Tanned, basso-voiced and ever-seductive, Robert Evans is a former child actor who, at age twenty, became a successful clothing manufacturer before returning to the screen as real-life studio executive Irving G Thalberg in the biopic of actor Lon Chaney, "Man of a Thousand Faces," in 1957 (legend says Thalberg's widow, actress Norma Shearer, spotted the hunky, smooth operator Evans on the telephone poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel and, feeling he was the spitting image of her husband, put him up for the part). Evans then parlayed his screen image as a studio exec into a job as the real
From the age of eleven performed on over 300 radio shows including "Let's Pretend", "Archie Andrews", "The Aldrich Family", "Radio Reader's Digest" and "Gangbusters"
1947
TV acting debut, "Elizabeth and Essex"
1951
Went into clothing business as partner with brother, Charles Evans and Joseph Picone, founding Evan-Picone women's sportswear (until 1967) (date approximate)
1957
Chosen by retired film star Norma Shearer to play her late husband, MGM producer Irving Thalberg, in the film biopic of actor Lon Chaney, "Man of a Thousand Faces"
