Warren Oates

Actor Jul 5 (died age 53) Depoy, Kentucky, USA 1947–2006 (59 year career)

6.3 avg rating

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

Film

In the Heat of the Night

Deputy Sam Wood

Film

The Wild Bunch

Lyle Gorch

Film

Badlands

Holly's Father

Film

Stripes

Sgt. Hulka

Film

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Bennie

Film

Blue Thunder

Braddock

Film

Ride the High Country

Henry Hammond

Film

Two-Lane Blacktop

G.T.O.

Filmography

Acting (113)

Movies (60)

Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'

2006

as Self (archive footage)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

Warren Oates: Across the Border

1993

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Blue Thunder

as Braddock

Tough Enough

as James Neese

Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder

The Border

as Red

Stripes

as Sgt. Hulka

Baby Comes Home

as Michael Kramer

1941

1979

as Col. 'Madman' Maddox

My Old Man

as Frank Butler

And Baby Makes Six

as Michael Kramer

True Grit: A Further Adventure

1978

as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn

China 9, Liberty 37

as Matthew Sebanek

The Brink's Job

as Specs O'Keefe

The African Queen

as Capt. Charlie Allnut

Sleeping Dogs

as Col. Willoughby

American Raspberry

as Celebrity Sportsman

Drum

as Hammond Maxwell

Dixie Dynamite

as Mack

92 in the Shade

as Nichol Dance

Race with the Devil

as Frank

Rancho Deluxe

as Harmonica Player (uncredited)

5.3

Badlands

1974

as Holly's Father

7.5

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

as Bennie

The White Dawn

as Billy

Cockfighter

as Frank Mansfield

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

as Dave Reilly

Tom Sawyer

as Muff Potter

Kid Blue

as Reese Ford

Dillinger

as John Dillinger

Chandler

as Chandler

The Reluctant Heroes

as Cpl. Leroy Sprague

The Hired Hand

as Arch Harris

Two-Lane Blacktop

as G.T.O.

Barquero

as Jake Remy

There Was a Crooked Man...

as Floyd Moon

The Movie Murderer

as Alfred Fisher

The Wild Bunch

as Lyle Gorch

Smith!

as Walter Charlie

Lanton Mills

as Gunman

Crooks and Coronets

as Marty Miller

The Split

as Marty Gough

Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims

1968

as John Blythe

10.0

Something for a Lonely Man

1968

as Angus Duren

7.4

In the Heat of the Night

1967

as Deputy Sam Wood

7.7

Welcome to Hard Times

as Leo Jenks

The Shooting

as Willett Gashade

Return of the Seven

as Colbee

Shenandoah

as Billy Packer

The Rounders

as Harley Williams (uncredited)

Major Dundee

as O.W. Hadley

Mail Order Bride

as Jace

Ride the High Country

as Henry Hammond

Hero's Island

as Wayte Giddens

Private Property

as Boots

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

as Eddie Diamond

Up Periscope

as Seaman Kovacs

Yellowstone Kelly

as Corporal

The Night America Trembled

1957

as 2nd Card Player

7.5

Television (53)

The Blue and the Gray

1982

as Major Welles

6.6

The Blue and the Gray

1982

as Preacher / Maj. Welles

6.6

East of Eden

1981

as Cyrus Trask

7.3

Tales of the Unexpected

as Harry

Black Beauty

as Jerry Barker

Police Story

The Name of the Game

as Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford

Lancer

Cimarron Strip

Dundee and the Culhane

as Lafe Doolin

Shane

as Kemp Spicer

The Monroes

The F.B.I.

as Richie Billings

Lost in Space

as Jimmy Hapgood

The Big Valley

as Korby Kyles

Run for Your Life

as Deputy LaVern Potter

7.2

Branded

1965

6.6

A Man Called Shenandoah

1965

as Sergeant Ryder

6.4

12 O'Clock High

1964

as Lt. Col. Jerry Troper

The Fugitive

as Herbie Grant

The Outer Limits

as Reese Fowler

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

as Joe Grover

5.7

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

as Eldon Bishop

The Virginian

as Corbie

Combat!

as Pvt. James Stark

Stoney Burke

as Ves Painter

Target: The Corruptors!

Thriller

as Benny

Outlaws

Stagecoach West

as Warren Oates

The Westerner

as Drunk

Tate

Bonanza

as Paul Magruder

The Twilight Zone

as Jeep Driver

Rawhide

as Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters

The Untouchables

as Artie Krebs

Hawaiian Eye

as Al

The Rebel

as Troy Armbruster

Johnny Ringo

as Burt Scanlon

Black Saddle

as Simms

The Lawless Years

The Rifleman

as Andrew Sheltin

Bat Masterson

as Sonny Parsons

77 Sunset Strip

as Dink Strahman

Bronco

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1958

as Jesse Cox

6.8

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957

7.3

Wagon Train

1957

as Private Silas Carpenter

Trackdown

Gunsmoke

as Jed Hakes

The Wonderful World of Disney

as John Blythe

Studio One

as Card Player #2

Kraft Television Theatre

1947

7.5