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