Acting

Warren Oates

Born 1928-07-05 · Depoy, Kentucky, USA

Died 1982-04-03

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).

Credits

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Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Warren Oates: Across the Border
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993
Tough Enough
as James Neese
1983
Blue Thunder
as Braddock
1983
Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
1983
The Blue and the Gray
as Preacher / Maj. Welles
1982
The Blue and the Gray
as Major Welles
1982
The Border
as Red
1982
Stripes
as Sgt. Hulka
1981
East of Eden
as Cyrus Trask
1981
Baby Comes Home
as Michael Kramer
1980
1941
as Col. 'Madman' Maddox
1979
My Old Man
as Frank Butler
1979
And Baby Makes Six
as Michael Kramer
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
as Harry
1979
The Brink's Job
as Specs O'Keefe
1978
China 9, Liberty 37
as Matthew Sebanek
1978
Sleeping Dogs
as Col. Willoughby
1978
True Grit: A Further Adventure
as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
1978
Black Beauty
as Jerry Barker
1978
American Raspberry
as Celebrity Sportsman
1977
The African Queen
as Capt. Charlie Allnut
1977
Drum
as Hammond Maxwell
1976
Dixie Dynamite
as Mack
1976
92 in the Shade
as Nichol Dance
1975
Race with the Devil
as Frank
1975
Rancho Deluxe
as Harmonica Player (uncredited)
1975
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
as Bennie
1974
Cockfighter
as Frank Mansfield
1974
The White Dawn
as Billy
1974
Badlands
as Holly's Father
1973
Dillinger
as John Dillinger
1973
Police Story
1973
Tom Sawyer
as Muff Potter
1973
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
as Dave Reilly
1973
Kid Blue
as Reese Ford
1973
Chandler
as Chandler
1971
The Reluctant Heroes
as Cpl. Leroy Sprague
1971
The Hired Hand
as Arch Harris
1971
Two-Lane Blacktop
as G.T.O.
1971
There Was a Crooked Man...
as Floyd Moon
1970
Barquero
as Jake Remy
1970
The Movie Murderer
as Alfred Fisher
1970
Lanton Mills
as Gunman
1969
The Wild Bunch
as Lyle Gorch
1969
Crooks and Coronets
as Marty Miller
1969
Smith!
as Walter Charlie
1969
Something for a Lonely Man
as Angus Duren
1968
The Split
as Marty Gough
1968
Lancer
1968
The Name of the Game
as Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford
1968
Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
as John Blythe
1968
Cimarron Strip
1967
Dundee and the Culhane
as Lafe Doolin
1967
In the Heat of the Night
as Deputy Sam Wood
1967
Welcome to Hard Times
as Leo Jenks
1967
Return of the Seven
as Colbee
1966
Shane
as Kemp Spicer
1966
The Monroes
1966
The Shooting
as Willett Gashade
1966
The F.B.I.
as Richie Billings
1965
Lost in Space
as Jimmy Hapgood
1965
The Big Valley
as Korby Kyles
1965
The Big Valley
as Duke
1965
Run for Your Life
as Deputy LaVern Potter
1965
A Man Called Shenandoah
as Sergeant Ryder
1965
Shenandoah
as Billy Packer
1965
Major Dundee
as O.W. Hadley
1965
Branded
1965
The Rounders
as Harley Williams (uncredited)
1965
12 O'Clock High
as Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
1964
Mail Order Bride
as Jace
1964
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Joe Grover
1963
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
as Eldon Bishop
1963
The Fugitive
as Hanes McClure
1963
The Fugitive
as Herbie Grant
1963
The Outer Limits
as Reese Fowler
1963
Combat!
as Pvt. James Stark
1962
Stoney Burke
as Ves Painter
1962