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
- Blue Thunder as Braddock
- Tough Enough as James Neese
- Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
1982
- The Blue and the Gray as Preacher / Maj. Welles
- The Border as Red
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
- Black Beauty as Jerry Barker
- The Brink's Job as Specs O'Keefe
- China 9, Liberty 37 as Matthew Sebanek
- True Grit: A Further Adventure as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
- Sleeping Dogs as Col. Willoughby
1977
- American Raspberry as Celebrity Sportsman
- The African Queen as Capt. Charlie Allnut
1976
- Drum as Hammond Maxwell
- Dixie Dynamite as Mack
1975
- Race with the Devil as Frank
- 92 in the Shade as Nichol Dance
- Rancho Deluxe as Harmonica Player (uncredited)
1974
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Bennie
- The White Dawn as Billy
- Cockfighter as Frank Mansfield
1973
- Police Story
- Badlands as Holly's Father
- Tom Sawyer as Muff Potter
- Dillinger as John Dillinger
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Dave Reilly
- Kid Blue as Reese Ford
1971
- Two-Lane Blacktop as G.T.O.
- Chandler as Chandler
- The Hired Hand as Arch Harris
- The Reluctant Heroes as Cpl. Leroy Sprague
1970
- There Was a Crooked Man... as Floyd Moon
- Barquero as Jake Remy
- The Movie Murderer as Alfred Fisher
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
- Lancer
- The Split as Marty Gough
- Something for a Lonely Man as Angus Duren
- Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims as John Blythe
1967
- Cimarron Strip
- In the Heat of the Night as Deputy Sam Wood
- Dundee and the Culhane as Lafe Doolin
- Welcome to Hard Times as Leo Jenks
1966
- The Monroes
- Shane as Kemp Spicer
- Return of the Seven as Colbee
- The Shooting as Willett Gashade
1965
- The F.B.I. as Richie Billings
- The Big Valley as Korby Kyles
- Lost in Space as Jimmy Hapgood
- Run for Your Life as Deputy LaVern Potter
- Branded
- Major Dundee as O.W. Hadley
- A Man Called Shenandoah as Sergeant Ryder
- The Rounders as Harley Williams (uncredited)
- Shenandoah as Billy Packer
1964
- 12 O'Clock High as Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
- Mail Order Bride as Jace
1963
- The Fugitive as Hanes McClure
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Joe Grover
- The Outer Limits as Reese Fowler
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters as Eldon Bishop
1962
- The Virginian as Corbie
- Combat! as Pvt. James Stark
- Stoney Burke as Ves Painter
- Ride the High Country as Henry Hammond
- Hero's Island as Wayte Giddens
1960
- Thriller as Hugo Wheeler
- Outlaws
- Stagecoach West as Tom Lochlin
- The Westerner as Drunk
- Tate
- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond as Eddie Diamond
- Private Property as Boots
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
- Black Saddle as Simms
- Johnny Ringo as Burt Scanlon
- The Lawless Years
- Yellowstone Kelly as Corporal
- Up Periscope as Seaman Kovacs
1958
- The Rifleman
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Jesse Cox
- Bat Masterson as Sonny Parsons
- 77 Sunset Strip
- 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