Jim Davis
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| Known for: |
The Parallax View, The Day Time Ended, Bad Company |
| Birth name: |
Marlin Davis |
| Birthday: |
26 August 1909,
Edgerton, Missouri, USA |
| Height: |
6' 2½" (1.89 m) |
Trivia

In the early 1970s, he appeared in a widely aired television commercial for Carnation non-dairy coffee creamer. He played a man who found and used it in an apartment that friends lent him.

Only child Tara Diane (1953-1970) died in a car crash at age 16.

He was very close to
Dallas co-star
Victoria Principal, who bore a strong resemblance to his late daughter, and he had Principal's picture along with his daughter's in his pocket when he was buried.

In April 1981 the writers of
Dallas decided not to write his death into the storyline right away. They initially thought about replacing him with another actor, but out of respect decided that only Davis should play Jock Ewing. Jock was kept alive on the show (he was down in South America drilling for oil) until early 1982 when it was learned that he died in a plane crash.
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