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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.
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as Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)
as Fargo Parker
as McGregor
as Otto Fry(1 ep)
as Nils Highlander(1 ep)
as Gus Weinstein(1 ep)
as Meyer
as Darrow(1 ep)
as Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner
as Narrator
as Sam Brannon
as Captain K.L. Fitzgerald
as Cletus Hatch(2 eps)
as Lt. Blocker
as Benson Bigelow(2 eps)
as Sheriff Marsh
as Sheriff Andrews
as Fred Williker
as Garrison Southworth(1 ep)
as Jimmy Kelly(1 ep)
as Dan Harter
as Col. Barton(3 eps)
as James Webner(1 ep)
as Spencer Parish(10 eps)
as Dutton
as Sgt. Fred Hanrahan(13 eps)
as Sgt. Hanrahan
as Marshal Connelly
as Papa Doc
as Hooker
as Sam
as Gabe
as Mr. Horrell
as Sheriff McVaney
as Sheriff Al Thurman
as Tom Brady
as Clayton Kibbee(1 ep)
as Durand(1 ep)
as Butcher
as Cole Younger
as Col Wolff
as Clete
as Hank(1 ep)
as Tom Danby
as Hugh Brown
as Ernest Maxwell(1 ep)
as Deputy Hoag
as Parker(1 ep)
as Jim O'Neill
as Sam Sand
as Jess Cooney
as Jim Seaborne(1 ep)
as Jake Burnett(1 ep)
as Joshua Craig(1 ep)
as Stark(1 ep)
as Sgt. Winn(1 ep)
as Boden
as Ed Krutcher(1 ep)
as Sheriff Luke Donaldson(1 ep)
as Blanchard(1 ep)
as McCracken
as Sergeant Croft(1 ep)
as Chief Molumphry
as Boone Hackett(1 ep)
as Sgt. Dan Phillips(1 ep)
as Andy Fulmer(1 ep)
as "Big Murph" Murphy
as Steve Karnes
as Tom Wilson(1 ep)
as Sam Hargis(1 ep)
as Gus Cornelius(1 ep)
as Sgt. Pike(1 ep)
as Royal K. Shaw(1 ep)
as Lou Gannon
as Lonesome Jackson(1 ep)
as Sheriff Abner Crowley
as John Butler
as Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz
as Maj. Al Arthur
as Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley
as Airfield Sergeant (uncredited)
as Whitey Krause
as Moose Dalton(1 ep)
as Sgt. Jake Orly(1 ep)
as Sgt. Maddox
as Jerrod Toll(1 ep)
as (uncredited)(1 ep)
as Ned Malley(1 ep)
as Charlie Hacker(2 eps)
as Clint Sorils(1 ep)
as Thomas Evans(1 ep)
as Billy(2 eps)
as Jess Hume(1 ep)
as Bodie Tatum(1 ep)
as Shaw Anderson(1 ep)
as Will Parmalee(1 ep)
as Maynard 'Monk' Collins
as Tom McCord
as Servo
as Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker
as Chief Holter
as Dr. Frank Schratt
as Captain Hadi
as Sgt. Mike Braggart
as Phineas Mitchell
as Hook
as Sgt. Rock
as Joe Devlin(1 ep)
as Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee
as Deputy Sheriff
as Cpl. John Boone
as Billings
as Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)
as Sergeant Zack
as Drunk in Saloon (uncredited)
as Shep
as Hunter( uncredited)
as William 'Ace' Foster
as Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)
as Beef Corson(1 ep)
as Batter Mueller (uncredited)
as Donlan (uncredited)
as Horace (uncredited)
as Joey
as Train Sergeant (uncredited)
as Henchman Red
