Steve Evets

Steve Evets (born Steven Murphy; 26 July 1959) is an a terminally-ill wheelchair-bound alcoholic opposite
English actor and musician, who found fame in the lead- Robert Carlyle, in Summer.[4] He followed this with the
ing role in the 2009 lm Looking for Eric.
lead role in Ken Loach's 2009 lm, Looking for Eric; his
performance saw him tipped for the Best Actor award at
the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[5][6]

Personal life

In 2010 to 2014 he appeared as the homeless drug addict

Colin in the acclaimed TV series Rev. He played Morty in
[7]
Born in Salford, Greater Manchester, Evets joined the Vertigo Films' 2012 low-budget horror lm The Facility
[8]
Merchant Navy after leaving school, but was kicked out (originally titled Guinea Pigs) directed by Ian Clark. He
band Emperor
after three years, after jumping ship twice in Japan and starred in a music video for Salford-based
[9]
Zeros
2011
song
Man
with
Red
Eyes.
[1]
spending his eighteenth birthday in a Bombay brothel.
In 1987 Evets was stabbed through the liver, lung and Steve Evets appeared in the rst three episodes of the rst
diaphragm, glassed in the face and had his throat cut in a series of BBC3 zombie drama In The Flesh, but did not
pub brawl on Mothers Day 1987. He spent time on a life return for series 2 due to his characters death.
support machine.[2][3]

In 2015 Evets appeared as Jim Smith in the BBC TV

Evets briey worked delivering pipes alongside his acting series Death in Paradise episode 4.5
career, and as an electrician.[2][1] As there was already a In 2015 Evets appeared as Bertrand in the BBC TV series
Steve Murphy on the books of Equity, he decided on the The Musketeers episode 2.5 The Return
stage name Steve Evets, The rst thing that popped into
my head was 'Steve' backwards ... so I put that on the
form.[1]
3 References
His name is a palindrome.
[1] Wilson, Benji (2009) Looking for Eric: Steve Evets is up
there with Cantona, The Daily Telegraph, 6 June 2009.

Career

[2] Fitzherbert, Henry (2009) "ELECTRICIAN SPARKS A

HIT FLICK FOR CANTONA", Daily Express, 14 June
2009; retrieved 19 July 2010.

Evets early acting work included a street theatre company

formed with two friends.[1] He moved into theatre work,
and had small roles in several television series such as See
No Evil: The Moors Murders, Casualty, Life on Mars, The
Cops, Shameless, and Emmerdale.[4]

[3] "Steve Evets - Bafta awards 2010: stars ready for their
close-ups", Daily Telegraph; retrieved 19 July 2010.
[4] O'Neill, Phelim (2008) "First sight: Steve Evets, The
Guardian, 4 July 2008.

In between acting roles, he worked under the name

Adolph Chip-pan, performing political comedy poetry
in Manchester. He also worked as a musician, and was
introduced to Mark E. Smith of the Fall in the mid1990s, leading to Evets performing his poetry at some
Fall gigs.[1] When Smith found that Evets could play bass
guitar, he was drafted into the band in Turkey after previous bassist Jim Watts had been sacked.[1] Evets played
in The Fall between 2000 and 2002, before leaving to
front his own band, Dr Freaks Padded Cell, which he
described as electronic dance music with sort of very
political overtones, even getting Smith to provide guest
vocals on one track; Evets made a video for the track and
posted it on YouTube, much to the dislike of Smith, ending their friendship.[1]

[5] Romney, Jonathan (2009) The 62nd Cannes Film Festival, France, The Independent, 24 May 2009.
[6] Lim, Dennis (2009) Cannes: The Awards Outlook, New
York, 22 May 2009.
[7] The Facility prole, IMDb.com; accessed 9 September
2014.
[8] Guinea Pigs infosite; accessed 9 September 2014.
[9] Evets on YouTube; accessed 9 September 2014.

His rst major lm role came in 2008, playing

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