Gene Evans

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1922-07-11 (76 years old)

Deathday

1998-04-01

Place of Birth

Holbrook, Arizona, USA

Gene Evans

Biography

​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 ...

Acting

1966

Nevada Smith

as Sam Sand

1950

Armored Car Robbery

as William 'Ace' Foster

1949

Criss Cross

as Donlan (uncredited)

1954

Hell and High Water

as Chief Holter

1951

Ace in the Hole

as Deputy Sheriff

1973

Walking Tall

as Sheriff Al Thurman

1963

1949

It Happens Every Spring

as Batter Mueller (uncredited)

1952

Park Row

as Phineas Mitchell

1955

Crashout

as Maynard 'Monk' Collins

1959

Operation Petticoat

as Chief Molumphry

1978

1967

The War Wagon

as Deputy Hoag

1957

The Sad Sack

as Sgt. Major Elmer Pulley

1959

The Giant Behemoth

as Steve Karnes

1953

Donovan's Brain

as Dr. Frank Schratt

1954

1958

The Bravados

as John Butler

1958

Young and Wild

as Det. Sgt. Fred Janusz

1951

The Steel Helmet

as Sergeant Zack

1951

Fixed Bayonets!

as Sgt. Rock

1958

1974

Devil Times Five

as Papa Doc

1951

Storm Warning

as Ku Klux Klansman (uncredited)

1951

I Was an American Spy

as Cpl. John Boone

1974

Sidekicks

as Sam

1977

Fire!

as Dan Harter

1980

Casino

as Captain K.L. Fitzgerald

1953

The Golden Blade

as Captain Hadi

1954

1950

1951

Force of Arms

as Sgt. Smiley 'Mac' McFee

1978

The Magic of Lassie

as Sheriff Andrews

1958

Damn Citizen

as Maj. Al Arthur

1958

Money, Women and Guns

as Sheriff Abner Crowley

1954

Wyoming Renegades

as Butch Cassidy / George Leroy Parker

1957

The Helen Morgan Story

as Whitey Krause

1988

1965

Apache Uprising

as Jess Cooney

1952

Mutiny

as Hook

1970

The Intruders

as Cole Younger

2002

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

as Sgt. Zack / Phineas Mitchell (archive footage)

1961

1951

Sugarfoot

as Billings

1981

Sourdough

as Narrator

1950

The Asphalt Jungle

as Policeman at Ciavelli's Apartment (uncredited)

1973

1979

Concrete Cowboys

as Lt. Blocker

1959

The Hangman

as "Big Murph" Murphy

1947

Under Colorado Skies

as Henchman Red

1975

The Last Day

as Marshal Connelly

1956

1966

Waco

as Jim O'Neill

1981

California Gold Rush

as Sam Brannon

1952

Thunderbirds

as Sgt. Mike Braggart

1972

The Bounty Man

as Tom Brady

1982

The Shadow Riders

as Colonel Holiday Hammond, Gunrunner

1975

Matt Helm

as Sgt. Hanrahan

1969

Dragnet

as Hugh Brown

1948

Berlin Express

as Train Sergeant

1973

Prologue to Wounded Knee

as Sheriff McVaney

1983

Travis McGee

as Meyer

1976

The Macahans

as Dutton

Production

1974

Freebie and the Bean

as Camera Operator

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