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Dallas star Ken Kercheval dies at 83
Source: The Guardian
Dallas star Ken Kercheval dies at 83
Actor played hapless Cliff Barnes and appeared in numerous films and TV shows
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
Thu 25 Apr 2019 10.06 BST First published on Thu 25 Apr 2019 09.22 BST
Ken Kercheval, who starred as Cliff Barnes in Dallas, has died at the age of 83.
The actor played the beleaguered brother-in-law to Larry Hagman’s Machiavellian oil baron, JR Ewing. He and Hagman were the only members of the cast to feature in all 14 seasons of the soap.
His role in Dallas, from 1978 to 1991, was his most well-known, but he had many smaller roles in popular TV shows, including ER, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, and Diagnosis Murder.
There were also film roles, including appearances in Sidney Lumet’s Network, the psychological thriller Pretty Poison, and alongside Roy Scheider in the 70s police drama The Seven-Ups. “He was one of those guys who was going to be the next James Dean,” David Jacobs, the creator of Dallas, told the Hollywood Reporter.
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Actor played hapless Cliff Barnes and appeared in numerous films and TV shows
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent
Thu 25 Apr 2019 10.06 BST First published on Thu 25 Apr 2019 09.22 BST
Ken Kercheval, who starred as Cliff Barnes in Dallas, has died at the age of 83.
The actor played the beleaguered brother-in-law to Larry Hagman’s Machiavellian oil baron, JR Ewing. He and Hagman were the only members of the cast to feature in all 14 seasons of the soap.
His role in Dallas, from 1978 to 1991, was his most well-known, but he had many smaller roles in popular TV shows, including ER, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, and Diagnosis Murder.
There were also film roles, including appearances in Sidney Lumet’s Network, the psychological thriller Pretty Poison, and alongside Roy Scheider in the 70s police drama The Seven-Ups. “He was one of those guys who was going to be the next James Dean,” David Jacobs, the creator of Dallas, told the Hollywood Reporter.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/25/ken-kercheval-cliff-barnes-dallas
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