Gene Evans
Acting
Born: July 11, 1922 · Holbrook, Arizona, USA
Died: April 1, 1998 (aged 75)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
The A-Team
1983
Ace in the Hole
1951
M*A*S*H
1972
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
The Incredible Hulk
1977
Bonanza
1959
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Operation Petticoat
1959
Shock Corridor
1963
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Dallas
1978
Photos (1)
Movies (76)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Mr. Horrell
The Asphalt Jungle
Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)
The Bravados
John Butler
Ace in the Hole
Deputy Sheriff
Nevada Smith
Sam Sand
Jet Pilot
Airfield Sergeant (uncredited)
Jet Pilot
1957
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Tom Danby
Storm Warning
Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)
The Steel Helmet
Sergeant Zack
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Butcher
Criss Cross
Donlan (uncredited)
Hell and High Water
Chief Holter
Operation Petticoat
Chief Molumphry
Walking Tall
Sheriff Al Thurman
The Shadow Riders
Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
The War Wagon
Deputy Hoag
There Was a Crooked Man...
Col Wolff
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Clete
The Sad Sack
Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley
Wyoming Mail
Shep
Berlin Express
Train Sergeant (uncredited)
Fixed Bayonets!
Sgt. Rock
The Golden Blade
Captain Hadi
Once Upon a Texas Train
Fargo Parker
Donovan's Brain
Dr. Frank Schratt
The Hangman
"Big Murph" Murphy
The Giant Behemoth
Steve Karnes
Gold of the Seven Saints
McCracken
Mutiny
Hook
The Helen Morgan Story
Whitey Krause
Lassie: The New Beginning
Sheriff Marsh
It Happens Every Spring
Batter Mueller (uncredited)
Apache Uprising
Jess Cooney
Shock Corridor
Boden
Cattle Queen of Montana
Tom McCord
Dallas
Drunk in Saloon (uncredited)
Thunderbirds
Sgt. Mike Braggart
Massacre at Sand Creek
Sgt. Maddox
The Long Wait
Servo
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
McGregor
Devil Times Five
Papa Doc
Concrete Cowboys
Lt. Blocker
The Magic of Lassie
Sheriff Andrews
The Macahans
Dutton
Waco
Jim O'Neill
Matt Helm
Sgt. Hanrahan
Travis McGee
Meyer
Sugarfoot
Billings
Money, Women and Guns
Sheriff Abner Crowley
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Gabe
The Intruders
Cole Younger
I Was an American Spy
Cpl. John Boone
Larceny
Horace (uncredited)
Under Colorado Skies
Henchman Red
Park Row
Phineas Mitchell
Armored Car Robbery
William 'Ace' Foster
Fire!
Dan Harter
Force of Arms
Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee
Never a Dull Moment
Hunter( uncredited)
Sidekicks
Sam
A Knife for the Ladies
Hooker
Wyoming Renegades
Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker
Casino
Captain K.L. Fitzgerald
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Fred Williker
Revolt in the Big House
Lou Gannon
Crashout
Maynard 'Monk' Collins
The Bounty Man
Tom Brady
California Gold Rush
Sam Brannon
Young and Wild
Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz
Damn Citizen
Maj. Al Arthur
Assigned to Danger
Joey
Prologue to Wounded Knee
Sheriff McVaney
The Last Day
Marshal Connelly
Sourdough
Narrator
TV Shows (69)
Dallas
Garrison Southworth · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Moose Dalton · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Otto Fry · 1 eps
Murder, She Wrote
Nils Highlander · 1 eps
Mannix
1 eps
Bonanza
Andy Fulmer · 1 eps
M*A*S*H
Clayton Kibbee · 1 eps
Ironside
Parker · 1 eps
Charlie's Angels
James Webner · 1 eps
The A-Team
Darrow · 1 eps
The Virginian
Sheriff Luke Donaldson · 1 eps
The Virginian
Blanchard · 1 eps
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Ed Krutcher · 1 eps
Hart to Hart
1 eps
The Incredible Hulk
Jimmy Kelly · 1 eps
Simon & Simon
3 eps
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jerrod Toll · 1 eps
Route 66
2 eps
Rawhide
Tom Wilson · 1 eps
Rawhide
Sam Hargis · 1 eps
Rawhide
Gus Cornelius · 1 eps
Rawhide
Royal K. Shaw · 1 eps
Rawhide
Sgt. Pike · 1 eps
Daniel Boone
Joshua Craig · 1 eps
Daniel Boone
Stark · 1 eps
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Gus Weinstein · 1 eps
The Lone Ranger
Beef Corson · 1 eps
77 Sunset Strip
1 eps
The Name of the Game
Ernest Maxwell · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Charlie Hacker · 2 eps
Gunsmoke
Clint Sorils · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Thomas Evans · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Billy · 2 eps
Gunsmoke
Jess Hume · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Bodie Tatum · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Shaw Anderson · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Will Parmalee · 1 eps
Run for Your Life
Jim Seaborne · 1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Ned Malley · 1 eps
Alias Smith and Jones
1 eps
Vega$
1 eps
Outlaws
1 eps
Branded
1 eps
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1 eps
Tarzan
2 eps
Riverboat
Sgt. Dan Phillips · 1 eps
Nichols
Durand · 1 eps
Target: The Corruptors!
1 eps
Johnny Ringo
Boone Hackett · 1 eps
Cimarron Strip
1 eps
The Great Adventure
Sgt. Winn · 1 eps
Yancy Derringer
Lonesome Jackson · 1 eps
Then Came Bronson
Hank · 1 eps
Matt Helm
Sgt. Fred Hanrahan · 13 eps
The Sixth Sense
1 eps
My Friend Flicka
39 eps
The Legend of Jesse James
Jake Burnett · 1 eps
General Electric True
1 eps
Wichita Town
1 eps
Wire Service
(uncredited) · 1 eps
Here's Boomer
1 eps
Custer
1 eps
The Sacketts
Benson Bigelow · 2 eps
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1 eps
Gunslinger
Sergeant Croft · 1 eps
Spencer's Pilots
Spencer Parish · 10 eps
Wild Times
Cletus Hatch · 2 eps
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Joe Devlin · 1 eps
The Rhinemann Exchange
Col. Barton · 3 eps
