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. He died in Lugano, Switzerland of kidney failure. 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. In the early 1970s, he retired to concentrate on linguistics and philosophy, on which he lectured and published a number of books. Worse, his American break ended before it began: he was signed to star with June Allyson in a remake of My Man Godfrey in 1956, but was replaced by David Niven when Fischer reportedly lost his memory during filming. While he enjoyed a great career, unlike countrymen Oskar Werner, Curd Jürgens, Maria Schell and Romy Schneider, he never made it internationally.

He was born in Klosterneuburg, Austria, near Vienna. A leading man of German cinema, he began his career with Max Reinhardt's stage company. Otto Wilhelm Fischer (April 1, 1915 - February 1, 2004) was an Austrian actor.