Cast

Dave Willock

Acting

Cast

Dave Willock

Known for

Acting

Born

1909-08-13

From

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died

1990-11-12

Also known as Dave 'Tugwell' Willock, David Willock

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.

Dave Willock

Dave Willock

Biography

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Spellbound

Send Me No Flowers

Emperor of the North

Frankie and Johnny

Action in the North Atlantic

The Legend of Lylah Clare

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

You Were Never Lovelier

The Grissom Gang

4 for Texas

The Ladies Man

The Gang's All Here

It Came from Outer Space

Ten Seconds to Hell

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

The Geisha Boy

The Buster Keaton Story

Princess O'Rourke

Let's Go Navy!

State of the Union

The Merry Widow

Revenge of the Creature

Too Many Husbands

Wives and Lovers

Queen of Outer Space

The Male Animal

The Patsy

Hellzapoppin'

Mr. District Attorney

Black Friday

Golden Boy

No Man of Her Own

Darling, How Could You!

Over My Dead Body

Louisa

Harvard Here I Come

This Time for Keeps

A Girl in Every Port

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

So This Is New York

Blondie Takes a Vacation

Chicago Deadline

Love Is Better Than Ever

The Affairs of Martha

Good Girls Go to Paris

S.O.S Tidal Wave

For Me and My Gal

Brother Rat and a Baby

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Three Texas Steers

Remains to Be Seen

Caught in the Draft

Flat Top

The Fleet's In

The Hard Way

Louisiana Purchase

Son of Dinosaurs

The Runaround

Just This Once

Four Jills in a Jeep

Roadblock

The Fabulous Dorseys

Two Yanks in Trinidad

Hustle

Sealed Verdict

She Knew All the Answers

Frisco Lil

Lucky Jordan

Pin Up Girl

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs

Earthed 2 - Never Enough Dirt

Granny Get Your Gun

The Delicate Delinquent

Legion of Lost Flyers

Stork Bites Man