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Robert Evans (born Robert J. Shapera; June 29, 1930 – October 26, 2019) was an American film producer who worked on Rosemary's Baby (1968), Love Story (1970), The Godfather (1972), and Chinatown (1974).
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.
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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.
- Alessandra Codinha
Oct 28, 2019 · Robert Evans, the sonorous-voiced film producer and studio chief responsible for some of the most popular and enduring masterworks of the late 1960s and ’70s, died Saturday at the age...
- Donald Liebenson
Nov 2, 2019 · Robert Evans in 1974. Evans produced work that pushed beyond the staid, conventional moviemaking of the traditional studio system, helping to usher in the New Hollywood era.
- Naomi Fry
Oct 29, 2019 · A representative for Evans, the producer of “Chinatown” who helped shepherd films including “The Godfather” and “Harold and Maude” to the screen as chief of Paramount Pictures, confirmed that Evans passed away Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. He was 89. No other details were immediately available.
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.
