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Gender: Male

Place of birth: Holbrook, Arizona, USA

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Movie Involvements: 63

TV Involvements: 39


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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.

Most Famous Work

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
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6

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

(1956) Jerrod Toll
Dallas
Average
7

Dallas

(1978) Garrison Southworth
Murder, She Wrote
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8

Murder, She Wrote

(1984) Nils Highlander
The Virginian
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6

The Virginian

(1962) Blanchard
Perry Mason
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8

Perry Mason

(1957) Moose Dalton
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
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8

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

(1962) Ed Krutcher
The Incredible Hulk
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7

The Incredible Hulk

(1977) Jimmy Kelly
The A-Team
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8

The A-Team

(1983) Darrow

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2002 Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)
1988 Fargo Parker
1987 McGregor
1984 Otto Fry
Nils Highlander
1983 N/A
Meyer
Darrow
1982 Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
1981 N/A
Sam Brannon
Narrator
1980 Captain K.L. Fitzgerald
N/A
Cletus Hatch
1979 Lt. Blocker
N/A
Benson Bigelow
1978 N/A
N/A
Sheriff Marsh
Sheriff Andrews
Fred Williker
Garrison Southworth
1977 Jimmy Kelly
Dan Harter
Col. Barton
1976 James Webner
N/A
1975 Sgt. Fred Hanrahan
Sgt. Hanrahan
Marshal Connelly
1974 Papa Doc
Hooker
Sam
Gabe
1973 Mr. Horrell
Sheriff McVaney
Sheriff Al Thurman
1972 Tom Brady
Clayton Kibbee
N/A
1971 Durand
Butcher
N/A
1970 Cole Younger
Col Wolff
Clete
1969 Tom Danby
Hugh Brown
1968 Sgt. Ernest Maxwell
1967 N/A
N/A
N/A
Deputy Hoag
N/A
1966 N/A
Jim O'Neill
Sam Sand
1965 Jess Cooney
Jim Seaborne
Jake Burnett
N/A
1964 Joshua Craig
Stark
1963 Sgt. Winn
Boden
1962 N/A
Ed Krutcher
Sheriff Luke Donaldson
Blanchard
1961 N/A
McCracken
1960 N/A
N/A
1959 Chief Molumphry
N/A
N/A
Sgt. Dan Phillips
"Big Murph" Murphy
Steve Karnes
Tom Wilson
Sam Hargis
Gus Cornelius
Sgt. Pike
Royal K. Shaw
1958 Lou Gannon
N/A
N/A
Lonesome Jackson
Sheriff Abner Crowley
John Butler
Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz
Maj. Al Arthur
1957 Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley
Whitey Krause
Moose Dalton
1956 Sgt. Maddox
Jerrod Toll
(uncredited)
1955 Ned Malley
N/A
Charlie Hacker
Clint Sorils
Thomas Evans
Billy
Jess Hume
Bodie Tatum
Shaw Anderson
Will Parmalee
Maynard 'Monk' Collins
1954 Tom McCord
Servo
Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker
Chief Holter
1953 Dr. Frank Schratt
Captain Hadi
1952 Sgt. Mike Braggart
Phineas Mitchell
Hook
1951 Sgt. Rock
Joe Devlin
Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee
Deputy Sheriff
Cpl. John Boone
Billings
Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)
Sergeant Zack
1950 Shep
William 'Ace' Foster
Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)
1949 Batter Mueller (uncredited)
Donlan (uncredited)
1948 Joey
Train Sergeant
1947 Henchman Red
Year Character Movie/Tv

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