Clifford 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 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 J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), his lifelong rival. Thanks
to Carter McKay (George Kennedy), Cliff finally beats J.R. in the
final season, and takes over Ewing Oil.Cliff had a close relationship
with his sister, Pamela (Victoria Principal) and hated that she
married Bobby Ewing (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
(Randolph Powell) 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. Cliff Barnes Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter