Jim Davis
Acting • Born 1909-08-26 – Died 1981-04-26
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.
Filmography
161 credits
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Movie • 1966
Marshal MacPhee
Tennessee Johnson
Movie • 1942
Reporter (uncredited)
Big Jake
Movie • 1971
Head of Lynching Party
Bad Company
Movie • 1972
Marshal
Rio Lobo
Movie • 1970
Riley
The Big Sky
Movie • 1952
Streak
Winter Meeting
Movie • 1948
Slick Novak
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Movie • 1971
Sgt. Martin
The Parallax View
Movie • 1974
George Hammond
Monte Walsh
Movie • 1970
Cal Brennan
Monster from Green Hell
Movie • 1957
Dr. Quent Brady
Five Bloody Graves
Movie • 1969
Clay Bates
The Day Time Ended
Movie • 1980
Grant Williams
White Cargo
Movie • 1942
Seaplane Pilot (uncredited)
The Big Chase
Movie • 1954
Brad Bellows
Hi-Jacked
Movie • 1950
Joe Harper
Satan's Triangle
Movie • 1975
Hal
Stand by for Action
Movie • 1942
Talker (uncredited)
Zebra in the Kitchen
Movie • 1965
Adam Carlyle
The Road Hustlers
Movie • 1968
Noah Reedy
The Bottom of the Bottle
Movie • 1956
George Cady
Three Desperate Men
Movie • 1951
Fred Denton
Blonde Bait
Movie • 1956
Nick Randall
They Ran for Their Lives
Movie • 1968
Vince Ballard
Raiders of Old California
Movie • 1957
Angus Clyde McKane
Little Big Horn
Movie • 1951
Cpl. Doan Moylan
Pilot #5
Movie • 1943
Military Policeman
The Restless Breed
Movie • 1957
Ed Newton
The Savage Horde
Movie • 1950
Lt. Mike Baker
Deliver Us from Evil
Movie • 1973
Dixie
Duel at Apache Wells
Movie • 1957
Dean Cannary
The Wild Dakotas
Movie • 1956
Aaron Baring
The Gambler Wore a Gun
Movie • 1961
Case Silverthorne
Frontier Gambler
Movie • 1956
Tony Burton
Iron Angel
Movie • 1964
Sgt. Walsh
Noose for a Gunman
Movie • 1960
Case Britton
The Vanishing American
Movie • 1955
Glendon
The Outcast
Movie • 1954
Major Linton Cosgrave
The Badge of Marshal Brennan
Movie • 1957
Jeff Harlan
The Quiet Gun
Movie • 1957
Ralph Carpenter
Frontier Uprising
Movie • 1961
Jim Stockton
The Cariboo Trail
Movie • 1950
Miller
Rose of Cimarron
Movie • 1952
Willie Whitewater
A Lust to Kill
Movie • 1958
Marshal Matt Gordon
Last Stagecoach West
Movie • 1957
Bill Cameron
The Trackers
Movie • 1971
Sheriff Naylor
Hondo and the Apaches
Movie • 1967
Krantz
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
Movie • 1958
Johnny Ringo
The Ice House
Movie • 1969
Jake
Wolf Dog
Movie • 1958
Jim Hughes
Buttons and Her Beaus
Movie • 1962
Comes a Horseman
Movie • 1978
Julie Blocker
Just a Little Inconvenience
Movie • 1977
Dave Erickson
Brimstone
Movie • 1949
Nick Courteen
Gallant Bess
Movie • 1946
Harry
Oh! Susanna
Movie • 1951
Ira Jordan
Timberjack
Movie • 1955
Poole
Killing Stone
Movie • 1978
Sen. Barry Tyler
Cavalry Scout
Movie • 1951
Lt. Spaulding
The Choirboys
Movie • 1977
Drobeck
Apache Warrior
Movie • 1957
Ben Ziegler
Woman They Almost Lynched
Movie • 1953
Cole Younger
Ride the Man Down
Movie • 1952
Red Courteen
The Honkers
Movie • 1972
Sheriff Potter
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Movie • 1949
Dave Ryder
The Runaway Barge
Movie • 1975
Capt. Buckshot Bates
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Movie • 1949
Joe Tascarelli
The Magnificent Seven
Movie • 1960
Gunman at Boot Hill
The Outlaw's Daughter
Movie • 1954
Marshal Dan Porter
Silver Canyon
Movie • 1951
Wade McQuarrie
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Movie • 1949
Slave Overseer (uncredited)
The Showdown
Movie • 1950
Cochran
The Last Command
Movie • 1955
Ben Evans
Law of the Land
Movie • 1976
Sheriff Pat Lambrose
Merton of the Movies
Movie • 1947
Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)
The Fabulous Texan
Movie • 1947
Sam Bass
Hellfire
Movie • 1949
Gyp Stoner
Hell's Outpost
Movie • 1954
Sam Horne
Jubilee Trail
Movie • 1954
Silky
Fort Utah
Movie • 1967
Scarecrow
The Sea Hornet
Movie • 1951
Tony Sullivan
California Passage
Movie • 1950
Lincoln 'Linc' Corey
Keep 'Em Sailing
Movie • 1942
Joseph Cummins
Woman of the North Country
Movie • 1952
Steve Powell
Northwest Rangers
Movie • 1942
Mountie with Warrant
Last of the Desperados
Movie • 1955
Chief Deputy John Poe
Flaming Frontier
Movie • 1958
Col. Hugh Carver
The Maverick Queen
Movie • 1956
The Stranger
Guns Don't Argue
Movie • 1957
Police Captain Stewart / Narrator
Inferno in Paradise
Movie • 1974
Rocky Stratton
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Movie • 1981
Mr. Wilkenson
Trail of Danger
Movie • 1978
Pop Apling
Alias Jesse James
Movie • 1959
Frank James
El Dorado
Movie • 1966
Jim Purvis
Swing Shift Maisie
Movie • 1943
Investigator / Airport Announcer (Uncredited)
Up Goes Maisie
Movie • 1946
Matthews (Uncredited)
Four Women in Black
Movie • 1957
Sheriff
Enigma
Movie • 1977
Colonel Valentine
Dallas
TV • 1978
Jock Ewing
The Time Tunnel
TV • 1966
Col. Jim Bowie
December Bride
TV • 1954
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Sheriff Grogan
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Ellis Bengston
The Lucy Show
TV • 1962
Cardenas
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Roy Johnson
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Clell Williams
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
George Tabor
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Cole Treuitt
Lassie
TV • 1954
The Tall Man
TV • 1960
Laredo
TV • 1965
The Quest
TV • 1976
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Sheriff
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Carpenter
The High Chaparral
TV • 1967
Robbins
The Millionaire
TV • 1955
Jim Driskill
Yancy Derringer
TV • 1958
Bullet Pike
The Aquanauts
TV • 1960
Sam Hogarth
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Rescue 8
TV • 1958
The Sixth Sense
TV • 1972
Branded
TV • 1965
Laramie
TV • 1959
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
TV • 1969
Cavalcade of America
TV • 1952
J.L. Armstrong
The Cowboys
TV • 1974
Marshal Bill Winter
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
Stories of the Century
TV • 1954
Matt Clark
O. Henry Playhouse
TV • 1957
Robert Arnold
Dangerous Assignment
TV • 1952
Coronado 9
TV • 1960
26 Men
TV • 1957
Gang Busters
TV • 1952
Hunter
TV • 1977
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Gainer
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jim Basset
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jubal Gray
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Ben Rawlins
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Wes Cameron
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Sheriff Shackwood
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Amos Carver
Banacek
TV • 1972
Ed McKay
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Dave Carpenter
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Luke Rumbaugh
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Sam Ralston
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Rafe Carson
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Capt. Joe Farrell
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Sam Wolfe
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Sam Butler
The Silent Service
TV • 1957
Comm. W. J. 'Bill' Ruhe
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Johnny
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Miss USA
TV • 1963
Self - Judge
Death Valley Days
TV • 1952
Ezra Meeker
Branded
TV • 1965
James Swaney
Gunslinger
TV • 1961
Jeb Crane
Dangerous Assignment
TV • 1952
Holcomb