Dallas Character Sue Ellen’s father’s name

[Sarah]

What do you think would be a good name for Sue Ellen’s father?

Her mother Patricia had a standard name, meaning noble, and was very common in the USA at one time.

I’ve always been curious if her father would have a name like David or Tony, perhaps Michael, or would he have a good old Southern name? It’s never made clear if he was Texan, he could have been from another state.

Give me some ideas to put this piece of my darling’s puzzle together....!

 

[tommie]

Good question!

I always imagined Sue Ellen and Kristin's father as somewhat passive and probably not taking proper responsibility over his daughters upbringing. I would think he died young, perhaps when Sue Ellen was around 13, leaving her mother trying to financially care for the children - hence why Sue Ellen got into pageants (as winning them often meant a cash price) and her mothers obsession with her marrying rich.

As for a name... maybe something plain. Maybe Robert.

 

[Sarah]

Thanks @tommie - great answer! My understanding is he ran out on them and he was an alcoholic.

I like Robert. Yes.

 

[CeeCee72]

It's pretty amazing that we never learn the name or the fate of the father of a character so central to the show.

 

[Top Jimmy]

How about Sam Shepard, like the American actor?

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I’m thinking either Bertrand or Giancarlo

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

We didn't get a name but there's a scene at the Southern Cross with Clayton where Sue Ellen describes her father leaving and then her mother getting a letter a year later saying he'd died. She remembered mostly just the smell of alcohol on her father's breath. Likely why she clung onto Clayton as the father she never had.

 

[Justine]

I don't know why but I've always had Frank/Francis Shepard in mind...

 

[Toni]

Everybody knows that Kristin´s father´s name was Bing...

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

Sue Ellen's Father was Cecil Colby.

 

[Sarah]

Yes Frank works @Justine

@Via The Void - the horror!! Imagine that plot twist!!!!

 

[Chris2]

Dax

 

[stevew]

What do you think would be a good name for Sue Ellen’s father?

Her mother Patricia had a standard name, meaning noble, and was very common in the USA at one time.

I’ve always been curious if her father would have a name like David or Tony, perhaps Michael, or would he have a good old Southern name? It’s never made clear if he was Texan, he could have been from another state.

Give me some ideas to put this piece of my darling’s puzzle together....!

I would guess he was Texan as the Shepard’s seemed very prominent, if not wealthy anymore, to me a kind of a Southern stereotype. Something like Audrey Shepard, old Anglo-Saxon like his surname, genteel and southern, maybe even a bit weak sounding, but meaning noble strength. Audrey Henderson Shepard, III and Patricia Ellen Mae nee Perry, parents of Sue Ellen and Kristen Mae. A drunk, a gambler, sort of a Black Jack Bouvier type. Just my thoughts.

 

[Kenny Coyote]

I would guess he was Texan as the Shepard’s seemed very prominent, if not wealthy anymore, to me a kind of a Southern stereotype. Something like Audrey Shepard, old Anglo-Saxon like his surname, genteel and southern, maybe even a bit weak sounding, but meaning noble strength. Audrey Henderson Shepard, III and Patricia Ellen Mae nee Perry, parents of Sue Ellen and Kristen Mae. A drunk, a gambler, sort of a Black Jack Bouvier type. Just my thoughts.

Audrey? As in Hepburn? I've never heard of a man being named Audrey. Are you sure you don't mean Audie, as in the famous Texan Audie Murphy? Not that Sue Ellen's father sounded like much of a hero.

 

[Sarah]

Kristin’s middle name is Ann but I also like Mae.

Very nice @stevew - great ideas.

 

[tommie]

Audrey? As in Hepburn? I've never heard of a man being named Audrey. Are you sure you don't mean Audie, as in the famous Texan Audie Murphy? Not that Sue Ellen's father sounded like much of a hero.

Yes, Audrey isn't a male name and has to my knowledge never been used as that (but apparently it's where the word "tawdry" derived from as a reference to Saint Audrey). I'm guessing he might've meant the name Leslie/Lesley which is a unisex name.

 

[stevew]

Kristin’s middle name is Ann but I also like Mae.

Very nice @stevew - great ideas.

I didn’t recall hearing it and thought Mae sounded southern but Patricia Ellen Ann would work. It just seems to me there names would come from their momma’s maybe as if Ellen and Ann were Patricia’s two grandmother’s.

Thank you.

 

[stevew]

Audrey? As in Hepburn? I've never heard of a man being named Audrey. Are you sure you don't mean Audie, as in the famous Texan Audie Murphy? Not that Sue Ellen's father sounded like much of a hero.

No but Audie could be a nick name and certain have a Texan sound to it. Today we don’t hear many guys named Ashley either but Scarlet certainly was in love with one. I even knew a Carol - guy and. Lynn - guy. So yes I’m certain Audrey, not to mention I made him a third so the name would have gone back to the 1800’s.

 

[tommie]

No but Audie could be a nick name and certain have a Texan sound to it. Today we don’t hear many guys named Ashley either but Scarlet certainly was in love with one. I even knew a Carol - guy and. Lynn - guy. So yes I’m certain Audrey, not to mention I made him a third so the name would have gone back to the 1800’s.

Ashley, Lynn and Carol are actually unisex names - Audrey actually isn't and never has been. It's a feminine name only.

 

[stevew]

Yes, Audrey isn't a male name and has to my knowledge never been used as that (but apparently it's where the word "tawdry" derived from as a reference to Saint Audrey). I'm guessing he might've meant the name Leslie/Lesley which is a unisex name.

It’s an ancient Anglo Saxon. “Since 1880, a total of 1,458 boys have been given the name Audrey while 249,456 girls were named Audrey.”

http://www.babynameshub.com/gendercompare.cfm?Name=Audrey

While not common for a boy, I don’t see Sue Ellen’s father being a common man by any stretch. I’m being Jackie Kennedy’s dad but more Anglo-Saxon and less French and more broke later in life, maybe even more drunk. Certainly not common.