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Gene Evans

Gene Evans

Actor · 1922 – 1998 · Holbrook, Arizona, USA

​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.

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  • Movie6.6

    The Bravados

    1958 · 151 votes

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    Ace in the Hole

    1951 · 776 votes

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    Walking Tall

    1973 · 149 votes

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    The Ballad of Cable Hogue

    1970 · 230 votes

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    Criss Cross

    1949 · 188 votes

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    The War Wagon

    1967 · 232 votes

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    The Asphalt Jungle

    1950 · 547 votes

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    Operation Petticoat

    1959 · 429 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Nevada Smith

    1966 · 197 votes

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    Dallas

    1950 · 37 votes

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    Hell and High Water

    1954 · 67 votes

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    The Shadow Riders

    1982 · 55 votes

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    Shock Corridor

    1963 · 304 votes

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    Armored Car Robbery

    1950 · 72 votes

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    The Hangman

    1959 · 39 votes

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    The Steel Helmet

    1951 · 91 votes

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    The Magic of Lassie

    1978 · 17 votes

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    Jet Pilot

    1957 · 50 votes

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    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

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    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

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    The A-Team

    1983 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

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    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV6.9

    Dallas

    1978 · 248 votes

  • TV7.9

    M*A*S*H

    1972 · 769 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

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    Daniel Boone

    1964 · 34 votes

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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

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    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

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    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

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    Run for Your Life

    1965 · 7 votes

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    Charlie's Angels

    1976 · 241 votes

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    Simon & Simon

    1981 · 99 votes

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    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

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    The Incredible Hulk

    1977 · 514 votes

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    Route 66

    1960 · 20 votes

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    Hart to Hart

    1979 · 133 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV6.2

    Yancy Derringer

    1958 · 11 votes

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    Scarecrow and Mrs. King

    1983 · 46 votes