Blond, good looking Jason Evers played many seemingly ordinary, respectable men who often turned out to harbor malign intent, twisted motivations, or complicated personalities. Although probably best known for playing Dr. Bill Corter in the 1962 cult film Der Kopf, der nicht sterben durfte (1962), Evers did much more than meets the eye. He quit school to join the army during WWII, and later decided to become an actor after seeing such Hollywood stars as John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart. His first big break was in 1960 in the TV series Wrangler (1960) and he followed that with roles in Der Killer mit dem Babygesicht (1960), Revolte in Block A (1962), and another TV series, Channing (1963).
His career began to decline in the 1970s. He appeared with Roddy McDowall in
Flucht vom Planet der Affen (1971), one of the sequels to the smash
Planet der Affen (1968), and in the made-for-TV thriller
Die Todesfalle unter dem Meer (1974). He was a vengeful hunter out to kill a murderous grizzly bear in Claws (1977) and a biologist out to stop man-eating fish (with
Wayne Crawford) in Barracuda (1978).
He made more than 65 appearances in TV series and made-for-TV films during the 1980s, and returned to the big screen in 1990 for
Basket Case 2 (1990). He died of heart failure in New York City in 2005.
