{"id":38035,"date":"2024-12-23T14:13:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38035"},"modified":"2024-12-23T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:14:03","slug":"38035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38035","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Art Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z122324rip_art_evans.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Art Evans died on Saturday, December 21, 2024.\u00a0 The cause of death was complications from diabetes.\u00a0 Mr. Evans was 82.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Art Evans began his career as a stage actor.\u00a0 His first screen appearance was in 1972.\u00a0 Mr. Evans had an uncredited role in the early Brian DePalma film, <em>Sisters<\/em>.\u00a0 In 1975, Art Evans received his first credited role in the television movie <em>The Orphan and the Dude<\/em>.\u00a0 For the next forty plus years Mr. Evans appeared in movie and television roles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Television projects that feature Art Evans include: <em>The Orphan and the Dude; Chico and the Man; Police Woman; Minstrel Man; Roosevelt and Truman; King<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>Some Kind of Miracle; The Cracker Factory; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; MASH; Skag; The Boy Who Drank Too Much; World War III; The Fall Guy; The Seduction of Gena; Hill Street Blues<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>American Playhouse; Long Time Gone; Nine to Five<\/em> (12 episodes); <em>227; In the Heat of the Night; Doogie Houser MD; Midnight Caller; A Different World<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Mad About You<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>CBS Schoolbreak Special; Roc; Family Matters; Dream On; Walker, Texas Ranger; LA Heat; Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction; After All; City of Angels; The X-Files; Monk; Everybody Hates Chris; Lincoln Heights<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>The Sarah Silverman Program; Pretend Time<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Last Man Standing; Beauty and the Baller<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>A House Divided<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>Real Husbands of Hollywood<\/em> and <em>The Proud Family Louder and Louder<\/em> (2 episodes).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Feature films that Art Evans appeared in include: <i>Sisters; Claudine; Death Wish; Amazing Grace; Leadbelly; Fun with Dick and Jane; The In-Laws; The Main Event; The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again; Christine; A Soldier&#8217;s Story; Tough Turf; Into the Night; Fright Night; Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling; Ruthless People; Native Son; White of the Eye; The Mighty Quinn; Adventures in Babysitting; Die Hard II; Revenge of the Nerds; Trespass; CB4; Tales from the Hood; The Story of Us; Interstate 60; Young Cesar; Shades of Ray <\/i>and<i> Church.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I probably first saw Art Evans in <em>Death Wish<\/em>.\u00a0 I know by the time he appeared in <em>Die Hard 2<\/em>, I recognized him from his many guest appearances on television and movies.\u00a0 My favorite Art Evans roles are the parts he played in <em>Die Hard 2<\/em> and <em>A Soldier&#8217;s Story<\/em>.\u00a0 Of course I always liked his performances in everything I ever saw him in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out thoughts and prayers go out to Art Evans&#8217; family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Evans died on Saturday, December 21, 2024.\u00a0 The cause of death was complications from diabetes.\u00a0 Mr. Evans was 82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38037,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38035\/revisions\/38037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}