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Oct 28, 2019 · Evans was born Robert J. Shapera in New York City in 1930. Growing up, he had dreams of being an actor, but ended up working with his brother's successful fashion company until his mid-20s.
Oct 28, 2019 · Robert Evans, center, attends a cocktail party at a Paris restaurant on Dec. 3, 1959, with French actresses Sophie Daumier, left, and Marie Versini. (Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
Oct 28, 2019 · Robert Evans, the Paramount executive who produced "Chinatown" and "Urban Cowboy" and whose life became as melodramatic and jaw-dropping as any of his films, died on Saturday night. He was 89.
Oct 28, 2019 · Robert Evans, the feisty and flamboyant producer and studio chief who resurrected Paramount Pictures in the 1960s by squiring such classics as 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Godfather' and 'Chinatown' to ...
Oct 29, 2019 · Evans was born Robert J. Shapera in New York, the second son of Archie Shapera, a dentist, and his wife, Florence, a homemaker. He began acting in radio while in junior high school, going on to ...
Oct 28, 2019 · Evans was an actor before going into film production. Robert Evans, the larger-than-life producer and studio executive whose films included Chinatown and The Cotton Club, has died at the age of 89 ...
Biography. Perhaps one of the most notorious personages ever to grace motion pictures, producer and former Paramount Pictures studio head Robert Evans blazed a trail through Hollywood. After receiving his start as an actor in movies like "The Sun Also Rises" (1957) and "The Best of Everything" (1959), Evans turned to producing in the late-1960s ...
