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Dave Willock is a Actor American born on 13 august 1909 at Chicago (USA)

Dave Willock

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Nationality USA
Birth 13 august 1909 at Chicago (USA)
Death 12 november 1990 (at 81 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

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. He 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 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 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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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Dave Willock (86 films)

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Too Many Husbands
Too Many Husbands (1940)
, 1h21
Directed by Wesley Ruggles
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport, Dorothy Peterson, Melville Cooper
Roles Elevator Operator
Rating63% 3.1981053.1981053.1981053.1981053.198105
Vicky Lowndes (Jean Arthur) loses her first husband, Bill Cardew (Fred MacMurray), in a boating accident in which he is presumed drowned. The lonely widow is comforted by Bill's best friend and publishing business partner Henry Lowndes (Melvyn Douglas). Six months later, she marries him. Six months after that, Bill shows up, after having been stranded on a uninhabited island and then rescued. Vicky has a tough choice to make. Hilarity ensues.
Brother Rat and a Baby
Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
, 1h27
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Eddie Albert, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, Jane Bryan
Roles Talking Cadet in Trouble
Rating54% 2.7119152.7119152.7119152.7119152.711915
Granny Get Your Gun
Granny Get Your Gun (1940)
, 56minutes
Directed by George Amy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Western
Actors May Robson, Harry Davenport, Margot Stevenson, Hardie Albright, Clem Bevans, Clay Clement
Roles Frightened Motorist
Rating60% 3.046833.046833.046833.046833.04683
Black Friday
Black Friday (1940)
, 1h10
Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Paul Fix, Anne Nagel, Raymond Bailey
Roles Student
Rating62% 3.1478653.1478653.1478653.1478653.147865
The famous Dr. Ernest Sovac's best friend, bookish college professor George Kingsley, is run down while crossing a street. In order to save his friend's life, Sovac implants part of another man's brain into the professor's. Unfortunately, the other man was a gangster who was involved in the accident. The professor recovers but at times behaves like the gangster, and his whole personality changes. Sovac is horrified but also intrigued, because the gangster has hidden $500,000 somewhere in the city. The doctor continues to treat his friend and, when the professor is under the influence of the gangster's brain, Karloff attempts to have the man lead him to the fortune. Béla Lugosi plays a gangster also trying to get his hands on the cash.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
, 2h9
Directed by Frank Capra, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Politique, Scoutisme, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Charles Lane, Thomas Mitchell
Roles Senate Guard (uncredited)
Rating80% 4.048974.048974.048974.048974.04897
The governor of an unnamed western state, Hubert "Happy" Hopper (Guy Kibbee), has to pick a replacement for recently deceased U.S. Senator Sam Foley. His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill. The governor's children want him to select Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), the head of the Boy Rangers. Unable to make up his mind between Taylor's stooge and the reformer, Hopper decides to flip a coin. When it lands on edge – and next to a newspaper story on one of Smith's accomplishments – he chooses Smith, calculating that his wholesome image will please the people while his naïveté will make him easy to manipulate.
Three Texas Steers
Three Texas Steers (1939)
, 56minutes
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Carole Landis, Ralph Graves, Roscoe Ates
Roles Hotel Desk Clerk
Rating54% 2.7100752.7100752.7100752.7100752.710075
George Ward voudrait que Nancy Evans lui vende le ranch qu'elle a hérité de son grand-père, car il sait qu'un barrage doit être construit sur ce terrain. Nancy refuse mais un certain nombre d'accidents arrivent dans le cirque dont elle est propriétaire, accidents qui mettent le cirque en faillite. Nancy emmène le cirque sur ce qu'elle pense être son ranch, mais en fait un quiproquo les fait arriver chez Stony Brooke, Tucson Smith et Lullaby Joslin, qui vont l'aider à résoudre ses problèmes.
Good Girls Go to Paris
Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
, 1h15
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Alan Curtis, Joan Perry, Isabel Jeans
Roles Student (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3923.3923.3923.3923.392
Jenny Swanson (Blondell) is a waitress in a small college town whose goal is to go to Paris. Jenny rationalizes a little gold-digging and blackmail to achieve her goal. She tries to explain this to the new professor Ronald Brooke (Douglas), and Brooke in turn tries to dissuade her from such schemes, telling her that "good girls go to Paris, too". When her first attempt at blackmailing ends with an attack of conscience and the necessity of leaving town. Instead of returning to her hometown as advised by Brooke, of whom she has grown fond, Jenny heads for New York. Brooke is also bound for New York where he is to marry the wealthy Sylvia Brand (Joan Perry).