starring

JIM DAVIS

Born on August 26, 1909, in EDGERTON, MISSOURI, he went to school in DEARBON and then at WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE, in LIBERTY, MONTANA. During his school years he never thought about being an actor. Atfer graduation he accepted a job mounting the big tent of a circus. After that he worked as a salesman for an oil company, and one of his promotions led him to L.A. He took Drama lessons for a year, went to a gym to get in good shape and then hired an agent.

JIM was specialized in cop movies with only one line for him to say. He also sold real estate properties, fridges and other things. After these years, he tried to build a strong career apart from the tough guy types, with a direct, personal way of acting. In fact, he insisted that, all those years, he had just been playing himself.

Until his death, he appeared in over 150 films (including B. Windust´s WINTER MEETING co-starring BETTE DAVIS, H. Hawks´s THE BIG SKY and EL DORADO, and A. J. Pakula´s COMES A HORSEMAN with JANE FONDA), and on 300 TV shows, including the series BONANZA, GUNSMOKE, RAWHIDE, THE HIGH CHAPARRAL, PERRY MASON and KUNG-FU, not to mention his ad works.

In 1949 he married BLANCHE, member of the Esther Williams´s swimming team, and their only daughter TARA was killed in a car accident at early 60´s. On April 26, 1981, JIM DAVIS died of a brain tumor, not long after shooting his last DALLAS´s episodes. However, his character on the show, patriarch JOCK EWING, remained alive at the beginning of the next season. On episode # 89, JOCK definitely exited the show in an air accident. One week later, his three sons verified his death.

In the very last scene of that episode, LARRY HAGMAN looked up to heaven and smiled, just before the freeze frame. After this ambivalent gesture, a portrait of JOCK appeared onscreen and, above, his name and 2 dates: 1909-1981. This was the touching tribute of the production crew to one of the most believable actors who ever played on DALLAS. “I still see him every day - revealed LARRY HAGMAN not long ago – the first thing you see when you enter my home is the old painting of JIM that hang in the living-room at SOUTHFORK.”

CAREER:
Movies:

-The Day Time Ended (1980)
... aka Earth's Final Fury (1980) (USA: TV)
... aka Time Warp (1980)
... aka Vortex (1980)
-Comes a Horseman (1978)
-Enigma (1977)
-Choirboys, The (1977)
...aka Änglarna
-The Legend of Frank Woods, The (1977)
-Inferno in Paradise (1974)
-Parallax View, The (1974)
-One Little Indian (1973)
-Bad Company (1972)
-The Honkers, The (1972)
-Dracula Vs. Frankenstein (1971)
... aka Blood Seekers, The
... aka Blood of Frankenstein
... aka Revenge of Dracula, The
... aka Satan's Bloody Freaks
... aka Teenage Dracula
... aka They're Coming to Get You
-Big Jake (1971)
-Rio Lobo (1970)
... aka San Timoteo
-Monte Walsh (1970)
-Five Bloody Graves (1970)
... aka Five Bloody Days to Tombstone
... aka Gun Riders (1970)
... aka Lonely Man, The
-The Ice House (1969)
... aka Cold Blood
... aka Love in Cold Blood
... aka The Passion Pits
-The Road Hustlers (1968)
-They Ran for Their Lives (1968)
-Border Lust (1967)
-Fort Utah (1967)
-El Dorado (1966)
-Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
-Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)
-Iron Angel (1964)
-The Gambler Wore a Gun (1961)
-Frontier Uprising (1961)
-Noose for a Gunman (1960)
-A Lust to Kill (1959)
-Alias Jesse James (1959)
-Monster from Green Hell (1958)
-Wolf Dog (1958)
-Flaming Frontier (1958)
-Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958)
-Apache Warrior (1957)
-Guns Don't Argue (1957)
-The Restless Breed (1957)
-Raiders of Old California (1957)
-The Last Stagecoach West (1957)
-The Badge of Marshal Brennan, The (1957)
-The Quiet Gun (1957)
... aka Fury at Rock River (1957) (USA)
-Duel at Apache Wells (1957)
-Blonde Bait (1956)
-The Maverick Queen (1956)
-Frontier Gambler (1956)
-The Wild Dakotas (1956)
-The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
... aka Beyond the River (UK)
-The Last of the Desperados (1955)
-The Vanishing American (1955)
-The Last Command (1955)
... aka San Antonio de Bexar (USA)
-Timberjack (1955)
-Hell's Outpost (1954)
-Outlaw's Daughter (1954)
-The Outcast (1954)
... aka The Fortune Hunter (UK)
-The Big Chase (1954)
-Jubilee Trail (1954)
-Bandit Island (1953)
-The President's Lady (1953) (uncredited)
-The Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
-Ride the Man Down (1952)
-Woman of the North Country (1952)
-The Big Sky (1952)
-Rose of Cimarron (1952)
-The Sea Hornet (1951)
-Silver Canyon (1951)
-Little Big Horn (1951)
... aka The Fighting Seventh (UK)
-Cavalry Scout (1951)
-Oh! Susanna (1951)
-Three Desperate Men (1951)
... aka Three Outlaws (1951) (USA)
-California Passage (1950)
-The Showdown (1950)
-The Cariboo Trail (1950)
-Hi-Jacked (1950)
-The Savage Horde (1950)
-Yes Sir That's My Baby (1949)
-Brimstone (1949)
-Hellfire (1949)
-Red Stallion in the Rockies (1949)
-Winter Meeting (1948)
-The Fabulous Texan (1947)
... aka The Texas Uprising (1953) (USA: re-release title)
-Merton of the Movies (1947)(uncredited)
-The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
-The Beginning or the End (1947)
-Gallant Bess (1947)
-Somewhere in the Night (1946) (uncredited)
-Up Goes Maisie (1946) (uncredited)
... Matthews
... aka Up She Goes (UK)
-What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945) -Swing Shift Maisie (1943) (uncredited)
... aka Girl in Overalls (UK)
-Salute to the Marines (1943) (uncredited) -Three Hearts for Julia (1943) (uncredited)
-Tennessee Johnson (1943)(uncredited)
... aka Man on America's Conscience (UK)
-Keep 'Em Sailing (1942)
-Northwest Rangers (1942)(uncredited)
-White Cargo (1942) (uncredited)
-Cairo (1942) (uncredited)

Television:

PATRICK DUFFY