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