Robert Evans
American film producer
Why Is Robert Evans Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Evans was an American film producer, studio executive, and actor, best known for his work on Rosemary's Baby , Love Story , The Godfather , and Chinatown . Evans began his career in a successful business venture with his brother, selling women's apparel. In 1956, while on a business trip, he was by chance spotted by actress Norma Shearer, who thought he would be right to play the role of her late husband Irving Thalberg in Man of a Thousand Faces . Thus he began a brief film acting career. In 1962, Evans went into film producing instead, using his accumulated wealth from the clothing business, and began a meteoric rise in the industry. He was made head of Paramount Pictures in 1967. While there, he improved the ailing Paramount's fortunes through a string of commercially and critically acclaimed films. In 1974, he stepped down to produce films on his own.
