Jim McMullan, actor in popular US TV series dies at 82

Jim McMullan, who portrayed one of Jimmy Stewart's six sons in Shenandoah and a top ski racer in the Robert Redford-starring Downhill Racer, has died. He was 82.

McMullan died May 31 of complications from ALS at his home in Wofford Heights, California, his wife of 49 years, Helene McMullan, told The Hollywood Reporter.

McMullan and Dirk Benedict starred as police helicopter pilots on 1974's Chopper One, an ABC drama that was produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, and he toplined the 1980 CBS series Beyond Westworld, based on the Michael Crichton movie. Both shows, however, were quickly canceled.

Dallas fans will recognize him as Texas Sen Andrew Dowling, who had an affair with political lobbyist Donna Culver Krebbs (Susan Howard) during the CBS series' 10th season (1986-87).

McMullan also was a regular guest star on shows from Quinn Martin Productions, including The FBI, 12 O'Clock High, Barnaby Jones, Cannon and The Streets of San Francisco, and he played Brent Davis on the CBS daytime soap The Young and the Restless in the '80s.

McMullan portrayed John Anderson in Andrew V. McLaglen's Shenandoah (1965) — the other sons of Stewart's farmer in the Civil War-era picture were played by Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Charles Robinson, Tim McIntire and Phillip Alford — and he stood out as American skier Johnny Creech in Downhill Racer (1969), which marked the directorial debut of Michael Ritchie.