Jim Davis

Known for ActingBorn 1909-08-26Died 1981-04-26Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Inferno in Paradise

The Wild Dakotas

Red Stallion In The Rockies

Banacek

Hunter

The Cowboys

The Silent Service

The Outlaw's Daughter

Night Gallery

Kung Fu

The Time Tunnel

Perry Mason

Deliver Us from Evil

Iron Angel

Bonanza

The Magnificent Seven

Last of the Desperados

El Dorado

Silver Canyon

Keep 'Em Sailing

Rawhide

A Lust to Kill

Hondo and the Apaches

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Streets of San Francisco

Killing Stone

Enigma

Stories of the Century

Brimstone

The Lucy Show

Dallas

Daniel Boone

Flaming Frontier

The Parallax View

Gang Busters

Big Jake

Oh! Susanna

The Tall Man

Gallant Bess

Branded

Stand by for Action

Stoney Burke

Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

The High Chaparral

General Electric Theater

Outlaws

Coronado 9

Laramie