1909-08-13 ( 115 years old ) in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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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.
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Earthed 2 - Never Enough Dirt
2005-04-01
Son of Dinosaurs
1989-11-29
Prehistoric World
1989-11-29
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
1985-05-16
Hustle
1975-12-25
Emperor of the North
1973-05-23
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972-07-12
Michael O'Hara the Fourth
1972-03-26
The Grissom Gang
1971-05-28
Frankie and Johnny
1966-03-31
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1964-12-15
Send Me No Flowers
1964-10-14
The Patsy
1964-06-24
4 for Texas
1963-12-21
Wives and Lovers
1963-08-29
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962-10-31
The Ladies Man
1961-06-21
Ten Seconds to Hell
1959-04-23
Queen of Outer Space
1958-09-07
The Delicate Delinquent
1957-06-06
The Buster Keaton Story
1957-05-01
Revenge of the Creature
1955-05-13
It Came from Outer Space
1953-06-05
Roar of the Crowd
1953-05-31
Remains to Be Seen
1953-05-15
Flat Top
1952-10-26
Battle Zone
1952-10-26
The Merry Widow
1952-09-05
Just This Once
1952-02-27
Love Is Better Than Ever
1952-02-23
A Girl in Every Port
1952-02-13
Roadblock
1951-09-17
Darling, How Could You!
1951-08-08
Let's Go Navy!
1951-07-29
Louisa
1950-05-31
Belle of Old Mexico
1950-03-01
No Man of Her Own
1950-02-21
Chicago Deadline
1949-11-03
Sealed Verdict
1948-11-05
So This Is New York
1948-06-01
State of the Union
1948-04-30
Stork Bites Man
1947-06-21
The Fabulous Dorseys
1947-02-26
The Searching Wind
1946-08-09
The Runaround
1946-06-04
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946-05-26
Spellbound
1945-11-08
This Love of Ours
1945-11-02
Bring on the Girls
1945-03-30
Pin Up Girl
1944-04-25
Four Jills in a Jeep
1944-03-17
The Gang's All Here
1943-12-24
Princess O'Rourke
1943-10-23
Let's Face It
1943-08-04
Action in the North Atlantic
1943-06-12
She Has What It Takes
1943-04-15
He Hired the Boss
1943-04-02
Dixie Dugan
1943-03-12
The Hard Way
1943-01-13
You Were Never Lovelier
1942-11-19
Lucky Jordan
1942-11-16
For Me and My Gal
1942-10-21
Men of the Sky
1942-07-25
Priorities on Parade
1942-07-23
The Affairs of Martha
1942-06-21
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942-03-26
Frisco Lil
1942-03-13
The Male Animal
1942-03-12
This Time for Keeps
1942-03-01
The Fleet's In
1942-01-24
Over My Dead Body
1942-01-15
Louisiana Purchase
1941-12-31
Hellzapoppin'
1941-12-25
Harvard Here I Come
1941-12-18
Niagara Falls
1941-10-17
Caught in the Draft
1941-07-04
Cracked Nuts
1941-07-02
She Knew All the Answers
1941-05-13
A Shot in the Dark
1941-04-05
Mr. District Attorney
1941-03-27
Too Many Husbands
1940-04-03
Black Friday
1940-02-29
Granny Get Your Gun
1940-02-10
Brother Rat and a Baby
1940-01-13
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939-11-22
Legion of Lost Flyers
1939-11-02
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939-10-19
Golden Boy
1939-09-05
Blondie Takes a Vacation
1939-07-20
Good Girls Go to Paris
1939-06-20
S.O.S Tidal Wave
1939-06-02
Three Texas Steers
1939-05-12
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