1909-08-26 ( 115 years old ) in Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA
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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.
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.
Movies
The Day Time Ended
1980-11-01
Comes a Horseman
1978-10-25
Killing Stone
1978-05-02
Trail of Danger
1978-03-12
The Choirboys
1977-12-23
Just a Little Inconvenience
1977-10-02
Law of the Land
1976-04-29
The Runaway Barge
1975-03-24
Satan's Triangle
1975-01-14
The Parallax View
1974-06-14
Inferno in Paradise
1974-01-01
Deliver Us from Evil
1973-09-11
Bad Company
1972-10-08
The Honkers
1972-05-17
The Trackers
1971-12-15
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971-09-20
Big Jake
1971-05-26
Monte Walsh
1970-09-26
Rio Lobo
1970-04-01
Five Bloody Graves
1969-10-31
The Ice House
1969-01-01
The Road Hustlers
1968-01-01
They Ran for Their Lives
1968-01-01
Hondo and the Apaches
1967-09-08
Fort Utah
1967-09-01
El Dorado
1966-12-17
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966-04-09
Zebra in the Kitchen
1965-06-01
Iron Angel
1964-02-01
Buttons and Her Beaus
1962-01-01
The Gambler Wore a Gun
1961-05-04
Frontier Uprising
1961-02-01
The Magnificent Seven
1960-10-12
Noose for a Gunman
1960-05-01
Alias Jesse James
1959-03-20
Lust to Kill
1958-09-28
Flaming Frontier
1958-08-01
Wolf Dog
1958-07-01
The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
1958-05-14
Raiders of Old California
1957-11-01
The Quiet Gun
1957-07-18
Last Stagecoach West
1957-07-16
Apache Warrior
1957-07-01
Monster from Green Hell
1957-05-17
The Restless Breed
1957-05-01
The Badge of Marshal Brennan
1957-04-14
Duel at Apache Wells
1957-01-25
Guns Don't Argue
1957-01-01
Frontier Gambler
1956-07-01
The Maverick Queen
1956-05-03
Blonde Bait
1956-04-01
The Wild Dakotas
1956-02-28
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956-02-01
The Vanishing American
1955-11-17
Last of the Desperados
1955-10-31
The Last Command
1955-08-03
Timberjack
1955-02-18
Hell's Outpost
1954-12-15
The Outlaw's Daughter
1954-11-01
The Outcast
1954-08-15
The Big Chase
1954-06-18
Jubilee Trail
1954-05-15
Woman They Almost Lynched
1953-03-20
Ride the Man Down
1952-11-25
The Big Sky
1952-08-19
Woman of the North Country
1952-07-23
Rose of Cimarron
1952-01-28
The Sea Hornet
1951-11-06
Silver Canyon
1951-06-19
Little Big Horn
1951-06-15
Cavalry Scout
1951-05-13
Oh! Susanna
1951-03-01
Three Desperate Men
1951-01-12
California Passage
1950-12-15
The Showdown
1950-08-15
The Cariboo Trail
1950-08-01
Hi-Jacked
1950-07-07
The Savage Horde
1950-05-22
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
1949-09-14
Brimstone
1949-08-15
Hellfire
1949-05-29
Red Stallion In The Rockies
1949-05-02
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1949-04-18
Winter Meeting
1948-04-07
The Fabulous Texan
1947-11-09
Merton of the Movies
1947-10-11
Gallant Bess
1946-12-05
Up Goes Maisie
1946-02-01
Swing Shift Maisie
1943-10-01
Pilot #5
1943-06-24
Stand by for Action
1942-12-31
White Cargo
1942-12-12
Tennessee Johnson
1942-12-01
Keep 'Em Sailing
1942-11-28
Northwest Rangers
1942-10-28
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