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Clifford Barnes, played by Ken Kercheval, is a fictional character from the popular American television series Dallas. [1] The Barnes family are competitors and sometimes enemies of the Ewing family. Cliff is the son of Willard "Digger" Barnes and Rebecca Barnes, the brother of Pamela Barnes Ewing, and half-brother of Katherine Wentworth.
Kercheval is best known for having played J.R.'s nemesis Cliff Barnes on the CBS television series Dallas. [4] He starred in the show from 1978 to 1991, from its pilot episode to the series finale. He initially was cast as Ray Krebbs before being given the role of Cliff Barnes.
Willard "Digger" Barnes is a character in the popular American television series Dallas created by David Jacobs.Digger was played by actors David Wayne and Keenan Wynn in the show's first three seasons from 1978 to 1980, and as a young man by David Marshall Grant in the made-for-TV movie prequel The Early Years in 1986.
Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (née Blake; also Burke) (Priscilla Pointer; Victoria Principal briefly played the character in a season 3 flashback) was the wife of Willard "Digger" Barnes (David Wayne/Keenan Wynn), widow of Herbert Wentworth (John Martin) and mother to Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), Pamela Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal) and ...
Ken Kercheval as Cliff Barnes (season 1–3), [15] the long time rival of J.R., as well as the half-brother of Christopher's adoptive mother and Bobby's first wife, Pamela Barnes Ewing. At the end of the original series, Cliff managed to gain control of Ewing Oil and now - wealthier than ever - his ongoing feud with the Ewings in general and J ...
She initially becomes entangled with Cliff Barnes and spies on him for J.R. Ewing. J.R. grows to dislike Michelle after she interferes with his marriage with Cally. When Michelle begins an affair with J.R.'s son, James Beaumont, J.R. arranges for Michelle to leave town. Following April's death, Michelle returns to Dallas, bent on revenge.
Pamela Rebecca is born off-screen in Dallas in 1985, as the daughter of Cliff Barnes and Afton Cooper. At the time of Rebecca's birth, Afton had left Dallas, and Cliff wasn't aware of her existence until 1989, when she appeared in the season 12 episodes "Yellow Brick Road" and "The Sound of Money".
Without J.R. in the way and forcing him to be a part of the Ewing-Barnes rivalry, Cliff Barnes became a politician and eventually Vice President of the United States. An incredulous J.R., especially after Cliff has to assume the Presidential duties due to the sitting President being incapacitated by a stroke, expresses his disbelief about the ...