Jim Davis
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1909-08-26
- Décès:
- 1981-04-26
- Lieu de naissance:
- Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA
Biographie
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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Filmographie
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Le Jour de la fin des temps
Le Souffle de la tempête
Killing Stone
Dallas
Trail of Danger
Bande de flics
Just a Little Inconvenience
Enigma
Hunter
Sur la piste des cheyennes
Law of the Land
The Runaway Barge
Le Triangle du Diable
À cause d'un assassinat
The Cowboys
Inferno in Paradise
Deliver Us from Evil
Kung Fu
Bad company
Les Rues de San-Francisco
Banacek
The Honkers
Le Sixième Sens
The Trackers
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Big Jake
Night Gallery
Monte Walsh
Rio Lobo
Five Bloody Graves
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
The Ice House
The Road Hustlers
They Ran for Their Lives
Le grand chaparral
Hondo & Les Apaches
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Fort Utah
El Dorado
Au cœur du temps
Jesse James contre Frankenstein
Sur la piste du crime
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
LE GAMBLER DES ARMES À FEU
Gunslinger
SOULEVEMENT DE FRONTIER
Les Sept Mercenaires
Outlaws
The Aquanauts
The Tall Man
Coronado 9
Noose for a Gunman
Laramie
Bonanza
Ne tirez pas sur le bandit
Rawhide
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
Wagon Train
Have Gun, Will Travel
Guns Don't Argue
The Quiet Gun
Last Stagecoach West
Apache Warrior
Monster from Green Hell
La Ville de la vengeance
Four Women in Black
The Badge of Marshal Brennan
The Silent Service
Duel at Apache Wells
O. Henry Playhouse
Frontier Gambler
The Maverick Queen
Blonde Bait
The Wild Dakotas
Le Fond de la bouteille
The Vanishing American
Last of the Desperados
Gunsmoke Police Des Plaines
Quand le clairon sonnera
Timberjack
The Millionaire
Hell's Outpost
The Outlaw's Daughter
December Bride
Lassie
Les Proscrits du Colorado
The Big Chase
Jubilee Trail
Stories of the Century
La Femme qui faillit être lynchée
General Electric Theater
Ride the Man Down
Cavalcade of America
Les Aventuriers du Far West
La Captive aux yeux clairs
Woman of the North Country
Gang Busters
Rose of Cimarron
Dangerous Assignment
The Sea Hornet
Silver Canyon
La Rivière de la Mort
Cavalry Scout
La revanche des Sioux (Oh ! Susanna)
Three Desperate Men
California Passage
The Showdown
La piste des caribous
Hi-Jacked
The Savage Horde
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Le cavalier Fantôme
Hellfire
Red Stallion In The Rockies
Un Yankee à la cour du Roi Arthur
Rencontre d'hiver
The Fabulous Texan
Merton of the Movies
Gallant Bess
Up Goes Maisie
Swing Shift Maisie
Pilot n°5
Le Cargo des innocents
White Cargo
Tennessee Johnson
Keep 'Em Sailing
Northwest Rangers