Jim Davis
Biography
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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.
Acting (96 movies)
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966
Tennessee Johnson
1942
Big Jake
1971
Bad Company
1972
Rio Lobo
1970
The Big Sky
1952
Winter Meeting
1948
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971
The Parallax View
1974
Monte Walsh
1970
Monster from Green Hell
1957
Five Bloody Graves
1969
The Day Time Ended
1980
White Cargo
1942
The Big Chase
1954
Hi-Jacked
1950
Satan's Triangle
1975
Stand by for Action
1942
Zebra in the Kitchen
1965
The Road Hustlers
1968
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956
Three Desperate Men
1951
Blonde Bait
1956
They Ran for Their Lives
1968
Raiders of Old California
1957
Little Big Horn
1951
Pilot #5
1943
The Restless Breed
1957
The Savage Horde
1950
Deliver Us from Evil
1973
Duel at Apache Wells
1957
The Wild Dakotas
1956
The Gambler Wore a Gun
1961
Frontier Gambler
1956
Iron Angel
1964
Noose for a Gunman
1960
The Vanishing American
1955
The Outcast
1954
The Badge of Marshal Brennan
1957
The Quiet Gun
1957
Frontier Uprising
1961
The Cariboo Trail
1950
Rose of Cimarron
1952
A Lust to Kill
1958
Last Stagecoach West
1957
The Trackers
1971
Hondo and the Apaches
1967
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958
The Ice House
1969
Wolf Dog
1958
Comes a Horseman
1978
Brimstone
1949
Gallant Bess
1946
Oh! Susanna
1951
Timberjack
1955
Killing Stone
1978
Cavalry Scout
1951
The Choirboys
1977
Apache Warrior
1957
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
Ride the Man Down
1952
The Honkers
1972
Red Stallion In The Rockies
1949
The Runaway Barge
1975
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1949
The Magnificent Seven
1960
The Outlaw's Daughter
1954
Silver Canyon
1951
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
The Showdown
1950
The Last Command
1955
Law of the Land
1976
Merton of the Movies
1947
The Fabulous Texan
1947
Hellfire
1949
Hell's Outpost
1954
Jubilee Trail
1954
Fort Utah
1967
The Sea Hornet
1951
California Passage
1950
Keep 'Em Sailing
1942
Woman of the North Country
1952
Northwest Rangers
1942
Last of the Desperados
1955
Flaming Frontier
1958
The Maverick Queen
1956
Guns Don't Argue
1957
Inferno in Paradise
1974
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1981
Trail of Danger
1978
Alias Jesse James
1959
El Dorado
1966
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
Up Goes Maisie
1946
Four Women in Black
1957
Enigma
1977
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