Ray Krebbs
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| Portrayed by | Steve Kanaly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1978–89, 1991, 1998, 2012–[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 2, 1978 Digger's Daughter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | David Jacobs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spin-off appearances | Dallas: War of the Ewings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raymond "Ray" Krebbs, is a character in the popular American television series Dallas, played by Steve Kanaly. Ray Krebbs is the illegitimate son of Texas oil baron Jock Ewing.
Background
Ray was born on October 19, 1945 in Emporia, Kansas. His alleged father, Amos Krebbs, left him and his mother Margaret Hunter Krebbs when Ray was age 3 and at age 15, Ray was sent off to Dallas and to the Southfork Ranch with a letter from his recently deceased mother to Jock Ewing. His mother, a United States Army Air Corps nurse, was an intimate of Jock Ewing during World War II.
Storylines
Ray worked for Jock maintaining Southfork as its ranch foreman. Initially, Ray was a bit of a rogue, dating the much younger Lucy Ewing on the sly, and collaborating with J.R. Ewing to break up J.R's younger brother Bobby and his new wife (and Ray's old flame) Pamela Barnes. Despite this, Ray had a good heart, and became a trusted and upstanding friend of the Ewing family. Eventually, Amos Krebbs showed up in Dallas in 1980 and revealed that Ray's father was Jock Ewing. Jock welcomed Ray into the Ewing family and publicly acknowledged Ray as his son. Because of the incestuous implications, Ray's prior relationship with Lucy was never referenced again.
Ray eventually found happiness with politician and the widow of former Texas governor Sam Culver, Donna Culver and they married in 1981. However the marriage began to collapse and in 1985 they separated. Donna found out she was pregnant and Ray tried to reconcile with her, but she refused. During the "Dream Season" Ray and Donna adopted a deaf boy named Tony after Donna miscarried. By 1987 they had divorced and Donna had given birth to a daughter named Margaret Krebbs after Ray's deceased mother.
In 1988 Ray married Jenna Wade after Jenna had given birth to his half-brother Bobby's son, Lucas. Their marriage and the decision that Ray adopt Lucas caused some acrimony between the once-close Ray and Bobby, but they made amends and resumed their brotherly relationship. Eventually, trouble with Jenna's teenage daughter Charlie caused friction between Ray and Jenna. After sending Charlie to boarding school in Europe, Ray and Jenna decided to move to Switzerland permanently, this also happened because Ray cheated on Jenna with another woman, and the only way she might forgive him was if they move away. Clayton and Miss Ellie Farlow visited them before they also left Dallas, tiring of the constant battles within the family.
In 1991 Ray returned for the final episode, and in J.R.'s dream, Ray has a very unhappy working life, having never found out Jock was his father. Ray is also limping heavily due to rodeo injuries (stock footage is shown of Ray in the rodeo won by Dusty Farlow in season 3). Seeing Ray working to make ends meet on a ranch and also in a bar (where he is treated poorly), J.R. admits, "I kinda feel sorry for him." Later in the dream it is Ray's birthday, and despite having a poor work life, Ray has a very happy family life and even has a son named Jock. J.R. seems genuinely happy for him, bearing in mind this is a dream. Ray also appeared sporting a mustache, something he never had during his actual time on Dallas.
In 1998 Ray makes a shock return (with dyed brown hair) in War of the Ewings when, out of nowhere, he helps Bobby and Sue Ellen in a barroom brawl. It is later revealed Ray is broke as the Krebbs ranch was remortgaged several times (it is unknown how Ray owned the ranch again as it was last seen owned by Michelle Stevens in 1991). Bobby helps him out until J.R. unwittingly helps Ray pocket $50 million for the land, which was auctioned to J.R.'s bitter rival Carter McKay. The land was valued at only $10 million, but happened to be a source of crude oil which started a bidding war between J.R. and McKay. McKay's bid won the auction, but J.R. later revealed that in Jock's will the mineral rights were deeded to the Ewings' trust, thereby making the oil inaccessible to Carter McKay.
Dallas (2012 TV series)
In 2012, Ray attended his nephew, Christopher's wedding to Rebecca Sutter and later appears at Bobby's final Southfork barbecue. In 2013, Ray attended J.R.'s funeral at Southfork where he said that he could never make Jock proud the way J.R. did. Ray was not mentioned in J.R.'s will. He will appear for one episode during the third season along with Lucy.[2]
Notes
References
- Curran, Barbara A. (2005). Dallas: The Complete Story of the World's Favorite Prime-Time Soap. Cumberland House Publishing. ISBN 978-1581824728.
External links
- Ray Krebbs at the Internet Movie Database
- Ray Krebbs Biography at Ultimate Dallas.com
