Ken Kercheval
With his slightly wavy, salt-and-pepper brown hair, his medium height and his ordinary-guy brand of handsomeness, Kercheval carved a solid niche for himself on US TV as various professional types, sometimes sympathetic, sometimes devious, usually ambitious. An incisive player, Kercheval has typically played his roles with an intriguing combination of smooth dispatch and flamboyant bravado; the demands of the small screen taught him the former, while his background in stage musical comedy helped him hone the latter. He is most widely known for his fine work as Cliff Barnes, the aspiring rival to J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) and the scheming, perennial loser brother of virtuous Pamela Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal) on the hit primetime soap, "Dallas" (CBS, 1978-91). Along with Hagman the only principal to stay with the series for its entire run, Kercheval artfully proved that, in the materialist 1980s, an underdog like Cliff, though somehow rather funny and often sympathetic, could be just as sleazy as the top dog.
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Ken Kercheval
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Promise | Dr. Christopher Webber (Character) | - | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Corrado | Vittorio (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet |
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Rusty: The Great Rescue | Carl Winthrope (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
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Dallas: J.R. Returns | Clifford `'Cliff'` Barnes (Character) | - | 1996 |
No Score Yet |
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A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor | Harlan Richards (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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Beretta's Island | Barone (Character) | - | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Woman on the Ledge | Doctor Martin (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diagnosis of Murder | Frank Stevens (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Keeping Secrets | Frank Mahoney (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet |
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Corporate Affairs | Arthur Strickland (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter | L.D. Ryan (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Calamity Jane | Buffalo Bill Cody (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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The Demon Murder Case | Richard Clarion (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Patricia Neal Story | Dr. Charles Canton (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Too Far to Go | Jack Dennis (Character) | - | 1979 |
67% |
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F.I.S.T. | Bernie Marr (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell | Miles Amory (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys | District Attorney Tom Knight (Character) | - | 1976 |
73% |
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The Seven-Ups | Ansel (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
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Rabbit, Run | Barney (Character) | - | 1970 |
100% |
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Pretty Poison | Harry Jackson (Character) | - | 1968 |
TV
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75% | 93% | Dallas | Cliff Barnes (Guest Star) | 2012-2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diagnosis Murder | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993-1994 1997 2000 |
No Score Yet | 85% | ER | Mr. Zwicki (Guest Star) | 1998 |
43% | No Score Yet | Burke's Law | Bernie Green (Guest Star) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walker, Texas Ranger | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Alex Ericson (Guest Star) | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dallas |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star), Director |
1978-1984 1986-1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Super Password | Guest | 1987-1989 |
No Score Yet | 64% | Highway to Heaven | Richard Osbourne (Guest Star) | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Matlock | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Ray Fromm (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trials of O'Brien | Jerry Quinlan (Guest Star) | 1965-1966 |