Gene Evans
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Perry Mason
Moose Dalton
1957
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Otto Fry
1984
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Nils Highlander
1984
Series
Dallas
Garrison Southworth
1978
Series
The A-Team
Darrow
1983
Series
Bonanza
Andy Fulmer
1959
Series
Ironside
Parker
1967
Series
M*A*S*H
Clayton Kibbee
1972
Series
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Ed Krutcher
1962
Series
Mannix
1967
Series
Charlie's Angels
James Webner
1976
Series
The Virginian
Sheriff Luke Donaldson
1962
Series
The Virginian
Blanchard
1962
Series
Rawhide
Tom Wilson
1959
Series
Rawhide
Sam Hargis
1959
Series
Rawhide
Gus Cornelius
1959
Series
Rawhide
Royal K. Shaw
1959
Series
Rawhide
Sgt. Pike
1959
Series
Simon & Simon
1981
Series
Daniel Boone
Joshua Craig
1964
Series
Daniel Boone
Stark
1964
Series
Hart to Hart
1979
Series
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jerrod Toll
1956
Series
The Incredible Hulk
Jimmy Kelly
1977
Series
Gunsmoke
Charlie Hacker
1955
Series
Gunsmoke
Clint Sorils
1955
Series
Gunsmoke
Thomas Evans
1955
Series
Gunsmoke
Billy
1955
Series
Gunsmoke
Jess Hume
1955
Series
Gunsmoke
Bodie Tatum
1955
Series
Gunsmoke
Shaw Anderson
1955
Series
Gunsmoke
Will Parmalee
1955
Series
Route 66
1960
Series
Run for Your Life
Jim Seaborne
1965
Series
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Gus Weinstein
1983
Series
The Name of the Game
Ernest Maxwell
1968
Series
The Lone Ranger
Beef Corson
1949
Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Ned Malley
1955
Series
Vega$
1978
Series
Tarzan
1966
Series
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Series
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Series
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
Series
Branded
1965
Series
Johnny Ringo
Boone Hackett
1959
Series
Outlaws
1960
Series
The Great Adventure
Sgt. Winn
1963
Series
Nichols
Durand
1971
Series
Then Came Bronson
Hank
1969
Series
Cimarron Strip
1967
Series
Yancy Derringer
Lonesome Jackson
1958
Series
Riverboat
Sgt. Dan Phillips
1959
Series
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Series
The Sixth Sense
1972
Series
Matt Helm
Sgt. Fred Hanrahan
1975
Series
The Legend of Jesse James
Jake Burnett
1965
Series
Wire Service
(uncredited)
1956
Film
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Mr. Horrell
1973
Film
Walking Tall
Sheriff Al Thurman
1973
Series
Custer
1967
Series
Here's Boomer
1981
Series
Gunslinger
Sergeant Croft
1961
Series
Wichita Town
1959
Series
The Sacketts
Benson Bigelow
1979
Series
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
Film
The Asphalt Jungle
Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)
1950
Series
General Electric True
1962
Film
Support Your Local Sheriff!
Tom Danby
1969
Series
My Friend Flicka
1955
Film
The War Wagon
Deputy Hoag
1967
Film
Nevada Smith
Sam Sand
1966
Film
Operation Petticoat
Chief Molumphry
1959
Film
The Bravados
John Butler
1958
Series
Spencer's Pilots
Spencer Parish
1976
Film
Ace in the Hole
Deputy Sheriff
1951
Series
Wild Times
Cletus Hatch
1980
Film
Criss Cross
Donlan (uncredited)
1949
Film
The Shadow Riders
Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
1982
Film
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Clete
1970
Film
Lassie: The New Beginning
Sheriff Marsh
1978
Film
Dallas
Drunk in Saloon (uncredited)
1950
Series
The Rhinemann Exchange
Col. Barton
1977
Film
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Butcher
1971
Film
Storm Warning
Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)
1951
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Joe Devlin
1951
Film
The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
McGregor
1987
Film
There Was a Crooked Man...
Col Wolff
1970
Film
Jet Pilot
Airfield Sergeant (uncredited)
1957
Film
Shock Corridor
Boden
1963
Film
The Helen Morgan Story
Whitey Krause
1957
Film
The Hangman
"Big Murph" Murphy
1959
Film
The Giant Behemoth
Steve Karnes
1959
Film
Hell and High Water
Chief Holter
1954
Film
Once Upon a Texas Train
Fargo Parker
1988
Film
The Steel Helmet
Sergeant Zack
1951
Film
Cattle Queen of Montana
Tom McCord
1954
Film
Thunderbirds
Sgt. Mike Braggart
1952
Film
Gold of the Seven Saints
McCracken
1961
Film
Sugarfoot
Billings
1951
Film
Force of Arms
Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee
1951
Film
The Magic of Lassie
Sheriff Andrews
1978
Film
The Golden Blade
Captain Hadi
1953
Film
Berlin Express
Train Sergeant (uncredited)
1948
Film
Wyoming Renegades
Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker
1954
Film
Sidekicks
Sam
1974
Film
Devil Times Five
Papa Doc
1974
Film
Apache Uprising
Jess Cooney
1965
Film
Fixed Bayonets!
Sgt. Rock
1951
Film
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Gabe
1974
Film
The Sad Sack
Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley
1957
Film
Wyoming Mail
Shep
1950
Film
Concrete Cowboys
Lt. Blocker
1979
Film
Waco
Jim O'Neill
1966
Film
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)
2002
Film
Mutiny
Hook
1952
Film
The Intruders
Cole Younger
1970
Film
The Long Wait
Servo
1954
Film
Crashout
Maynard 'Monk' Collins
1955
Film
Money, Women and Guns
Sheriff Abner Crowley
1958
Film
Never a Dull Moment
Hunter( uncredited)
1950
Film
Armored Car Robbery
William 'Ace' Foster
1950
Film
Fire!
Dan Harter
1977
Film
Assigned to Danger
Joey
1948
Film
Travis McGee
Meyer
1983
Film
Larceny
Horace (uncredited)
1948
Film
It Happens Every Spring
Batter Mueller (uncredited)
1949
Film
Massacre at Sand Creek
Sgt. Maddox
1956
Film
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid
Fred Williker
1978
Film
Matt Helm
Sgt. Hanrahan
1975
Film
Under Colorado Skies
Henchman Red
1947
Film
Revolt in the Big House
Lou Gannon
1958
Film
The Macahans
Dutton
1976
Film
The Last Day
Marshal Connelly
1975
Film
Prologue to Wounded Knee
Sheriff McVaney
1973
Film
Casino
Captain K.L. Fitzgerald
1980
Film
Park Row
Phineas Mitchell
1952
Film
The Bounty Man
Tom Brady
1972
Film
Young and Wild
Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz
1958
Film
Sourdough
Narrator
1981
Film
A Knife for the Ladies
Hooker
1974
Film
Donovan's Brain
Dr. Frank Schratt
1953
Film
I Was an American Spy
Cpl. John Boone
1951
Film
California Gold Rush
Sam Brannon
1981
Film
Damn Citizen
Maj. Al Arthur
1958
Dragnet
Hugh Brown
1969