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