Larry Hagman: a life in pictures

18 July 1979: Hagman takes a fried chicken break on the set of the television soap opera Dallas Photograph: Maureen Donaldson/Getty Images

1952: Hagman entertains US troops stationed in England during the Korean war Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

1964: Hagman in Fail Safe
Photograph: Rex Features

1966: With Elizabeth Hartman in Sidney Lumet's The Group Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar

1969: With Barbara Eden in a wedding episode of I Dream of Jeannie
Photograph: Rex Features

Hagman with Donna Mills in Good Life in the early 70s
Photograph: Rex Features

1974: Hagman with Ines Des Longchamps and David Essex in Stardust
Photograph: Rex Features

In The Eagle Has Landed (1976) Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar

1976: With Harvey Keitel and Bill Cosby in Mother Juggs and Speed
Photograph: c.20thC.Fox/Rex Features

1979: Members of the Ewing family pose in front of their TV home, Southfork, in Dallas Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

Hagman and his mother Mary Martin meet the Queen Mother in 1980 Photograph: PA

1981: Larry Hagman with his screen wife Linda Gray (as Sue Ellen Ewing) Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

Who Shot JR? Possibly Larry Hagman's most famous scene from 1980
Photograph: Getty Images

Hagman as JR Ewing in the 2012 revival of Dallas Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar