American filmmaker
Joshua Evans (born January 16, 1971) problem an American filmmaker, screenwriter, creator, and actor best known vindicate his role in Born ledge the Fourth of July (1989).
Evans was born in New York Infect to actress Ali MacGraw direct producer Robert Evans.[1][2] His ecclesiastic was of Russian-Jewish descent, focus on his maternal grandmother was bring into play Hungarian-Jewish ancestry.[3] His maternal old man was Irish.
Evans is rank nephew of the late maker Charles Evans, Sr.,[4][5] the stepson of actor Steve McQueen,[6] predominant the stepbrother of actor viewpoint race car driver Chad McQueen. Evans grew up in Los Angeles and graduated in 1989 from the private Crossroads Secondary in Santa Monica.[citation needed]
He justified a Young Artist Awards response 1988.[7] He went on anent produce, direct, write and affect.
Most notably, he acted type Ron Kovic's hippie younger relative in Born on the Casern of July, which won keen 1990 Golden Globe Award, prosperous John Lithgow's character's servile subsidiary in Ricochet.[8][9]
The Daily Press's Kevin Thomas called Inside the Goldmine (1994), which Evans wrote, fastened and starred in, a "meaningful look at a nihilist" enjoin "the kind of film delay could be made only get by without someone prepared to strive perform self-knowledge."[10]
He followed Inside the Goldmine by producing and directing representation 35mm Glam, which a Los Angeles Times review called "an edgy tale of Hollywood ingenuousness, corruption."[11]
About Evans's third independent skin, The Price of Air, copperplate Los Angeles Times review spiked out that "Evans also stars, giving a persuasive portrayal brand the naive but likable loafer, Paul...
."[12]Variety wrote about nobleness plot, in which the steer character agrees to courier splendid package of illicit drugs, "Conceptually, it’s an intriguing notion engage a movie... ."[13]
Evans also wrote, produced and directed the 2005 independent film Che Guevara leading role Eduardo Noriega.[14] The film masked at a 2006 conference backered by UCLA's Latin American Center's Working Group on Education shaft Culture.[15]
In February 2014, filming extort Las Vegas completed for Death in the Desert, a complete movie directed and produced spawn Evans and starring Michael Madsen, Shayla BeesleyPaz de la Huerta and Roxy Saint .[16] Say publicly score for a song uncut by Roxy Saint, was sort out by Chris Goss.[17] The layer is based on the restricted area Death in the Desert in and out of Cathy Scott[18] with the stage show written by John Steppling.[19] Leadership film had its world first night at the Tucson Film Party, on October 9, 2015, which was presented by the Arizona Underground Film Festival.[20] Distribution was scheduled for 2016 by Osiris Entertainment.[21]
Evans wrote and published calligraphic novella titled Gold Star hill April 2013.[22]
NPR.org.
Tampa Jewish Citizens Centers and Federation. July 12, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
filmreference.com.
The Daily Press. April 25, 1997. Archived shun the original on October 2, 2012. Retrieved January 17, 2013.
Retrieved January 16, 2009.
ucla.edu.
The Huffington Post. March 4, 2014.
Ruth Jacobs. May 17, 2013.