Cliff Barnes
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| Portrayed by | Ken Kercheval | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 1978–91, 1996, 2012–14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | April 2, 1978 Digger's Daughter |
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| Last appearance | September 8, 2014 Victims of Love |
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| Created by | David Jacobs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spin-off appearances |
Dallas: The Early Years Dallas: J.R. Returns |
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| Occupation | Attorney Business executive |
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| Family | Barnes |
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| Father | Digger Barnes |
| Mother | Rebecca Barnes Wentworth |
| Brothers | Tyler Barnes |
| Sisters |
Pamela Barnes Ewing Catherine Barnes |
| Half-sisters | Katherine Wentworth |
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| Daughters | Pamela Rebecca Barnes |
| Grandfathers | Henry Barnes |
| Aunts | Maggie Barnes Monahan |
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| First cousins | Jimmy Monahan |
Clifford "Cliff" Barnes, played by Ken Kercheval, is a fictional character from the popular American television series Dallas. 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 the half-brother of Katherine Wentworth. J.R. Ewing (played by Larry Hagman) was Cliff's personal nemesis, with Cliff and J.R. continuing on the bitter feud that started with their fathers, Digger Barnes and Jock Ewing, from their oil wildcatting days in the 1930s. Cliff and J.R. were the only two characters to appear throughout the entire run of the series. A running gag on the series is Cliff's fondness for Chinese take-out.
During the show's original conception, the character of Cliff was modeled on the late Robert F. Kennedy. However, he evolved into a bumbling sad sack who was very much his own worst enemy. A lawyer and a bureaucrat, not an oil man, Cliff was out of his element when dealing in the cutthroat oil business and, despite repeated attempts, would always be outsmarted and outdone by his rival J.R. Cliff finally beats J.R. in the final season, and takes over Ewing Oil.
Cliff had a close relationship with his sister, Pamela (played by Victoria Principal) and hated that she married Bobby Ewing (played by Patrick Duffy), J.R.'s younger brother.
When Dallas began, Cliff worked for the state of Texas, building an impressive recorded reputation as investigator of corruption within the independent oil companies. It was no coincidence that these investigations often cited or targeted Ewing Oil. During the second and third seasons, Cliff's career took an upward swing when he was appointed Chief of the Office of Land Management, a fictional enormously powerful state agency that coordinated and approved all ventures that affected the surface and geological texture of Texas land, including oil drilling permits. In an attempt to lure Barnes out of this powerful position, J.R. Ewing enlisted attorney Alan Beam in a scheme to form an exploratory funding committee (funds solely provided by J.R. Ewing) promoting Barnes as a candidate for the U.S. Congress. The scheme worked as Barnes resigned from his position to run for Congress. After his resignation, the money flow to the campaign stopped and Barnes was forced to drop out of the race.
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