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 Fullers 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 Spencers Pilots, with Christopher Stone, Todd Susman, and Britt Leach.In January 1979, Evans appeared as Garrison Southworth in one episode of CBSs Dallas in January 1979. He appeared in ten episodes of CBSs Gunsmoke with James Arness, including The Snow Train and Tatum. In 1965, he guest starred as Jake Burnett in the episode Vendetta of ABCs 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.
Sam Sand
Film 1966
William 'Ace' Foster
Film 1950
Donlan (uncredited)
Film 1949
Chief Holter
Film 1954
Tom Danby
Film 1969
Clete
Film 1970
Sheriff Al Thurman
Film 1973
Deputy Sheriff
Film 1951
Boden
Film 1963
Phineas Mitchell
Film 1952
Batter Mueller (uncredited)
Film 1949
Chief Molumphry
Film 1959
Sheriff Marsh
Film 1978
Deputy Hoag
Film 1967
Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley
Film 1957
Steve Karnes
Film 1959
Dr. Frank Schratt
Film 1953
Servo
Film 1954
Joey
Film 1948
John Butler
Film 1958
Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz
Film 1958
Gabe
Film 1974
Sergeant Zack
Film 1951
Lou Gannon
Film 1958
Papa Doc
Film 1974
Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)
Film 1951
Cpl. John Boone
Film 1951
Sam
Film 1974
Dan Harter
Film 1977
Captain K.L. Fitzgerald
Film 1980
Captain Hadi
Film 1953
Tom McCord
Film 1954
Shep
Film 1950
Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee
Film 1951
Sheriff Andrews
Film 1978
Maj. Al Arthur
Film 1958
Sheriff Abner Crowley
Film 1958
Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker
Film 1954
Whitey Krause
Film 1957
Fargo Parker
Film 1988
Jess Cooney
Film 1965
Hook
Film 1952
Cole Younger
Film 1970
Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)
Film 2002
McCracken
Film 1961
Billings
Film 1951
Narrator
Film 1981
Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)
Film 1950
Mr. Horrell
Film 1973
Lt. Blocker
Film 1979
"Big Murph" Murphy
Film 1959
Fred Williker
Film 1978
Hooker
Film 1974
Henchman Red
Film 1947
Marshal Connelly
Film 1975
Sgt. Maddox
Film 1956
Jim O'Neill
Film 1966
Sam Brannon
Film 1981
Sgt. Mike Braggart
Film 1952
Tom Brady
Film 1972
Sgt. Hanrahan
Film 1975
Hugh Brown
Film 1969
Col Wolff
Film 1970
Train Sergeant
Film 1948
Sheriff McVaney
Film 1973
McGregor
Film 1987
Butcher
Film 1971
Dutton
Film 1976
Otto Fry
Tv 1984
Clayton Kibbee
Tv 1972
Tv 1958
Sgt. Winn
Tv 1963
Tv 1981
Tv 1960
Tv 1971
James Webner
Tv 1976
Tv 1983
Tv 1967
Tv 1979
Moose Dalton
Tv 1957
Ned Malley
Tv 1955
Tv 1961
Tv 1960
Tv 1958
Tv 1978
Jim Seaborne
Tv 1965
Tv 1967
Lonesome Jackson
Tv 1958
Joe Devlin
Tv 1951
Tv 1980
Tv 1966
Tv 1972
Tv 1965
Sgt. Dan Phillips
Tv 1959
(uncredited)
Tv 1956
Tv 1959
Spencer Parish
Tv 1976
Jerrod Toll
Tv 1956
Boone Hackett
Tv 1959
Jake Burnett
Tv 1965
Tv 1962
Tv 1967
Tv 1955
Tv 1978
Col. Barton
Tv 1977
Ernest Maxwell
Tv 1968
Ed Krutcher
Tv 1962
Nils Highlander
Tv 1984
Andy Fulmer
Tv 1959