Gene Evans
Acting • Born 1922-07-11 – Died 1998-04-01
Biography
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.
Filmography
140 credits
Nevada Smith
Movie • 1966
Sam Sand
Armored Car Robbery
Movie • 1950
William 'Ace' Foster
Criss Cross
Movie • 1949
Donlan (uncredited)
Hell and High Water
Movie • 1954
Chief Holter
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Movie • 1969
Tom Danby
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Movie • 1970
Clete
Walking Tall
Movie • 1973
Sheriff Al Thurman
Ace in the Hole
Movie • 1951
Deputy Sheriff
Shock Corridor
Movie • 1963
Boden
Park Row
Movie • 1952
Phineas Mitchell
It Happens Every Spring
Movie • 1949
Batter Mueller (uncredited)
Crashout
Movie • 1955
Maynard 'Monk' Collins
Operation Petticoat
Movie • 1959
Chief Molumphry
Lassie: The New Beginning
Movie • 1978
Sheriff Marsh
The War Wagon
Movie • 1967
Deputy Hoag
The Sad Sack
Movie • 1957
Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley
The Giant Behemoth
Movie • 1959
Steve Karnes
Donovan's Brain
Movie • 1953
Dr. Frank Schratt
The Long Wait
Movie • 1954
Servo
Assigned to Danger
Movie • 1948
Joey
The Bravados
Movie • 1958
John Butler
Young and Wild
Movie • 1958
Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Movie • 1974
Gabe
The Steel Helmet
Movie • 1951
Sergeant Zack
Fixed Bayonets!
Movie • 1951
Sgt. Rock
Revolt in the Big House
Movie • 1958
Lou Gannon
Devil Times Five
Movie • 1974
Papa Doc
Storm Warning
Movie • 1951
Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)
I Was an American Spy
Movie • 1951
Cpl. John Boone
Sidekicks
Movie • 1974
Sam
Fire!
Movie • 1977
Dan Harter
Casino
Movie • 1980
Captain K.L. Fitzgerald
The Golden Blade
Movie • 1953
Captain Hadi
Cattle Queen of Montana
Movie • 1954
Tom McCord
Wyoming Mail
Movie • 1950
Shep
Force of Arms
Movie • 1951
Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee
The Magic of Lassie
Movie • 1978
Sheriff Andrews
Damn Citizen
Movie • 1958
Maj. Al Arthur
Money, Women and Guns
Movie • 1958
Sheriff Abner Crowley
Wyoming Renegades
Movie • 1954
Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker
The Helen Morgan Story
Movie • 1957
Whitey Krause
Once Upon a Texas Train
Movie • 1988
Fargo Parker
Apache Uprising
Movie • 1965
Jess Cooney
Mutiny
Movie • 1952
Hook
The Intruders
Movie • 1970
Cole Younger
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Movie • 2002
Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)
Gold of the Seven Saints
Movie • 1961
McCracken
Sugarfoot
Movie • 1951
Billings
Sourdough
Movie • 1981
Narrator
The Asphalt Jungle
Movie • 1950
Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie • 1973
Mr. Horrell
Concrete Cowboys
Movie • 1979
Lt. Blocker
The Hangman
Movie • 1959
"Big Murph" Murphy
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Movie • 1978
Fred Williker
A Knife for the Ladies
Movie • 1974
Hooker
Under Colorado Skies
Movie • 1947
Henchman Red
The Last Day
Movie • 1975
Marshal Connelly
Massacre at Sand Creek
Movie • 1956
Sgt. Maddox
Waco
Movie • 1966
Jim O'Neill
California Gold Rush
Movie • 1981
Sam Brannon
Thunderbirds
Movie • 1952
Sgt. Mike Braggart
The Bounty Man
Movie • 1972
Tom Brady
The Shadow Riders
Movie • 1982
Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
Matt Helm
Movie • 1975
Sgt. Hanrahan
Dragnet
Movie • 1969
Hugh Brown
There Was a Crooked Man...
Movie • 1970
Col Wolff
Berlin Express
Movie • 1948
Train Sergeant
Prologue to Wounded Knee
Movie • 1973
Sheriff McVaney
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
Movie • 1987
McGregor
Travis McGee
Movie • 1983
Meyer
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie • 1971
Butcher
The Macahans
Movie • 1976
Dutton
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Otto Fry
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Clayton Kibbee
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Sgt. Winn
The A-Team
TV • 1983
Darrow
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
Matt Helm
TV • 1975
Sgt. Fred Hanrahan
Route 66
TV • 1960
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
James Webner
Mannix
TV • 1967
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Charlie Hacker
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Moose Dalton
Dallas
TV • 1978
Garrison Southworth
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Ned Malley
Target: The Corruptors!
TV • 1961
Outlaws
TV • 1960
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV • 1958
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Tom Wilson
Vega$
TV • 1978
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Jim Seaborne
Cimarron Strip
TV • 1967
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Joshua Craig
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Sheriff Luke Donaldson
Yancy Derringer
TV • 1958
Lonesome Jackson
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Joe Devlin
Here's Boomer
TV • 1981
Tarzan
TV • 1966
The Sixth Sense
TV • 1972
Branded
TV • 1965
Riverboat
TV • 1959
Sgt. Dan Phillips
Wire Service
TV • 1956
(uncredited)
Wichita Town
TV • 1959
Spencer's Pilots
TV • 1976
Spencer Parish
The Sacketts
TV • 1979
Benson Bigelow
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV • 1956
Jerrod Toll
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Boone Hackett
The Legend of Jesse James
TV • 1965
Jake Burnett
General Electric True
TV • 1962
Custer
TV • 1967
My Friend Flicka
TV • 1955
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
TV • 1978
Nichols
TV • 1971
Durand
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Sam Hargis
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Gus Cornelius
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Royal K. Shaw
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Sgt. Pike
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Blanchard
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Clint Sorils
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Thomas Evans
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Billy
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jess Hume
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Bodie Tatum
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Shaw Anderson
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Will Parmalee
The Rhinemann Exchange
TV • 1977
Col. Barton
Daniel Boone
TV • 1964
Stark
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Ernest Maxwell
Wild Times
TV • 1980
Cletus Hatch
The Incredible Hulk
TV • 1977
Jimmy Kelly
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Ed Krutcher
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Nils Highlander
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Andy Fulmer
Then Came Bronson
TV • 1969
Hank
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV • 1983
Gus Weinstein
Gunslinger
TV • 1961
Sergeant Croft
The Lone Ranger
TV • 1949
Beef Corson