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Gene Evans

August 25, 2023

This article is about the actor (1922–1998). For the pyrotechnician (1937–2008), see Gene Evans (pyrotechnician).

Eugene Barton Evans (July 11, 1922 – April 1, 1998) was an American actor who appeared in numerous television series, television films, and feature films between 1947 and 1989.[citation needed]

Gene Evans
Gene Evans in Fixed Bayonets! (1951)
Born
Eugene Barton Evans

(1922-07-11)July 11, 1922
Holbrook, Arizona, U.S.
DiedApril 1, 1998(1998-04-01) (aged 75)
Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.
Years active1947–1989
Spouse(s)Mary Elaine Hert (1968-1971) (her death)
Patricia Ann Willis (14 January 1956 - ?) (divorced)

Background Edit

Evans was born in Holbrook, Arizona and raised in Colton, California. Right after finishing high school, he began performing in summer stock at the Penthouse Theatre in Altadena, California.[1] Evans served in the United States Army during World War II and achieved the rank of sergeant.[2] He performed with a theatrical troupe of GIs in Europe.

He made his film debut in the 1947 film Under Colorado Skies as Henchman Red, and appeared in dozens of films and television programs. He specialized in playing tough guys, such as soldiers and lawmen.[3]

Acting career Edit

Evans appeared in numerous films produced, directed, and written by Samuel Fuller. In his memoir, A Third Face, Fuller described meeting Evans when casting his Korean War film The Steel Helmet (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 United States Army engineer in World War II. Fuller kept Evans and refused John Wayne for the role and fought to keep him despite Robert L. Lippert and his partner wanting Larry Parks for the role.[4] Fuller walked off the film and would not return until Evans was reinstated.[5] Evans also appeared in Fuller's Fixed Bayonets!,[6] Hell and High Water,[7] Shock Corridor[citation needed] and lost 30 pounds to play the lead in Park Row.[8]

Evans portrayed the authoritarian but wise father Rob McLaughlin on the 1956-1957 television series My Friend Flicka. He next co-starred in 1958 as Major Al Arthur in Damn Citizen, a film based on the life of crusading State Police superintendent Francis Grevemberg of Louisiana. In 1960, Evans was cast as Otis Stockert in "The Frontiersman" on the Western series Wichita Town. The same year, he was cast as Boone Hackett in the episode "Die Twice" of the Western series Johnny Ringo. He was cast in 1960 as army sergeant Dan Phillips in the episode "The Quota" of Riverboat. In the story, Phillips shanghais Grey Holden (Darren McGavin) and a crew member of the river vessel Enterprise to meet the army's "quota" for new recruits.[citation needed]

In 1961, Evans guest-starred as Sheriff Tom Wilson in "Incident on the Road Back" in Rawhide. He then was cast as Walter Kopek, an undercover agent of the United States Treasury Department in the 1963 episode "The Moonshiners" of GE True, hosted by Jack Webb. In this episode's plot, Kopek moves against a bootlegging operation in Florida run by the mobster Bill Munger (Robert Emhardt).[citation needed]

Evans was cast as the historical Winfield Scott Stratton, a miner in Colorado, in the 1964 episode "Sixty-Seven Miles of Gold" on Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews.

In 1966, Evans appeared on the drama series Perry Mason as Sheriff "Moose" Dalton in "The Case of the Scarlet Scandal". He starred as well in Peopletoys in 1974 with Leif Garrett, and in the fall of 1976, Evans starred on the adventure series Spencer's Pilots.

In January 1979, Evans appeared as Garrison Southworth in one episode of Dallas. He guest-starred in 10 episodes of Gunsmoke. In 1965, Evans guest-starred as Jake Burnett in the episode "Vendetta" of The Legend of Jesse James. Two years later, he appeared as Deedricks in the episode "Breakout" of Custer.

In January 1982, Evans performed in the role of war reporter Clayton Kibbee in an episode of CBS's M*A*S*H titled "Blood and Guts". He also appeared on stage in the late 1980s as the gruesome Papa in the stage production Papa Is All, directed by playwright Tommy F. Scott in Jackson, Tennessee. Evans retired to a farm in Tennessee following his role in the original film version of Walking Tall.

He was active in the local theater in Jackson, Tennessee, with “On Borrowed Time” and “Love Letters” as well as “Papa is All”.

Death Edit

Evans died at age 75 of heart failure at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee, on April 1, 1998.[9]

Partial filmography Edit

Television Edit

  • The Lone Ranger – episode Devil's Pass - Beef Corson (1950)
  • The Lone Ranger – episode The Star Witness - Henchman Nat (1950)
  • The Lone Ranger – episode Behind the Law - Henchman Link (1951)
  • My Friend Flicka series (Feb 1956 - Aug 1957)
  • The Restless Gun episode The Coward - Will Fetter (1958)
  • Wagon Train - episode The Sarah Drummond Story - Jeb Drummond (1958)
  • Death Valley Days – 4 episodes (1959-1964)
  • Rawhide – 4 episodes (1959-1965)
  • Rawhide (1961) – Tom Wilson in S3:E16, "Incident on the Road Back"
  • Bonanza – episode The Fear Merchants - Andy Fulmer (1960)
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents - episode The Kerry Blue - Ned O'Malley (1962)
  • The Virginian - episode The Accomplice - Sheriff Luke Donaldson (1962) naked city 1962
  • Bonanza – episode Journey Remembered - Lucas Rockwell (1963)
  • Gunsmoke - episode Extradition: Parts 1 & 2 - Charlie Hacker (1963)
  • Wagon Train - episode The Duncan McIvor Story - Sgt. Jake Orly (1964)
  • Daniel Boone – episode The First Stone - Joshua Craig (1965)
  • Branded – episode The Bounty - Matthew Paxton (1965)
  • The Legend of Jesse James – episode Vendetta - Jake Burnett (1965)
  • The Iron Horse – episode The Pride of the Bottom of the Barrel - Sgt. Stoddard (1966)
  • The Virginian - episode Trail to Ashley Mountain - Blanchard (1966)
  • Ironside – episode Message from Beyond - Al Hayes (1967)
  • Gunsmoke - episode A Hat - Clint Sorils (1967)
  • Gunsmoke - episode The First People - Thomas Evans (1968)
  • Daniel Boone – episode The Man - Stark (1969)
  • Dragnet 1966 – TV movie - Captain Hugh Brown (1969)
  • Bonanza – episode The Trouble with Trouble - Montana Perkins (1970)
  • Here Come the Brides - episode S2E20: Two Worlds - Jacob Marsh (1970)
  • The Men From Shiloh, the rebranded name of The Virginian - episode With Love, Bullets and Valentines - Harv Plimpton (1970)
  • Gunsmoke - episode Snow Train: Parts 1 & 2 - Billy (1970)
  • Mannix – episode Murder Times Three - Dan Brockway (1971)
  • Longstreet – episode Wednesday's Child - Fred Decker (1971)
  • Nichols – episode Deer Crossing - Durand (1971)
  • Gunsmoke - episode Phoenix - Jess Hume (1971)
  • Alias Smith and Jones - episode The Men That Corrupted Hadleyburg - Phillips (1972)
  • Gunsmoke - episode Tatum - Bodie Tatum (1972)
  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid – Mr. Horrell (1973)
  • Ironside – episode Downhill All the Way Parker (1973)
  • Gunsmoke - episode The Iron Blood of Courage - Shaw Anderson (1974)
  • Gunsmoke – episode Thirty a Month and Found - Will Parmalee (1974)
  • Spencer's Pilots – 6 episodes - Spencer Parish (1976)
  • The Rhinemann Exchange - TV miniseries - Colonel Barton (1977)
  • The Incredible Hulk - episode Rainbow's End - Jimmy Kelly (1978)
  • Lassie: A New Beginning – TV movie - Sheriff Marsh (1978)
  • The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries – episode Oh Say Can You Sing (1978)
  • The Eddie Capra Mysteries - episode How Do I Kill Thee? (1978)
  • Lassie: A New Beginning – episode Oh Say Can You Sing – Sheriff Marsh (1978)
  • Charlie's Angels - episode Cruising Angels - Webner (1979)
  • Fantasy Island – episode Tattoo: the Love God/Magnolia Blossoms - Confederate Asking for money (1979)
  • Casino - TV movie - Captain K.L. Fitzgerald (1980)
  • Vega$ - episode Murder by Mirrors - Marcus Hinton (1981)
  • Hart to Hart - episode Murder in the Saddle - Ray Dudley (1981)
  • M*A*S*H - episode Blood and Guts - Clayton Kibbee (1982)
  • Simon & Simon - episode Betty Grable Flies Again - Arch McBride (1983)
  • Murder, She Wrote - episode We're Off to Kill the Wizard - Nils Highlander (1984)
  • The A-Team - episode Bounty - Darrow (1985)
  • Murder, She Wrote - episode Trial by Error - Otto Fry (1986)
  • Simon & Simon - episode The Last Harangue - Freight Yard Supervisor (1986)
  • Simon & Simon - episode Deep Water Death - Captain Kyle Bates (1987)
  • Scarecrow and Mrs. King – episode Mission of Gold - Gus Weinstein (1987)

References Edit

  1. ^ Tom Vallance, Obituary: Gene Evans, The Independent, 5 April, 1998
  2. ^ Oliver, Myrna. "Gene Evans; Actor Known for 'Tough Guy' Roles", Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1998, page A30.
  3. ^ Myrna Oliver, Gene Evans; Actor Known for ‘Tough Guy’ Roles, Los Angeles Times, April 3, 1998
  4. ^ Fuller, Samuel (2002). A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2002.
  5. ^ Fuller, Samuel (2002). A Third Face: My Tale...; 258-259.
  6. ^ Fixed Bayonets, film synopsis and cast and crew credits, Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  7. ^ Hell and High Water, film synopsis and cast and crew credits, TCM. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
  8. ^ Eder, Bruce. Synopsis of the 1952 film Park Row. AllMovie.
  9. ^ The Associated Press (1998). "Gene Evans, Actor, 75", obituary. The New York Times, April 4, 1998. Retrieved May 13, 2017.

External links Edit

  • Gene Evans at IMDb  

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This article is about the actor 1922 1998 For the pyrotechnician 1937 2008 see Gene Evans pyrotechnician This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations December 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Eugene Barton Evans July 11 1922 April 1 1998 was an American actor who appeared in numerous television series television films and feature films between 1947 and 1989 citation needed Gene EvansGene Evans in Fixed Bayonets 1951 BornEugene Barton Evans 1922 07 11 July 11 1922Holbrook Arizona U S DiedApril 1 1998 1998 04 01 aged 75 Jackson Tennessee U S Years active1947 1989Spouse s Mary Elaine Hert 1968 1971 her death Patricia Ann Willis 14 January 1956 divorced Contents 1 Background 2 Acting career 3 Death 4 Partial filmography 5 Television 6 References 7 External linksBackground EditEvans was born in Holbrook Arizona and raised in Colton California Right after finishing high school he began performing in summer stock at the Penthouse Theatre in Altadena California 1 Evans served in the United States Army during World War II and achieved the rank of sergeant 2 He performed with a theatrical troupe of GIs in Europe He made his film debut in the 1947 film Under Colorado Skies as Henchman Red and appeared in dozens of films and television programs He specialized in playing tough guys such as soldiers and lawmen 3 Acting career EditEvans appeared in numerous films produced directed and written by Samuel Fuller In his memoir A Third Face Fuller described meeting Evans when casting his Korean War film The Steel Helmet 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 United States Army engineer in World War II Fuller kept Evans and refused John Wayne for the role and fought to keep him despite Robert L Lippert and his partner wanting Larry Parks for the role 4 Fuller walked off the film and would not return until Evans was reinstated 5 Evans also appeared in Fuller s Fixed Bayonets 6 Hell and High Water 7 Shock Corridor citation needed and lost 30 pounds to play the lead in Park Row 8 Evans portrayed the authoritarian but wise father Rob McLaughlin on the 1956 1957 television series My Friend Flicka He next co starred in 1958 as Major Al Arthur in Damn Citizen a film based on the life of crusading State Police superintendent Francis Grevemberg of Louisiana In 1960 Evans was cast as Otis Stockert in The Frontiersman on the Western series Wichita Town The same year he was cast as Boone Hackett in the episode Die Twice of the Western series Johnny Ringo He was cast in 1960 as army sergeant Dan Phillips in the episode The Quota of Riverboat In the story Phillips shanghais Grey Holden Darren McGavin and a crew member of the river vessel Enterprise to meet the army s quota for new recruits citation needed In 1961 Evans guest starred as Sheriff Tom Wilson in Incident on the Road Back in Rawhide He then was cast as Walter Kopek an undercover agent of the United States Treasury Department in the 1963 episode The Moonshiners of GE True hosted by Jack Webb In this episode s plot Kopek moves against a bootlegging operation in Florida run by the mobster Bill Munger Robert Emhardt citation needed Evans was cast as the historical Winfield Scott Stratton a miner in Colorado in the 1964 episode Sixty Seven Miles of Gold on Death Valley Days hosted by Stanley Andrews In 1966 Evans appeared on the drama series Perry Mason as Sheriff Moose Dalton in The Case of the Scarlet Scandal He starred as well in Peopletoys in 1974 with Leif Garrett and in the fall of 1976 Evans starred on the adventure series Spencer s Pilots In January 1979 Evans appeared as Garrison Southworth in one episode of Dallas He guest starred in 10 episodes of Gunsmoke In 1965 Evans guest starred as Jake Burnett in the episode Vendetta of The Legend of Jesse James Two years later he appeared as Deedricks in the episode Breakout of Custer In January 1982 Evans performed in the role of war reporter Clayton Kibbee in an episode of CBS s M A S H titled Blood and Guts He also appeared on stage in the late 1980s as the gruesome Papa in the stage production Papa Is All directed by playwright Tommy F Scott in Jackson Tennessee Evans retired to a farm in Tennessee following his role in the original film version of Walking Tall He was active in the local theater in Jackson Tennessee with On Borrowed Time and Love Letters as well as Papa is All Death EditEvans died at age 75 of heart failure at Jackson Madison County General Hospital in Jackson Tennessee on April 1 1998 9 Partial filmography EditUnder Colorado Skies 1947 Henchman Red Berlin Express 1948 Train Sergeant uncredited Assigned to Danger 1948 Joey Larceny 1948 Horace uncredited Criss Cross 1949 Donlan uncredited Mother Is a Freshman 1949 Bit Part uncredited It Happens Every Spring 1949 Batter Mueller uncredited The Asphalt Jungle 1950 Policeman at Ciavelli s Apartment uncredited Armored Car Robbery 1950 William Ace Foster Never a Dull Moment 1950 Hunter uncredited Wyoming Mail 1950 Shep Dallas 1950 Drunk in Saloon uncredited The Steel Helmet 1951 Sgt Zack Storm Warning 1951 Ku Klux Klansman uncredited Sugarfoot 1951 Billings I Was an American Spy 1951 Cpl John Boone Ace in the Hole 1951 Deputy Sheriff Force of Arms 1951 Sgt Smiley Mac McFee Fixed Bayonets 1951 Sgt Rock Mutiny 1952 Hook Park Row 1952 Phineas Mitchell Thunderbirds 1952 Sgt Mike Braggart The Golden Blade 1953 Hadi Donovan s Brain 1953 Dr Frank Schratt Hell and High Water 1954 Chief Holter The Long Wait 1954 Servo Cattle Queen of Montana 1954 Tom McCord Crashout 1955 Maynard Monk Collins Wyoming Renegades 1955 Butch Cassidy George Leroy Parker Jet Pilot 1957 Airfield Sgt uncredited The Helen Morgan Story 1957 Whitey Krause The Sad Sack 1957 Sgt Major Elmer Pulley Damn Citizen 1958 Maj Al Arthur Young and Wild 1958 Det Sgt Fred Janusz The Bravados 1958 John Butler Money Women and Guns 1958 Sheriff Abner Crowley Revolt in the Big House 1958 Lou Gannon The Giant Behemoth 1959 Steve Karnes The Hangman 1959 Big Murph Murphy Operation Petticoat 1959 Chief Molumphry Gold of the Seven Saints 1961 McCracken Shock Corridor 1963 Boden Apache Uprising 1965 Jess Cooney Nevada Smith 1966 Sam Sand Waco 1966 Deputy Sheriff Jim O Neill The War Wagon 1967 Deputy Hoag Dragnet 1969 TV movie Capt Hugh Brown Support Your Local Sheriff 1969 Tom Danby The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 Clete There Was a Crooked Man 1970 Col Wolff The Intruders Shot in 1967 released in 1970 Cole Younger Support Your Local Gunfighter 1971 Butcher Walking Tall 1973 Sheriff Al Thurman Gentle Savage 1973 Sheriff McVaney Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 1973 Mr Horrell Sidekicks 1974 TV movie Sam Knife for the Ladies 1974 Hooker Peopletoys 1974 Papa Doc The Macahans 1976 Dutton Fire 1977 TV movie Dan Harter The Magic of Lassie 1978 Sheriff Andrews The Sacketts 1979 TV movie Benson Bigelow Sourdough 1981 Narrator The Shadow Riders 1982 TV Movie Colonel Holiday Hammond Gunrunner Travis McGee 1983 TV movie Meyer Blame It on the Night 1984 Extra uncredited The Alamo 13 Days to Glory 1987 TV movie McGregor Once Upon a Texas Train 1988 TV movie Fargo Parker Split 1989 EvangelistTelevision EditThe Lone Ranger episode Devil s Pass Beef Corson 1950 The Lone Ranger episode The Star Witness Henchman Nat 1950 The Lone Ranger episode Behind the Law Henchman Link 1951 My Friend Flicka series Feb 1956 Aug 1957 The Restless Gun episode The Coward Will Fetter 1958 Wagon Train episode The Sarah Drummond Story Jeb Drummond 1958 Death Valley Days 4 episodes 1959 1964 Rawhide 4 episodes 1959 1965 Rawhide 1961 Tom Wilson in S3 E16 Incident on the Road Back Bonanza episode The Fear Merchants Andy Fulmer 1960 Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode The Kerry Blue Ned O Malley 1962 The Virginian episode The Accomplice Sheriff Luke Donaldson 1962 naked city 1962 Bonanza episode Journey Remembered Lucas Rockwell 1963 Gunsmoke episode Extradition Parts 1 amp 2 Charlie Hacker 1963 Wagon Train episode The Duncan McIvor Story Sgt Jake Orly 1964 Daniel Boone episode The First Stone Joshua Craig 1965 Branded episode The Bounty Matthew Paxton 1965 The Legend of Jesse James episode Vendetta Jake Burnett 1965 The Iron Horse episode The Pride of the Bottom of the Barrel Sgt Stoddard 1966 The Virginian episode Trail to Ashley Mountain Blanchard 1966 Ironside episode Message from Beyond Al Hayes 1967 Gunsmoke episode A Hat Clint Sorils 1967 Gunsmoke episode The First People Thomas Evans 1968 Daniel Boone episode The Man Stark 1969 Dragnet 1966 TV movie Captain Hugh Brown 1969 Bonanza episode The Trouble with Trouble Montana Perkins 1970 Here Come the Brides episode S2E20 Two Worlds Jacob Marsh 1970 The Men From Shiloh the rebranded name of The Virginian episode With Love Bullets and Valentines Harv Plimpton 1970 Gunsmoke episode Snow Train Parts 1 amp 2 Billy 1970 Mannix episode Murder Times Three Dan Brockway 1971 Longstreet episode Wednesday s Child Fred Decker 1971 Nichols episode Deer Crossing Durand 1971 Gunsmoke episode Phoenix Jess Hume 1971 Alias Smith and Jones episode The Men That Corrupted Hadleyburg Phillips 1972 Gunsmoke episode Tatum Bodie Tatum 1972 Pat Garrett amp Billy the Kid Mr Horrell 1973 Ironside episode Downhill All the Way Parker 1973 Gunsmoke episode The Iron Blood of Courage Shaw Anderson 1974 Gunsmoke episode Thirty a Month and Found Will Parmalee 1974 Spencer s Pilots 6 episodes Spencer Parish 1976 The Rhinemann Exchange TV miniseries Colonel Barton 1977 The Incredible Hulk episode Rainbow s End Jimmy Kelly 1978 Lassie A New Beginning TV movie Sheriff Marsh 1978 The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries episode Oh Say Can You Sing 1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries episode How Do I Kill Thee 1978 Lassie A New Beginning episode Oh Say Can You Sing Sheriff Marsh 1978 Charlie s Angels episode Cruising Angels Webner 1979 Fantasy Island episode Tattoo the Love God Magnolia Blossoms Confederate Asking for money 1979 Casino TV movie Captain K L Fitzgerald 1980 Vega episode Murder by Mirrors Marcus Hinton 1981 Hart to Hart episode Murder in the Saddle Ray Dudley 1981 M A S H episode Blood and Guts Clayton Kibbee 1982 Simon amp Simon episode Betty Grable Flies Again Arch McBride 1983 Murder She Wrote episode We re Off to Kill the Wizard Nils Highlander 1984 The A Team episode Bounty Darrow 1985 Murder She Wrote episode Trial by Error Otto Fry 1986 Simon amp Simon episode The Last Harangue Freight Yard Supervisor 1986 Simon amp Simon episode Deep Water Death Captain Kyle Bates 1987 Scarecrow and Mrs King episode Mission of Gold Gus Weinstein 1987 Arizona portal California portal United States portal Film portal Television portal World War II portalReferences Edit Tom Vallance Obituary Gene Evans The Independent 5 April 1998 Oliver Myrna Gene Evans Actor Known for Tough Guy Roles Los Angeles Times April 3 1998 page A30 Myrna Oliver Gene Evans Actor Known for Tough Guy Roles Los Angeles Times April 3 1998 Fuller Samuel 2002 A Third Face My Tale of Writing Fighting and Filmmaking New York Alfred A Knopf 2002 Fuller Samuel 2002 A Third Face My Tale 258 259 Fixed Bayonets film synopsis and cast and crew credits Turner Classic Movies TCM Retrieved May 13 2017 Hell and High Water film synopsis and cast and crew credits TCM Retrieved May 13 2017 Eder Bruce Synopsis of the 1952 film Park Row AllMovie The Associated Press 1998 Gene Evans Actor 75 obituary The New York Times April 4 1998 Retrieved May 13 2017 External links EditGene Evans at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gene Evans amp oldid 1171408164, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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