Jim Davis (born Marlin Davis, August 26, 1909 â€" 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.Born in Edgerton in Platte
County in northwestern Missouri, Davis attended high school in
Dearborn, and the Baptist-affiliated William Jewell College in
Liberty. At WJC, he played tightend on the football team and graduated
with a degree in political science. He served in the United States
Coast Guard during World War II.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,[self-published source?]. 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.In the episode "Little
Washington" of the syndicated television series Death Valley Days,
Davis portrayed Mark Tabor, a U.S. Representative from Nevada with
aspirations to become governor of the new state. Collectively, Davis
appeared 13 times on Death Valley Days. In 1965, Davis played an
historical figure, the wagon master Ezra Meeker, who is abandoned by
members of his wagon train, who decided to stop the trip to Oregon
instead to prospect for gold in the episode "Devil's Gate". In 1967,
Davis was cast as the freighter Luke Campbell of Deadwood, South
Dakota, in the episode "The Day They Stole the Salamander", a
reference to a Salamander Safe. In 1969, Davis played Colonel William
G. Butler (1831â€"1912), who takes revenge on the since ghost town of
Helena, Texas, after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of
Butler's son, Emmett. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas
Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of San
Antonio, became the seat of government of Karnes County.
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.Born in Edgerton in Platte
County in northwestern Missouri, Davis attended high school in
Dearborn, and the Baptist-affiliated William Jewell College in
Liberty. At WJC, he played tightend on the football team and graduated
with a degree in political science. He served in the United States
Coast Guard during World War II.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,[self-published source?]. 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.In the episode "Little
Washington" of the syndicated television series Death Valley Days,
Davis portrayed Mark Tabor, a U.S. Representative from Nevada with
aspirations to become governor of the new state. Collectively, Davis
appeared 13 times on Death Valley Days. In 1965, Davis played an
historical figure, the wagon master Ezra Meeker, who is abandoned by
members of his wagon train, who decided to stop the trip to Oregon
instead to prospect for gold in the episode "Devil's Gate". In 1967,
Davis was cast as the freighter Luke Campbell of Deadwood, South
Dakota, in the episode "The Day They Stole the Salamander", a
reference to a Salamander Safe. In 1969, Davis played Colonel William
G. Butler (1831â€"1912), who takes revenge on the since ghost town of
Helena, Texas, after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of
Butler's son, Emmett. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas
Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of San
Antonio, became the seat of government of Karnes County.
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