Jock Ewing beside Miss Ellie's headstone and grave. In a storyline during the 1986–87 season of the show, a man named Wes Parmalee (portrayed by Steve Forrest) came to Dallas, where Clayton and Ray hired him as ranch foreman on Southfork. One day, Miss Ellie found Jock's belt buckle, knife, letters, and photo of a young Miss Ellie in Parmalee's room. Wes then claimed to be Jock Ewing, and that he had survived the helicopter accident, which necessitated plastic surgery and rehab in a South American hospital. After passing a series of tests set by J.R. and Bobby, including X-ray tests, a
Jock Ewing a different Jock Ewing portrait as a focal point of its "Jock's Living Room". Jock drove the same 1978 Lincoln Mark V with the license plate EWING 1 for all four seasons in which he appeared, which is still on the grounds of Southfork, parked in one of the gift shops. Jock Ewing John Ross "Jock" Ewing Sr. (1909–82) is a character in the popular American television series "Dallas", played by Jim Davis from 1978 to 1981; in the made-for-TV movie prequel to the series "" (1986), he was played by Dale Midkiff. Jock Ewing founded Ewing Oil in 1930