R.G. Armstrong
Born: 1917-04-07 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Died: 2012-07-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
Robert Golden Armstrong was an American actor and playwright. A veteran character actor who appeared in dozens of Westerns over the course of his 40-year career, he may be best remembered for his work with director Sam Peckinpah.
Filmography
2024
2014
2007
- The Hottest State ... (Thanks)
2006
- Sam Peckinpah: Portrait as Self
2005
2004
2001
1999
- Purgatory as Coachman
1998
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Old Man
1996
- Millennium as The Old Man
- Don't Look Back as Parish
- Invasion of Privacy as Sam Logan - Storekeeper
1994
- Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion as Retired Texas Ranger
- Dead Center as Art Fencer
1993
- Walker, Texas Ranger as Frank Dodge
- Warlock: The Armageddon as Franks
- Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron as Self
1990
- Dick Tracy as Pruneface
1989
- Quantum Leap as Davison
- Ghetto Blaster as Curtis
- Trapper County War as Pop Luddigger
1988
- War and Remembrance as 'Moose' Fitzgerald
- Bulletproof as Miles Blackburn
1987
- Predator as Major General Homer Phillips
- Friday the 13th: The Series as Lewis Vendredi
- Beauty and the Beast as Stanley Kazmarek
- LBJ: The Early Years as Samuel Ealey Johnson
- Independence as Uriah Creed
1986
- L.A. Law as Frank Osgood
- Matlock as Sheriff Dalton Parks
- Red Headed Stranger as Sheriff Reese Scoby
- The Best of Times as Schutte
- Jocks as Bettlebom
- Oceans of Fire as Rusty West
1984
- Children of the Corn as Diehl
1983
- Lone Wolf McQuade as T. Tyler
1982
- Matt Houston
- Hammett as Lt. O'Mara
- The Shadow Riders as Sheriff Miles Gillette
- The Beast Within as Doc Schoonmaker
1981
- Dynasty
- Code Red
- Reds as Government Agent
- Darkroom
- Evilspeak as Sarge
- The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper as Dempsey
- Raggedy Man as Rigby
1980
- Skag
- Where the Buffalo Roam as Judge Simpson
1979
- Trapper John, M.D.
- Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff as Mr. Hemmings
- The Legend of the Golden Gun as Judge Harrison Harding
- Steel as Kellin
- The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang as Leland Stanford
- Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider as Al Barber
1978
- Vega$
- Heaven Can Wait as General Manager
- The Time Machine as Gen. Harris
- Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell as Dunworth
- Texas Detour as Sheriff Burt
1977
- The Car as Amos Clements
- Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
- The Pack as Cobb
- Mr. Billion as Sheriff T.C. Bishop
1976
- Charlie's Angels as Sebastian Craig
- Stay Hungry as Thor Erickson
- Kingston as Father Reardon
- Dixie Dynamite as Charlie White - Bank President
1975
- Starsky & Hutch as 'Dad' Watson
- Baretta
- Switch as Detective Wills
- Boss Nigger as Mayor Griffin
- Race with the Devil as Sheriff Taylor
- Mean Johnny Barrows as Richard
- White Line Fever as Prosecutor
1974
- Movin' On
- The Manhunter
- Manhunter as Henry Stratemeyer
- The Legend of Hillbilly John as Bristowe
- Reflections of Murder as Mr. Turner
1973
- My Name Is Nobody as Honest John
- Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Ollinger
- White Lightning as Big Bear
- Cotter as Jack
- Prologue to Wounded Knee as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'
- Running Wild as Bull
1972
- The Sixth Sense
- The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid as Clell Miller
- Justin Morgan Had a Horse as Squire Fisk
- The Final Comedown as Mr. Freeman
- J.W. Coop as Jim Sawyer
- The Century Turns as Ben Ritt
1971
- Cannon
- Alias Smith and Jones
- McMillan & Wife as Sheriff Farraday
1970
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Quittner
- The Great White Hope as Captain Dan
- The McMasters as Watson
- Tiger by the Tail as Ben Holmes
1969
- 80 Steps to Jonah as Mackray
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Capt. Wade
- Lancer
- Here Come the Brides
1967
- The Invaders as Gus Flagg
- The High Chaparral as Ed Henderson
- The Guns of Will Sonnett
- Cimarron Strip
- Custer
1966
- The Time Tunnel as Allan Pinkerton
- Felony Squad
- El Dorado as Kevin MacDonald
- T.H.E. Cat as Police Capt. McAllister
1965
- The Big Valley as Wallace Miles
- The F.B.I. as Sheriff Crowley
- Run for Your Life as Edward Loomis
- Major Dundee as Reverend Dahlstrom
1964
- Daniel Boone as Jarvis
- Calhoun as Zac Laird
- He Rides Tall as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
1963
- The Fugitive as Tully Gage
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as William Downey
- The Virginian as Ben Winters
- Ride the High Country as Joshua Knudsen
1961
- 87th Precinct as Franklin Phelps
- Everglades
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Farmer Flint
- Surfside 6 as Paul Wyatt
- The Tall Man
- The Westerner as Shell Davidson
- The Fugitive Kind as Sheriff Jordan Talbott
- The Man Who Found the Money as Captain Bone
- Ten Who Dared as Oramel Howland
1959
- Bonanza as Nathan Clay
- The Twilight Zone as Contractor
- Rawhide as Enoch Talby
- Riverboat as Rothgate
- Black Saddle as Ben Dawes
- Mr. Lucky
- No Name on the Bullet as Asa Canfield
1958
- The Rifleman as Sheriff Tomlinson
- Lawman as Major Ben Rogers
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Asa Wynter
- Bat Masterson as Marshal William MacWilliams
- The Texan as Big Sam Aldridge
- Bronco as Reverend Hardin
- Jefferson Drum as Kreiger
- From Hell to Texas as Hunter Boyd
- Never Love a Stranger as Flix
1957
- Perry Mason as Matthew Bartlett
- Maverick as Wellington Cosgrove
- Wagon Train as John Muskie
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Sugarfoot as Clay Calhoun
- A Face in the Crowd as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
- Baby Doll as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
1955
- Cheyenne
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Gunsmoke as Capt. Benter
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Captain Bone
1954
- Lassie
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Billy Soto
- Garden of Eden as J. Randolph Latimore
1953
- General Electric Theater as Jerry Boynton