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3 unusual facts about Cliff Barnes


Cliff Barnes

Throughout the series Cliff had a reputation for being cheap and naive in contrast to J.R. Whereas J.R. always dined in fine restaurants, wore a stylish Stetson, lived on Southfork and lavished his mistresses with generosity; Cliff often preferred take-out Chinese cuisine, wore cheap suits, lived in a condominium and assumed his romantic interests would clean his home.

He told Elena to make the Ewings pay for J.R.'s sins against her family and gave her proxy over the one-third share of Barnes-Global he still owned in the company.

Sherill Lynn Rettino

Sherill Lynn Rettino (January 13, 1956 – July 3, 1995, Los Angeles, California) was an American television actress best known for her recurring role in the television series Dallas as Jackie Dugan, Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal)'s co-worker at The Store, and later Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval)'s secretary at Barnes-Wentworth Oil.


J.R. Ewing

In the second season's episode "The Furious and the Fast", J.R. talks to John Ross by phone about a "master plan" to defeat Cliff Barnes and Harris Ryland and to help John Ross take control of Ewing Energies, saying it will be his "masterpiece" when somebody apparently walks into the room and shoots twice, killing him.


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