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