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Birth name Reginald Evans
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 27 march 1928 at Wales (United-kingdom)
Death 7 february 2009 (at 80 years)

Reginald "Reg" Evans (27 March 1928 – 7 February 2009) was a British-born actor active in Australian television, theatre, and cinema from the 1960s.

He started drama while in the Royal Air Force stationed near Oxford, England. After leaving the service studied for two years at the London Academy of Music and Drama, followed by work in repertory theatre. He toured Europe with the New Park Theatre Club and later became its artistic director.

Immigrated to Australia in the 1960s and worked in commercial radio and toured with the Young Elizabethan Players. His many Australian television roles include guest roles in Homicide, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Number 96, Division 4, Spyforce, The Evil Touch, A Time for Love, Behind the Legend, Comedy Playhouse, and The Hour Before My Brother Dies.

Evans' film credits include Mad Dog Morgan (1976), the Station Master in Mad Max (1979), a pirate in The Island (1980), Manganinnie (1980), The Plains of Heaven (1982), Kitty and the Bagman (1983), Strikebound (1984), My Letter to George (1986) and Celia (1989).

After 1980 Evans played regular and recurring roles in several television series. These roles included that of Mr. Cocker in the Australian series of Are You Being Served? (1980), and Keith Purvis in the television police drama Blue Heelers in the 1990s. In 2005 he returned to Blue Heelers for a few episodes, portraying vagrant Bob "Sponge Bob" Spalding.

Evans played the recurring role of scruffy private detective Howard Simmons in Prisoner in 1985. He had played three previous guest roles in Prisoner. These were a colleague at Eddie Cook's electrical firm in 1979, the foreman at the printshop where Bea Smith does her work release in 1982, and as Foxy, an old friend of Lizzie Birdsworth's, in 1983. His final acting role was in the Australian comedy Charlie & Boots which was released in 2009.

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Filmography of Reg Evans (16 films)

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Dying Breed, 1h31
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Mirrah Foulkes, Nathan Phillips, Leigh Whannell, Bille Brown, Melanie Vallejo, Reg Evans
Rating53% 2.650322.650322.650322.650322.65032
Tasmania, 1800s. Alexander Pearce, a convict known as "the Pieman", has escaped into the wilderness and he is being hunted by policemen with dogs. He is faced by a policeman who attempts to shoot Pearce, but his gun does not fire. Pearce then bites the policeman's neck, taking a large chunk from his throat, killing him, allowing Pearce to escape.
The Honourable Wally Norman, 1h28
Actors Kevin Harrington, Shaun Micallef, Roz Hammond, Tom Budge, Reg Evans
Roles Barry
Rating55% 2.7630352.7630352.7630352.7630352.763035
The story begins with a corrupt Member of Parliament (Micallef) shutting down a country town's main source of employment in the local meatworks. This leaves Wally Norman (Harrington) out of a job, until drunk politician Willy Norman accidentally writes the wrong name on the parliamentary nomination form.
Japanese Story, 1h45
Directed by Sue Brooks
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Toni Collette, Lynette Curran, Reg Evans, Justine Clarke, John Howard
Rating67% 3.397353.397353.397353.397353.39735
Sandy Edwards (played by Toni Collette) is a director in a company that designs geological software in Perth, Western Australia. Her business partner manipulates her into agreeing to act as a guide for a Japanese businessman visiting mines in the Pilbara desert, in hopes that he will purchase the software. When Hiromitsu Tachibana (Gotaro Tsunashima) arrives, he treats Sandy like a chauffeur, and he seems more intent on self-discovery in the wilderness than on buying computer software. At first, Sandy is angered by his reserved, demanding demeanor. On their first journey into the desert, Hiromitsu, feeling insecure, talks more on his phone with friends in Japan than he does to Sandy. He also insists that she drive farther than planned. The terrain proves too much for the pair's vehicle, which becomes bogged down in the sand. After a series of desperate attempts to release the vehicle, including digging a dead man anchor, their winch burns out. Sandy wants to use Hiromitsu's phone to call people who can rescue them, but Hiromitsu refuses. This forces them to spend the night stranded together. The next day, Hiromitsu, conscious that his refusal had placed them in danger, wakes up much earlier than Sandy and builds a track of sticks over which they can drive out of the sand. The maneuver is successful. Now that they are on the road again, the ice breaks and a friendship starts between them that, in isolated surroundings uninterrupted by their work, grows quickly and honestly. Later, at a motel, they have sex. Only after does Sandy learn that Hiromitsu has a wife and children in Japan.
Heaven Tonight
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors John Waters, Guy Pearce, Kym Gyngell, Rebecca Gilling, Sean Scully, Reg Evans
Rating60% 3.0476853.0476853.0476853.0476853.047685
An ageing rock star (John Waters) tries to make a comeback and is jealous about the success of his son (Guy Pearce).
Evil Angels, 1h58
Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin Australie
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Deborra-Lee Furness, Bruce Myles, Bud Tingwell, Charles Dance
Rating68% 3.447963.447963.447963.447963.44796
Seventh-day Adventist Church pastor Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill), his wife Lindy (Meryl Streep), their two sons, and their nine-week-old daughter Azaria are on a camping holiday trip in the Outback. With the baby sleeping in their tent, the family is enjoying a barbecue with their fellow campers when a cry is heard. Lindy returns to the tent to check on Azaria and is certain she sees a dingo with something in its mouth running off as she approaches. When she discovers the infant is missing, everyone joins forces to search for her, without success. It is assumed what Lindy saw was the animal carrying off the child, and a subsequent inquest rules her account of events is true.
The Hour Before My Brother Dies
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Reg Evans, Peter Hehir

Sally visits her brother Martin in prison where he awaits execution for murder. During the visit, the two are quickly drawn back to a hot summer's New Year's Eve night of many years ago.
Mesmerized
Mesmerized (1985)
, 1h34
Directed by Michael Laughlin
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy, Harry Andrews, Dan Shor, Reg Evans
Roles Mr. Simmons
Rating47% 2.3621852.3621852.3621852.3621852.362185
An orphaned New Zealand girl marries a wealthy and much older businessmen, but strains soon begin to develop between them, causing great emotional and physical toil on them, as well as those around them, from family to servants, and business and trade associates and clientele.
Anzacs (TV series)
Themes Political films
Actors Bill Kerr, Tony Bonner, Shane Briant, Jim Holt, Wayne Jarratt, Vincent Ball
Roles General Birdwood
Rating80% 4.0378954.0378954.0378954.0378954.037895
1914. Western District of Victoria (Australia). Martin Barrington, the son of a wealthy British-born land-owner Sir Rupert Barrington (who still thought of himself as a "British") and his wife Lady Thea Barrington, returns home early from university studies with plans to move north to the family's Queensland property in a bid to up the quality of their livestock. His best friend, stockman Dick Baker, initially agrees to move with him, but later wants to enlist to fight in the Great War which has just begun in Europe, and Martin agrees to follow (after turning down a commission as 2nd lieutenant in his father's old British rifle regiment), joined by Dick's sister (and Martin's childhood sweetheart) Kate, who will become an army nurse. The two friends enlist and they form part of the 8th Battalion, 3rd platoon led by former schoolteacher and now Lieutenant Harold Armstrong and former football star and now Sargeant Tom McArthur. Other members of the platoon include quiet and studious Roly Collins, Englishman Bill Harris, cynical, wise-cracking drover Pat Cleary and the Danish-born Johansen brothers. Sgt McArthur soon becomes unpopular with his short temper and aggressive manner, but, whilst drunk one night off-duty, he tells of his miserable childhood growing up with an alcoholic father who had been crippled in the Boer War.
Gallipoli
Gallipoli (1981)
, 1h50
Directed by Peter Weir
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Athletics films, Political films
Actors Mel Gibson, Bill Kerr, Gerda Nicolson, Mark Lee, David Argue, Robert Grubb
Rating73% 3.6978753.6978753.6978753.6978753.697875
Western Australia, May 1915. Archie Hamilton (Mark Lee), an 18-year-old stockman and prize-winning sprinter, longs to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force. He is trained by his uncle Jack (Bill Kerr) and idolises Harry Lascelles, the world champion over 100 yards. Archie wins a race with a bullying farmhand, Les McCann (Harold Hopkins), Archie running bare-foot and Les riding his horse bareback.
The Island
The Island (1980)
, 1h54
Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Michael Caine, David Warner, Frank Middlemass, Don Henderson, Dudley Sutton, Colin Jeavons
Roles Jack the Bat
Rating53% 2.6508152.6508152.6508152.6508152.650815
Le journaliste Blair Maynard enquête sur les mystérieuses disparitions de bateaux dans le célèbre triangle des Bermudes. Assurant la garde de son fils lors d'un week-end, avec qui il entretient des rapports compliqués, il se rend à bord d'un vieux coucou sur l'île de Navidad, lieu proche des derniers signes de vie des navires disparus. Ils font la connaissance du docteur Windsor qui leur offre l'hospitalité. Ils sont rapidement attaqués par des pirates et emmenés sur leur île, où la population, coupée du monde, vit encore comme au XVII siècle.
Mad Max
Mad Max (1979)
, 1h28
Directed by George Miller
Origin Australie
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Action, Adventure, Crime, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Environmental films, Seafaring films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Films set in the future, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward, Tim Burns
Roles Station Master
Rating67% 3.398933.398933.398933.398933.39893
A berserk motorcycle gang member named Crawford "Nightrider" Montazano (Vincent Gil), having killed a rookie officer of an Australian highway patrol called the Main Force Patrol (MFP) while escaping from police custody, is attempting to outrun the other MFP officers in a stolen Pursuit Special. Though he manages to elude his initial pursuers, the MFP's top pursuit-man, Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson), then engages the less-skilled Nightrider in a high-speed chase. During a sudden game of "chicken", the Nightrider breaks off first, his nerve suddenly broken in the confrontation with Max; he is unable to recover his wits, which leads to the Nightrider's death in a fiery crash.