SAD PASSING
Bonnie and Clyde star Evans Evans dead at 91 as actress was widow of director John Frankenheimer
Although her best-known role was beside Gene Wilder in Bonnie and Clyde, she had a versatile TV career as a standout character actor
ACTRESS Evans Evans, whose star turn in Bonnie and Clyde provided one of the lighter moments of the classic crime film, has died at the age of 91.
She was the wife of the late director, John Frankenheimer, who died in 2002.
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They got married on December 13, 1963, and remained a couple until John's death.
Evans was most famous for playing Velma Davis, a kidnap victim, in the 1967 film, Bonnie and Clyde.
Evans died on June 16, 2024, in Sherman Oaks, California, per her obituary.
Additional details on her cause of death were not immediately available.
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She was born in Bluefield, West Virginia, on November 26, 1932, and appeared in her first television role in the anthology drama series Studio One in 1957.
Before her big break in Bonnie and Clyde, Evans starred in numerous TV shows including The Donna Reed Show, Wagon Train, Death Valley Days, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Evans was also a three-time Broadway star in the productions of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Distant Bell, and The 49th Cousin.
She had an uncredited role as Mrs. Randolph in John's 1966 movie, Grand Prix, and in his 1989 film, Dead Bang.
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BONNIE AND CLYDE
Evans starred in Bonnie and Clyde with Gene Wilder, who also made his big-screen debut in the film.
They played two young lovebirds who noticed that Eugene's (Gene) car was being stolen by hoodlums.
Eugene and Velma were standing on their front porch kissing as this happened.
They took off after the thieves but thought better of it and turned around.
However, the thieves, Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde (Warren Beatty), turned around and chased them.
Bonnie and Clyde kidnap the couple, but they turn out to have a good time, laughing at jokes and ordering take-out.
The couple is then kicked out of the car, as Eugene reveals he is an undertaker, which upsets the death-obsessed Bonnie.
OTHER WORK
While Bonnie and Clyde was the biggest film Evans starred in, her career spanned five decades and 25 films and TV shows.
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She played Hedy in the 1962 film, All Fall Down, and Elizabeth in 1973's Story of a Love Story.
Evans starred in The Iceman Cometh, Prophecy, Dead Bang, and Are You Afraid of the Dark? from 1973 to 1994.
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