Gene Evans

Gene Evans

  • Birthday: 1922-07-11
  • Deathday: 1998-04-01
  • Place of birth: Holbrook, Arizona, USA

Biography

​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.

Filmography

Park Row

1952

As Phineas Mitchell

The Giant Behemoth

1959

As Steve Karnes

Young and Wild

1958

As Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz

The Steel Helmet

1951

As Sergeant Zack

Revolt in the Big House

1958

As Lou Gannon

Fixed Bayonets!

1951

As Sgt. Rock

Devil Times Five

1974

As Papa Doc

I Was an American Spy

1951

As Cpl. John Boone

Sourdough

1981

As Narrator

Wyoming Renegades

1954

As Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker

Prologue to Wounded Knee

1973

As Sheriff McVaney

Travis McGee

1983

As Meyer

Walking Tall

1973

As Sheriff Al Thurman

Shock Corridor

1963

As Boden

The Long Wait

1954

As Servo

Donovan's Brain

1953

As Dr. Frank Schratt

The Golden Blade

1953

As Captain Hadi

Damn Citizen

1958

As Maj. Al Arthur

Cattle Queen of Montana

1954

As Tom McCord

Massacre at Sand Creek

1956

As Sgt. Maddox

California Gold Rush

1981

As Sam Brannon

Casino

1980

As Captain K.L. Fitzgerald

Force of Arms

1951

As Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee

Money, Women and Guns

1958

As Sheriff Abner Crowley

The Helen Morgan Story

1957

As Whitey Krause

Mutiny

1952

As Hook

Thunderbirds

1952

As Sgt. Mike Braggart

Hell and High Water

1954

As Chief Holter

Operation Petticoat

1959

As Chief Molumphry

Crashout

1955

As Maynard 'Monk' Collins

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

2002

As Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)

The Intruders

1970

As Cole Younger

The Hangman

1959

As "Big Murph" Murphy

Apache Uprising

1965

As Jess Cooney

A Knife for the Ladies

1974

As Hooker

The Bounty Man

1972

As Tom Brady

Dragnet

1969

As Hugh Brown

Lassie: The New Beginning

1978

As Sheriff Marsh

The Sad Sack

1957

As Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley

Gold of the Seven Saints

1961

As McCracken

The Shadow Riders

1982

As Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner

The Magic of Lassie

1978

As Sheriff Andrews

Concrete Cowboys

1979

As Lt. Blocker

Matt Helm

1975

As Sgt. Hanrahan

Sidekicks

1974

As Sam

Assigned to Danger

1948

As Joey

Waco

1966

As Jim O'Neill

Armored Car Robbery

1950

As William 'Ace' Foster

Support Your Local Sheriff!

1969

As Tom Danby

Fire!

1977

As Dan Harter

Under Colorado Skies

1947

As Henchman Red

The Last Day

1975

As Marshal Connelly

The War Wagon

1967

As Deputy Hoag

Sugarfoot

1951

As Billings

Ace in the Hole

1951

As Deputy Sheriff

Nevada Smith

1966

As Sam Sand

Once Upon a Texas Train

1988

As Fargo Parker

The Bravados

1958

As John Butler

Wyoming Mail

1950

As Shep

Berlin Express

1948

As Train Sergeant

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970

As Col Wolff

Criss Cross

1949

As Donlan (uncredited)

It Happens Every Spring

1949

As Batter Mueller (uncredited)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973

As Mr. Horrell

The Asphalt Jungle

1950

As Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)

Storm Warning

1951

As Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)

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