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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 appear in more than 300 shows.
Robert Evans. Producer: Chinatown. Robert Evans was born in New York City, to Florence (Krasne) and Archie Shapera, a dentist with a thriving practice in Harlem. His family was of Russian Jewish descent. He was raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He began his show-business career as a teenage radio actor. After flopping in his first attempt at movie acting, he took a job promoting sales of ...
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 · Evans, the son of a New York dentist, was born Robert Shapera in 1930. He first worked for his brother Charles’s clothing company, Evan-Picone.
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 ...
Nov 2, 2019 · Evans was born in 1930 to a Jewish family in New York, and spent his youth acting in radio plays and working with his older brother as a salesman of women’s slacks. (In his memoir, on selecting ...
Advertisement. Strap in, because this is going to be a wild ride. Born Robert J. Shapera in New York City on June 29, 1930, Evans spent his early years doing promotional work for Evan-Picone, a fashion company that was founded by his brother Charles, and doing some voice work for a variety of radio shows, making early use of the dulcet tones ...
