Birthday:
Birthday:

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.
Birthday: July 11, 1922
Death: April 01, 1998

December 21, 1974

June 10, 1966

June 08, 1950

February 04, 1949

February 01, 1954

March 26, 1969

March 18, 1970

February 22, 1973

June 29, 1951

September 25, 1963

September 01, 1952

June 10, 1949

March 01, 1955

December 05, 1959

September 17, 1978

May 26, 1967

November 27, 1957

March 03, 1959

September 30, 1953

May 26, 1954

May 19, 1948

June 25, 1958

April 24, 1958

January 09, 1974

January 24, 1951

November 21, 1951

December 21, 1958

May 31, 1974

February 10, 1951

April 14, 1951

March 21, 1974

May 08, 1977

August 01, 1980

August 12, 1953

November 18, 1954

October 18, 1950

August 13, 1951

August 02, 1978

March 01, 1958

October 01, 1958

March 27, 1954

October 02, 1957

October 12, 1988

December 29, 1965

March 05, 1952

November 10, 1970

July 02, 2002

February 18, 1961

February 11, 1951

December 01, 1981

May 12, 1950

May 23, 1973

October 17, 1979

June 17, 1959

May 26, 1978

May 02, 1974

December 15, 1947

February 15, 1975

December 27, 1956

September 01, 1966

July 30, 1981

November 20, 1952

October 31, 1972

September 28, 1982

May 07, 1975

January 27, 1969

September 18, 1970

May 01, 1948

April 27, 1973

November 11, 1987

May 18, 1983

May 26, 1971

January 19, 1976

September 30, 1984

September 17, 1972

October 10, 1958

September 27, 1963

January 23, 1983

November 24, 1981

September 20, 1975

October 07, 1960

January 05, 1971

September 22, 1976

September 16, 1967

September 22, 1979

September 10, 1955

September 21, 1957

April 02, 1978

October 02, 1955

September 29, 1961

September 26, 1960

October 06, 1958

January 09, 1959

September 20, 1978

September 13, 1965

September 07, 1967

September 24, 1964

September 19, 1962

October 02, 1958

October 05, 1951

September 12, 1981

September 08, 1966

January 15, 1972

January 24, 1965

September 13, 1959

October 04, 1956

September 30, 1959

September 17, 1976

May 15, 1979

October 05, 1956

October 02, 1959

September 13, 1965

September 30, 1962

September 06, 1967

September 30, 1955

September 08, 1978

September 16, 1971

March 10, 1977

September 20, 1968

January 24, 1980

November 04, 1977

September 20, 1962

September 12, 1959

September 17, 1969

October 03, 1983

February 09, 1961

September 15, 1949