Jim Davis
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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.
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Películas (98)
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1981 · Mr. Wilkenson
The Day Time Ended
1980 · Grant Williams
Comes a Horseman
1978 · Julie Blocker
Killing Stone
1978 · Sen. Barry Tyler
Trail of Danger
1978 · Pop Apling
The Choirboys
1977 · Drobeck
Just a Little Inconvenience
1977 · Dave Erickson
Enigma
1977 · Colonel Valentine
Law of the Land
1976 · Sheriff Pat Lambrose
The Runaway Barge
1975 · Capt. Buckshot Bates
Satan's Triangle
1975 · Hal
The Parallax View
1974 · George Hammond
Inferno in Paradise
1974 · Rocky Stratton
Deliver Us from Evil
1973 · Dixie
Bad Company
1972 · Marshal
The Honkers
1972 · Sheriff Potter
The Trackers
1971 · Sheriff Naylor
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971 · Sgt. Martin
Big Jake
1971 · Head of Lynching Party
Monte Walsh
1970 · Cal Brennan
Rio Lobo
1970 · Riley
Five Bloody Graves
1969 · Clay Bates
The Ice House
1969 · Jake
The Road Hustlers
1968 · Noah Reedy
They Ran for Their Lives
1968 · Vince Ballard
Hondo and the Apaches
1967 · Krantz
Fort Utah
1967 · Scarecrow
El Dorado
1966 · Jim Purvis
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966 · Marshal MacPhee
Zebra in the Kitchen
1965 · Adam Carlyle
Iron Angel
1964 · Sgt. Walsh
Buttons and Her Beaus
1962
The Gambler Wore a Gun
1961 · Case Silverthorne
Frontier Uprising
1961 · Jim Stockton
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · Gunman at Boot Hill
Noose for a Gunman
1960 · Case Britton
Alias Jesse James
1959 · Frank James
A Lust to Kill
1958 · Marshal Matt Gordon
Flaming Frontier
1958 · Col. Hugh Carver
Wolf Dog
1958 · Jim Hughes
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958 · Johnny Ringo
Raiders of Old California
1957 · Angus Clyde McKane
Guns Don't Argue
1957 · Police Captain Stewart / Narrator
The Quiet Gun
1957 · Ralph Carpenter
Last Stagecoach West
1957 · Bill Cameron
Apache Warrior
1957 · Ben Ziegler
Monster from Green Hell
1957 · Dr. Quent Brady
The Restless Breed
1957 · Ed Newton
Four Women in Black
1957 · Sheriff
The Badge of Marshal Brennan
1957 · Jeff Harlan
Duel at Apache Wells
1957 · Dean Cannary
Frontier Gambler
1956 · Tony Burton
The Maverick Queen
1956 · The Stranger
Blonde Bait
1956 · Nick Randall
The Wild Dakotas
1956 · Aaron Baring
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956 · George Cady
The Vanishing American
1955 · Glendon
Last of the Desperados
1955 · Chief Deputy John Poe
The Last Command
1955 · Ben Evans
Timberjack
1955 · Poole
Hell's Outpost
1954 · Sam Horne
The Outlaw's Daughter
1954 · Marshal Dan Porter
The Outcast
1954 · Major Linton Cosgrave
The Big Chase
1954 · Brad Bellows
Jubilee Trail
1954 · Silky
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953 · Cole Younger
Ride the Man Down
1952 · Red Courteen
The Big Sky
1952 · Streak
Woman of the North Country
1952 · Steve Powell
Rose of Cimarron
1952 · Willie Whitewater
The Sea Hornet
1951 · Tony Sullivan
Silver Canyon
1951 · Wade McQuarrie
Little Big Horn
1951 · Cpl. Doan Moylan
Cavalry Scout
1951 · Lt. Spaulding
Oh! Susanna
1951 · Ira Jordan
Three Desperate Men
1951 · Fred Denton
California Passage
1950 · Lincoln 'Linc' Corey
The Showdown
1950 · Cochran
The Cariboo Trail
1950 · Miller
Hi-Jacked
1950 · Joe Harper
The Savage Horde
1950 · Lt. Mike Baker
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1949 · Joe Tascarelli
Brimstone
1949 · Nick Courteen
Hellfire
1949 · Gyp Stoner
Red Stallion In The Rockies
1949 · Dave Ryder
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949 · Slave Overseer (uncredited)
Winter Meeting
1948 · Slick Novak
The Fabulous Texan
1947 · Sam Bass
Merton of the Movies
1947 · Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)
Gallant Bess
1946 · Harry
Up Goes Maisie
1946 · Matthews (Uncredited)
Swing Shift Maisie
1943 · Investigator / Airport Announcer (Uncredited)
Pilot #5
1943 · Military Policeman
Stand by for Action
1942 · Talker (uncredited)
White Cargo
1942 · Seaplane Pilot (uncredited)
Tennessee Johnson
1942 · Reporter (uncredited)
Keep 'Em Sailing
1942 · Joseph Cummins
Northwest Rangers
1942 · Mountie with Warrant
Series (48)
Dallas
1978 · Jock Ewing
Hunter
1977
The Quest
1976
The Cowboys
1974 · Marshal Bill Winter
Kung Fu
1972 · Sheriff Grogan
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Roy Johnson
Banacek
1972 · Ed McKay
The Sixth Sense
1972
Night Gallery
1970
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
The High Chaparral
1967 · Robbins
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · Sheriff Hawks
The Time Tunnel
1966 · Col. Jim Bowie
The F.B.I.
1965 · Ellis Bengston
Laredo
1965
Branded
1965 · James Swaney
Daniel Boone
1964 · Carpenter, Sam Ralston, Rafe Carson
Miss USA
1963 · Self - Judge
The Lucy Show
1962 · Cardenas
Stoney Burke
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Gunslinger
1961 · Jeb Crane
Outlaws
1960
The Aquanauts
1960 · Sam Hogarth
The Tall Man
1960
Coronado 9
1960
Laramie
1959 · Hake Ballard
Bonanza
1959 · Sam Wolfe, Sam Butler, Johnny
Rawhide
1959 · Sheriff
Yancy Derringer
1958 · Bullet Pike
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Rescue 8
1958
26 Men
1957
Perry Mason
1957 · George Tabor, Capt. Joe Farrell
Wagon Train
1957 · Gabe Henry
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Silent Service
1957 · Comm. W. J. 'Bill' Ruhe
O. Henry Playhouse
1957 · Robert Arnold
Gunsmoke
1955 · Clell Williams, Gainer, Jim Basset, Jubal Gray, Ben Rawlins, Wes Cameron, Sheriff Shackwood, Amos Carver, Dave Carpenter, Luke Rumbaugh
The Millionaire
1955 · Jim Driskill
December Bride
1954
Lassie
1954
Stories of the Century
1954 · Matt Clark
General Electric Theater
1953 · Cole Treuitt
Cavalcade of America
1952 · J.L. Armstrong
Death Valley Days
1952 · Ezra Meeker
Gang Busters
1952
Dangerous Assignment
1952 · Holcomb