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James "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. ==Life and career== Born Marlin Davis in Edgerton in Platte County in northwestern Missouri, he attended Baptist-affiliated William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. Upon becoming an actor, he changed his name to James Davis, which he is credited as for his early screen roles. He shortened his name to Jim Davis as he became better known. His first major screen role was opposite Bette Davis in the 1948 melodrama ''Winter Meeting'', 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''. 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 thirteen 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 (1831-1912), 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Oldest Law on ''Death Valley Days'' )〕 From 1954-1955, Davis starred and narrated the syndicated western anthology television series ''Stories of the Century''. He portrayed Matt Clark, a detective for the Southwest Railroad who works to bring notorious gunfighters and outlaws to justice. His costars were Mary Castle and Kristine Miller. ''Stories of the Century'' was the first western series to win an Emmy Award. Among the historical figures featured were John Wesley Hardin, Sam Bass, Doc Holliday, the Dalton Brothers, the Younger Brothers, Belle Starr, Joaquin Murietta, L. H. Musgrove, and Clay Allison. From 1958-1960, Davis starred as Wes Cameron opposite Lang Jeffries in the role of Skip Johnson in the syndicated adventure series ''Rescue 8''. About this time, he guest starred on the syndicated crime drama, ''U.S. Marshal'', starring John Bromfield. Davis made two guest appearances on ''Perry Mason''; as George Tabor in the season 6 episode of "The Case of the Fickle Filly.", and as murder victim Joe Farrell in the 1964, season 8 episode of "The Case of a Place Called Midnight." He also appeared on the Jack Lord adventure series, ''Stoney Burke''. In 1964, Davis, not Hugh O'Brian, played Wyatt Earp in the episode "After the OK Corral" on ''Death Valley Days''; William Tannen played the part of rancher and gunfighter Ike Clanton in the same episode. Davis appeared eleven times on ''Gunsmoke'' and four times each on ''Daniel Boone'', ''Wagon Train'' and ''Laramie''. In the next-to-the-last ''Laramie'' episode, entitled "Trapped" (May 14, 1963), he guest starred along with Tommy Sands, Claude Akins, and Mona Freeman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Laramie'': "Trapped", May 14, 1963 )〕 In the story line, Slim Sherman (John Smith) finds an injured female kidnap victim in the woods (Freeman). Dennis Holmes, as series regular Mike Williams, rides away to seek help, but the kidnappers reclaim the hostage. Slim pursues the kidnappers but is mistaken as a third kidnapper by the girl's father (Barton MacLane). Sands plays the girl's boyfriend, who had been ordered by her father to stop seeing her.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Laramie'': "Trapped", May 14, 1963 )〕 He also appeared in an episode of ''High Chaparral'' and in small roles in the 1971 John Wayne vehicles ''Rio Lobo'' (1970) and ''Big Jake'' (1971). In 1974, he starred as Marshal Bill Winter in a short-lived ABC western series ''The Cowboys'', based on a 1972 film of the same name starring John Wayne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jim Davis (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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