John Ross "Jock" Ewing, Sr.
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John Ross Ewing, Sr., Jock Ewing, was a character in the popular American television series Dallas, played by Jim Davis (1978-1981).
Jock Ewing was the founder of Ewing Oil and the patriarch of the Ewing family. Jock's rival was "Digger" Barnes who Jock had previously been business partners with, but then supposedly cheated him out of a fortune.
Jock and Ellie Southworth married in 1937 and had three children (J.R., Gary, and Bobby) together. Later it turned out that Jock had a fourth son, Southfork Ranch foreman Ray Krebbs was revealed to be his illegitimate son from a romantic affair overseas during the war.
Jock and Ellie briefly separated in 1981 but reconciled and went on a second honeymoon to Paris. From there, Jock traveled to South America in the fall of 1981 for business reasons, and while flying back from Venezuela to Texas the helicopter he was in crashed into a lake. Jock's body was never found, but he was declared dead in the fall of 1982. During all this time (fall 1981 to fall 1982), Jock was never actually seen in the series. The real reason for this was the illness and later death of actor Jim Davis.
Jock drove a big old Lincoln Mark V with the license plate EWING 1.
