Kercheval was best known for playing oil tycoon Cliff Barnes on ... to say she hoped that he and fellow late Dallas stars Larry Hagman, who played JR Ewing, and Barbara Bel Geddes aka Miss Ellie ...

Said to be the inspiration behind the iconic J.R. Ewing character in hit 1980s TV show Dallas, the oil baron H.L. Hunt was reportedly the world's wealthiest person by the time of his death in 1974.