Michael Evans (actor)

John Michael Evans (27 July 1920 – 4 September 2007) was an English actor best known for starring in the original 1951 Broadway production of Gigi with Audrey Hepburn, and later as Colonel Douglas Austin on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Evans was born on 27 July 1920 in Sittingbourne, Kent; to John Evans, a cricketer and First World War Royal Flying Corps pilot and double prisoner-of-war escapee who wrote the 1926 novel, The Escaping Club,[1] and his wife, the former Marie Galbraith, an Irish concert violinist.

[2] Evans later told the Toronto Star in a 1992 interview on his return to "My Fair Lady" touring Russia, that aged 12, he decided to be an actor after seeing Sir John Gielgud on stage in "Richard II".

Evans then moved to the United States, making his New York debut in the Broadway theatre production of "Ring Round the Moon".

[citation needed] Evans died in a Woodland Hills assisted-living facility on 4 September 2007, of complications related to age.