Dave Willock
Acting • Born 1909-08-13 – Died 1990-11-12
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
162 credits
The Male Animal
Movie • 1942
Student in Bookstore (uncredited)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Movie • 1962
Ray Hudson
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
Movie • 1964
Taxi Driver
The Grissom Gang
Movie • 1971
Send Me No Flowers
Movie • 1964
Milkman Ernie
Belle of Old Mexico
Movie • 1950
Tommy Mayberry
Ten Seconds to Hell
Movie • 1959
Peter Tillig
Chicago Deadline
Movie • 1949
Pig
She Has What It Takes
Movie • 1943
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Revenge of the Creature
Movie • 1955
Lou Gibson
Earthed 2 - Never Enough Dirt
Movie • 2005
Dave Wardell
Queen of Outer Space
Movie • 1958
Lt. Mike Cruze
The Ladies Man
Movie • 1961
Assistant TV Program Director (uncredited)
The Gang's All Here
Movie • 1943
Sgt. Pat Casey
It Came from Outer Space
Movie • 1953
Pete Davis (uncredited)
Flat Top
Movie • 1952
Willie
No Man of Her Own
Movie • 1950
Jimmy Baker (uncredited)
Four Jills in a Jeep
Movie • 1944
Heckling Soldier (uncredited)
Let's Go Navy!
Movie • 1951
Algernon Hobenocker
The Runaround
Movie • 1946
Hubert 'Billy' Willis
Just This Once
Movie • 1952
Caddie Ralph Roberts
Lucky Jordan
Movie • 1942
Angelo Palacio
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
Movie • 1985
Himself
This Love of Ours
Movie • 1945
Dr. Dailey
The Searching Wind
Movie • 1946
Harry, Male Nurse
Pin Up Girl
Movie • 1944
Dud Miller
Battle Zone
Movie • 1952
Smitty
Frisco Lil
Movie • 1942
Frankie and Johnny
Movie • 1966
Pete (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
Movie • 1939
Bellboy (uncredited)
Son of Dinosaurs
Movie • 1989
Self
Prehistoric World
Movie • 1989
State of the Union
Movie • 1948
Pilot (uncredited)
Three Texas Steers
Movie • 1939
Hotel Desk Clerk
Good Girls Go to Paris
Movie • 1939
Student (uncredited)
Golden Boy
Movie • 1939
Arena Call Boy
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie • 1939
Senate Guard (uncredited)
Blondie Takes a Vacation
Movie • 1939
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
The Hard Way
Movie • 1943
Bellboy (Uncredited)
Dixie Dugan
Movie • 1943
Phil (uncredited)
Niagara Falls
Movie • 1941
Bellboy (uncredited)
Brother Rat and a Baby
Movie • 1940
Talking Cadet in Trouble
Black Friday
Movie • 1940
Student
He Hired the Boss
Movie • 1943
Sailor
A Girl in Every Port
Movie • 1952
Seaman McGonegal (uncredited)
Let's Face It
Movie • 1943
Barney Hilliard
Too Many Husbands
Movie • 1940
Elevator Operator
Louisiana Purchase
Movie • 1941
Bellhop (uncredited)
You Were Never Lovelier
Movie • 1942
Hotel Acuña Bellboy (uncredited)
Bring on the Girls
Movie • 1945
Sailor (uncredited)
Louisa
Movie • 1950
Joe Collins
Cracked Nuts
Movie • 1941
Radio Technician
A Shot in the Dark
Movie • 1941
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
The Fleet's In
Movie • 1942
Sailor
4 for Texas
Movie • 1963
Alfred
Harvard Here I Come
Movie • 1941
Student
Roadblock
Movie • 1951
Airport Clerk (uncredited)
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Movie • 1972
Mr. Burns
Remains to Be Seen
Movie • 1953
Delivery Man (uncredited)
S.O.S Tidal Wave
Movie • 1939
Page
Men of the Sky
Movie • 1942
Bob 'Sir Galahad' Gladdens
The Affairs of Martha
Movie • 1942
Milkman (uncredited)
Over My Dead Body
Movie • 1942
Sailor
Mr. District Attorney
Movie • 1941
Hypo
She Knew All the Answers
Movie • 1941
Messenger Boy
The Buster Keaton Story
Movie • 1957
Joe Keaton
Love Is Better Than Ever
Movie • 1952
Davey
Action in the North Atlantic
Movie • 1943
Convoy Speaker (uncredited)
This Time for Keeps
Movie • 1942
Soda Jerk
Sealed Verdict
Movie • 1948
Stockade Desk Sergeant
Princess O'Rourke
Movie • 1943
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
Priorities on Parade
Movie • 1942
Push Gasper
Hellzapoppin'
Movie • 1941
Orchestra Trombone Player (uncredited)
So This Is New York
Movie • 1948
Willis Gilbey
Spellbound
Movie • 1945
Bellboy (uncredited)
Emperor of the North
Movie • 1973
Groundhog
Joe Palooka, Champ
Movie • 1946
Mr. Rodney
Stork Bites Man
Movie • 1947
Lester
Granny Get Your Gun
Movie • 1940
Frightened Motorist
Darling, How Could You!
Movie • 1951
Usher (Uncredited)
Roar of the Crowd
Movie • 1953
Buster Sands
Caught in the Draft
Movie • 1941
Colonel's Orderly (uncredited)
The Patsy
Movie • 1964
Alec (uncredited)
The Delicate Delinquent
Movie • 1957
William C. Goerner
Wives and Lovers
Movie • 1963
Dr. Leon Partridge DDS
For Me and My Gal
Movie • 1942
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
Movie • 1972
Store Manager
Legion of Lost Flyers
Movie • 1939
Blinky, the Radioman
Hustle
Movie • 1975
Liquor Store Clerk
The Merry Widow
Movie • 1952
Marshovian Attache (uncredited)
Two Yanks in Trinidad
Movie • 1942
Messenger (uncredited)
The Fabulous Dorseys
Movie • 1947
Foggy
The Legend of Lylah Clare
Movie • 1968
Cameraman
The Sunrise Gun
Movie • 1959
hotel desk clerk
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Buzz Hardy
Wacky Races
TV • 1968
Narrator (voice)
The Munsters
TV • 1964
The Lucy Show
TV • 1962
Math Teacher
That Girl
TV • 1966
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Elevator Starter
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV • 1964
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Pixley Sheriff
Hogan's Heroes
TV • 1965
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Clerk
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Philip Robinson
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Marty
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Frank Voss
Run, Buddy, Run
TV • 1966
Margie
TV • 1961
The Immortal
TV • 1970
Dennis the Menace
TV • 1959
Nanny and the Professor
TV • 1970
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Hank Jessop
My Mother the Car
TV • 1965
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Lt. Jerry O'Neal
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
TV • 1957
Henry Wilkins
The Roman Holidays
TV • 1972
Gus Holiday (voice)
The Real McCoys
TV • 1957
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Jethro Dane
Wichita Town
TV • 1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Bain - Hotel Desk Clerk
The Cara Williams Show
TV • 1964
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Carl Ryan
The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show
TV • 1968
Regular Performer
Telephone Time
TV • 1956
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Counterman
Boots and Saddles
TV • 1957
Not for Hire
TV • 1959
The Tom Ewell Show
TV • 1960
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Bus Passenger
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Store Manager
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Charlie
Green Acres
TV • 1965
George Bennington
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Becker
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Touhey Benson
Temple Houston
TV • 1963
Speedy Jackson
Adam-12
TV • 1968
George Edwards
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Judge
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
George Goode
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Bartender
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
Benny Corrigan
Mister Ed
TV • 1961
Moko (voice) (uncredited)
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Ticket Agent
The Cara Williams Show
TV • 1964
Sweeney
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
The Wig Salesman
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Larry Lawlor
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Tom Blackwell
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Mr. McGurney
My Three Sons
TV • 1960
Ed
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Otis Cowan
The Lone Wolf
TV • 1954
Roustabout (uncredited)
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Clerk
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Mr. Gordon
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Bob
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Charley
Stagecoach West
TV • 1960
Duncan
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Deeter
Run, Buddy, Run
TV • 1966
Chicken Buyer (uncredited)
Run, Buddy, Run
TV • 1966
Sheriff Len Rhodes
Stagecoach West
TV • 1960
Clerk