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Jim Davis
Actor
Died April 26, 1981 (71 years)
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Jim Davis (born Marlin Davis, August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American actor, best known for his role as Jock Ewing in the CBS prime-time soap opera, Dallas, a role which continued until he was too ill from a terminal illness to perform.
He was known as Jim Davis by the time of his first major screen role, which was opposite Bette Davis in the 1948 melodrama Winter Meeting,[3] a lavish failure for which he was lambasted in the press as being too inexperienced to play the part properly. His subsequent film career consisted of mostly B movies, many of them westerns, although he made an impression as a U.S. senator in the Warren Beatty conspiracy thriller The Parallax View.
Davis performed in numerous television series episodes in the 1950s-1970s. After years of relatively low-profile roles, Davis was cast as family patriarch Jock Ewing on Dallas, which debuted in 1978.
During season four, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma but continued to film the show as long as he could. In many scenes as the season progressed he was shown seated, and his voice became softer and more obviously affected by his illness. He wore a hairpiece to cover the hair he'd lost from chemotherapy. A season four storyline regarding the Takapa development and Jock's separation from Miss Ellie was ended abruptly at the end of season four. The writers depicted the couple suddenly leaving to go on an extended second honeymoon when it became obvious that Davis could no longer continue to work. Their departure in a limousine in the episode "New Beginnings" was Davis' only scene in that episode, and his condition was so poor that close watching reveals (based on his unsynchronized lip movement) that he overdubbed his one last line of dialogue. It was his final appearance on the show. He died of complications from his illness while season four was being aired.
Filmography
| 2002 | After Dallas · as Jock Ewing |
| 2000 | Doing Dallas · as Jock Ewing |
| 1979 | The Day Time Ended · as Grant Williams |
| 1978 | Comes a Horseman · as Julie Blocker |
| 1978 | Dallas (TV Series) · as Jock Ewing |
| 1977 | The Choirboys · as Drobeck |
| 1977 | The Legend of Frank Woods · as Deputy |
| 1976 | The Quest (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1976 | The Oregon Trail (TV Series) · as J.D. Price |
| 1975 | Satan's Triangle · as Hal |
| 1975 | The Runaway Barge · as Capt. Buckshot Bates |
| 1974 | The Parallax View · as George Hammond |
| 1973 | One Little Indian · as Trail Boss |
| 1972 | Bad Company · as Marshal |
| 1972 | The Honkers · as Sheriff Potter |
| 1972 | Kung Fu (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | Banacek (TV Series) · as Ed McKay |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) · as Roy Johnson |
| 1971 | The Trackers · as Sheriff Naylor |
| 1971 | Dracula vs. Frankenstein · as Sgt. Martin |
| 1971 | Vanished (TV Series) · as Capt. Cooledge |
| 1971 | Cannon (TV Series) · as Henry Rawdon |
| 1971 | Big Jake · as Head of Lynching Party |
| 1970 | |
| 1970 | Monte Walsh · as Cal Brennan |
| 1969 | Five Bloody Graves · as Clay Bates |
| 1969 | The Ice House · as Jake |
| 1969 | Night Gallery (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1967 | Hondo and the Apaches · as Krantz |
| 1967 | Fort Utah · as Scarecrow |
| 1967 | The High Chaparral (TV Series) · as Robbins |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip (TV Series) · as Clo Vardeman |
| 1966 | Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter · as Marshal MacPhee |
| 1966 | The Time Tunnel (TV Series) · as Col. Jim Bowie |
| 1966 | El Dorado · as Jim Purvis |
| 1965 | Zebra in the Kitchen · as Adam Carlyle |
| 1965 | Laredo (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | Branded (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Ellis Bengston |
| 1964 | Iron Angel · as Sgt. Walsh |
| 1964 | Daniel Boone (TV Series) · as Sam Ralston |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as McKinley |
| 1962 | The Lucy Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1961 | The Gambler Wore a Gun · as Case Silverthorne |
| 1961 | Frontier Uprising · as Jim Stockton |
| 1961 | Whispering Smith (TV Series) · as Sam Chandler |
| 1960 | The Magnificent Seven · as Gunman at Boot Hill |
| 1960 | Noose for a Gunman · as Case Britton |
| 1960 | Coronado 9 (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1960 | Thriller (TV Series) · as The Marshal |
| 1960 | The Tall Man (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Alias Jesse James · as Frank James |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Sheriff |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | The Deputy (TV Series) · as Trace Phelan |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | A Lust to Kill · as Marshal Matt Gordon |
| 1958 | Wolf Dog · as Jim Hughes |
| 1958 | The Donna Reed Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Yancy Derringer (TV Series) · as Bullet Pike |
| 1958 | Rescue 8 (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Monster from Green Hell · as Dr. Quent Brady |
| 1957 | Guns Don't Argue · as Police Captain Stewart / Narrator |
| 1957 | Raiders of Old California · as Angus Clyde McKane |
| 1957 | The Restless Breed · as Ed Newton |
| 1957 | Apache Warrior · as Ben Ziegler |
| 1957 | |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | M Squad (TV Series) · as Harry Evans |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Capt. Joe Farrell |
| 1957 | Tales of Wells Fargo (TV Series) · as Al Porter |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Clyde Hubble |
| 1956 | The Maverick Queen · as The Stranger |
| 1955 | The Last Command · as Ben Evans |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Clell Williams |
| 1954 | The Big Chase · as Brad Bellows |
| 1954 | The Outcast · as Major Linton Cosgrave |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Pop Appling |
| 1954 | Stories of the Century (TV Series) · as Matt Clark |
| 1954 | Lassie (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1953 | The President's Lady · as Jason Robards |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Cole Treuitt |
| 1952 | The Big Sky · as Streak |
| 1952 | Ride the Man Down · as Red Courteen |
| 1952 | Cowboy G-Men (TV Series) · as Dance - Shafer Henchman |
| 1952 | Death Valley Days (TV Series) · as William Lewis Manley |
| 1952 | Gang Busters (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1952 | Cavalcade of America (TV Series) · as J.L. Armstrong |
| 1952 | The Unexpected (TV Series) · as Detective |
| 1951 | Little Big Horn · as Cpl. Doan Moylan |
| 1951 | Three Desperate Men · as Fred Denton |
| 1951 | Silver Canyon · as Wade McQuarrie |
| 1950 | The Showdown · as Cochran |
| 1950 | The Cariboo Trail · as Miller |
| 1950 | Dangerous Assignment (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1949 | Hellfire · as Gyp Stoner |
| 1948 | Winter Meeting · as Slick Novak |
| 1947 | The Beginning or the End · as Pilot at Tinian |
| 1947 | The Romance of Rosy Ridge · as Badge Dessark |
| 1946 | Up Goes Maisie · as Matthews (Uncredited) |
| 1943 | Salute to the Marines · as Pvt. Saunders |
| 1942 | Cairo · as Sergeant |
| 1942 | Stand by for Action · as Talker |