
Jim Davis
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1909-08-26
- Fallecimiento:
- 1981-04-26
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA
Biografía
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.
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Filmografía

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

Explosión galáctica

Llega un jinete libre y salvaje

Killing Stone

Dallas

Trail of Danger

La patrulla de los inmorales

Just a Little Inconvenience

Enigma

Hunter

La búsqueda

Law of the Land

The Runaway Barge

El triángulo del diablo

El último testigo
The Cowboys

Inferno in Paradise

Deliver Us from Evil

Kung Fu

Pistoleros en el infierno

Las calles de San Francisco

Banacek

Los centauros

The Sixth Sense

Los rastreadores

Drácula contra Frankenstein

El gran Jack

Galería nocturna (Night Gallery)

Monte Walsh

Río Lobo

Cinco tumbas sangrientas

Los nuevos médicos

The Ice House

The Road Hustlers

They Ran for Their Lives

El gran Chaparral

Hondo y los Apaches

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Fort Utah

El Dorado

El túnel del tiempo

Jesse James contra la hija de Frankenstein

The F.B.I.

Laredo

Zebra in the Kitchen

Branded

Daniel Boone

Iron Angel

Miss USA

The Lucy Show

Stoney Burke
Buttons and Her Beaus

The Mike Douglas Show

The Gambler Wore a Gun

Gunslinger

Frontier Uprising

Los siete magníficos

Outlaws

The Aquanauts

The Tall Man

Coronado 9

Noose for a Gunman

Laramie

Bonanza

Alias Jesse James

Cuero crudo

Yancy Derringer

A Lust to Kill

The Donna Reed Show
Rescue 8

Flaming Frontier

Wolf Dog

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

Raiders of Old California

26 Men

Perry Mason

Caravana

Have Gun, Will Travel

Guns Don't Argue

The Quiet Gun

Last Stagecoach West

Apache Warrior

Monster from Green Hell

Casta indomable

Four Women in Black

The Badge of Marshal Brennan

The Silent Service

Duel at Apache Wells
O. Henry Playhouse

Frontier Gambler

Los indomables

Blonde Bait

The Wild Dakotas

Barreras de orgullo

The Vanishing American

Last of the Desperados

La ley del revólver

La última orden

Titanes de la montaña

The Millionaire

Hell's Outpost

The Outlaw's Daughter

December Bride

Lassie

El marginado

The Big Chase

Extraña aventura

Stories of the Century

Woman They Almost Lynched

General Electric Theater

La batalla de los rancheros

Cavalcade of America

La llamada del Oeste

Río de sangre

Woman of the North Country
Gang Busters

La rosa de Cimarrón

Dangerous Assignment

The Sea Hornet

Silver Canyon

Little Big Horn

Cavalry Scout

Oh! Susanna

Three Desperate Men

California Passage

The Showdown

La ruta del caribú

Hi-Jacked

The Savage Horde

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Llanura sin ley

Hellfire

Red Stallion In The Rockies

Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo

Encuentro invernal

The Fabulous Texan

Merton of the Movies

Gallant Bess

Up Goes Maisie

Swing Shift Maisie

Pilot #5

Stand by for Action

La sirena del Congo

Tennessee Johnson

Keep 'Em Sailing

Northwest Rangers