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