Jim Davis

Acting · 1.9 popularity

Age

116

Movies

Born: August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981
From: Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA

Biography

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.

Works

98 films

The Magnificent Seven

19607.5

El Dorado

19667.4

Rio Lobo

19706.5

Big Jake

19716.8

The Parallax View

19746.8

Bad Company

19726.4

Comes a Horseman

19786.1

The Big Sky

19526.5

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

19816.6

Monte Walsh

19706.3

Last Stagecoach West

19575.5

The Maverick Queen

19565.8

Alias Jesse James

19596.0

The Outcast

19546.7

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

19714.5

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

19496.3

The Choirboys

19775.4

The Cariboo Trail

19506.4

Guns Don't Argue

19574.5

Satan's Triangle

19755.4

The Last Command

19556.7

Hi-Jacked

19505.4

Hondo and the Apaches

19677.2

Woman They Almost Lynched

19536.6

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

19664.3

Swing Shift Maisie

19436.8

Little Big Horn

19516.1

Oh! Susanna

19517.0

The Restless Breed

19575.5

Fort Utah

19674.3

The Day Time Ended

19803.7

Winter Meeting

19486.6

The Runaway Barge

1975

The Savage Horde

19506.2

Zebra in the Kitchen

19654.9

Hell's Outpost

19545.5

Keep 'Em Sailing

19427.5

Raiders of Old California

19575.4

Monster from Green Hell

19573.9

White Cargo

19426.2

California Passage

19506.0

The Bottom of the Bottle

19565.7

Stand by for Action

19427.0

Tennessee Johnson

19426.4

Northwest Rangers

19426.3

Jubilee Trail

19545.2

Iron Angel

19647.5

The Vanishing American

19556.7

The Trackers

19715.8

Timberjack

19554.2

Ride the Man Down

19527.7

Brimstone

19497.3

Deliver Us from Evil

19737.5

The Showdown

19506.0

The Badge of Marshal Brennan

19576.5

The Quiet Gun

19576.6

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

19496.0

Cavalry Scout

19516.0

The Sea Hornet

19516.0

Noose for a Gunman

19606.0

Law of the Land

19763.8

Hellfire

19496.4

The Honkers

19726.0

Duel at Apache Wells

19576.0

Pilot #5

19436.0

Woman of the North Country

19525.0

The Fabulous Texan

19476.5

The Gambler Wore a Gun

19615.3

Just a Little Inconvenience

1977

Red Stallion In The Rockies

19499.0

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

19586.5

Last of the Desperados

19557.5

They Ran for Their Lives

19686.5

Frontier Gambler

19566.5

Silver Canyon

19517.5

Merton of the Movies

19476.3

Rose of Cimarron

19525.6

Up Goes Maisie

19466.8

Three Desperate Men

19515.5

The Outlaw's Daughter

19548.0

Wolf Dog

19586.5

Apache Warrior

19575.0

Killing Stone

19787.0

Buttons and Her Beaus

1962

Frontier Uprising

19615.4

The Wild Dakotas

19569.0

Blonde Bait

19565.8

The Road Hustlers

19684.3

Enigma

19777.0

The Big Chase

19544.8

A Lust to Kill

19587.3

The Ice House

19694.7

Four Women in Black

1957

Five Bloody Graves

19694.3

Gallant Bess

19467.0

Inferno in Paradise

19749.0

Trail of Danger

1978

Flaming Frontier

19587.0