
8	1939	The Amazing Mr. Williams	Bellboy (uncredited)	58
9	1940	Brother Rat and a Baby	Talking Cadet in Trouble	52
10	1940	Granny Get Your Gun	Frightened Motorist	35
11	1940	Black Friday	Student	60
12	1940	Too Many Husbands	Elevator Operator	63
13	1941	Mr. District Attorney	Hypo	54
14	1941	A Shot in the Dark	Elevator Operator (uncredited)	50
15	1941	She Knew All the Answers	Messenger Boy	63
16	1941	Cracked Nuts	Radio Technician	0
17	1941	Caught in the Draft	Colonel's Orderly (uncredited)	58
18	1941	Niagara Falls	Bellboy (uncredited)	68
19	1941	Harvard Here I Come	Student	50
20	1941	Hellzapoppin'	Orchestra Trombone Player (uncredited)	72
21	1941	Louisiana Purchase	Bellhop (uncredited)	66
22	1942	Over My Dead Body	Sailor	0
23	1942	The Fleet's In	Sailor	70
24	1942	This Time for Keeps	Soda Jerk	60
25	1942	The Male Animal	Student in Bookstore (uncredited)	41
26	1942	Frisco Lil		80
27	1942	Two Yanks in Trinidad	Messenger (uncredited)	20
28	1942	The Affairs of Martha	Milkman (uncredited)	58
29	1942	Priorities on Parade	Push Gasper	0
30	1942	Men of the Sky	Bob 'Sir Galahad' Gladdens	35
31	1942	For Me and My Gal	Elevator Operator (uncredited)	64
32	1942	Lucky Jordan	Angelo Palacio	60
33	1942	You Were Never Lovelier	Hotel Acuña Bellboy (uncredited)	71
34	1943	The Hard Way	Bellboy (Uncredited)	66
35	1943	Dixie Dugan	Phil (uncredited)	50
36	1943	He Hired the Boss	Sailor	30
37	1943	She Has What It Takes	Cab Driver (uncredited)	0
38	1943	Action in the North Atlantic	Convoy Speaker (uncredited)	71
39	1943	Let's Face It	Barney Hilliard	45
40	1943	Princess O'Rourke	Delivery Boy (uncredited)	63
41	1943	The Gang's All Here	Sgt. Pat Casey	58
42	1944	Four Jills in a Jeep	Heckling Soldier (uncredited)	57
43	1944	Pin Up Girl	Dud Miller	61
44	1945	Bring on the Girls	Sailor (uncredited)	61
45	1945	This Love of Ours	Dr. Dailey	57
46	1945	Spellbound	Bellboy (uncredited)	74
47	1946	Joe Palooka, Champ	Mr. Rodney	0
48	1946	The Runaround	Hubert 'Billy' Willis	0
49	1946	The Searching Wind	Harry, Male Nurse	0
50	1947	The Fabulous Dorseys	Foggy	60
51	1947	Stork Bites Man	Lester	0
52	1948	State of the Union	Pilot (uncredited)	67
53	1948	So This Is New York	Willis Gilbey	60
54	1948	Sealed Verdict	Stockade Desk Sergeant	55
55	1949	Chicago Deadline	Pig	63
56	1950	No Man of Her Own	Jimmy Baker (uncredited)	69
57	1950	Belle of Old Mexico	Tommy Mayberry	0
58	1950	Louisa	Joe Collins	61
59	1951	Let's Go Navy!	Algernon Hobenocker	70
60	1951	Darling, How Could You!	Usher (Uncredited)	60
61	1951	Roadblock	Airport Clerk (uncredited)	58
62	1952	A Girl in Every Port	Seaman McGonegal (uncredited)	48
63	1952	Love Is Better Than Ever	Davey	61
64	1952	Just This Once	Caddie Ralph Roberts	38
65	1952	The Merry Widow	Marshovian Attache (uncredited)	58
66	1952	Flat Top	Willie	40
67	1952	Battle Zone	Smitty	50
68	1953	Remains to Be Seen	Delivery Man (uncredited)	57
69	1953	Roar of the Crowd	Buster Sands	0
70	1953	It Came from Outer Space	Pete Davis (uncredited)	63
71	1955	Revenge of the Creature	Lou Gibson	56
72	1957	The Buster Keaton Story	Joe Keaton	49
73	1957	The Delicate Delinquent	William C. Goerner	64
74	1958	Queen of Outer Space	Lt. Mike Cruze	48
75	1959	Ten Seconds to Hell	Peter Tillig	61
76	1961	The Ladies Man	Assistant TV Program Director (uncredited)	63
77	1962	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	Ray Hudson	79
78	1963	Wives and Lovers	Dr. Leon Partridge DDS	46
79	1963	4 for Texas	Alfred	51
80	1964	The Patsy	Alec (uncredited)	62
81	1964	Send Me No Flowers	Milkman Ernie	67
82	1964	Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte	Taxi Driver	73
83	1966	Frankie and Johnny	Pete (uncredited)	57
84	1971	The Grissom Gang		66
85	1972	Michael O'Hara the Fourth	Store Manager	60
86	1972	Now You See Him, Now You Don't	Mr. Burns	63
87	1973	Emperor of the North	Groundhog	67
88	1975	Hustle	Liquor Store Clerk	57
89	1985	Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs	Himself	83
90	1989	Son of Dinosaurs		62
91	1989	Prehistoric World		0
92	2005	Earthed 2 - Never Enough Dirt	Dave Wardell	57

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Jack Benny Program	Bus Passenger	78
2	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Lt. Jerry O'Neal	73
3	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Benny Corrigan	73
4	1953	Letter to Loretta	Counterman	65
5	1954	The Lone Wolf	Roustabout (uncredited)	70
6	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Store Manager	78
7	1955	Gunsmoke	Clerk	66
8	1955	Gunsmoke	Becker	66
9	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Frank Voss	77
10	1956	Telephone Time		63
11	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Bain - Hotel Desk Clerk	55
12	1957	Richard Diamond, Private Detective	Henry Wilkins	62
13	1957	Boots and Saddles		50
14	1957	Perry Mason	Philip Robinson	77
15	1957	Perry Mason	Bartender	77
16	1957	The Real McCoys		56
17	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Jethro Dane	69
18	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Judge	69
19	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	George Goode	69
20	1958	The Donna Reed Show		62
21	1959	Wichita Town		42
22	1959	The Twilight Zone	Marty	85
23	1959	Dennis the Menace		65
24	1959	Not for Hire		0
25	1960	The Tom Ewell Show		0
26	1960	My Three Sons	Ed	65
27	1961	Mister Ed	Moko (voice) (uncredited)	68
28	1961	Margie		0
29	1962	The Virginian	Hank Jessop	65
30	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	The Wig Salesman	78
31	1962	The Beverly Hillbillies	Elevator Starter	69
32	1962	The Lucy Show	Math Teacher	70
33	1963	Vacation Playhouse	Carl Ryan	70
34	1963	Temple Houston	Speedy Jackson	57
35	1963	Burke's Law	Buzz Hardy	60
36	1963	Petticoat Junction	Pixley Sheriff	58
37	1963	Petticoat Junction	Touhey Benson	58
38	1964	The Cara Williams Show		50
39	1964	The Cara Williams Show	Sweeney	50
40	1964	The Munsters		79
41	1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.		71
42	1965	My Mother the Car		43
43	1965	Green Acres	George Bennington	73
44	1965	Green Acres	Ticket Agent	73
45	1965	Green Acres	Larry Lawlor	73
46	1965	Green Acres	Tom Blackwell	73
47	1965	Green Acres	Mr. McGurney	73
48	1965	Green Acres	Otis Cowan	73
49	1965	Green Acres	Mr. Gordon	73
50	1965	Hogan's Heroes		75
51	1966	That Girl		63
52	1966	Run, Buddy, Run		0
53	1968	Wacky Races	Narrator (voice)	73
54	1968	The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show	Regular Performer	0
55	1968	Adam-12	George Edwards	70
56	1969	Love, American Style	Charlie	61
57	1969	Love, American Style	Bob	61
58	1969	Love, American Style	Charley	61
59	1970	Nanny and the Professor		60
60	1970	The Immortal		74
61	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
62	1972	The Roman Holidays	Gus Holiday (voice)	65
63	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Clerk	69

Dave Willock

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