Actor
Jim Davis
August 26, 1909 · Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA
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.
Notable work
Often works with
John Wayne
3 titles together
El Dorado, Rio Lobo, Big Jake
Ted Gehring
3 titles together
The Parallax View, Bad Company, Monte Walsh
Christopher Mitchum
3 titles together
Rio Lobo, Big Jake, The Day Time Ended
James Caan
2 titles together
El Dorado, Comes a Horseman
Arthur Hunnicutt
2 titles together
El Dorado, The Big Sky
Robert Donner
2 titles together
El Dorado, Rio Lobo
Full filmography · 141
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
as Mr. Wilkenson
1981
The Day Time Ended
as Grant Williams
19803.7
Comes a Horseman
as Julie Blocker
19786.1
Killing Stone
as Sen. Barry Tyler
1978
Trail of Danger
as Pop Apling
1978
The Choirboys
as Drobeck
19775.4
Enigma
as Colonel Valentine
1977
The Runaway Barge
as Capt. Buckshot Bates
1975
Satan's Triangle
as Hal
19755.4
The Parallax View
as George Hammond
19746.8
Inferno in Paradise
as Rocky Stratton
1974
Deliver Us from Evil
as Dixie
1973