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Jim Davis

Acting

Born August 26, 1909 · Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA

Died April 26, 1981

Also known as James Davis · Marlin Davis

Biography

Jim Davis was an American actor, best known for his roles in television Westerns. In his later career, he became famous as Jock Ewing in the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas, a role he continued until he was too ill from multiple myeloma to perform. In 1981, his performance on the series earned him a posthumous nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

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Awards & recognition

  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Filmography50+ titles

Banacek

1972as Ed McKay

Night Gallery

1969

Kung Fu

1972as Sheriff Grogan

Perry Mason

1957as Capt. Joe Farrell

The Time Tunnel

1966as Col. Jim Bowie

The Magnificent Seven

1960as Gunman at Boot Hill

Bonanza

1959as Johnny

Silver Canyon

1951as Wade McQuarrie

El Dorado

1966as Jim Purvis

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

Rawhide

1959as Sheriff

Stories of the Century

1954as Matt Clark

The Lucy Show

1962as Cardenas

Stand by for Action

1942as Talker (uncredited)

The Streets of San Francisco

1972as Roy Johnson

Daniel Boone

1964as Carpenter

Dallas

1978as Jock Ewing

Big Jake

1971as Head of Lynching Party

The Parallax View

1974as George Hammond

The High Chaparral

1967as Robbins

Stoney Burke

1962

Up Goes Maisie

1946as Matthews (Uncredited)

Laramie

1959as Hake Ballard

Gunsmoke

1955as Luke Rumbaugh

The Last Command

1955as Ben Evans

The Outcast

1954as Major Linton Cosgrave

Wagon Train

1957as Gabe Henry

Death Valley Days

1952as Ezra Meeker

Winter Meeting

1948as Slick Novak

Rio Lobo

1970as Riley

The Donna Reed Show

1958

The Toughest Gun in Tombstone

1958as Johnny Ringo

The Big Sky

1952as Streak

Bad Company

1972as Marshal

The Cariboo Trail

1950as Miller

Hellfire

1949as Gyp Stoner

Lassie

1954

Yancy Derringer

1958as Bullet Pike

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

1949as Slave Overseer (uncredited)

Comes a Horseman

1978as Julie Blocker

Little Big Horn

1951as Cpl. Doan Moylan

The Honkers

1972as Sheriff Potter

Noose for a Gunman

1960as Case Britton

Alias Jesse James

1959as Frank James

The Trackers

1971as Sheriff Naylor

The F.B.I.

1965as Ellis Bengston

The Choirboys

1977as Drobeck

The Restless Breed

1957as Ed Newton

Three Desperate Men

1951as Fred Denton

Satan's Triangle

1975as Hal