Jim Davis (actor)

He was sometimes called "the poor man's John Wayne." He is probably best known for portaying the character "Jock Ewing" in the early seasons of Dallas, and a senator in the Warren Beatty conspiracy thriller The Parallax View. ¹Kettering Magazine (http://www.bodnotbod.org.uk/kettering) Issue #2. Marlin "Jim" Davis (August 26, 1909 - April 26, 1981) was an American character actor who appeared in motion pictures from the 1940s to the 1980s. Feldman was an active member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The songs were written, not by him, but by Dennis King, John Junkin and Bill Solly (a writer for Max Bygraves and The Two Ronnies).¹. He also released one long playing record called I Feel A Song Going Off (1969), re-released as The Crazy World of Marty Feldman.

He directed and starred in The Last Remake of Beau Geste and died from a heart attack in Mexico filming his last performance in the film Yellowbeard. Feldman appeared in The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes's Smarter Brother and several Mel Brooks films, including Silent Movie and Young Frankenstein. He is remembered for his role as the hunchback Igor in Young Frankenstein - in which, as usual, many of his lines were improvised. His performances on American television included The Dean Martin Show and Marty Feldman's Comedy Machine.

Following his success on At Last the 1948 Show, Feldman had a memorable series of his own shows on the BBC, called It's Marty. The sketch was revived as part of the Monty Python stage show repertoire (without Feldman). In one memorable sketch, first broadcast on March 1, 1967, Feldman harassed a patient shop assistant (John Cleese) for a series of fictitious books, finally achieving success with Ethel the Aardvark goes Quantity Surveying. The television sketch comedy series At Last the 1948 Show featured Feldman's first screen performances.

He was also a writer on The Frost Report with several future Pythons. For British television they wrote sitcoms The Army Game, Bootsie and Snudge, and most notably the ground-breaking BBC radio show Round the Horne, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams. Like Spike Milligan, Feldman started his show-business career as a trumpet player, but soon turned to comedy. He formed a flourishing writing partnership with Barry Took in 1954. English writer, comedian and film and television actor, famous for his bulging eyes, which were the result of a thyroid condition.

Marty Feldman (July 8, 1933 - December 2, 1982).