1922-07-11 ( 102 years old ) in Holbrook, Arizona, USA
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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.
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Movies
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002-07-02
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988-10-12
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
1987-11-11
Travis McGee
1983-05-18
The Shadow Riders
1982-09-28
Sourdough
1981-12-01
California Gold Rush
1981-07-30
Casino
1980-08-01
Concrete Cowboys
1979-10-17
Lassie: The New Beginning
1978-09-01
The Magic of Lassie
1978-08-02
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978-05-26
Fire!
1977-05-08
The Macahans
1976-01-19
Matt Helm
1975-05-07
The Last Day
1975-02-15
Devil Times Five
1974-05-31
A Knife for the Ladies
1974-05-02
Sidekicks
1974-03-21
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974-01-09
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973-05-23
Prologue to Wounded Knee
1973-04-27
Walking Tall
1973-02-22
The Bounty Man
1972-10-31
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971-05-26
The Intruders
1970-11-10
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970-09-18
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970-03-18
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969-03-26
Dragnet
1969-01-27
The War Wagon
1967-05-26
Waco
1966-09-01
Nevada Smith
1966-06-10
Apache Uprising
1965-12-29
Shock Corridor
1963-09-25
Gold of the Seven Saints
1961-02-18
Operation Petticoat
1959-12-05
The Hangman
1959-06-17
The Giant Behemoth
1959-03-03
Revolt in the Big House
1958-12-21
Money, Women and Guns
1958-10-01
The Bravados
1958-06-25
Young and Wild
1958-04-24
Damn Citizen
1958-03-01
The Sad Sack
1957-11-27
The Helen Morgan Story
1957-10-02
Massacre at Sand Creek
1956-12-27
Crashout
1955-03-01
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954-11-18
The Long Wait
1954-05-26
Wyoming Renegades
1954-03-27
Hell and High Water
1954-02-06
Donovan's Brain
1953-09-30
The Golden Blade
1953-08-12
Thunderbirds
1952-11-20
Park Row
1952-09-01
Mutiny
1952-03-05
Fixed Bayonets!
1951-11-21
Force of Arms
1951-08-13
Ace in the Hole
1951-06-29
I Was an American Spy
1951-04-14
Sugarfoot
1951-02-11
Storm Warning
1951-02-10
The Steel Helmet
1951-01-24
Wyoming Mail
1950-10-18
Armored Car Robbery
1950-06-08
The Asphalt Jungle
1950-05-12
It Happens Every Spring
1949-06-10
Criss Cross
1949-02-04
Assigned to Danger
1948-05-19
Berlin Express
1948-05-01
Under Colorado Skies
1947-12-15
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