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