Jack Ewing/Dack Rambo

[Chase Gioberti]

I’m currently watching season 9. I forgot how much I hate him. He can’t speak a simple sentence without overacting. He makes David Caruso look like George Clooney.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

 

[Ollie james]

Maybe after you have digested the performances of some characters who appear in later seasons ,like James and Michelle you may feel Dack Rambo was Oscar worthy

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

I’m currently watching season 9. I forgot how much I hate him. He can’t speak a simple sentence without overacting. He makes David Caruso look like George Clooney.

I didn't care for him or his character. I thought he was even more forgettable during the dream season.
Not sure what you mean about the Caurso- Clooney comparison

 

[Chase Gioberti]

I didn't care for him or his character. I thought he was even more forgettable during the dream season.
Not sure what you mean about the Caurso- Clooney comparison

Caruso was well known as an extreme over-actor in CSI: Miami. Clooney is well-known as a subtle actor.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Well, I rather liked Dack as Jack Ewing.

I didn't think he overacted at all. Some actors do have different acting styles, I suppose. I thought he gave a nice performance as Jack Ewing.

 

[Seaviewer]

Well, I rather liked Dack as Jack Ewing.

I didn't think he overacted at all. Some actors do have different acting styles, I suppose. I thought he gave a nice performance as Jack Ewing.

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I remembered him from some earlier roles and always liked him as an actor.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

A real pity that they dropped the character of Jack Ewing just because Patrick Duffy got resurrected in that ridiculous shower scene.

The character had lots of potential for drama but I suppose the moment Duffy came back they probably thought let's get rid of him.

Lovely actor, it annoys me that he was subjected to homophobic bigotry on the set of Dallas.

May Dack Rest In Peace. You are loved.

 

[pete lashmar]

Well, I rather liked Dack as Jack Ewing.

I didn't think he overacted at all. Some actors do have different acting styles, I suppose. I thought he gave a nice performance as Jack Ewing.

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Jack was written as a very confident man with a lot of swagger and that's exactly how Dack portrayed him - his performance was perfect in that respect.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I'm gonna have to try eBay and see if I can get a decent signed photograph of Dack.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Jack was written as a very confident man with a lot of swagger and that's exactly how Dack portrayed him - his performance was perfect in that respect.

I thought he did that quite well initially, but as time went on (at least in the Dream Season) he ended up as kind of a dithering, relatively weak guy without much purpose. I guess it was mostly the writing, but I found it very hard to suspend disbelief as Jack completely lost his mind over Jenna. They'd been building a friendship over a handful of weeks only a few months after her fiancee and the love of her life had died tragically, yet he threw melodramatic yet kind of wooden tantrums over and over after she let him know, quite understandably, that she wasn't ready for a new romantic relationship.

Hell, Jack and Jenna hadn't even kissed yet as far as the viewers knew. Sure he could have fallen for her to a degree at that point, but man... you're not young Peter Richards. Have some restraint and understanding and patience!

Of course her delivery was a bit strangely and awkwardly dramatic in that Priscilla Presley way, which didn't help. The whole thing was basically written to be overacted, and they delivered in not the most believable way.

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"it's about this long, and wait 'til you see how thick it is!" - Mr. Mahal

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

"it's about this long, and wait 'til you see how thick it is!" - Mr. Mahal

Trust you to lower the tone of the thread!

 

[Chris2]

I thought the character, as originally written, had potential. He was interesting: not good, not bad, but a shade of gray. But he wasn’t written well during the dream season. And it didn’t help that the actor didn’t really have chemistry with anyone on the show.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

As somebody that is gay, I can proudly stand up as a homosexual on this Forum.

What happened to Dack Rambo on the set of Dallas disgusts me, it doesn't surprise me though.

We have a long way to go society wise for equality for gay people.

I only hope people will come to there senses as regards gay people.

I don't hold much hope as I live in Northern Ireland, where unfortunately bigotry comes naturally!

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

There were several gay actors on DALLAS and most of them apparently didn't have any problem -- gay actors have always been pretty common.

But most of those on DALLAS weren't brought in to essentially replace Larry's beloved Patrick. And most of them didn't "spray on their jeans" after stuffing their pants (as earlier acting jobs for Dack Rambo seem to suggest was a later pathology).

I mean, I'm not defending how Dack was supposedly treated. But if I swaggered on to the set of DALLAS as the new just-add-water romantic lead with a kielbasa bursting out of my Levis, I wouldn't expect to last too long before Le Hagman had me removed.

 

[Chase Gioberti]

As somebody that is gay, I can proudly stand up as a homosexual on this Forum.

What happened to Dack Rambo on the set of Dallas disgusts me, it doesn't surprise me though.

We have a long way to go society wise for equality for gay people.

I only hope people will come to there senses as regards gay people.

I don't hold much hope as I live in Northern Ireland, where unfortunately bigotry comes naturally!

Out of morbid curiosity, what does your tangent have to do with Jack Ewing ad written or Dack Rambo overacting in the dream season?

 

[Mustard]

Speak for yourself. I like Dack/Jack.

 

[Mustard]

I thought the character, as originally written, had potential. He was interesting: not good, not bad, but a shade of gray. But he wasn’t written well during the dream season. And it didn’t help that the actor didn’t really have chemistry with anyone on the show.

I thought he was written well in the dream season with Cliff, Jamie and J.R., but he wasn't involved with Ewing Oil enough, the Jenna thing was a disaster, the Grace thing much better but not portrayed as obviously as it should have been. He was treated far worse in the season after.

 

[Laurie Marr]

It was the obligatory chuckle in his delivery of every second line that I found irritating.