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.
145 acting credits
Acting · 145
Perry Mason
1957
Dallas
1978
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Bonanza
1959
Lassie
1954
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The F.B.I.
1965
Daniel Boone
1964
Rawhide
1959
The Lucy Show
1962
Night Gallery
1970
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The High Chaparral
1967
Miss USA
1963
The Time Tunnel
1966
Laredo
1965
Laramie
1959
The Millionaire
1955
Branded
1965
Cavalcade of America
1952
The Tall Man
1960
Banacek
1972
Outlaws
1960
The Silent Service
1957
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
December Bride
1954
Yancy Derringer
1958
Stoney Burke
1962
El Dorado
1966
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
The Magnificent Seven
1960
26 Men
1957
The Sixth Sense
1972
The Aquanauts
1960
Hunter
1977
Dangerous Assignment
1952
Coronado 9
1960
Gang Busters
1952
Stories of the Century
1954
Gunslinger
1961
Death Valley Days
1952
General Electric Theater
1953
The Quest
1976
Rio Lobo
1970
Big Jake
1971
The Parallax View
1974
Rescue 8
1958
Comes a Horseman
1978
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949
The Cowboys
1974
Bad Company
1972
The Outcast
1954
Alias Jesse James
1959
O. Henry Playhouse
1957
Kung Fu
1972
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966
The Big Sky
1952
Ride the Man Down
1952
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971
Brimstone
1949
Monte Walsh
1970
Satan's Triangle
1975
The Cariboo Trail
1950
The Choirboys
1977
The Last Command
1955
Tennessee Johnson
1942
Hellfire
1949
The Restless Breed
1957
The Honkers
1972
Fort Utah
1967
The Sea Hornet
1951
The Trackers
1971
The Maverick Queen
1956
Pilot #5
1943
Stand by for Action
1942
Cavalry Scout
1951
White Cargo
1942
The Day Time Ended
1980
Monster from Green Hell
1957
Guns Don't Argue
1957
Hondo and the Apaches
1967
Oh! Susanna
1951
Iron Angel
1964
Hell's Outpost
1954
Jubilee Trail
1954
Little Big Horn
1951
Noose for a Gunman
1960
California Passage
1950
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1981
Last Stagecoach West
1957
Woman of the North Country
1952
Frontier Uprising
1961
Up Goes Maisie
1946
Raiders of Old California
1957
Hi-Jacked
1950
Trail of Danger
1978
Swing Shift Maisie
1943
The Wild Dakotas
1956
Apache Warrior
1957
The Badge of Marshal Brennan
1957
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956
Rose of Cimarron
1952
Timberjack
1955
The Vanishing American
1955
Frontier Gambler
1956
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953
Winter Meeting
1948
Three Desperate Men
1951
Last of the Desperados
1955
The Runaway Barge
1975
The Ice House
1969
Inferno in Paradise
1974
Silver Canyon
1951
Flaming Frontier
1958
Zebra in the Kitchen
1965
Duel at Apache Wells
1957
The Gambler Wore a Gun
1961
The Savage Horde
1950
The Outlaw's Daughter
1954
Northwest Rangers
1942
Deliver Us from Evil
1973
Just a Little Inconvenience
1977
Keep 'Em Sailing
1942
They Ran for Their Lives
1968
Merton of the Movies
1947
Wolf Dog
1958
Blonde Bait
1956
Law of the Land
1976
A Lust to Kill
1958
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1949
The Quiet Gun
1957
Gallant Bess
1946
Killing Stone
1978
The Road Hustlers
1968
Five Bloody Graves
1969
The Showdown
1950
The Big Chase
1954
The Fabulous Texan
1947
Enigma
1977
Four Women in Black
1957
Red Stallion In The Rockies
1949
Buttons and Her Beaus
1962