Gene Evans

Actor

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Birth Place

Holbrook, Arizona, USA

Born

July 11, 1922

Died

April 01, 1998

Cause of Death

Heart Failure

Biography

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Actor Gene Evans began acting in his youth, refining his skills as a performer in a G.I. acting troupe while he served as an engineer. It is perhaps for this reason that Evans was often cast as strong, weathered men in westerns and war films. He first appeared on film with a small role in the 1947 horse opera "Under Colorado Skies," but it wasn't until he was cast as Sergeant Zack in Sam...

Filmography

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Sourdough (1994)

Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)

The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987)

Travis Mcgee: Empty Copper Sea (1983)

The Shadow Riders (1982)

California Gold Rush (1981)

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Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Mountain Of The Seven Vultures

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) We Had A Cave-In

Biography

Actor Gene Evans began acting in his youth, refining his skills as a performer in a G.I. acting troupe while he served as an engineer. It is perhaps for this reason that Evans was often cast as strong, weathered men in westerns and war films. He first appeared on film with a small role in the 1947 horse opera "Under Colorado Skies," but it wasn't until he was cast as Sergeant Zack in Samuel Fuller's 1951 Korean War drama "The Steel Helmet" that Evans showed mastery over his craft. Widely considered to be his best role, it is also one of the greatest characterizations within the genre. Both Fuller and Evans had been soldiers, and, appropriately, the film is infused with meditations on war and survival. Forming a strong working relationship, the two made several films together, including the Golden Globe-nominated mystery "Shock Corridor." Making several films a year though the '50s, Evans ended the decade with the World War II comedy "Operation Petticoat," starring Cary Grant. With the rise of television in the 1960s, Evans began making guest appearances on western-themed television shows, including stints on "Rawhide" and "Gunsmoke." While he continued to work mainly in television for the rest of his career, Evans played supporting roles in former "Gunsmoke" writer Sam Peckinpah's "The Ballad of Cable Hogue" and "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid." Evans' last major role was the title character in the 1976 series "Spencer's Pilots."

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Sourdough (1994)

Once Upon a Texas Train (1988)

The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory (1987)

Travis Mcgee: Empty Copper Sea (1983)

The Shadow Riders (1982)

California Gold Rush (1981)

The Concrete Cowboys (1979)

Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid (1978)

The Magic Of Lassie (1978)

Sheriff Andrews

The Macahans (1976)

The Last Day (1975)

Charlie Connelly

Matt Helm (1975)

A Knife For the Ladies (1974)

Devil Times Five (1974)

Sidekicks (1974)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)

Walking Tall (1973)

Sheriff Thurman

Camper John (1973)

Shootout In A One Dog Town (1973)

The Bounty Man (1972)

Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)

There Was a Crooked Man ... (1970)

Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)

The War Wagon (1967)

Nevada Smith (1966)

Deputy Sheriff O'Neill

Apache Uprising (1966)

Shock Corridor (1963)

Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)

Money, Women and Guns (1959)

Sheriff Crowley

Operation Petticoat (1959)

The Hangman (1959)

The Giant Behemoth (1959)

The Bravados (1958)

Damn Citizen (1958)

Major Al Arthur

Revolt in the Big House (1958)

Young and Wild (1958)

Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz

The Sad Sack (1957)

Sgt. Elmer Pulley

Jet Pilot (1957)

Airfield sergeant

The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Crashout (1955)

[Maynard] "Monk" Collins

Wyoming Renegades (1955)

Hell and High Water (1954)

The Long Wait (1954)

Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)

The Golden Blade (1953)

Donovan's Brain (1953)

Dr. Frank Schratt

Park Row (1952)

Phineas Mitchell

Thunderbirds (1952)

Sgt. Mike Braggart

Storm Warning (1951)

Force of Arms (1951)

Fixed Bayonets! (1951)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

Sugarfoot (1951)

The Steel Helmet (1951)

I Was an American Spy (1951)

Corp. John Boone

The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Never a Dull Moment (1950)

Armored Car Robbery (1950)

William "Ace" Foster

Wyoming Mail (1950)

It Happens Every Spring (1949)

Mother Is a Freshman (1949)

Criss Cross (1949)

Assigned to Danger (1948)

Berlin Express (1948)

Under Colorado Skies (1947)

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)

Camera Operator

Redwood Curtain (1995)

Camera Operator

Maddalena Z (1989)

Director Of Photography

Hard Traveling (1986)

Camera Operator

The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

Camera Operator

Editing (Feature Film)

Living Between Two Worlds (1963)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Love Bites (1993)

Additional Photography

Stranger in the Family (1991)

Cast (Special)

Lassie: The New Beginning (1978)

Spencer's Pilots (1976)

Visual Effects (Special)

Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Bowl (1994)

Special Effects

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Wild Times (1980)

Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts (1979)

Life Events

1947

Film debut in "Under Colorado Skies"

1956

Had regular role on "My Friend Flicka"

Videos

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Mountain Of The Seven Vultures Enterprising newsman Tatum (Kirk Douglas) emerging from the New Mexico cave where a tourist-trap operator is stuck, tangling with a deputy (Gene Evans) then the wife (Jan Sterling), and calling his editor, in Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Ace In The Hole (1951) -- (Movie Clip) We Had A Cave-In Jaded reporter Tatum (Kirk Douglas) and cub Herbie (Bob Arthur) have stumbled into a story headed west from Albuquerque, meeting Lorraine (Jan Sterling), her father-in-law (John Berkes) and a deputy sheriff (Gene Evans), early in Billy Wilder’s Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Giant Behemoth, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) From Fish To Bigger Fish Nice alacrity, opening with the nukes and a lecture from Gene Evans in academic mode, as California marine biologist Steve Karnes at a conferenc in London, with brief interruptions, by Leonard Sachs then Andre Morrell as Brit professor Bickford, in The Giant Behemoth, 1959.

Giant Behemoth, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) The Best Fisherman In All Cornwall Writer-director Eugene Lourie banks on folksy Cornish charm, with Henry Vidon and Leigh Madison as fisherman Tom and daughter Jean, unrelated, as far as we know, to worried nuclear scientists back in London, parting on the coast before something odd transpires, turning to townsman John (John Turner), early in The Giant Behemoth, 1959.

Park Row (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Blood and Ink A dedication to stir any journalist's heart leading to narration and opening credits from writer, producer and director Sam Fuller's Park Row, 1952, starring Gene Evanss.

Park Row (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Her Front Page Disgruntled reporter Mitchell (Gene Evans) at the bar, to the graveyard, and back at the bar, confronted by employer Charity Hackett (Mary Welch) in ex-newsman Samuel Fuller's Park Row, 1952.

Park Row (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Always in Black Publisher Charity (Mary Welch) first with her editor Spiro (Stuart Randall) then with her new rival Mitchell (Gene Evans) during his first triumph, in Samuel Fuller's Park Row, 1952.

Park Row (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Make it Fresh! Two vignettes with writer, producer, director Sam Fuller using the crab dolly instead of edits, as Mitchell (Gene Evans) launches "The Globe" with help from publisher Leach (Stuart Randall) and typesetter Angelo (Don Orlando) in Park Row, 1952.

Park Row (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Words and Garbage Another remarkable long take from writer, producer, director Sam Fuller, as rival publisher Charity (Mary Welch) tries to lure German printer Mergenthaler (Bela Kovacs) to her paper in Park Row, 1952.

Steel Helmet, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Zack It gradually becomes clear that there's both a bullet hole in and soldier (Gene Evans) underneath the helmet seen in the opening to writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller's third film, The Steel Helmet, 1951.

Steel Helmet, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) They Pray For Korean Heroes American sergeant Zack (Gene Evans) and Korean local sidekick "Short Round" (William Chun) come upon some praying women, maybe, in a scene that may contain some commentary from writer, producer, director and Marine Corps veteran Sam Fuller', in The Steel Helmet, 1951.

Steel Helmet, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) The Korean National Anthem Awaiting relief in a Buddhist temple in Korea, grizzled sergeant Zack (Gene Evans) saves nervous Driscoll (Steve Brodie) with help from Tankaka (Richard Loo) then reveals a musical trick he's played on his war-orphan sidekick "Short Round" (William Chun), in Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet, 1951.

Support Your Local Sheriff! - (Original Trailer) A mild-mannered cowboy (James Garner) drifts into a town so lawless they refuse to Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969).

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