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.
As Actor/Actress
Perry Mason
Philip Robinson
Bonanza
Deeter
Love, American Style
Charlie
Adam-12
George Edwards
La Dimensión Desconocida
Marty
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Wig Salesman
Hogan's Heroes
The Virginian
Hank Jessop
Green Acres
George Bennington
Los Beverly Ricos (The Beverly Hillbillies)
Elevator Starter
The Donna Reed Show
My Three Sons
Ed
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Bain - Hotel Desk Clerk
The Lucy Show
Math Teacher
Burke's Law
Buzz Hardy
Petticoat Junction
Pixley Sheriff
La familia Monster
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Randall, el justiciero
Jethro Dane
Gunsmoke
Clerk
That Girl
Las calles de San Francisco
Clerk
The Real McCoys
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Henry Wilkins
Alfred Hitchcock Presenta
Frank Voss
Mister Ed
Moko (voice) (uncredited)
Dennis the Menace
The Ford Television Theatre
Benny Corrigan
The Jack Benny Program
Bus Passenger
Los Dos Mosqueteros