Personal life

Evigan was born in South Amboy, New Jersey, the son of Barbara Elizabeth, a homemaker, and Ralph Milan Evigan, an electrician. He grew up in Sayreville, New Jersey, and attended Sayreville War Memorial High School, graduating in 1971. In 2007 he was inducted into the school's Alumni Hall of Fame for his contributions to the arts. Evigan is married to dancer Pamela C. Serpe and has three children. His youngest daughter, Briana Evigan, is the lead actress in Step Up 2: The Streets and Step Up: All In. Another daughter is actress Vanessa Lee Evigan. Vanessa was in the Christmas movie "Holiday In Handcuffs", with Mario Lopez and Melissa Joan Hart/ Trudy, Vanessa portrayed the sister of Trudy. Evigan's son Jason is the front man of a popular LA-based band called After Midnight Project and wrote the song "Perfect Day" for Legally Blonde's soundtrack.

Career

Evigan was a teen idol during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He auditioned for and landed roles in Jesus Christ Superstar and Grease (in which he played the leading character).

Evigan is best known for his work in three hit television series:

• 1979-1981 B. J. and the Bear, where he starred as Billie Joe "B.J." McKay, a truck driver whose best friend was a chimpanzee named Bear;
• 1987-1990 My Two Dads in which a teenage girl is raised by two past boyfriends of her deceased mother together when it cannot be determined which is the father;
• mid-1990s TekWar, a science fiction series based on a series of books by Star Trek actor William Shatner (who also co-starred). TekWar originated as a series of two-hour television movies in 1994, and then became a series of hour-long episodes that ran in 1995-96.

However, Evigan appeared in other productions as well.

It was with B. J. and the Bear (which actually began in 1978 as a made for television movie) that Evigan reached pop-star status, and he began receiving cover from such magazines as Tiger Beat, Teen Beat and many other magazines geared towards teenaged girls. In 1980 he posed bare-chested for a pin-up wall poster.

Evigan was played by the actor Mark Gatiss in several When Insects Attack segments in 1998 and When Things Get Knocked Over segments in 1999 episodes of the British television sketch show This Morning with Richard Not Judy.

Filmography

TV filmography

• A Year at the Top (1977)
• B. J. and the Bear (1978) as Billie Joe 'B.J.' McKay
• Dallas (1978) (Episode "Runaway") as Willie Guest
• One Day at a Time (1978) (Episodes "Jealousy Pt.1" and "Jealousy Pt. 2") as Doug
• Pink Lady and Jeff (1980)
• Masquerade (1983) as Danny Doyle
• The Yellow Rose (1984) as Trey Champion
• Northstar (1986) as Jack North
• Murder, She Wrote (1986) as Brad Kaneally
• Matlock (1987) as Josh Sinclair
• My Two Dads (1987) as Joey Harris
• P.S. I Luv U (1991) as Cody Powell/Joey Paciorek
• Columbo: A Bird in the Hand (1992) as Harold McCain
• Melrose Place (1992) as Dr. Dan Hathaway
• TekWar (1994) as Jake Cardigan
• Deadly Family Secrets (1995) as Eddie
• Burke's Law (1995)
• Pacific Palisades (1997) as Robert Russo
• Earthquake in New York (TV movie) 1998 as John Rykker
• Family Rules (1999) as Nate Harrison
• Touched by an Angel (1999) as Bo Beumont
• Big Sound (2000) as Bill Sutton
• Reba (2001) as Bill
• Spirit (2001) as Jesse
• JAG (2003) (Episode Empty Quiver) as Master Chief Shattuck
• Straight From the Heart (2003) as Edward
• CSI: Miami (2005) (Episode Money Plane) as Sean Walsh
• Our House (2006) as Todd Preston
• Desperate Housewives (2007) as Dr. Charles McLain
• Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (2008) as Professor Andrew Graves
• Mail Order Bride (TV movie) (2008) as Tom Rourke
• Cold Case (Episode "One Small Step") (2008) as Chuck Pierce
• Heat Wave
• My Dog's Christmas Miracle (2011) as Kevin
• The Glades (2012) (Episode "Fountain of Youth") as Bruce Phillips
• The Finder (episode "Bullets") (2012) as Bronski
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (episode "Merchants of Menace") (2015) as Bruce Waters
• Once Upon a Holiday (2015) as George

Filmography

• Scorchy (1976) as Alan
• Stripped to Kill (1987) as Detective Heineman
• Private Road - No Trespassing (1987)
• Echoes in Crimson (1988)
• DeepStar Six (1989) as Kevin McBride
• Lies Before Kisses (1991)
• Spectre (1996) as Will South
• The Pawn (1998) as Ray
• Mel (1998) as Peter
• Pets to the Rescue (1999)
• Survivor (1999)
• Everyone Loves Mel (1999)
• Die! Die! Die! (2000)
• He Sees You When You're Sleeping (2002)
• Found (2004)
• Arizona Summer (2003)
• Cerberus (2005)
• Hoboken Hollow (2006)
• 100 Million BC (2008)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
• Phantom Racer (2009)
• Megaconda (2009)
• 6 Guns (2010) as Sheriff
• Metal Tornado (2011) as Jonathan Kane
• Invasion Roswell (2013)

Video filmography

• ''Private Road: No Trespassing (1987) (V) as Brad Carlton
• Cinnamon (2011)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]