Jim Davis
98 movies · 46 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 26, 1909
- Died
- Apr 26, 1981 (age 71)
- Place of birth
- Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA
- Also known as
- James Davis · Marlin Davis
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Jim Davis: movies and TV shows
Acting (144)
- 1981 Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
as Mr. Wilkenson
- 1980 The Day Time Ended
as Grant Williams
- 1978 Comes a Horseman
as Julie Blocker
- 1978 Killing Stone
as Sen. Barry Tyler
- 1978
- 1978 Trail of Danger
as Pop Apling
- 1977 The Choirboys
as Drobeck
- 1977 Just a Little Inconvenience
as Dave Erickson
- 1977 Enigma
as Colonel Valentine
- 1977
- 1976
- 1976 Law of the Land
as Sheriff Pat Lambrose
- 1975 The Runaway Barge
as Capt. Buckshot Bates
- 1975 Satan's Triangle
as Hal
- 1974 The Parallax View
as George Hammond
- 1974
- 1974 Inferno in Paradise
as Rocky Stratton
- 1973 Deliver Us from Evil
as Dixie
- 1972
- 1972 Bad Company
as Marshal
- 1972
- 1972
- 1972 The Honkers
as Sheriff Potter
- 1972
- 1971 The Trackers
as Sheriff Naylor
- 1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein
as Sgt. Martin
- 1971 Big Jake
as Head of Lynching Party
- 1970
- 1970 Monte Walsh
as Cal Brennan
- 1970 Rio Lobo
as Riley
- 1969 Five Bloody Graves
as Clay Bates
- 1969
- 1969 The Ice House
as Jake
- 1968 The Road Hustlers
as Noah Reedy
- 1968 They Ran for Their Lives
as Vince Ballard
- 1967
- 1967 Hondo and the Apaches
as Krantz
- 1967
- 1967 Fort Utah
as Scarecrow
- 1966 El Dorado
as Jim Purvis
- 1966
- 1966 Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
as Marshal MacPhee
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965 Zebra in the Kitchen
as Adam Carlyle
- 1965
- 1964
- 1964 Iron Angel
as Sgt. Walsh
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1961 The Gambler Wore a Gun
as Case Silverthorne
- 1961
- 1961 Frontier Uprising
as Jim Stockton
- 1960 The Magnificent Seven
as Gunman at Boot Hill
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Noose for a Gunman
as Case Britton
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 Alias Jesse James
as Frank James
- 1959
- 1958
- 1958 A Lust to Kill
as Marshal Matt Gordon
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 Flaming Frontier
as Col. Hugh Carver
- 1958 Wolf Dog
as Jim Hughes
- 1958 The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
as Johnny Ringo
- 1957 Raiders of Old California
as Angus Clyde McKane
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 Guns Don't Argue
as Police Captain Stewart / Narrator
- 1957 The Quiet Gun
as Ralph Carpenter
- 1957 Last Stagecoach West
as Bill Cameron
- 1957 Apache Warrior
as Ben Ziegler
- 1957 Monster from Green Hell
as Dr. Quent Brady
- 1957 The Restless Breed
as Ed Newton
- 1957 Four Women in Black
as Sheriff
- 1957 The Badge of Marshal Brennan
as Jeff Harlan
- 1957
- 1957 Duel at Apache Wells
as Dean Cannary
- 1957
- 1956 Frontier Gambler
as Tony Burton
- 1956 The Maverick Queen
as The Stranger
- 1956 Blonde Bait
as Nick Randall
- 1956 The Wild Dakotas
as Aaron Baring
- 1956 The Bottom of the Bottle
as George Cady
- 1955 The Vanishing American
as Glendon
- 1955 Last of the Desperados
as Chief Deputy John Poe
- 1955 Gunsmoke · TV
as Clell Williams / Gainer / Jim Basset / Jubal Gray / Ben Rawlins / Wes Cameron / Sheriff Shackwood / Amos Carver / Dave Carpenter / Luke Rumbaugh · 11 episodes
- 1955 The Last Command
as Ben Evans
- 1955 Timberjack
as Poole
- 1955
- 1954 Hell's Outpost
as Sam Horne
- 1954 The Outlaw's Daughter
as Marshal Dan Porter
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954 The Outcast
as Major Linton Cosgrave
- 1954 The Big Chase
as Brad Bellows
- 1954 Jubilee Trail
as Silky
- 1954
- 1953 Woman They Almost Lynched
as Cole Younger
- 1953
- 1952 Ride the Man Down
as Red Courteen
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 The Big Sky
as Streak
- 1952 Woman of the North Country
as Steve Powell
- 1952
- 1952 Rose of Cimarron
as Willie Whitewater
- 1952
- 1951 The Sea Hornet
as Tony Sullivan
- 1951 Silver Canyon
as Wade McQuarrie
- 1951 Little Big Horn
as Cpl. Doan Moylan
- 1951 Cavalry Scout
as Lt. Spaulding
- 1951 Oh! Susanna
as Ira Jordan
- 1951 Three Desperate Men
as Fred Denton
- 1950 California Passage
as Lincoln 'Linc' Corey
- 1950 The Showdown
as Cochran
- 1950 The Cariboo Trail
as Miller
- 1950 Hi-Jacked
as Joe Harper
- 1950 The Savage Horde
as Lt. Mike Baker
- 1949 Yes Sir, That's My Baby
as Joe Tascarelli
- 1949 Brimstone
as Nick Courteen
- 1949 Hellfire
as Gyp Stoner
- 1949 Red Stallion In The Rockies
as Dave Ryder
- 1949 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
as Slave Overseer (uncredited)
- 1948 Winter Meeting
as Slick Novak
- 1947 The Fabulous Texan
as Sam Bass
- 1947 Merton of the Movies
as Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)
- 1946 Gallant Bess
as Harry
- 1946 Up Goes Maisie
as Matthews (Uncredited)
- 1943 Swing Shift Maisie
as Investigator / Airport Announcer (Uncredited)
- 1943 Pilot #5
as Military Policeman
- 1942 Stand by for Action
as Talker (uncredited)
- 1942 White Cargo
as Seaplane Pilot (uncredited)
- 1942 Tennessee Johnson
as Reporter (uncredited)
- 1942 Keep 'Em Sailing
as Joseph Cummins
- 1942 Northwest Rangers
as Mountie with Warrant
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1963 Miss USA
1 episode
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
1 episode