Warren Oates
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).
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Acting History
2006
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' as Self (archive footage)
2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
1993Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983Tough Enough as James Neese
1983Blue Thunder as Braddock
1982The Blue and the Gray as Preacher / Maj. Welles
1982The Blue and the Gray as Major Welles
1982The Border as Red
1981Stripes as Sgt. Hulka
1981East of Eden as Cyrus Trask
1980Baby Comes Home as Michael Kramer
19791941 as Col. 'Madman' Maddox
1979My Old Man as Frank Butler
1979And Baby Makes Six as Michael Kramer
1979Tales of the Unexpected as Harry
1978The Brink's Job as Specs O'Keefe
1978China 9, Liberty 37 as Matthew Sebanek
1978True Grit: A Further Adventure as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
1978Black Beauty as Jerry Barker
1977Sleeping Dogs as Col. Willoughby
1977American Raspberry as Celebrity Sportsman
1977The African Queen as Capt. Charlie Allnut
1976Drum as Hammond Maxwell
1976Dixie Dynamite as Mack
197592 in the Shade as Nichol Dance
1975Race with the Devil as Frank
1975Rancho Deluxe as Harmonica Player (uncredited)
1974Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Bennie
1974Cockfighter as Frank Mansfield
1974The White Dawn as Billy
1974Badlands as Holly's Father
1973Dillinger as John Dillinger
1973Police Story
1973Tom Sawyer as Muff Potter
1973The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Dave Reilly
1973Kid Blue as Reese Ford
1971Chandler as Chandler
1971The Reluctant Heroes as Cpl. Leroy Sprague
1971The Hired Hand as Arch Harris
1971Two-Lane Blacktop as G.T.O.
1970There Was a Crooked Man... as Floyd Moon
1970Barquero as Jake Remy
1970The Movie Murderer as Alfred Fisher
1969Lanton Mills as Gunman
1969The Wild Bunch as Lyle Gorch
1969Crooks and Coronets as Marty Miller
1969Smith! as Walter Charlie
1968Something for a Lonely Man as Angus Duren
1968The Split as Marty Gough
1968Lancer
1968The Name of the Game as Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford
1968Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims as John Blythe
1967Cimarron Strip
1967Dundee and the Culhane as Lafe Doolin
1967In the Heat of the Night as Deputy Sam Wood
1967Welcome to Hard Times as Leo Jenks
1966Return of the Seven as Colbee
1966Shane as Kemp Spicer
1966The Monroes
1966The Shooting as Willett Gashade
1965The F.B.I. as Richie Billings
1965The Big Valley as Korby Kyles
1965The Big Valley as Duke
1965Lost in Space as Jimmy Hapgood
1965Run for Your Life as Deputy LaVern Potter
1965A Man Called Shenandoah as Sergeant Ryder
1965Shenandoah as Billy Packer
1965Major Dundee as O.W. Hadley
1965Branded
1965The Rounders as Harley Williams (uncredited)
196412 O'Clock High as Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
1964Mail Order Bride as Jace
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Joe Grover
1963The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters as Eldon Bishop
1963The Fugitive as Hanes McClure
1963The Fugitive as Herbie Grant
1963The Outer Limits as Reese Fowler
1962Combat! as Pvt. James Stark
1962Stoney Burke as Ves Painter
1962The Virginian as Corbie
1962The Virginian as Roy Judd
1962The Virginian as Bowers
1962The Virginian as Buxton
1962Hero's Island as Wayte Giddens
1962Ride the High Country as Henry Hammond
1961Target: The Corruptors!
1960Stagecoach West as Tom Lochlin
1960Stagecoach West as Warren Oates
1960The Westerner as Drunk
1960Outlaws
1960Thriller as Hugo Wheeler
1960Thriller as Benny
1960Tate
1960The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond as Eddie Diamond
1960Private Property as Boots
1959Yellowstone Kelly as Corporal
1959The Untouchables as Artie Krebs
1959Hawaiian Eye as Al
1959The Rebel as Troy Armbruster
1959The Twilight Zone as Jeep Driver
1959The Twilight Zone as Richard Langsford
1959Johnny Ringo as Burt Scanlon
1959Bonanza as Paul Magruder
1959The Lawless Years
1959Up Periscope as Seaman Kovacs
1959Black Saddle as Simms
1959Rawhide as Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters
1959Rawhide as Weed
1959Rawhide as Jesse Gufler
195877 Sunset Strip
195877 Sunset Strip as Dink Strahman
1958Bat Masterson as Sonny Parsons
1958Bat Masterson as Cat Crail
1958The Rifleman
1958The Rifleman as Andrew Sheltin
1958The Rifleman as Marty Ryan
1958Bronco
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive as Jesse Cox
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive as Billy Clegg
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive as George Aswell
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive as Clem Robinson
1957Trackdown
1957Trackdown as Kelly
1957Trackdown as Norvil
1957Wagon Train as Private Silas Carpenter
1957Have Gun, Will Travel
1957Have Gun, Will Travel as Harrison
1957The Night America Trembled as 2nd Card Player
1955Gunsmoke as Jed Hakes
1955Gunsmoke as Seth
1955Gunsmoke as Jep
1955Gunsmoke as Sweet Billy
1955Gunsmoke as Chris Kelly
1955Gunsmoke as Deke
1955Gunsmoke as Speeler
1955Gunsmoke as Al Tresh
1955Gunsmoke as Lafe
1955Gunsmoke as Reb
1954The Wonderful World of Disney as John Blythe
1948Studio One as Card Player #2
1947Kraft Television Theatre