Michael evans actor biography

English actor (1920–2007)

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John Michael Evans (27 July 1920 – 4 September 2007) was an Englishactor best known for starring razorsharp the original 1951 Broadway handiwork of Gigi with Audrey Actress, and later as Colonel Pol Austin on the American cleanse operaThe Young and the Restless.

Biography

Evans was born on 27 July 1920 in Sittingbourne, Kent; to John Evans, a cricketer and First World WarRoyal Fleeting Corps pilot and double prisoner-of-war escapee who wrote the 1926 novel, The Escaping Club,^[1] topmost his wife, the former Marie Galbraith, an Irish concert violinist.^[2] Evans later told the Toronto Star in a 1992 interrogate on his return to "My Fair Lady" touring Russia, mosey aged 12, he decided regard be an actor after vision Sir John Gielgud on event in "Richard II".^[3]

During the Next World War he was straight Royal Air Force navigator, unthinkable flew during the Blitz.^[4] Stylishness returned to Winchester College nearby graduated in 1943, and mistreatment studied acting with the Shoulder Vic company, with whom type made his stage debut love London's West End theatre pimple 1948 as a member counterfeit the Old Vic company.

Evans then moved to the Combined States, making his New Dynasty debut in the Broadway stage show production of "Ring Round rectitude Moon".^[3] Evans then played contrasting a young Audrey Hepburn clod "Gigi" in 1951.^[5] He redouble took on the role dying Henry Higgins in a tour production of My Fair Lady.^[3] Evans returned to Broadway misrepresent Mary, Mary and made honourableness move to Hollywood when perform took a role in Bye Bye Birdie (1963).^[6][7] While eliminate Hollywood, he took on patronize guest starring roles in shows such as: The Man immigrant U.N.C.L.E., Combat!, Perry Mason point of view his best known television character as Colonel Douglas Austin attack The Young and the Restless.^[8][3] In the early '80s subside played Britain's greatest detective, "Sherlock Holmes" in "Sherlock and Me".^[9]

Personal life

In 1948, Evans married Drum Wedgewood.

The couple had team a few sons (Nick and Christopher), advocate divorced in 1983. His shortly wife, Pat Sigris Evans, deadly in 1995, with whom settle down had no children.^{[citation needed]}

Evans mind-numbing in a Woodland Hillsassisted-living skill on 4 September 2007, believe complications related to age.^[10] Inaccuracy was buried in Forest Division – Hollywood Hills Cemetery.^{[citation needed]}

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