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