Warren Oates
- Acting
- July 5, 1928 · Depoy, Kentucky, USA
- April 3, 1982
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).
Known for
Filmography
- Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' · Self
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade · Self
- Warren Oates: Across the Border · Self
- Tough Enough · James Neese
- Blue Thunder · Braddock
- Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
- The Blue and the Gray · Preacher / Maj. Welles, Major Welles
- The Border · Red
- Stripes · Sgt. Hulka
- East of Eden · Cyrus Trask
- Baby Comes Home · Michael Kramer
- 1941 · Col. 'Madman' Maddox
- My Old Man · Frank Butler
- And Baby Makes Six · Michael Kramer
- Tales of the Unexpected · Harry
- The Brink's Job · Specs O'Keefe
- China 9, Liberty 37 · Matthew Sebanek
- Sleeping Dogs · Col. Willoughby
- True Grit: A Further Adventure · Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
- Black Beauty · Jerry Barker
- American Raspberry · Celebrity Sportsman
- The African Queen · Capt. Charlie Allnut
- Drum · Hammond Maxwell
- Dixie Dynamite · Mack
- 92 in the Shade · Nichol Dance
- Race with the Devil · Frank
- Rancho Deluxe · Harmonica Player (uncredited)
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia · Bennie
- Cockfighter · Frank Mansfield
- The White Dawn · Billy
- Badlands · Holly's Father
- Dillinger · John Dillinger
- Police Story
- Tom Sawyer · Muff Potter
- The Thief Who Came to Dinner · Dave Reilly
- Kid Blue · Reese Ford
- Chandler · Chandler
- The Reluctant Heroes · Cpl. Leroy Sprague
- The Hired Hand · Arch Harris
- Two-Lane Blacktop · G.T.O.
- There Was a Crooked Man... · Floyd Moon
- Barquero · Jake Remy
- The Movie Murderer · Alfred Fisher
- Lanton Mills · Gunman
- The Wild Bunch · Lyle Gorch
- Crooks and Coronets · Marty Miller
- Smith! · Walter Charlie
- Something for a Lonely Man · Angus Duren
- The Split · Marty Gough
- Lancer
- The Name of the Game · Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford
- Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims · John Blythe
- Cimarron Strip
- Dundee and the Culhane · Lafe Doolin
- In the Heat of the Night · Deputy Sam Wood
- Welcome to Hard Times · Leo Jenks
- Return of the Seven · Colbee
- Shane · Kemp Spicer
- The Monroes
- The Shooting · Willett Gashade
- The F.B.I. · Richie Billings
- Lost in Space · Jimmy Hapgood
- The Big Valley · Korby Kyles, Duke
- Run for Your Life · Deputy LaVern Potter
- A Man Called Shenandoah · Sergeant Ryder
- Shenandoah · Billy Packer
- Major Dundee · O.W. Hadley
- Branded
- The Rounders · Harley Williams (uncredited)
- 12 O'Clock High · Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
- Mail Order Bride · Jace
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre · Joe Grover
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters · Eldon Bishop
- The Fugitive · Hanes McClure, Herbie Grant
- The Outer Limits · Reese Fowler
- Combat! · Pvt. James Stark
- Stoney Burke · Ves Painter
- The Virginian · Corbie, Roy Judd
- Hero's Island · Wayte Giddens
- Ride the High Country · Henry Hammond