British actor Michael Evans died in his California home of natural causes on 4 September 2007. Born in Sittingbourne, Kent, England, on 27 July 1920, he came to the US in 1950, appearing on Broadway in Ring Round the Moon, and then moving on to Gigi. Later in the decade, he was Professor Henry Higgins in the touring company of My Fair Lady. He also had the long-running role of Col. Douglas Austin on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
His genre appearances include: The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982), Goliath Awaits (1981), and Time After Time (1979).
Evans served as a navigator in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He studied at London’s Old Vic School after graduating from Winchester College, and debuted on the London stage in 1948.
Evans is survived by two sisters, Rosemarie and Bridget, and his two sons, Nick and Christopher, who were the children of his first wife, Pat Wedgewood (they married in 1948 and divorced 25 years later). Evans’s second wife, Pat Sigris Evans, died in 1986.