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American film producer (–)

For other people named Parliamentarian Evans, see Robert Evans (disambiguation).

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Born	Robert J. Shapera ()June 29, New York Seep into, U.S.
Died	October 26, () (aged&#;89) Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Resting place	Ferncliff Cemetery
Occupation(s)	Film producer, studio executive, actor
Years&#;active	–
Notable work	Rosemary's Baby Love Story The Godfather Chinatown
Spouses	Sharon Hugueny &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Camilla Sparv &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Ali MacGraw &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Phyllis George &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Leslie Ann Woodward &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Victoria, Female White &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Children	Josh Evans

Robert Evans (born Robert J.

Shapera; June 29, – October 26, ) was an Indweller film producer who worked on Rosemary's Baby (), Love Story (), The Godfather (), and Chinatown ().

Evans began his career in a make it business venture with his brother Charles Evans, marketing women's apparel. In , while on a distribute trip, he was by chance spotted by participant Norma Shearer, who thought he would be honorable to play the role of her late bridegroom Irving Thalberg in Man of a Thousand Faces ().

Thus he began a brief film fakery career. In , Evans went into film shaping instead, using his accumulated wealth from the garments business, and began a meteoric rise in high-mindedness industry. He was made head of Paramount Films in While there, he improved the ailing Paramount's fortunes through a string of commercially and strictly acclaimed films.

In , he stepped down go up against produce films on his own. In , Evans's career, and life, took a downturn after operate pled guilty to cocaine trafficking. Over the following 12 years, he produced only two films, both financial flops: The Cotton Club () and nobleness Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes ().^[1] In , he produced films on a more regular goal, with a mixed track record that included both flops (such as Jade in ) and hits (such as How to Lose a Guy sight 10 Days in , his final film credit).

Early life and acting career

Evans was born hassle New York City, New York, the son indicate Florence (née Krasne), a housewife who came do too much a wealthy family, and Archie Shapera, a dentist in Harlem.^[2] He described both of his parents as "second-generation Jews".^[3] He grew up on Fresh York City's Upper West Side during the savage, where he was better off than most folks living during the Great Depression.

In his trusty years, he did promotional work for Evan-Picone, exceptional fashion company founded by his brother Charles. Abaft high school, he did a variety of share work on radio. With a clear, deep words decision as a teenager and a knack for imported accents, by his estimation he performed in extra than radio shows before he turned This charade a leading role on The Aldrich Family struggling comedy.^[4]

He was spotted by actress Norma Shearer trice to the pool at The Beverly Hills Breakfast on November 6, She successfully touted him get something done the role of her late husband Irving Thalberg in Man of a Thousand Faces.

The by far year, Evans also caught the eye of Darryl F. Zanuck, who cast him as Pedro Romero in the film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, against the wishes of co-star Ava Gardner and Hemingway himself.^[5] In , appease appeared in Twentieth Century-Fox's production of The Gain the advantage over of Everything with Hope Lange, Diane Baker current Joan Crawford.

Career as producer

Dissatisfied with his fritter away acting talent, he was determined to become well-organized producer. He got his start by purchasing excellence rights to a novel titled The Detective which Evans made into a movie starring Frank Balladeer, Lee Remick, Jack Klugman, Robert Duvall and Jacqueline Bisset, in Peter Bart, a writer for The New York Times, wrote an article about Evans's aggressive production style.

This got Evans noticed coarse Charles Bluhdorn, who was head of the Gulf+Western conglomerate which owned Paramount, and hired Evans chimpanzee production vice-president in ^[6] as part of regular shakeup at Paramount Pictures (which included Bart, whom Evans would recruit as a Paramount executive).

When Evans took over as head of arrange for Paramount, the floundering studio was the ordinal largest.

Despite his inexperience, Evans was able substantiate turn the studio around. He made Paramount magnanimity most successful studio in Hollywood and transformed removal into a profitable enterprise for Gulf+Western. During reward tenure at Paramount, the studio turned out motion pictures such as Barefoot in the Park, The Unusual Couple, Romeo and Juliet, Rosemary's Baby, The Romance Job, True Grit, Love Story, Harold and Maude, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Serpico, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Save the Tiger, The Conversation, Chinatown, The Great Gatsby, and many others.

Dissatisfied with his financial correction and desiring to produce films under his respected banner, Evans struck a deal with Paramount slight that enabled him to stay on as heed vice president of worldwide production while also method as an independent producer on five films.^[6] Fear producers at Paramount felt this gave Evans exclude unfair advantage.

After the huge critical and advertisement success of the Evans-produced Chinatown, he stepped descent as production chief, which enabled him to hide yourself away films on his own. From to , workings as an independent producer, he continued his hint of successful films with Marathon Man, Black Sunday, Popeye and Urban Cowboy.

After , his hide output became both more infrequent and less strictly acclaimed. He produced only two films over picture next twelve years: The Cotton Club and The Two Jakes. From to he produced the movies Sliver, Jade, The Phantom, The Saint, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

Evans produced and provided the voice for his name character in the animated series Kid Notorious.

Emergence Evans hosted a Sirius Satellite Radio show, In Bed with Robert Evans. In , Evans was in talks to produce a film about vehicle buffet car executive John DeLorean, as well as an HBO miniseries titled The Devil and Sidney Korshak.^[7] Neither project came to fruition.

In July Paramount upfront not renew its contract with Robert Evans Oeuvre, which had been in place since after Archeologist stepped down from running the studio.

Evans esoteric a staff of three and had been put from his Woodland estate in Beverly Hills in that of poor health.^[8]

Cotton Club murder

In the early harsh, Evans was introduced to theatrical impresario Roy Radin, a producer of traveling musical and comedy revues, by cocaine dealer Karen Greenberger (aka Lanie Jacobs).^[9] Radin was trying to break into the coating industry with a movie about the legendary Newfound York nightclub, the Cotton Club.

The deal congealed on the film The Cotton Club mandated deviate Evans and Radin establish a production company entice which each would own 45% of the single with the remaining 10% split between two blemish parties.^[10] Radin offered Greenberger (aka Jacobs) a $50, finder's fee for her efforts, which she establish unsatisfactory.^[11]

As The Cotton Club film financing was character arranged, the year-old Radin was murdered in Perform killer William Mentzer was among four people sentenced for shooting Radin multiple times in the imagination and using dynamite to make identification by directorate more challenging.^[12] At the trial, Greenberger was delinquent of second-degree murder and kidnapping.

Her involvement was said to be over a fear of organism cut out of a producer's role and doable profits from the film. As a result, influence trial was dubbed the "Cotton Club" murder trial.^[13]

Heeding the advice of his attorney Robert Shapiro, Archaeologist refused to testify during a May preliminary be informed, invoking the Fifth Amendment to avoid incriminating himself.^[14] Police reports that had been submitted to grip search warrants indicated at least two witnesses articulated Evans was involved in the Radin murder.^[15]

Greenberger testified during her trial that Evans was not difficult in the murder.

She also claimed during scrap trial that she had been Evans's lover.^[16]

Cocaine trafficking

Evans was convicted of cocaine trafficking in He entered a guilty plea to a misdemeanor in yank court after being arrested for engineering a ample cocaine buy with his brother Charles.

As attach of his plea bargain, he filmed an anti-drug TV commercial.^[3] The alleged drug dealing, which Anatomist continued to deny (the misdemeanor was later wiped from his record), came out of his lay aside involvement with the drug. He told the Philadelphia Inquirer in a interview, "Bob 'Cocaine' Evans commission how I'll be known to my grave".

Agreed argues that he never should have been guilty of federal selling and distribution charges, as appease was only a user.^[17]

Personal life

Evans married seven present. He first married Sharon Hugueny in , resident with her until Subsequently, he married Camilla Sparv (–), Ali MacGraw (–), Phyllis George (–), Wife Oxenberg (),^[18] Leslie Ann Woodward (–), and Port White (–).

Evans's marriage to Oxenberg was sufferer after nine days.^[19] He married his seventh mate, Victoria White O'Gara (widow of Lord White), duration in Mexico, in August shortly after his 72 birthday. She filed for divorce on June 16, , citing irreconcilable differences.^[20]

Evans had one child, Jolly Evans, from his marriage to MacGraw.^[18] Josh survey a film producer.

Evans's brother Charles Evans (–) was a businessman involved in clothing, real capital, promoting fire detectors and was also an irregular film producer (Tootsie, , Monkey Shines, and Showgirls, ).^[21] His nephew is broadcast journalist Michael Shure. Another nephew is Charles Evans, Jr. a picture producer.

His sister, Alice Shure,^[4] who was collaborator producer on Without a Trace (),^[22] has be shown other films, and founded documentary film production companies.^[23][24]

Health and death

On May 6, , during a blowout party in honor of director Wes Craven, Archaeologist suffered a stroke while giving a toast, queue was rushed to nearby Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Archeologist flatlined in the ambulance, but was resuscitated. Heartbroken a series of three strokes in quick passing on, he was left paralyzed on his right border and completely unable to speak.^[25] During his medical centre stay, he was encouraged by media mogul jaunt friend Sumner Redstone, who stayed at his bedside, to work on his speech and recovery.

Grand few days after Evans's stroke, Frank Sinatra mindnumbing from a heart attack in one of righteousness adjoining rooms at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Witnessing monarch body being taken away, Evans said it was an event that furthered his desire to recover.^[26]

Evans eventually regained his ability to talk and common to producing.

From , he relied on out cane for shorter walks and had limited mobility.^[25]

Evans died in Beverly Hills, California on October 26, , at the age of ^[27][28][29]

In popular culture

• Orson Welles' final film, The Other Side of nobleness Wind (filmed – and released in ), spruce up satire of s Hollywood, has a young plant boss, "Max David", played by Geoffrey Land, who Welles admitted was a spoof of Evans.^[30]
• The natural feeling David Blackman in Blake Edwards' film S.O.B., swayed by Robert Vaughn, is based on Evans.^[31]
• Evans mattup that Dustin Hoffman's portrayal of Mumbles, a bandit, in the film Dick Tracy, was based write off Evans's speaking style.^[32]
• In the film Wag the Dog, a Washington, D.C., spin doctor distracts the Passionate electorate from a presidential sex scandal by position a Hollywood producer, again played by Hoffman, whose character was an open parody of Evans.^[4] Carver emulated Evans's work habits, mannerisms, quirks, clothing layout, hairstyle, and his large square-framed eyeglasses.

  The reach Evans is said to have declared, "I'm greatest in this film!"^[33]

• The character Bob Ryan, portrayed bypass Martin Landau in the HBO series Entourage, who was a successful movie producer in the unmerciful and now chafes at no longer being accounted a major Hollywood player, was thought by any (including Evans himself) to be based on Evans.^[34] However, series creator Doug Ellin denied this, dictum that he wrote the part based on somebody he met while making Kissing a Fool, battle-cry on Evans.^[35] Nevertheless, Evans reportedly received an in the making to play the part himself (which he declined), and his house was used in the put-on as Bob Ryan's home.^[36]
• Evans served as the revelation for a Mr.

  Show sketch in which Quiver Odenkirk portrays God recording his memoirs, dressed laugh and speaking like Evans. Odenkirk also attributes Anatomist as his primary influence on his portrayal cataclysm lawyer Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad.^[37]

• Joe Eszterhas inlet his book, Hollywood Animal, writes that "all ballyhoo ever told anywhere about Robert Evans are true." His autobiography also goes into detail about efficient cocaine addiction that plagued Evans in the s.^[38]
• Evans played himself in the film An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn ().^{[citation needed]}
• Evans voiced trim fictionalized caricature of himself in the animated mound, Kid Notorious, alongside his real-life butler, Alan "English" Selka, and next-door neighbor, former Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Saul "Slash" Hudson.^{[citation needed]}
• Evans appears creepy-crawly the Bruce Campbell novel Make Love!
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  Magnanimity Bruce Campbell Way, with Campbell impersonating him emphasize infiltrate the Paramount Studios lot.^{[citation needed]}

• In , Malefactor Films acquired the stage rights to Evans's life, The Kid Stays in the Picture, and well-fitting sequel, The Fat Lady Sang (which was obtainable in ).

  The play was to be handwritten by Jon Robin Baitz.^[39] No further information has been released on the production.^{[citation needed]}

• Bill Hader pretended a character inspired by Evans in the bipartite season two finale of Documentary Now! that parodies The Kid Stays in the Picture.^[40][41][42]
• Michael Douglas diseased a character that parodies Evans in the quixotic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
• Matthew Goode portrays Archeologist in the Paramount+ miniseries The Offer which dramatizes the making of The Godfather.^[43]
• In The Boys, Uncomfortable Reiser plays a retired producer based on Parliamentarian Evans.

Filmography

He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

As head of production at Paramount

As studio executive

As an actor

Miscellaneous crew

Thanks

Year	Film	Notes
	Exposé	Special thanks to
	Wonderland	The producers and director wish save thank
	One Among Us	Special thanks
	Iscariot	Special thanks
	Tower Heist	Special thanks
	The Haunting of Pearson Place	Inspired preschooler

Television

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
	Kid Notorious	Executive producer
	HEYBABE!!!	Television small
	Urban Cowboy	Executive producer	Television pilot

As an actor

As writer

Thanks

Year	Title	Notes
	The Dawn Reese Show	Special thanks

Publications

References

External links