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Eugene Barton "Gene" Evans (July 11, 1922 – April 1, 1998) was an American actor.
Evans was born in Holbrook, Arizona, but reared in Colton, California. His acting career began while he was serving in the United States Army during 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 films and television programs. He specialized in playing tough guys such as 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 (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 United States Army engineer in World War II. 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.
Actors: Trent (actor), John Nordlinger (writer), Charles Gorgano (actor), Jongnic Bontemps (composer), Justin Ipock (actor), Douglas Ibold (actor), Benjamin Mathes (actor), Bryce Woodworth (writer), Claire Kirk (actress), Nabila Lester (director), Joey Umana (writer), Jp Jacobsen (producer), Stephen Parsey (producer), Stephen Parsey (director), Michael Finn (actor),
Plot: Annie, a young black nursing student returns to her hometown to spend the summer with her brother, when she runs into James, a childhood friend and well-to-do white Army man betrothed to the daughter of a state senator. Although sparks fly between the two, such a union could never be due to the politics of segregation in 1957 Alabama . . . and also because he's a member of the Ku Klux Klan. After he's sucked into committing an atrocious act the FBI is called in to investigate, and James must decide between following his heart or preserving his way of life.
Keywords: tvOur revels now our ended
These are actors, as I foretold you
We're all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air
And like the baseless fabric of this vision
The cloud capped towers, the gorgeous palaces
The solemn temples, the great globe itself
Yeah, all which it inherit shall dissolve
And like this insubstantial pageant faded
Leave not a rack behind
We are such stuff as dreams are made of
And our little life is rounded