Jim Davis

Jim Davis (née le Marlin Davis, le 26 Août 1909 – Avril 26, 1981) ce qui American actor, best known for his role as Jock Ewing dans 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 dans the 1948 mlodrame Winter Meeting,[3] a lavish failure for which he was a fustigé dans the press as being too inexperienced to play the part properly. His subsequent film career consisted of saupoudrage de B movies, many of them westerns, although he made à impression as a U. S. sénateur 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 ce cast as family patriarche Jock Ewing de Dallas, which il a débuté en 1978. During the four season, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma but continued to film the show as long as he could. Dans beaucoup de scenes as the season progressed he was shown seated, and his voice est devenu plus facile et plus obviously affected by his illness. He porté ces a hairpiece to cover the hair he d'lost from chemotherapy. A four season histoire regarding the Takapa development and Jock's separation from Miss Ellie qui ended abruptly at the end of season four. The writers depicted the couple suddenly leaving to go on à extended deuxième lune de miel when it became obvious that Davis could no longer continue to work. Their departure in a sedan in the épisode de "New Beginnings" que Davis' only scene in that épisode, and his condition qui est si pauvre 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 four season ce being aired.