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EWING, Jock & wife, Eleanor
(Dallas)
c/o Southfork Ranch
Braddock County, TX
Jock is a successful oil man. Eleanor,
a.k.a. “Miss Ellie” is a homemaker and
daughter of the former owner of the ranch.
In Jock's early days (in the 1930s) he
joined forces with partner Willard “Digger”
Barnes and struck it rich. Now two
generations of the Ewing family live
comfortably on their sprawling Southfork
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The Ewing clan consists of the oldest son John
Ross “J. R.” Ewing, a ruthless, backstabbing
businessman who is the unfaithful husband to the
beautiful Sue Ellen and the father of son John
Ross Ewing; Bobby Ewing, the kindhearted younger
brother who is husband to wife, Pamela
Barnes-Ewing and the father of son, Christopher;
Lucy Ewing, Jock's sexy granddaughter; Ray Krebbs, the ranch foreman [later discovered to
be Jock's illegitimate son]; and Gary Ewing, the
alcoholic middle brother of J.R. and Bobby Ewing
who left Texas to live in a cul-de-sac
neighborhood of Knots Landing, California with
his wife, Valene.
Jock & Miss Ellie with
their loving? family
Friends of the Ewing family included Kristin
Shepard, Sue Ellen's young sister who shot J. R.
and nearly killed him after she had an
unsuccessful affair [Kristin's body was later
found floating dead in a pool]; Cliff Barnes,
Pamela's lawyer brother whose mission in life
was to destroy Ewing Oil and especially the
philandering J. R. Ewing [Cliff attempted
suicide but recovered]; Katherine Wentworth,
Pamela's half-sister who stalked and shot Bobby
[he survived] and then apparently killed him
with a hit-and run accident as he tried to save
Pamela from the oncoming car [Bobby's death was
actually the result of a terrible nightmare. One
day Pamela woke from her sleep and she
discovered her husband Bobby peaceably showering
in the bathroom]; Donna Culver [who married Ray
Krebbs]; and Leigh McCloskey [who married Lucy
Ewing].
Jock & Miss Ellie in happier times
In 1981, Jock Ewing died in a tragic South
American plane crash. and Miss Ellie remarried
to Clayton Farlow. Meanwhile, Cousin Jamie Ewing
got married to Cliff Barnes; James Richard
Beaumont appeared on the doorsteps of Southfork
as J.R.'s long lost son and Jock's oldest son
J.R. Ewing continued his plots to seize control
of the Ewing empire.
TRIVIA NOTE: In reality, the custom built 8,500
square-foot, six-bedroom mansion used for the
series is located on a 200-acre horse and cattle
ranch formerly owned by Joe R. & Natalie Duncan
who built what was to be "Southfork" in 1970
from ideas picked up from their many visits to
mansion and ranches around the country.
Now a
popular tourist attractions, the Southfork Ranch
and Conference Center located at 3700 Hogge Road
(Central Expressway, to Exit 30 near the suburbs
of Plano) in Parker, Texas has been called "The
most famous white house west of D.C."
The 1986
TV-movie Dallas: The Early Years set in the
Texas oil wildcatting days of the 1930s told the
origins of the Barnes-Ewing Feud and showed Southfork in its early days when it was owned by
Miss Ellie's father, Aaron Southworth. Southfork
resurfaced on the reunion specials Dallas: J.R.
Returns (1996) as J.R. Ewing returns from exile
to reclaim his family's oil company; Dallas:
The War of the Ewings (1998), Dallas
Reunion: Return to Southfork (2004) and the
movie remake Dallas (2007).
Born Marlin Davis on August 26, 1909 in
Dearborn, Missouri, the 6' 3" actor Jim Davis
who played the role of Jock Ewing on DALLAS died
from a gastric ulcer on April 26, 1981 in
Northridge, California while recovering from an
operation.
During the 1984-85 season Barbara Bel
Geddes who played Miss Ellie left the show for
health reasons (replaced shortly by actress
Donna Reed) and then returned for the 1985-86
season and continued on "Dallas" until 1990. She
retired from acting and did not appear in either
of the two "Dallas" reunion TV movies.
Southfork, Home of the Ewings
DALLAS/CBS/1978-91
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Jim Davis |
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John Ross
'Jock' Ewing |
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Barbara Bel
Geddes |
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Eleanor
Southworth Ewing |
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Patrick Duffy
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Bobby Ewing
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Linda Gray |
as |
Sue Ellen
Shepard Ewing |
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Larry Hagman |
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John Ross 'J.R.'
Ewing, Jr. |
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Steve Kanaly |
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Ray Krebbs
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Ken Kercheval |
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Cliff Barnes
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Victoria
Principal |
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Pamela Barnes
Ewing |
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Charlene
Tilton |
as
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Lucy Ewing
Cooper |
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Susan Howard |
as
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Donna Culver
Krebbs |
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Howard Keel |
as
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Clayton Farlow
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Priscilla
Presley |
as
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Jenna Wade
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Donna Reed |
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Eleanor
Southworth 'Ellie' Ewing |
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Dack Rambo |
as
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Jack Ewing
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Sheree J.
Wilson |
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April Stevens
Ewing |
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