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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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12 March 1943
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War.
29 July 1951
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
20 July 1939
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings.
31 December 1941
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
29 November 1989
First Stop...the Tar Pits, as Gary and Eric investigate the incredible creatures that came after the dinosaurs, from giant ground sloths to savage saber-tooths.
15 January 1942
Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story.
12 March 1942
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
02 November 1939
A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska.
26 October 1952
Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War.
03 November 1949
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her.
23 July 1942
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant.
21 June 1947
A man engages in a boycott of a no children allowed apartment house, with the help of an imaginary stock and a large department store, after his wife become pregnant and they are evicted.
21 June 1942
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
21 February 1950
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
13 March 1942
Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge.
01 May 1957
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
16 November 1942
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home.
15 May 1953
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
24 December 1943
A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.
25 April 1944
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for.
08 November 1945
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr.
29 August 1963
Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that she's sold his book to a publisher, including the rights to turn it into a Broadway play.
04 June 1946
Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.
26 March 1942
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim.
13 May 1941
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't approve of his sweetheart.
31 October 1962
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
12 May 1939
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott.
19 October 1939
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington.
28 May 1971
Violent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom.
14 October 1964
When a hypochondriac assumes that he is dying, he makes an elaborate plan to ensure his wife's happiness.
17 September 1951
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
01 March 1950
Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend's request to look after the friend's "little sister.
17 March 1944
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
05 September 1939
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
21 December 1963
In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson.
30 April 1948
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
05 November 1948
John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II.
02 April 1943
A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies.
31 May 1950
Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically involved with what seems to be every old coot in town.
27 February 1952
An heir of a vast fortune is deeply in debt because he spends faster than his very generous trust fund allows.
01 June 1948
A small town man inherits a significant fortune and takes his family to New York City whereupon they are continually shocked at the alien culture of the Big Apple.
17 January 1955
In a tributary of the Amazon, a monster – half-man, half-fish – is captured and placed in a reservoir in a Florida national park to be observed by scientists.
30 March 1945
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
04 August 1943
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money.
31 May 1953
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her.
12 July 1972
Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible.
18 December 1941
Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity.
26 May 1946
After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place.
06 June 1957
Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency.
21 August 1968
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
13 January 1943
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
25 July 1942
A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt.
31 March 1966
Johnny is a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. After a fortune-teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck, the appearance of a new 'lady luck' soon causes a cat fight with Johnny's girlfriend, Frankie.
04 July 1941
Don Bolton is a movie star who can't stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married.
26 October 1952
A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War
20 June 1939
Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true.
21 October 1942
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.
02 June 1939
A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate after a gangster threatens his family.
23 May 1973
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
