taste". Evans brought his Shakespeare productions to Broadway many times, playing Hamlet on the Great White Way in four separate productions for a record grand total of 283 performances. He and Dame Judith Anderson starred on Broadway several times in Macbeth. Their performances were widely regarded as the definitive portrayals of these characters, although one notable dissenter was Orson Welles, who stated that Evans, as an actor, was "worse than bad – he was poor." Evans appeared on Broadway as Hamlet four times, but the productions of the play that he appeared in were consecutive revivals of it – no other actor played Hamlet on Broadway between 1938, when Evans first played him there, and 1946, which marked Evans's last Broadway Hamlet. He is very likely the only actor to have accomplished this, so far. Personal life Although he had taken U.S. citizenship in 1941, Evans had returned to Britain by the end of the 1960s. Aside from an infrequent trip to the United States and occasional visits to retired actors in financial need (as a representative of the Actors' Fund, of which he was a longtime trustee), he lived quietly near Brighton. He never married, and was survived by a brother, Hugh, of London. Publication All This and Evans Too, memoir, University of South Carolina Press, 1987; Death Evans died, aged 87, in Rottingdean, East Sussex, England, reportedly of heart failure as a result of a bronchial infection. Partial filmography White Cargo (1929) – Langford Raise the Roof (1930) – Rodney Langford Should a Doctor Tell? (1930) – Roger Smith Wedding Rehearsal (1932) – George Thompson aka Tootles Marry Me (1932) – Paul Hart The Path of Glory (1934) – Anton Maroni The Only Girl (1934) – Didier Bypass to Happiness (1934) – Robin Checkmate (1935) – Phillip Allen Scrooge (1935) – Poor man Kind Lady (1951) – Henry Springer Elcott Androcles and the Lion (1952) – Emperor Antoninus (Caesar) The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (1953) – Arthur Sullivan Bewitched (TV series, 1964–1971) – Maurice The War Lord (1965) – Priest One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966) – Sir Norman Swickert Batman episodes "The Puzzles are Coming" and "The Duo Is Slumming" (1966) – The Puzzler Traitors of San Angel (1967) – James Keefe Jack of Diamonds (1967) – Nicolai Vodkine Planet of the Apes (1968) – Dr. Zaius Rosemary's Baby (1968) – Hutch The Body Stealers