Dave Willock

Dave Willock

Birthday: 1909-08-13

Deathday: 1990-11-12

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Also known as: Dave 'Tugwell' Willock, David Willock

imdb_id: nm0932565

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.

Played in movies:

Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs

Score: 8.3

Frisco Lil

Score: 8.0

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Score: 7.9

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Score: 7.8

Spellbound

Score: 7.4

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Score: 7.3

Hellzapoppin'

Score: 7.1

Action in the North Atlantic

Score: 7.1

You Were Never Lovelier

Score: 7.1

The Fleet's In

Score: 7.0

Good Girls Go to Paris

Score: 7.0

Let's Go Navy!

Score: 7.0

No Man of Her Own

Score: 6.9

Niagara Falls

Score: 6.8

Emperor of the North

Score: 6.7

Send Me No Flowers

Score: 6.7

The Grissom Gang

Score: 6.7

State of the Union

Score: 6.7

Louisiana Purchase

Score: 6.6

The Hard Way

Score: 6.6

Golden Boy

Score: 6.5

For Me and My Gal

Score: 6.4

The Delicate Delinquent

Score: 6.4

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Score: 6.3

It Came from Outer Space

Score: 6.3

Princess O'Rourke

Score: 6.3

She Knew All the Answers

Score: 6.3

The Ladies Man

Score: 6.3

Chicago Deadline

Score: 6.3

Too Many Husbands

Score: 6.3

The Patsy

Score: 6.2

The Affairs of Martha

Score: 6.2

Blondie Takes a Vacation

Score: 6.2

Son of Dinosaurs

Score: 6.2

Love Is Better Than Ever

Score: 6.1

Louisa

Score: 6.1

Bring on the Girls

Score: 6.1

Pin Up Girl

Score: 6.1

Ten Seconds to Hell

Score: 6.1

The Legend of Lylah Clare

Score: 6.1

The Fabulous Dorseys

Score: 6.0

Michael O'Hara the Fourth

Score: 6.0

Darling, How Could You!

Score: 6.0

So This Is New York

Score: 6.0

This Time for Keeps

Score: 6.0

Black Friday

Score: 6.0

Lucky Jordan

Score: 6.0

The Merry Widow

Score: 5.8

Caught in the Draft

Score: 5.8

Roadblock

Score: 5.8

The Amazing Mr. Williams

Score: 5.8

The Gang's All Here

Score: 5.8

Hustle

Score: 5.7

S.O.S Tidal Wave

Score: 5.7

Remains to Be Seen

Score: 5.7

Frankie and Johnny

Score: 5.7

This Love of Ours

Score: 5.7

Four Jills in a Jeep

Score: 5.7

Earthed 2 - Never Enough Dirt

Score: 5.7

Revenge of the Creature

Score: 5.6

Sealed Verdict

Score: 5.5

Mr. District Attorney

Score: 5.4

Brother Rat and a Baby

Score: 5.2

4 for Texas

Score: 5.1

Harvard Here I Come

Score: 5.0

A Shot in the Dark

Score: 5.0

Dixie Dugan

Score: 5.0

Battle Zone

Score: 5.0

The Buster Keaton Story

Score: 4.9

Three Texas Steers

Score: 4.9

A Girl in Every Port

Score: 4.8

Queen of Outer Space

Score: 4.8

Wives and Lovers

Score: 4.6

Let's Face It

Score: 4.5

Flat Top

Score: 4.2

The Male Animal

Score: 4.1

Legion of Lost Flyers

Score: 4.0

He Hired the Boss

Score: 4.0

Just This Once

Score: 3.8

Granny Get Your Gun

Score: 3.5

Men of the Sky

Score: 3.5

Two Yanks in Trinidad

Score: 2.0

Roar of the Crowd

Score: 0.0

Stork Bites Man

Score: 0.0

Joe Palooka, Champ

Score: 0.0

Priorities on Parade

Score: 0.0

Over My Dead Body

Score: 0.0

Cracked Nuts

Score: 0.0

Prehistoric World

Score: 0.0

The Searching Wind

Score: 0.0

The Runaround

Score: 0.0

She Has What It Takes

Score: 0.0

Belle of Old Mexico

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

The Munsters

Score: 7.9

The Jack Benny Program

Score: 7.8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Score: 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 7.8

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Score: 7.7

Hogan's Heroes

Score: 7.5

The Immortal

Score: 7.4

The Ford Television Theatre

Score: 7.3

Wacky Races

Score: 7.3

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Green Acres

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Score: 7.0

The Lone Wolf

Score: 7.0

Vacation Playhouse

Score: 7.0

The Lucy Show

Score: 7.0

Adam-12

Score: 6.9

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 6.9

Alias Smith and Jones

Score: 6.9

The Beverly Hillbillies

Score: 6.9

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

Mister Ed

Score: 6.8

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

The Roman Holidays

Score: 6.5

Dennis the Menace

Score: 6.5

My Three Sons

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.3

Telephone Time

Score: 6.3

That Girl

Score: 6.3

The Donna Reed Show

Score: 6.2

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Score: 6.2

Love, American Style

Score: 6.1

Love, American Style

Score: 6.1

Love, American Style

Score: 6.1

Nanny and the Professor

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

Petticoat Junction

Score: 5.8

Petticoat Junction

Score: 5.8

Temple Houston

Score: 5.7

The Real McCoys

Score: 5.6

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

The Cara Williams Show

Score: 5.0

Boots and Saddles

Score: 5.0

The Cara Williams Show

Score: 5.0

My Mother the Car

Score: 4.3

Wichita Town

Score: 4.2

The Tom Ewell Show

Score: 0.0

Not for Hire

Score: 0.0

The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show

Score: 0.0

Margie

Score: 0.0

Run, Buddy, Run

Score: 0.0