Jim Davis
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 26, 1909
- Died
- Apr 26, 1981 (aged 71)
- Place of birth
- Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA
- Credits
- 146
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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.
Known for
The Magnificent Seven
1960Movie
Gunman at Boot Hill
El Dorado
1966Movie
Jim Purvis
Bonanza
1959TV
Sam Wolfe, Sam Butler, Johnny
The Parallax View
1974Movie
George Hammond
Rio Lobo
1970Movie
Riley
Big Jake
1971Movie
Head of Lynching Party
Filmography
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1981Movie
Mr. Wilkenson
The Day Time Ended
1980Movie
Grant Williams
Comes a Horseman
1978Movie
Julie Blocker
Killing Stone
1978Movie
Sen. Barry Tyler
Dallas
1978TV
Jock Ewing
Trail of Danger
1978Movie
Pop Apling
The Choirboys
1977Movie
Drobeck
Just a Little Inconvenience
1977Movie
Dave Erickson
Enigma
1977Movie
Colonel Valentine
Hunter
1977TV
The Quest
1976TV
Law of the Land
1976Movie
Sheriff Pat Lambrose
The Runaway Barge
1975Movie
Capt. Buckshot Bates
Satan's Triangle
1975Movie
Hal
The Parallax View
1974Movie
George Hammond
The Cowboys
1974TV
Marshal Bill Winter
Inferno in Paradise
1974Movie
Rocky Stratton
Deliver Us from Evil
1973Movie
Dixie
Kung Fu
1972TV
Sheriff Grogan
Bad Company
1972Movie
Marshal
The Streets of San Francisco
1972TV
Roy Johnson
Banacek
1972TV
Ed McKay
The Honkers
1972Movie
Sheriff Potter
The Sixth Sense
1972TV
The Trackers
1971Movie
Sheriff Naylor
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971Movie
Sgt. Martin
Big Jake
1971Movie
Head of Lynching Party
Night Gallery
1970TV
Monte Walsh
1970Movie
Cal Brennan
Rio Lobo
1970Movie
Riley
Five Bloody Graves
1969Movie
Clay Bates
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969TV
The Ice House
1969Movie
Jake
The Road Hustlers
1968Movie
Noah Reedy
They Ran for Their Lives
1968Movie
Vince Ballard
The High Chaparral
1967TV
Robbins
Hondo and the Apaches
1967Movie
Krantz
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967TV
Sheriff Hawks
Fort Utah
1967Movie
Scarecrow
El Dorado
1966Movie
Jim Purvis
The Time Tunnel
1966TV
Col. Jim Bowie
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966Movie
Marshal MacPhee
The F.B.I.
1965TV
Ellis Bengston
Laredo
1965TV
Zebra in the Kitchen
1965Movie
Adam Carlyle
Branded
1965TV
James Swaney
Daniel Boone
1964TV
Carpenter, Sam Ralston, Rafe Carson
Iron Angel
1964Movie
Sgt. Walsh
Miss USA
1963TV
Self - Judge
The Lucy Show
1962TV
Cardenas
Stoney Burke
1962TV
Buttons and Her Beaus
1962Movie
The Mike Douglas Show
1961TV
Self
The Gambler Wore a Gun
1961Movie
Case Silverthorne
Gunslinger
1961TV
Jeb Crane
Frontier Uprising
1961Movie
Jim Stockton
The Magnificent Seven
1960Movie
Gunman at Boot Hill
Outlaws
1960TV
The Aquanauts
1960TV
Sam Hogarth
The Tall Man
1960TV
Coronado 9
1960TV
Noose for a Gunman
1960Movie
Case Britton
Laramie
1959TV
Hake Ballard
Bonanza
1959TV
Sam Wolfe, Sam Butler, Johnny
Alias Jesse James
1959Movie
Frank James
Rawhide
1959TV
Sheriff
Yancy Derringer
1958TV
Bullet Pike
A Lust to Kill
1958Movie
Marshal Matt Gordon
The Donna Reed Show
1958TV
Rescue 8
1958TV
Flaming Frontier
1958Movie
Col. Hugh Carver
Wolf Dog
1958Movie
Jim Hughes
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958Movie
Johnny Ringo
Raiders of Old California
1957Movie
Angus Clyde McKane
26 Men
1957TV
Perry Mason
1957TV
George Tabor, Capt. Joe Farrell
Wagon Train
1957TV
Gabe Henry
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957TV
Guns Don't Argue
1957Movie
Police Captain Stewart / Narrator
The Quiet Gun
1957Movie
Ralph Carpenter
Last Stagecoach West
1957Movie
Bill Cameron
Apache Warrior
1957Movie
Ben Ziegler
Monster from Green Hell
1957Movie
Dr. Quent Brady
The Restless Breed
1957Movie
Ed Newton
Four Women in Black
1957Movie
Sheriff
The Badge of Marshal Brennan
1957Movie
Jeff Harlan
The Silent Service
1957TV
Comm. W. J. 'Bill' Ruhe
Duel at Apache Wells
1957Movie
Dean Cannary
O. Henry Playhouse
1957TV
Robert Arnold
Frontier Gambler
1956Movie
Tony Burton
The Maverick Queen
1956Movie
The Stranger
Blonde Bait
1956Movie
Nick Randall
The Wild Dakotas
1956Movie
Aaron Baring
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956Movie
George Cady
The Vanishing American
1955Movie
Glendon
Last of the Desperados
1955Movie
Chief Deputy John Poe
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Clell Williams, Gainer, Jim Basset, Jubal Gray, Ben Rawlins, Wes Cameron, Amos Carver, Sheriff Shackwood, Dave Carpenter, Luke Rumbaugh
The Last Command
1955Movie
Ben Evans
Timberjack
1955Movie
Poole
The Millionaire
1955TV
Jim Driskill
Hell's Outpost
1954Movie
Sam Horne
The Outlaw's Daughter
1954Movie
Marshal Dan Porter
December Bride
1954TV
Lassie
1954TV
The Outcast
1954Movie
Major Linton Cosgrave
The Big Chase
1954Movie
Brad Bellows
Jubilee Trail
1954Movie
Silky
Stories of the Century
1954TV
Matt Clark
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953Movie
Cole Younger
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Cole Treuitt
Ride the Man Down
1952Movie
Red Courteen
Cavalcade of America
1952TV
J.L. Armstrong
Death Valley Days
1952TV
Ezra Meeker
The Big Sky
1952Movie
Streak
Woman of the North Country
1952Movie
Steve Powell
Gang Busters
1952TV
Rose of Cimarron
1952Movie
Willie Whitewater
Dangerous Assignment
1952TV
Holcomb
The Sea Hornet
1951Movie
Tony Sullivan
Silver Canyon
1951Movie
Wade McQuarrie
Little Big Horn
1951Movie
Cpl. Doan Moylan
Cavalry Scout
1951Movie
Lt. Spaulding
Oh! Susanna
1951Movie
Ira Jordan
Three Desperate Men
1951Movie
Fred Denton
California Passage
1950Movie
Lincoln 'Linc' Corey
The Showdown
1950Movie
Cochran
The Cariboo Trail
1950Movie
Miller
Hi-Jacked
1950Movie
Joe Harper
The Savage Horde
1950Movie
Lt. Mike Baker
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1949Movie
Joe Tascarelli
Brimstone
1949Movie
Nick Courteen
Hellfire
1949Movie
Gyp Stoner
Red Stallion In The Rockies
1949Movie
Dave Ryder
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949Movie
Slave Overseer (uncredited)
Winter Meeting
1948Movie
Slick Novak
The Fabulous Texan
1947Movie
Sam Bass
Merton of the Movies
1947Movie
Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)
Gallant Bess
1946Movie
Harry
Up Goes Maisie
1946Movie
Matthews (Uncredited)
Swing Shift Maisie
1943Movie
Investigator / Airport Announcer (Uncredited)
Pilot #5
1943Movie
Military Policeman
Stand by for Action
1942Movie
Talker (uncredited)
White Cargo
1942Movie
Seaplane Pilot (uncredited)
Tennessee Johnson
1942Movie
Reporter (uncredited)
Keep 'Em Sailing
1942Movie
Joseph Cummins
Northwest Rangers
1942Movie
Mountie with Warrant