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Film actor Gene Evans ( July 11 , 1922 - April 1 , 1998 ) began his acting career while serving in World War II while performing with a theatrical troupe of GIs in Europe. Evans, raised in Colton, California , made his film debut in 1947 and ended up appearing in dozens of movies and television programs. He specialized in playing tough guys like cowboys, sheriffs, convicts and Army sergeants. The near-sighted actor rarely wore his thick glasses in films, but did wear them while playing a doctor in the B-movie '' Donovan's Brain '' (1953). He retired to a farm in Tennessee following his role as an evil sheriff in the original '''Walking Tall'''. In the late eighties, Evans appeared on stage as the gruesome Papa in the stage production Papa is All, directed by playwright Tommy F. Scott, in Jackson, Tennessee. |
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