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Acting
Birthday
July 11, 1922
Died
April 1, 1998
Place of Birth
Holbrook, Arizona, USA
Gene Evans
0.5 Popularity
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
5.8
Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
5.1
Fargo Parker
Once Upon a Texas Train
1988
6.2
McGregor
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
1987
7.5
Otto Fry
Murder, She Wrote
1984
7.5
Nils Highlander
Murder, She Wrote
1984
6.4
Gus Weinstein
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
4.5
Meyer
Travis McGee
1983
7.5
Darrow
The A-Team
1983
6.5
Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
The Shadow Riders
1982
0.0
Narrator
Sourdough
1981
Credits
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)
2002
5.8
Once Upon a Texas Train
as Fargo Parker
1988
5.1
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
as McGregor
1987
6.2
Murder, She Wrote
as Otto Fry
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Nils Highlander
1984
7.5
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
as Gus Weinstein
1983
6.4
Travis McGee
as Meyer
1983
4.5
The A-Team
as Darrow
1983
7.5
The Shadow Riders
as Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
1982
6.5
Sourdough
as Narrator
1981
0.0
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
California Gold Rush
as Sam Brannon
1981
5.0
Casino
as Captain K.L. Fitzgerald
1980
10.0
Here's Boomer
1980
5.3
Wild Times
as Cletus Hatch
1980
6.0
Concrete Cowboys
as Lt. Blocker
1979
5.0
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
The Sacketts
as Benson Bigelow
1979
7.5
Vega$
1978
7.0
Lassie: The New Beginning
as Sheriff Marsh
1978
4.8
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
5.0
The Magic of Lassie
as Sheriff Andrews
1978
5.4
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
as Fred Williker
1978
5.0
Dallas
as Garrison Southworth
1978
6.8
The Incredible Hulk
as Jimmy Kelly
1977
7.2
Fire!
as Dan Harter
1977
7.0
The Rhinemann Exchange
as Col. Barton
1977
6.1
Charlie's Angels
as James Webner
1976
6.7
Spencer's Pilots
as Spencer Parish
1976
5.0
The Macahans
as Dutton
1976
6.7
Matt Helm
as Sgt. Fred Hanrahan
1975
7.4
Matt Helm
as Sgt. Hanrahan
1975
0.0
The Last Day
as Marshal Connelly
1975
6.2
Devil Times Five
as Papa Doc
1974
5.1
A Knife for the Ladies
as Hooker
1974
4.9
Sidekicks
as Sam
1974
6.0
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
as Gabe
1974
0.0
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Mr. Horrell
1973
7.2
Prologue to Wounded Knee
as Sheriff McVaney
1973
6.0
Walking Tall
as Sheriff Al Thurman
1973
6.6
The Bounty Man
as Tom Brady
1972
5.5
M*A*S*H
as Clayton Kibbee
1972
7.9
The Sixth Sense
1972
5.9
Nichols
as Durand
1971
5.0
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Butcher
1971
6.6
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
The Intruders
as Cole Younger
1970
4.5
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Col Wolff
1970
6.8
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Clete
1970
6.9
Then Came Bronson
as Hank
1969
4.8
Support Your Local Sheriff!
as Tom Danby
1969
7.0
🎬
Dragnet
as Hugh Brown
1969
5.0
The Name of the Game
as Ernest Maxwell
1968
6.8
Mannix
1967
6.7
Cimarron Strip
1967
5.5
Custer
1967
6.0
The War Wagon
as Deputy Hoag
1967
6.8
Tarzan
1966
6.7
Waco
as Jim O'Neill
1966
6.4
Nevada Smith
as Sam Sand
1966
6.7
Apache Uprising
as Jess Cooney
1965
6.2
Run for Your Life
as Jim Seaborne
1965
7.2
The Legend of Jesse James
as Jake Burnett
1965
4.8
Branded
1965
6.6
Daniel Boone
as Joshua Craig
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Stark
1964
7.0
The Great Adventure
as Sgt. Winn
1963
0.0
Shock Corridor
as Boden
1963
7.0
General Electric True
1962
0.0
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Ed Krutcher
1962
7.8
The Virginian
as Sheriff Luke Donaldson
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Blanchard
1962
6.4
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
3.5
Gold of the Seven Saints
as McCracken
1961
7.0
Gunslinger
as Sergeant Croft
1961
6.0
Route 66
1960
6.3
Outlaws
1960
6.2
Operation Petticoat
as Chief Molumphry
1959
7.2
Johnny Ringo
as Boone Hackett
1959
5.7
Wichita Town
1959
4.2
Riverboat
as Sgt. Dan Phillips
1959
6.2
Bonanza
as Andy Fulmer
1959
7.5
The Hangman
as "Big Murph" Murphy
1959
6.3
The Giant Behemoth
as Steve Karnes
1959
5.8
Rawhide
as Tom Wilson
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Sam Hargis
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Gus Cornelius
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Sgt. Pike
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Royal K. Shaw
1959
7.2
Revolt in the Big House
as Lou Gannon
1958
6.2
77 Sunset Strip
1958
6.7
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
Yancy Derringer
as Lonesome Jackson
1958
6.0
Money, Women and Guns
as Sheriff Abner Crowley
1958
5.3
The Bravados
as John Butler
1958
6.6
Young and Wild
as Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz
1958
3.0
Damn Citizen
as Maj. Al Arthur
1958
0.0
The Sad Sack
as Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley
1957
5.6
The Helen Morgan Story
as Whitey Krause
1957
5.0
Perry Mason
as Moose Dalton
1957
7.7
Massacre at Sand Creek
as Sgt. Maddox
1956
4.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jerrod Toll
1956
6.0
Wire Service
as (uncredited)
1956
0.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Ned Malley
1955
7.8
My Friend Flicka
1955
5.7
Gunsmoke
as Charlie Hacker
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Clint Sorils
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Thomas Evans
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Billy
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Jess Hume
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Bodie Tatum
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Shaw Anderson
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Will Parmalee
1955
6.6
Crashout
as Maynard 'Monk' Collins
1955
6.6
Cattle Queen of Montana
as Tom McCord
1954
5.6
The Long Wait
as Servo
1954
5.8
Wyoming Renegades
as Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker
1954
5.8
Hell and High Water
as Chief Holter
1954
6.1
Donovan's Brain
as Dr. Frank Schratt
1953
6.1
The Golden Blade
as Captain Hadi
1953
6.3
Thunderbirds
as Sgt. Mike Braggart
1952
5.7
Park Row
as Phineas Mitchell
1952
6.5
Mutiny
as Hook
1952
4.8
Fixed Bayonets!
as Sgt. Rock
1951
6.5
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Joe Devlin
1951
7.2
Force of Arms
as Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee
1951
6.4
Ace in the Hole
as Deputy Sheriff
1951
7.9
I Was an American Spy
as Cpl. John Boone
1951
6.2
Sugarfoot
as Billings
1951
5.0
Storm Warning
as Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)
1951
6.6
The Steel Helmet
as Sergeant Zack
1951
7.0
Wyoming Mail
as Shep
1950
4.4
Armored Car Robbery
as William 'Ace' Foster
1950
6.5
The Asphalt Jungle
as Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)
1950
7.5
It Happens Every Spring
as Batter Mueller (uncredited)
1949
6.5
Criss Cross
as Donlan (uncredited)
1949
7.1
Assigned to Danger
as Joey
1948
5.0
Berlin Express
as Train Sergeant
1948
6.2
Under Colorado Skies
as Henchman Red
1947
0.0