Jim Davis

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA, 1909-08-26

Died: 1981-04-26

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1942	Northwest Rangers	Mountie with Warrant	60
2	1942	Keep 'Em Sailing	Joseph Cummins	70
3	1942	Tennessee Johnson	Reporter (uncredited)	61
4	1942	White Cargo	Seaplane Pilot (uncredited)	58
5	1942	Stand by for Action	Talker (uncredited)	68
6	1943	Pilot #5	Military Policeman	58
7	1943	Swing Shift Maisie	Investigator / Airport Announcer (Uncredited)	65
8	1946	Up Goes Maisie	Matthews (Uncredited)	67
9	1946	Gallant Bess	Harry	65
10	1947	Merton of the Movies	Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)	68
11	1947	The Fabulous Texan	Sam Bass	40
12	1948	Winter Meeting	Slick Novak	65
13	1949	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	Slave Overseer (uncredited)	63
14	1949	Red Stallion In The Rockies	Dave Ryder	0
15	1949	Hellfire	Gyp Stoner	58
16	1949	Brimstone	Nick Courteen	63
17	1949	Yes Sir, That's My Baby	Joe Tascarelli	40
18	1950	The Savage Horde	Lt. Mike Baker	58
19	1950	Hi-Jacked	Joe Harper	48
20	1950	The Cariboo Trail	Miller	64
21	1950	The Showdown	Cochran	52
22	1950	California Passage	Lincoln 'Linc' Corey	40
23	1951	Three Desperate Men	Fred Denton	40
24	1951	Oh! Susanna	Ira Jordan	50
25	1951	Cavalry Scout	Lt. Spaulding	58
26	1951	Little Big Horn	Cpl. Doan Moylan	62
27	1951	Silver Canyon	Wade McQuarrie	70
28	1951	The Sea Hornet	Tony Sullivan	50
29	1952	Rose of Cimarron	Willie Whitewater	50
30	1952	Woman of the North Country	Steve Powell	45
31	1952	The Big Sky	Streak	65
32	1952	Ride the Man Down	Red Courteen	65
33	1953	Woman They Almost Lynched	Cole Younger	62
34	1954	Jubilee Trail	Silky	48
35	1954	The Big Chase	Brad Bellows	42
36	1954	The Outcast	Major Linton Cosgrave	66
37	1954	The Outlaw's Daughter	Marshal Dan Porter	0
38	1954	Hell's Outpost	Sam Horne	50
39	1955	Timberjack	Poole	32
40	1955	The Last Command	Ben Evans	64
41	1955	Last of the Desperados	Chief Deputy John Poe	60
42	1955	The Vanishing American	Glendon	40
43	1956	The Bottom of the Bottle	George Cady	55
44	1956	The Wild Dakotas	Aaron Baring	0
45	1956	Blonde Bait	Nick Randall	48
46	1956	The Maverick Queen	The Stranger	53
47	1956	Frontier Gambler	Tony Burton	60
48	1957	Guns Don't Argue	Police Captain Stewart / Narrator	35
49	1957	Duel at Apache Wells	Dean Cannary	40
50	1957	The Badge of Marshal Brennan	Jeff Harlan	60
51	1957	The Restless Breed	Ed Newton	53
52	1957	Monster from Green Hell	Dr. Quent Brady	37
53	1957	Apache Warrior	Ben Ziegler	46
54	1957	Last Stagecoach West	Bill Cameron	43
55	1957	The Quiet Gun	Ralph Carpenter	64
56	1957	Raiders of Old California	Angus Clyde McKane	47
57	1958	The Toughest Gun in Tombstone	Johnny Ringo	60
58	1958	Wolf Dog	Jim Hughes	65
59	1958	Flaming Frontier	Col. Hugh Carver	0
60	1958	Lust to Kill	Marshal Matt Gordon	75
61	1959	Alias Jesse James	Frank James	59
62	1960	Noose for a Gunman	Case Britton	53
63	1960	The Magnificent Seven	Gunman at Boot Hill	75
64	1961	Frontier Uprising	Jim Stockton	48
65	1961	The Gambler Wore a Gun	Case Silverthorne	50
66	1962	Buttons and Her Beaus		0
67	1964	Iron Angel	Sgt. Walsh	60
68	1965	Zebra in the Kitchen	Adam Carlyle	43
69	1966	Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter	Marshal MacPhee	41
70	1966	El Dorado	Jim Purvis	74
71	1967	Fort Utah	Scarecrow	36
72	1967	Hondo and the Apaches	Krantz	68
73	1968	The Road Hustlers	Noah Reedy	20
74	1968	They Ran for Their Lives	Vince Ballard	50
75	1969	The Ice House	Jake	40
76	1969	Five Bloody Graves	Clay Bates	41
77	1970	Rio Lobo	Riley	64
78	1970	Monte Walsh	Cal Brennan	62
79	1971	Big Jake	Head of Lynching Party	69
80	1971	Dracula vs. Frankenstein	Sgt. Martin	46
81	1971	The Trackers	Sheriff Naylor	57
82	1972	The Honkers	Sheriff Potter	56
83	1972	Bad Company	Marshal	65
84	1973	Deliver Us from Evil	Dixie	73
85	1974	Inferno in Paradise	Rocky Stratton	0
86	1974	The Parallax View	George Hammond	68
87	1975	Satan's Triangle	Hal	56
88	1975	The Runaway Barge	Capt. Buckshot Bates	0
89	1976	Law of the Land	Sheriff Pat Lambrose	37
90	1977	Just a Little Inconvenience	Dave Erickson	0
91	1977	The Choirboys	Drobeck	53
92	1978	Trail of Danger	Pop Apling	0
93	1978	Killing Stone	Sen. Barry Tyler	0
94	1978	Comes a Horseman	Julie Blocker	60
95	1980	The Day Time Ended	Grant Williams	35
96	1981	Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige	Mr. Wilkenson	60

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Dangerous Assignment		35
2	1952	Gang Busters		0
3	1952	Cavalcade of America	J.L. Armstrong	35
4	1953	General Electric Theater	Cole Treuitt	63
5	1954	Stories of the Century	Matt Clark	57
6	1954	Lassie		61
7	1954	December Bride		55
8	1955	The Millionaire	Jim Driskill	50
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Clell Williams	66
10	1955	Gunsmoke	Gainer	66
11	1955	Gunsmoke	Jim Basset	66
12	1955	Gunsmoke	Jubal Gray	66
13	1955	Gunsmoke	Ben Rawlins	66
14	1955	Gunsmoke	Wes Cameron	66
15	1955	Gunsmoke	Amos Carver	66
16	1955	Gunsmoke	Sheriff Shackwood	66
17	1955	Gunsmoke	Dave Carpenter	66
18	1955	Gunsmoke	Luke Rumbaugh	66
19	1957	O. Henry Playhouse	Robert Arnold	60
20	1957	The Silent Service	Comm. W. J. 'Bill' Ruhe	0
21	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
22	1957	Perry Mason	George Tabor	77
23	1957	Perry Mason	Capt. Joe Farrell	77
24	1957	26 Men		42
25	1958	Rescue 8		40
26	1958	The Donna Reed Show		62
27	1958	Yancy Derringer	Bullet Pike	56
28	1959	Rawhide	Sheriff	72
29	1959	Bonanza	Sam Wolfe	75
30	1959	Bonanza	Sam Butler	75
31	1959	Bonanza	Johnny	75
32	1959	Laramie		64
33	1960	Coronado 9		60
34	1960	The Tall Man		63
35	1960	The Aquanauts	Sam Hogarth	55
36	1960	Outlaws		62
37	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
38	1962	The Lucy Show	Cardenas	70
39	1962	Stoney Burke		57
40	1963	Miss USA	Self - Judge	60
41	1964	Daniel Boone	Carpenter	69
42	1964	Daniel Boone	Sam Ralston	69
43	1964	Daniel Boone	Rafe Carson	69
44	1965	Branded		64
45	1965	Laredo		63
46	1965	The F.B.I.	Ellis Bengston	55
47	1966	The Time Tunnel	Col. Jim Bowie	76
48	1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett		62
49	1967	The High Chaparral	Robbins	65
50	1969	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors		40
51	1970	Night Gallery		78
52	1972	The Sixth Sense		63
53	1972	Banacek	Ed McKay	86
54	1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Roy Johnson	69
55	1972	Kung Fu	Sheriff Grogan	77
56	1974	The Cowboys	Marshal Bill Winter	50
57	1976	The Quest		64
58	1977	Hunter		80
59	1978	Dallas	Jock Ewing	69

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