Gene Evans
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 11, 1922
- Died
- Apr 1, 1998 (aged 75)
- Place of birth
- Holbrook, Arizona, USA
- Credits
- 131
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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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Known for
Filmography
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002Movie
Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988Movie
Fargo Parker
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
1987Movie
McGregor
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Otto Fry, Nils Highlander
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983TV
Gus Weinstein
Travis McGee
1983Movie
Meyer
The A-Team
1983TV
Darrow
The Shadow Riders
1982Movie
Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
Sourdough
1981Movie
Narrator
Simon & Simon
1981TV
Here's Boomer
1981TV
California Gold Rush
1981Movie
Sam Brannon
Casino
1980Movie
Captain K.L. Fitzgerald
Wild Times
1980TV
Cletus Hatch
Concrete Cowboys
1979Movie
Lt. Blocker
Hart to Hart
1979TV
The Sacketts
1979TV
Benson Bigelow
Vega$
1978TV
Lassie: The New Beginning
1978Movie
Sheriff Marsh
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978TV
The Magic of Lassie
1978Movie
Sheriff Andrews
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
1978Movie
Fred Williker
Dallas
1978TV
Garrison Southworth
The Incredible Hulk
1977TV
Jimmy Kelly
Fire!
1977Movie
Dan Harter
The Rhinemann Exchange
1977TV
Col. Barton
Charlie's Angels
1976TV
James Webner
Spencer's Pilots
1976TV
Spencer Parish
The Macahans
1976Movie
Dutton
Matt Helm
1975TV
Sgt. Fred Hanrahan
Matt Helm
1975Movie
Sgt. Hanrahan
The Last Day
1975Movie
Marshal Connelly
Devil Times Five
1974Movie
Papa Doc
A Knife for the Ladies
1974Movie
Hooker
Sidekicks
1974Movie
Sam
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974Movie
Gabe
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973Movie
Mr. Horrell
Prologue to Wounded Knee
1973Movie
Sheriff McVaney
Walking Tall
1973Movie
Sheriff Al Thurman
The Bounty Man
1972Movie
Tom Brady
M*A*S*H
1972TV
Clayton Kibbee
The Sixth Sense
1972TV
Nichols
1971TV
Durand
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971Movie
Butcher
Alias Smith and Jones
1971TV
The Intruders
1970Movie
Cole Younger
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970Movie
Col Wolff
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970Movie
Clete
Then Came Bronson
1969TV
Hank
Support Your Local Sheriff!
1969Movie
Tom Danby
Dragnet
1969Movie
Hugh Brown
The Name of the Game
1968TV
Ernest Maxwell
Mannix
1967TV
Cimarron Strip
1967TV
Custer
1967TV
The War Wagon
1967Movie
Deputy Hoag
Ironside
1967TV
Parker
Tarzan
1966TV
Waco
1966Movie
Jim O'Neill
Nevada Smith
1966Movie
Sam Sand
Apache Uprising
1965Movie
Jess Cooney
Run for Your Life
1965TV
Jim Seaborne
The Legend of Jesse James
1965TV
Jake Burnett
Branded
1965TV
Daniel Boone
1964TV
Joshua Craig, Stark
The Great Adventure
1963TV
Sgt. Winn
Shock Corridor
1963Movie
Boden
General Electric True
1962TV
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962TV
Ed Krutcher
The Virginian
1962TV
Sheriff Luke Donaldson, Blanchard
Target: The Corruptors!
1961TV
Gold of the Seven Saints
1961Movie
McCracken
Gunslinger
1961TV
Sergeant Croft
Route 66
1960TV
Outlaws
1960TV
Operation Petticoat
1959Movie
Chief Molumphry
Johnny Ringo
1959TV
Boone Hackett
Wichita Town
1959TV
Riverboat
1959TV
Sgt. Dan Phillips
Bonanza
1959TV
Andy Fulmer
The Hangman
1959Movie
"Big Murph" Murphy
The Giant Behemoth
1959Movie
Steve Karnes
Rawhide
1959TV
Tom Wilson, Sam Hargis, Gus Cornelius, Royal K. Shaw, Sgt. Pike
Revolt in the Big House
1958Movie
Lou Gannon
77 Sunset Strip
1958TV
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958TV
Yancy Derringer
1958TV
Lonesome Jackson
Money, Women and Guns
1958Movie
Sheriff Abner Crowley
The Bravados
1958Movie
John Butler
Young and Wild
1958Movie
Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz
Damn Citizen
1958Movie
Maj. Al Arthur
The Sad Sack
1957Movie
Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley
Jet Pilot
1957Movie
Airfield Sergeant (uncredited)
The Helen Morgan Story
1957Movie
Whitey Krause
Perry Mason
1957TV
Moose Dalton
Massacre at Sand Creek
1956Movie
Sgt. Maddox
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956TV
Jerrod Toll
Wire Service
1956TV
(uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955TV
Ned Malley
My Friend Flicka
1955TV
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Charlie Hacker, Clint Sorils, Thomas Evans, Billy, Jess Hume, Bodie Tatum, Shaw Anderson, Will Parmalee
Crashout
1955Movie
Maynard 'Monk' Collins
Cattle Queen of Montana
1954Movie
Tom McCord
The Long Wait
1954Movie
Servo
Wyoming Renegades
1954Movie
Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker
Hell and High Water
1954Movie
Chief Holter
Donovan's Brain
1953Movie
Dr. Frank Schratt
The Golden Blade
1953Movie
Captain Hadi
Thunderbirds
1952Movie
Sgt. Mike Braggart
Park Row
1952Movie
Phineas Mitchell
Mutiny
1952Movie
Hook
Fixed Bayonets!
1951Movie
Sgt. Rock
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951TV
Joe Devlin
Force of Arms
1951Movie
Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee
Ace in the Hole
1951Movie
Deputy Sheriff
I Was an American Spy
1951Movie
Cpl. John Boone
Sugarfoot
1951Movie
Billings
Storm Warning
1951Movie
Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)
The Steel Helmet
1951Movie
Sergeant Zack
Dallas
1950Movie
Drunk in Saloon (uncredited)
Wyoming Mail
1950Movie
Shep
Never a Dull Moment
1950Movie
Hunter( uncredited)
Armored Car Robbery
1950Movie
William 'Ace' Foster
The Asphalt Jungle
1950Movie
Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)
The Lone Ranger
1949TV
Beef Corson
It Happens Every Spring
1949Movie
Batter Mueller (uncredited)
Criss Cross
1949Movie
Donlan (uncredited)
Larceny
1948Movie
Horace (uncredited)
Assigned to Danger
1948Movie
Joey
Berlin Express
1948Movie
Train Sergeant (uncredited)
Under Colorado Skies
1947Movie
Henchman Red