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Dave Willock

Dave Willock

Actor · 1909 – 1990 · 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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.9
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  • Movie7.4

    Spellbound

    1945 · 1K votes

  • Movie6.8

    Emperor of the North

    1973 · 149 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie7.3
  • Movie6.8

    Send Me No Flowers

    1964 · 148 votes

  • Movie6.0
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    It Came from Outer Space

    1953 · 257 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Hustle

    1975 · 72 votes

  • Movie7.1

    You Were Never Lovelier

    1942 · 60 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Revenge of the Creature

    1955 · 171 votes

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    Frankie and Johnny

    1966 · 56 votes

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    The Ladies Man

    1961 · 144 votes

  • Movie6.8

    State of the Union

    1948 · 76 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Queen of Outer Space

    1958 · 47 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Merry Widow

    1952 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.1

    4 for Texas

    1963 · 62 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Hellzapoppin'

    1941 · 112 votes

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    The Patsy

    1964 · 62 votes

  • Movie6.9

    No Man of Her Own

    1950 · 48 votes

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    Golden Boy

    1939 · 36 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Roadblock

    1951 · 27 votes

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    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

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    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

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    The Donna Reed Show

    1958 · 19 votes

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    Love, American Style

    1969 · 21 votes

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    Adam-12

    1968 · 48 votes

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    Hogan's Heroes

    1965 · 193 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

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    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes

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    My Three Sons

    1960 · 41 votes

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    The Beverly Hillbillies

    1962 · 139 votes

  • TV6.3

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Lucy Show

    1962 · 53 votes

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  • TV7.1

    Wanted: Dead or Alive

    1958 · 38 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV7.1

    Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

    1964 · 35 votes

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    Green Acres

    1965 · 80 votes

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  • TV6.2

    That Girl

    1966 · 35 votes