Robert James "Bobby" Ewing is the roadman for Ewing Oil and the husband to Ann Ewing. Bobby is the son of Jock Ewing and Miss Ellie Ewing. He was born in the late 1940s or early 1950s. He has two brothers, J.R. Ewing and Gary Ewing. Bobby is played by Patrick Duffy in both the CBS-TV series Dallas and the TNT network continuation series, as well as all the subsequent TV movies, with the exeception of the 1986 CBS-TV movie Dallas:The Early Years, where he is depicted as a child in a cameo appearance by then child actor Ryan Beadle.