Blond, good looking Jason Evers played many seemingly ordinary, respectable men who often turned out to harbor malign intent, twisted motivations, or complicated personalities. Although probably best known for playing Dr. Bill Corter in the 1962 cult film
The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), Evers did much more than meets the eye. He quit school to join the army during WWII, and later decided to become an actor after seeing such Hollywood stars as
John Wayne and
Humphrey Bogart. His first big break was in 1960 in the TV series
Wrangler (1960) and he followed that with roles in
Pretty Boy Floyd (1960),
House of Women (1962), and another TV series,
Channing (1963).
His career began to decline in the 1970s. He appeared with
Roddy McDowall in
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), one of the sequels to the smash
Planet of the Apes (1968), and in the made-for-TV thriller
Fer-de-Lance (1974). He was a vengeful hunter out to kill a murderous grizzly bear in
Claws (1977) and a biologist out to stop man-eating fish (with
Wayne Crawford) in
Barracuda (1978).
He made more than 65 appearances in TV series and made-for-TV films during the 1980s, and returned to the big screen in 1990 for
Basket Case 2 (1990). He died of heart failure in New York City in 2005.
Basket Case 2(1990)as Lou the Editor
Matlock(1986)as Dr. Jim Lord
The A-Team(1983)as Taggart
Murder, She Wrote(1984)as Dr. Marshall MacGill
The Dukes of Hazzard(1979)as Larson
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show(1956)
Bicentennial Minutes(1974)as Self - Narrator
The Dennis Wholey Show(1969)as Self
Almost Finished(2025)
The Year of Living Locked Up(2020)
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies(2001)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1(1999)as Self
Fury of the Dragon(1976)as Dirk
