Warren Oates
Born: 1928-07-05 in Depoy, Kentucky, USA
Died: 1982-04-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982) was an American actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah including The Wild Bunch (1969) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). He starred in numerous films during the early 1970s which have since achieved cult status including The Hired Hand (1971), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) and Race with the Devil (1975). Oates also portrayed Sergeant Hulka in the box office hit Stripes (1981).
Filmography
2006
- Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
1993
- Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
- Tough Enough as James Neese
- Blue Thunder as Braddock
1982
- The Border as Red
- The Blue and the Gray as Preacher / Maj. Welles
1981
- Stripes as Sgt. Hulka
- East of Eden as Cyrus Trask
1980
- Baby Comes Home as Michael Kramer
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Harry
- 1941 as Col. 'Madman' Maddox
- And Baby Makes Six as Michael Kramer
- My Old Man as Frank Butler
1978
- True Grit: A Further Adventure as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
- China 9, Liberty 37 as Matthew Sebanek
- Black Beauty as Jerry Barker
- The Brink's Job as Specs O'Keefe
1977
- Sleeping Dogs as Col. Willoughby
- American Raspberry as Celebrity Sportsman
- The African Queen as Capt. Charlie Allnut
1976
- Drum as Hammond Maxwell
- Dixie Dynamite as Mack
1975
- Rancho Deluxe as Harmonica Player (uncredited)
- Race with the Devil as Frank
- 92 in the Shade as Nichol Dance
1974
- Badlands as Holly's Father
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Bennie
- Cockfighter as Frank Mansfield
- The White Dawn as Billy
1973
- Tom Sawyer as Muff Potter
- Police Story
- Dillinger as John Dillinger
- Kid Blue as Reese Ford
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Dave Reilly
1971
- Chandler as Chandler
- The Hired Hand as Arch Harris
- The Reluctant Heroes as Cpl. Leroy Sprague
- Two-Lane Blacktop as G.T.O.
1970
- Barquero as Jake Remy
- The Movie Murderer as Alfred Fisher
- There Was a Crooked Man... as Floyd Moon
1969
- The Wild Bunch as Lyle Gorch
- Smith! as Walter Charlie
- Crooks and Coronets as Marty Miller
- Lanton Mills as Gunman
1968
- The Name of the Game as Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford
- The Split as Marty Gough
- Lancer
- Something for a Lonely Man as Angus Duren
- Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims as John Blythe
1967
- Cimarron Strip
- Welcome to Hard Times as Leo Jenks
- In the Heat of the Night as Deputy Sam Wood
- Dundee and the Culhane as Lafe Doolin
1966
- The Shooting as Willett Gashade
- Return of the Seven as Colbee
- Shane as Kemp Spicer
- The Monroes
1965
- Lost in Space as Jimmy Hapgood
- The Big Valley as Korby Kyles
- The F.B.I. as Richie Billings
- Major Dundee as O.W. Hadley
- Run for Your Life as Deputy LaVern Potter
- Branded
- Shenandoah as Billy Packer
- The Rounders as Harley Williams (uncredited)
- A Man Called Shenandoah as Sergeant Ryder
1964
- 12 O'Clock High as Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
- Mail Order Bride as Jace
1963
- The Fugitive as Hanes McClure
- The Outer Limits as Reese Fowler
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Joe Grover
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters as Eldon Bishop
1962
- The Virginian as Corbie
- Combat! as Pvt. James Stark
- Hero's Island as Wayte Giddens
- Stoney Burke as Ves Painter
- Ride the High Country as Henry Hammond
1960
- Thriller as Hugo Wheeler
- Outlaws
- Private Property as Boots
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond as Eddie Diamond
- Stagecoach West as Tom Lochlin
- The Westerner as Drunk
- Tate
1959
- Bonanza as Paul Magruder
- The Twilight Zone as Jeep Driver
- The Untouchables as Artie Krebs
- Rawhide as Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters
- Hawaiian Eye as Al
- The Rebel as Troy Armbruster
- Up Periscope as Seaman Kovacs
- Black Saddle as Simms
- Johnny Ringo as Burt Scanlon
- Yellowstone Kelly as Corporal
- The Lawless Years
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Jesse Cox
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Bat Masterson as Sonny Parsons
- Bronco
1957
- Wagon Train as Private Silas Carpenter
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Trackdown
- The Night America Trembled as 2nd Card Player
1955
- Gunsmoke as Jed Hakes
1954
- The Wonderful World of Disney as John Blythe
1948
- Studio One as Card Player #2