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Jim Davis

Known For: Acting
Born: August 26, 1909
Place of Birth: Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA
Died: April 26, 1981

Jim Davis

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 D…

Filmography

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

1981 · Mr. Wilkenson

The Day Time Ended

1980 · Grant Williams

Comes a Horseman

1978 · Julie Blocker

Killing Stone

1978 · Sen. Barry Tyler

Dallas

1978 · Jock Ewing

Trail of Danger

1978 · Pop Apling

The Choirboys

1977 · Drobeck

Just a Little Inconvenience

Just a Little Inconvenience

1977 · Dave Erickson

Enigma

1977 · Colonel Valentine

Hunter

1977

The Quest

1976

Law of the Land

1976 · Sheriff Pat Lambrose

The Runaway Barge

1975 · Capt. Buckshot Bates

Satan's Triangle

1975 · Hal

The Parallax View

1974 · George Hammond

The Cowboys

1974 · Marshal Bill Winter

Inferno in Paradise

1974 · Rocky Stratton

Deliver Us from Evil

1973 · Dixie

Kung Fu

1972 · Sheriff Grogan

Bad Company

1972 · Marshal

The Streets of San Francisco

1972 · Roy Johnson

Banacek

1972 · Ed McKay

The Honkers

1972 · Sheriff Potter

The Sixth Sense

1972

The Trackers

1971 · Sheriff Naylor

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

1971 · Sgt. Martin

Big Jake

1971 · Head of Lynching Party

Night Gallery

1970

Monte Walsh

1970 · Cal Brennan

Rio Lobo

1970 · Riley

Five Bloody Graves

1969 · Clay Bates

The Bold Ones: The New Doctors

1969

The Ice House

1969 · Jake

The Road Hustlers

1968 · Noah Reedy

They Ran for Their Lives

1968 · Vince Ballard

The High Chaparral

1967 · Robbins

Hondo and the Apaches

1967 · Krantz

The Guns of Will Sonnett

1967 · Sheriff Hawks

Fort Utah

1967 · Scarecrow

El Dorado

1966 · Jim Purvis

The Time Tunnel

1966 · Col. Jim Bowie

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

1966 · Marshal MacPhee

The F.B.I.

1965 · Ellis Bengston

Laredo

1965

Zebra in the Kitchen

1965 · Adam Carlyle

Branded

1965 · , James Swaney

Daniel Boone

1964 · Carpenter, Sam Ralston, Rafe Carson

Iron Angel

1964 · Sgt. Walsh

Miss USA

1963 · Self - Judge

The Lucy Show

1962 · Cardenas

Stoney Burke

1962

Buttons and Her Beaus

Buttons and Her Beaus

1962

The Mike Douglas Show

1961 · Self

The Gambler Wore a Gun

1961 · Case Silverthorne

Gunslinger

1961 · Jeb Crane

Frontier Uprising

1961 · Jim Stockton

The Magnificent Seven

1960 · Gunman at Boot Hill

Outlaws

1960

The Aquanauts

1960 · Sam Hogarth

The Tall Man

1960

Coronado 9

1960

Noose for a Gunman

1960 · Case Britton

Laramie

1959

Bonanza

1959 · Sam Butler, Sam Wolfe, Johnny

Alias Jesse James

1959 · Frank James

Rawhide

1959 · Sheriff

Yancy Derringer

1958 · Bullet Pike

A Lust to Kill

1958 · Marshal Matt Gordon

The Donna Reed Show

1958

Rescue 8

1958

Flaming Frontier

1958 · Col. Hugh Carver

Wolf Dog

1958 · Jim Hughes

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

1958 · Johnny Ringo

Raiders of Old California

1957 · Angus Clyde McKane

26 Men

1957

Perry Mason

1957 · George Tabor, Capt. Joe Farrell

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

Guns Don't Argue

1957 · Police Captain Stewart / Narrator

The Quiet Gun

1957 · Ralph Carpenter

Last Stagecoach West

1957 · Bill Cameron

Apache Warrior

1957 · Ben Ziegler

Monster from Green Hell

1957 · Dr. Quent Brady

The Restless Breed

1957 · Ed Newton

Four Women in Black

1957 · Sheriff

The Badge of Marshal Brennan

1957 · Jeff Harlan

The Silent Service

1957 · Comm. W. J. 'Bill' Ruhe

Duel at Apache Wells

1957 · Dean Cannary

O. Henry Playhouse

O. Henry Playhouse

1957 · Robert Arnold

Frontier Gambler

1956 · Tony Burton

The Maverick Queen

1956 · The Stranger

Blonde Bait

1956 · Nick Randall

The Wild Dakotas

1956 · Aaron Baring

The Bottom of the Bottle

1956 · George Cady

The Vanishing American

1955 · Glendon

Last of the Desperados

1955 · Chief Deputy John Poe

Gunsmoke

1955 · Clell Williams, Gainer, Jim Basset, Jubal Gray, Ben Rawlins, Wes Cameron, Sheriff Shackwood, Amos Carver, Dave Carpenter, Luke Rumbaugh

The Last Command

1955 · Ben Evans

Timberjack

1955 · Poole

The Millionaire

1955 · Jim Driskill

Hell's Outpost

1954 · Sam Horne

The Outlaw's Daughter

1954 · Marshal Dan Porter

December Bride

1954

Lassie

1954

The Outcast

1954 · Major Linton Cosgrave

The Big Chase

1954 · Brad Bellows

Jubilee Trail

1954 · Silky

Stories of the Century

1954 · Matt Clark

Woman They Almost Lynched

1953 · Cole Younger

General Electric Theater

1953 · Cole Treuitt

Ride the Man Down

1952 · Red Courteen

Cavalcade of America

1952 · J.L. Armstrong

Death Valley Days

1952 · Ezra Meeker

The Big Sky

1952 · Streak

Woman of the North Country

1952 · Steve Powell

Gang Busters

1952

Rose of Cimarron

1952 · Willie Whitewater

Dangerous Assignment

1952 · , Holcomb

The Sea Hornet

1951 · Tony Sullivan

Silver Canyon

1951 · Wade McQuarrie

Little Big Horn

1951 · Cpl. Doan Moylan

Cavalry Scout

1951 · Lt. Spaulding

Oh! Susanna

1951 · Ira Jordan

Three Desperate Men

1951 · Fred Denton

California Passage

1950 · Lincoln 'Linc' Corey

The Showdown

1950 · Cochran

The Cariboo Trail

1950 · Miller

Hi-Jacked

1950 · Joe Harper

The Savage Horde

1950 · Lt. Mike Baker

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

1949 · Joe Tascarelli

Brimstone

1949 · Nick Courteen

Hellfire

1949 · Gyp Stoner

Red Stallion In The Rockies

1949 · Dave Ryder

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1949 · Slave Overseer (uncredited)

Winter Meeting

1948 · Slick Novak

The Fabulous Texan

1947 · Sam Bass

Merton of the Movies

1947 · Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)

Gallant Bess

1946 · Harry

Up Goes Maisie

1946 · Matthews (Uncredited)

Swing Shift Maisie

1943 · Investigator / Airport Announcer (Uncredited)

Pilot #5

1943 · Military Policeman

Stand by for Action

1942 · Talker (uncredited)

White Cargo

1942 · Seaplane Pilot (uncredited)

Tennessee Johnson

1942 · Reporter (uncredited)

Keep 'Em Sailing

1942 · Joseph Cummins

Northwest Rangers

1942 · Mountie with Warrant

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