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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gene Evans (July 11, 1922 - April 1, 1998) was an American actor. He was born in Holbrook, Arizona, but reared in Colton, California. His acting career began while he was serving in World War II. He performed with a theatrical troupe of GIs in Europe. Evans made his film debut in 1947 and appeared in dozens of movies and television programs. He specialized in playing tough guys like cowboys, sheriffs, convicts and sergeants. Evans appeared in numerous films produced, directed, and written by Samuel Fuller. In his memoirs A Third Face, Fuller described meeting Evans when casting his Korean War film The Steel Helmet in 1950. Fuller threw an M1 Garand rifle at Evans, who caught it and inspected it as a soldier would have done. Evans had been a U.S. Army engineer in the war. Fuller kept Evans and refused John Wayne for the role. and fighting to keep him despite Robert L. Lippert and his partner wanting Larry Parks for the role. Fuller walked off the film and would not return until Evans was reinstated. Evans also appeared in Fuller's Fixed Bayonets!, Hell and High Water, Shock Corridor and lost thirty pounds to play the lead in Park Row. Evans portrayed the authoritarian but wise father, Rob McLaughlin, on the 1956-1957 television series My Friend Flicka, based on a Western novel and film of the same name set in Wyoming. He appeared with Anita Louise (1915–1970) as his wife, Nell, Johnny Washbrook (born 1944) as his son, Ken, and fellow character actor Frank Ferguson (1899–1978), as the ranch handyman, Gus Broeberg, who addressed Evans as "Captain". In 1958, Evans co-starred as Major Al Arthur in the film Damn Citizen based on the life of crusading Louisiana State Police superintendent Francis Grevemberg. Keith Andes starred as Grevemberg. In the fall of 1976, Evans starred in the eleven-episode CBS adventure series Spencer's Pilots, with Christopher Stone, Todd Susman, and Britt Leach. In January 1979, Evans appeared as Garrison Southworth in one episode of CBS's Dallas in January 1979. He appeared in ten episodes of CBS's Gunsmoke with James Arness, including "The Snow Train" and "Tatum". In 1965, he guest starred as Jake Burnett in the episode "Vendetta" of ABC's western The Legend of Jesse James starring Christopher Jones. Two years later, he appeared as Deedricks in the episode "Breakout" of another ABC western, Custer, starring Wayne Maunder in the title role. In the late 1980s, Evans appeared on stage as the gruesome Papa in the stage production Papa is All, directed by playwright Tommy F. Scott in Jackson, Tennessee. He retired to a farm in Tennessee following his role in the original film version of Walking Tall. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gene Evans, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1922-07-11
- event Death Date 1998-04-01
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 7.2
- info Birth Place Holbrook, Arizona, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Gene Evans
6.8
Nevada Smith
1966-06-10
6.6
Armored Car Robbery
1950-06-08
7.2
Criss Cross
1949-02-04
6.1
Hell and High Water
1954-02-06
7
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969-03-26
7
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970-03-18
7.8
Ace in the Hole
1951-06-29
6.6
Walking Tall
1973-02-22
7
Shock Corridor
1963-09-25
6.5
It Happens Every Spring
1949-06-10
6.7
Park Row
1952-09-01
6.5
Crashout
1955-03-01
7.2
Operation Petticoat
1959-12-05
4.8
Lassie: The New Beginning
1978-09-01
6.9
The War Wagon
1967-05-26
5.6
The Sad Sack
1957-11-27
5.7
The Giant Behemoth
1959-03-03
6.1
Donovan's Brain
1953-09-30
5.8
The Long Wait
1954-05-26
5
Assigned to Danger
1948-05-19
6.5
The Bravados
1958-06-25
3.5
Young and Wild
1958-04-24
0
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974-01-09
7
The Steel Helmet
1951-01-24
6.5
Fixed Bayonets!
1951-11-21
6.2
Revolt in the Big House
1958-12-21
5.3
Devil Times Five
1974-05-31
6.6
Storm Warning
1951-02-10
6.2
I Was an American Spy
1951-04-14
6
Sidekicks
1974-03-21
6.7
Fire!
1977-05-08
0
Casino
1980-08-01
6.3
The Golden Blade
1953-08-12
5.6
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954-11-18
4.4
Wyoming Mail
1950-10-18
6.4
Force of Arms
1951-08-13
5.4
The Magic of Lassie
1978-08-02
0
Damn Citizen
1958-03-01
5.3
Money, Women and Guns
1958-10-01
5.8
Wyoming Renegades
1954-03-27
5.2
The Helen Morgan Story
1957-10-02
5.4
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988-10-12
6.4
Apache Uprising
1965-12-29
4.8
Mutiny
1952-03-05
5.7
The Intruders
1970-11-10
5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002-07-02
7
Gold of the Seven Saints
1961-02-18
4.8
Sugarfoot
1951-02-11
0
Sourdough
1981-12-01
7.5
The Asphalt Jungle
1950-05-12
7.2
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973-05-23
5
Concrete Cowboys
1979-10-17
6.2
The Hangman
1959-06-17
5
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978-05-26
4.9
A Knife for the Ladies
1974-05-02
0
Under Colorado Skies
1947-12-15
6.3
The Last Day
1975-02-15
4
Massacre at Sand Creek
1956-12-27
6.4
Waco
1966-09-01
5
California Gold Rush
1981-07-30
5.7
Thunderbirds
1952-11-20
5.5
The Bounty Man
1972-10-31
6.5
The Shadow Riders
1982-09-28
0
Matt Helm
1975-05-07
6
Dragnet
1969-01-27
6.8
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970-09-18
6.1
Berlin Express
1948-05-01
6
Prologue to Wounded Knee
1973-04-27
6.7
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
1987-11-11
4.5
Travis McGee
1983-05-18
6.5
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971-05-26
6.7
The Macahans
1976-01-19
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30
7.9
M*A*S*H
1972-09-17
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
0
The Great Adventure
1963-09-27
7.5
The A-Team
1983-01-23
6.7
Simon & Simon
1981-11-24
7.4
Matt Helm
1975-09-20
6.4
Route 66
1960-10-07
6.9
Alias Smith and Jones
1971-01-05
6.6
Charlie's Angels
1976-09-22
6.4
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983-10-03
6.7
Mannix
1967-09-16
6.8
Hart to Hart
1979-09-22
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
7.7
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
6.8
Dallas
1978-04-02
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
3.5
Target: The Corruptors!
1961-09-29
6.2
Outlaws
1960-09-26
5.3
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958-10-06
7.2
Rawhide
1959-01-09
7
Vega$
1978-09-20
7.2
Run for Your Life
1965-09-13
5
Cimarron Strip
1967-09-07
6.9
Daniel Boone
1964-09-24
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6
Yancy Derringer
1958-10-02
7
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951-10-05
5.3
Here's Boomer
1980-03-14
6.7
Tarzan
1966-09-08
6.3
The Sixth Sense
1972-01-15
6.4
Branded
1965-01-24
6.2
Riverboat
1959-09-13
0
Wire Service
1956-10-04
4.2
Wichita Town
1959-09-30
5
Spencer's Pilots
1976-09-17
7.7
The Sacketts
1979-05-15
5.5
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956-10-05
5.7
Johnny Ringo
1959-10-02
4.8
The Legend of Jesse James
1965-09-13
0
General Electric True
1962-09-30
6
Custer
1967-09-06
5.7
My Friend Flicka
1955-09-30
5
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978-09-08
5
Nichols
1971-09-16
7.2
Rawhide
1959-01-09
7.2
Rawhide
1959-01-09
7.2
Rawhide
1959-01-09
7.2
Rawhide
1959-01-09
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
6.6
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
6.1
The Rhinemann Exchange
1977-03-10
6.9
Daniel Boone
1964-09-24
6.8
The Name of the Game
1968-09-20
6
Wild Times
1980-01-24
7.3
The Incredible Hulk
1977-11-04
7.9
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962-09-20
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984-09-30
7.5
Bonanza
1959-09-12
