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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.
Dave Willock Biography / Wiki
| Name | Dave Willock |
| Also Know | Dave ‘Tugwell’ Willock, David Willock |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1909-08-13 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 81 |
| Deathday | 1990-11-12 |
Dave Willock Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Earthed 2 – Never Enough Dirt | Dave Wardell | 2005-04-01 | Following hot on the heels of the award-winning Earthed video comes its sequel, Earthed 2 Never Enough Dirt, filmed and produced by Alex Rankin. Earth… |
| Queen of Outer Space | Lt. Mike Cruze | 1958-09-07 | A mission to Venus discovers the planet inhabited only by women led by their evil Queen Yllana. Yllana had all the men of Venus killed, now that’s she… |
| Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs | Himself | 1985-05-16 | Gary is turning into a dinosaur, and Eric must find the cure. This becomes a globetrotting journey into everything dino while searching for the magic… |
| Roar of the Crowd | Buster Sands | 1953-05-31 | 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… |
| Ten Seconds to Hell | Peter Tillig | 1959-06-16 | Two rivals (Jeff Chandler, Jack Palance) from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin…. |
| Prehistoric World | 1989-11-29 | First Stop…the Tar Pits, as Gary and Eric investigate the incredible creatures that came after the dinosaurs, from giant ground sloths to savage sab… | |
| Son of Dinosaurs | 1989-11-29 | The mysterious Dr. Lizardi entrusts Gary and Eric with a dinosaur egg. Now, they must find out everything they can about dinosaurs before the egg hat… | |
| Let’s Face It | Barney Hilliard | 1943-08-04 | 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. Three cust… |
| Revenge of the Creature | Lou Gibson | 1955-05-13 | The Creature has been captured by scientists who will stop at nothing to uncover his secrets. Confined to an oceanarium and miserable in captivity, th… |
| Battle Zone | Smitty | 1952-10-26 | Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War. During a secret mission behind the North Korean… |
| Men of the Sky | Bob ‘Sir Galahad’ Gladdens | 1942-07-25 | 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. Gene… |
| Belle of Old Mexico | Tommy Mayberry | 1950-03-01 | Wealthy Kip Artmitage III (Robert Rockwell) honors his late wartime friend’s request to look after the friend’s “little sister.”… |
| It Came from Outer Space | Pete Davis (uncredited) | 1953-06-05 | Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putna… |
| Lucky Jordan | Angelo Palacio | 1942-11-16 | 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 … |
| Pin Up Girl | Dud Miller | 1944-04-25 | 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. No… |
| Flat Top | Willie | 1952-10-26 | A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War… |
| The Buster Keaton Story | Joe Keaton | 1957-05-01 | An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton…. |
| Priorities on Parade | Push Gasper | 1942-07-23 | 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. Ho… |
| So This Is New York | Willis Gilbey | 1948-06-01 | 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 t… |
| Chicago Deadline | Pig | 1949-11-03 | 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 c… |
| This Love of Ours | Dr. Dailey | 1945-11-02 | At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him…and… |
| Stork Bites Man | Lester | 1947-06-21 | 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 … |
| Send Me No Flowers | Milkman Ernie | 1964-10-14 | At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man’s diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two … |
| The Runaround | Hubert ‘Billy’ Willis | 1946-06-04 | Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York…. |
| Wives and Lovers | Dr. Leon Partridge DDS | 1963-08-29 | Husband and wife Bill (Van Johnson) and Bertie Austin (Janet Leigh) and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He’s a struggling writer, at leas… |
| What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? | Ray Hudson | 1962-10-12 | A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion…. |
| The Gang’s All Here | Sgt. Pat Casey | 1943-12-24 | A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific…. |
| The Delicate Delinquent | William C. Goerner | 1957-06-06 | Sidney Pythias (Jerry Lewis) is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon (Darren McGavin) as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency… |
| Legion of Lost Flyers | Blinky, the Radioman | 1939-11-02 | A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by “Loop” Gillian, running charter-fli… |
| Harvard Here I Come | Student | 1941-12-18 | Slapsie Rosenbloom receives an award from the satirical Harvard Lampoon for his well-known stupidity. Instead of being enraged, Slapsie Maxie is delig… |
| Love Is Better Than Ever | Davey | 1952-02-23 | The dancing teacher Anastasia falls in love with the smart theatre agent Jud. He likes her, too, but does not want to give up his solo life at all. Th… |
| Granny Get Your Gun | Frightened Motorist | 1940-02-10 | An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges…. |
| Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte | Taxi Driver | 1964-12-15 | An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative…. |
| He Hired the Boss | Sailor | 1943-04-02 | A shy bookkeeper accidentally discovers that the company where he works is targeted in a series of late-night robberies…. |
| Caught in the Draft | Colonel’s Orderly | 1941-07-04 | Don Bolton is a movie star who can’t stand loud noises. To evade the draft, he decides to get married…but falls for a colonel’s daughter. By mistake… |
| The Searching Wind | Harry | 1946-08-09 | With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle’s 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Euro… |
| A Girl in Every Port | Seaman McGonegal (uncredited) | 1952-02-13 | After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a p… |
| Louisa | Joe Collins | 1950-05-31 | Architect Ronald Reagan and wife Ruth Hussey invite his widowed mother (Spring Byington) to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady… |
| The Grissom Gang | 1971-05-28 | The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnap… | |
| Let’s Go Navy! | Algernon Hobenocker | 1951-07-29 | The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors…. |
| Now You See Him, Now You Don’t | Mr. Burns | 1972-07-12 | Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable of rendering objects and people invisible. Before Dex… |
| Three Texas Steers | Hotel Desk Clerk | 1939-05-12 | Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she’s never visited, but for sentimental reasons won’t sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly … |
| Michael O’Hara the Fourth | Store Manager | 1972-03-26 | The name Michael O’Hara has become synonymous with law enforcement. There have been three generations of Michael O’Haras and all have been exemplary p… |
| Too Many Husbands | Elevator Operator | 1940-04-03 | Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried…and in no hurry to settle for just one husband…. |
| Roadblock | Airport Clerk (uncredited) | 1951-09-17 | An insurance agent’s greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime…. |
| Darling, How Could You! | Usher (Uncredited) | 1951-08-08 | Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama…. |
| Remains to Be Seen | Delivery Man (uncredited) | 1953-05-15 | A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn…. |
| Sealed Verdict | Stockade Desk Sergeant | 1948-11-05 | John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to … |
| Emperor of the North | Groundhog | 1973-05-23 | Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone “ride the rails” for free…. |
| The Patsy | Alec | 1964-06-24 | When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a ‘nobody’ to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanle… |
| The Male Animal | Student (uncredited) | 1942-03-12 | The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threaten… |
| Blondie Takes a Vacation | Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited) | 1939-07-20 | 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 saving… |
| She Knew All the Answers | Messenger Boy | 1941-05-13 | Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he’ll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee’s br… |
| Joe Palooka, Champ | Mr. Rodney (as Dave ‘Tugwell’ Willock) | 1946-05-26 | After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. Fir… |
| Bring on the Girls | Sailor (uncredited) | 1945-03-30 | 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 hote… |
| Cracked Nuts | Radio Technician | 1941-07-02 | A young man in a small town wins $5000 in a radio contest. He goes to New York City to propose to his girlfriend, but gets mixed up with a crooked att… |
| You Were Never Lovelier | Hotel Acuña Bellboy (uncredited) | 1942-11-19 | An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer…. |
| Over My Dead Body | Sailor | 1942-01-15 | Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) a… |
| The Ladies Man | Assistant TV Director | 1961-06-21 | After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is… |
| The Hard Way | Bellboy (Uncredited) | 1943-01-13 | Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty…. |
| Hustle | Liquor Store Clerk | 1975-12-25 | The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that … |
| Frisco Lil | 1942-03-13 | Lil becomes a dealer in a gambling casino in order to get the information she needs to clear her father of a murder charge. She also falls in love wit… | |
| A Shot in the Dark | Elevator Operator (uncredited) | 1941-04-05 | A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder…. |
| S.O.S Tidal Wave | Page | 1939-06-02 | A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral candidate… |
| Spellbound | Bellboy (uncredited) | 1945-11-08 | When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, dis… |
| Black Friday | Student | 1940-02-29 | University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon,… |
| The Amazing Mr. Williams | Bellboy (uncredited) | 1939-11-22 | Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor’s secretary. Or isn’t he rather married with his job? For … |
| 4 for Texas | Alfred | 1963-12-25 | 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 … |
| This Time for Keeps | Soda Jerk | 1942-03-01 | A young newlywed (Robert Sterling) finds working for his nasty father-in-law difficult…. |
| The Affairs of Martha | Milkman (uncredited) | 1942-06-21 | Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé…. |
| Mr. District Attorney | Hypo | 1941-03-27 | An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case…. |
| Dixie Dugan | Phil (uncredited) | 1943-03-12 | 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 abo… |
| Princess O’Rourke | Delivery Boy (uncredited) | 1943-10-23 | A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States…. |
| Brother Rat and a Baby | Talking Cadet in Trouble | 1940-01-13 | Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach…. |
| For Me and My Gal | Elevator Operator (uncredited) | 1942-10-21 | Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI…. |
| Golden Boy | Arena Call Boy | 1939-09-05 | 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 parents. When gangst… |
| The Fleet’s In | Sailor | 1942-01-24 | Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are plac… |
| Good Girls Go to Paris | Student (uncredited) | 1939-06-20 | 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 … |
| Hellzapoppin’ | Orchestra Trombone Player (uncredited) | 1941-12-25 | Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth… |
| The Ladies Man | Assistant TV Program Director (uncredited) | 1961-06-21 | After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is… |
| Action in the North Atlantic | Convoy Speaker (uncredited) | 1943-06-12 | Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as pa… |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | Senate Guard (uncredited) | 1939-10-19 | Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon… |
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