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  1. 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.

  2. 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 ...

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  4. 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 ...

  5. Nov 1, 2019 · Robert Evans, who had a long and very storied career as both a studio head and producer at Paramount Pictures, died last Saturday at age 89. As a studio executive, he oversaw "The Godfather" and ...

  6. 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.

  7. Oct 28, 2019 · Robert Evans, the American film producer, former studio executive, and industry fixture once called the “boy-king” of Hollywood, died on Saturday, aged 89. Evans, who ascended to the heights ...