
Birthday
1909/08/26
Day of death
1981/04/26 (71 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Edgerton, Platte County, Missouri, USA
Also know as
James Davis, Marlin Davis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 i...Read more

(1966) Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
as Marshal MacPhee

(1942) Tennessee Johnson
as Reporter (uncredited)

(1971) Big Jake
as Head of Lynching Party

(1972) Bad Company
as Marshal

(1970) Rio Lobo
as Riley

(1952) The Big Sky
as Streak

(1948) Winter Meeting
as Slick Novak

(1971) Dracula vs. Frankenstein
as Sgt. Martin

(1974) The Parallax View
as George Hammond

(1970) Monte Walsh
as Cal Brennan

(1957) Monster from Green Hell
as Dr. Quent Brady

(1969) Five Bloody Graves
as Clay Bates

(1980) The Day Time Ended
as Grant Williams

(1942) White Cargo
as Seaplane Pilot (uncredited)

(1954) The Big Chase
as Brad Bellows

(1950) Hi-Jacked
as Joe Harper

(1975) Satan's Triangle
as Hal

(1942) Stand by for Action
as Talker (uncredited)

(1965) Zebra in the Kitchen
as Adam Carlyle

(1968) The Road Hustlers
as Noah Reedy

(1956) The Bottom of the Bottle
as George Cady

(1951) Three Desperate Men
as Fred Denton

(1956) Blonde Bait
as Nick Randall

(1968) They Ran for Their Lives
as Vince Ballard

(1957) Raiders of Old California
as Angus Clyde McKane

(1951) Little Big Horn
as Cpl. Doan Moylan

(1943) Pilot #5
as Military Policeman

(1957) The Restless Breed
as Ed Newton

(1950) The Savage Horde
as Lt. Mike Baker

(1973) Deliver Us from Evil
as Dixie

(1957) Duel at Apache Wells
as Dean Cannary

(1956) The Wild Dakotas
as Aaron Baring

(1961) The Gambler Wore a Gun
as Case Silverthorne

(1956) Frontier Gambler
as Tony Burton

(1964) Iron Angel
as Sgt. Walsh

(1960) Noose for a Gunman
as Case Britton

(1955) The Vanishing American
as Glendon

(1954) The Outcast
as Major Linton Cosgrave

(1957) The Badge of Marshal Brennan
as Jeff Harlan

(1957) The Quiet Gun
as Ralph Carpenter

(1961) Frontier Uprising
as Jim Stockton

(1950) The Cariboo Trail
as Miller

(1952) Rose of Cimarron
as Willie Whitewater

(1958) A Lust to Kill
as Marshal Matt Gordon

(1957) Last Stagecoach West
as Bill Cameron

(1971) The Trackers
as Sheriff Naylor

(1967) Hondo and the Apaches
as Krantz

(1958) The Toughest Gun in Tombstone
as Johnny Ringo

(1969) The Ice House
as Jake

(1958) Wolf Dog
as Jim Hughes
(1962) Buttons and Her Beaus
as ---

(1978) Comes a Horseman
as Julie Blocker
(1977) Just a Little Inconvenience
as Dave Erickson

(1949) Brimstone
as Nick Courteen

(1946) Gallant Bess
as Harry

(1951) Oh! Susanna
as Ira Jordan

(1955) Timberjack
as Poole

(1978) Killing Stone
as Sen. Barry Tyler

(1951) Cavalry Scout
as Lt. Spaulding

(1977) The Choirboys
as Drobeck

(1957) Apache Warrior
as Ben Ziegler

(1953) Woman They Almost Lynched
as Cole Younger

(1952) Ride the Man Down
as Red Courteen

(1972) The Honkers
as Sheriff Potter

(1949) Red Stallion In The Rockies
as Dave Ryder

(1975) The Runaway Barge
as Capt. Buckshot Bates

(1949) Yes Sir, That's My Baby
as Joe Tascarelli

(1960) The Magnificent Seven
as Gunman at Boot Hill

(1954) The Outlaw's Daughter
as Marshal Dan Porter

(1951) Silver Canyon
as Wade McQuarrie

(1949) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
as Slave Overseer (uncredited)

(1950) The Showdown
as Cochran

(1955) The Last Command
as Ben Evans

(1976) Law of the Land
as Sheriff Pat Lambrose

(1947) Merton of the Movies
as Von Strutt's Assistant (uncredited)

(1947) The Fabulous Texan
as Sam Bass

(1949) Hellfire
as Gyp Stoner

(1954) Hell's Outpost
as Sam Horne

(1954) Jubilee Trail
as Silky

(1967) Fort Utah
as Scarecrow

(1951) The Sea Hornet
as Tony Sullivan

(1950) California Passage
as Lincoln 'Linc' Corey

(1942) Keep 'Em Sailing
as Joseph Cummins

(1952) Woman of the North Country
as Steve Powell

(1942) Northwest Rangers
as Mountie with Warrant

(1955) Last of the Desperados
as Chief Deputy John Poe

(1958) Flaming Frontier
as Col. Hugh Carver

(1956) The Maverick Queen
as The Stranger

(1957) Guns Don't Argue
as Police Captain Stewart / Narrator

(1974) Inferno in Paradise
as Rocky Stratton

(1981) Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
as Mr. Wilkenson

(1978) Trail of Danger
as Pop Apling

(1959) Alias Jesse James
as Frank James

(1966) El Dorado
as Jim Purvis

(1943) Swing Shift Maisie
as Investigator / Airport Announcer (Uncredited)

(1946) Up Goes Maisie
as Matthews (Uncredited)

(1957) Four Women in Black
as Sheriff

(1977) Enigma
as Colonel Valentine

(1978) Dallas
as Jock Ewing

(1966) The Time Tunnel
as Col. Jim Bowie

(1954) December Bride
as ---

(1972) Kung Fu
as Sheriff Grogan

(1965) The F.B.I.
as Ellis Bengston

(1962) The Lucy Show
as Cardenas

(1972) The Streets of San Francisco
as Roy Johnson

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Clell Williams

(1957) Perry Mason
as George Tabor

(1970) Night Gallery
as ---

(1953) General Electric Theater
as Cole Treuitt

(1954) Lassie
as ---

(1960) The Tall Man
as ---

(1965) Laredo
as ---

(1976) The Quest
as ---

(1960) Outlaws
as ---

(1959) Rawhide
as Sheriff

(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---

(1964) Daniel Boone
as Carpenter

(1967) The High Chaparral
as Robbins

(1955) The Millionaire
as Jim Driskill

(1958) Yancy Derringer
as Bullet Pike

(1960) The Aquanauts
as Sam Hogarth

(1958) The Donna Reed Show
as ---
(1958) Rescue 8
as ---

(1972) The Sixth Sense
as ---

(1965) Branded
as ---

(1959) Laramie
as ---

(1967) The Guns of Will Sonnett
as ---

(1969) The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as ---

(1952) Cavalcade of America
as J.L. Armstrong

(1962) Stoney Burke
as ---
(1974) The Cowboys
as Marshal Bill Winter

(1954) Stories of the Century
as Matt Clark
(1957) O. Henry Playhouse
as Robert Arnold

(1952) Dangerous Assignment
as ---

(1960) Coronado 9
as ---

(1957) 26 Men
as ---
(1952) Gang Busters
as ---

(1977) Hunter
as ---

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Gainer

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Jim Basset

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Jubal Gray

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Ben Rawlins

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Wes Cameron

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Amos Carver

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Sheriff Shackwood

(1972) Banacek
as Ed McKay

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Dave Carpenter

(1955) Gunsmoke
as Luke Rumbaugh

(1964) Daniel Boone
as Sam Ralston

(1964) Daniel Boone
as Rafe Carson

(1957) Perry Mason
as Capt. Joe Farrell

(1959) Bonanza
as Sam Wolfe

(1959) Bonanza
as Sam Butler

(1957) The Silent Service
as Comm. W. J. 'Bill' Ruhe

(1959) Bonanza
as Johnny

(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self

(1963) Miss USA
as Self - Judge

(1952) Death Valley Days
as Ezra Meeker

(1965) Branded
as James Swaney