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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-04-07 (108 years old)

Place of Birth

Birmingham, Alabama, USA

R.G. Armstrong

Biography:

Robert Golden Armstrong was an American actor and playwright. A veteran character actor who appeared in dozens of Westerns over the course of his 40-year career, he may be best remembered for his work with director Sam Peckinpah.

Known For

Acting

2024

2014

2006

2005

2004

2001

1999

Purgatory as Coachman

1998

1996

Don't Look Back as Parish
Invasion of Privacy as Sam Logan - Storekeeper
Millennium as The Old Man

1995

Payback as Mac

1994

Dead Center as Art Fencer

1993

Walker, Texas Ranger as Frank Dodge

1990

Dick Tracy as Pruneface

1989

Ghetto Blaster as Curtis
Trapper County War as Pop Luddigger
Quantum Leap as Davison

1988

Bulletproof as Miles Blackburn

1987

Predator as Major General Homer Phillips
LBJ: The Early Years as Samuel Ealey Johnson
Independence as Uriah Creed
Friday the 13th: The Series as Lewis Vendredi

1986

Jocks as Bettlebom
Red Headed Stranger as Sheriff Reese Scoby
Oceans of Fire as Rusty West
L.A. Law as Frank Osgood

1984

1983

Lone Wolf McQuade as T. Tyler

1982

The Beast Within as Doc Schoonmaker
Hammett as Lt. O'Mara
The Shadow Riders as Sheriff Miles Gillette

1981

Evilspeak as Sarge
Raggedy Man as Rigby
Reds as Government Agent

1980

Where the Buffalo Roam as Judge Simpson

1979

The Legend of the Golden Gun as Judge Harrison Harding
Steel as Kellin
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff as Mr. Hemmings

1978

Heaven Can Wait as General Manager
Texas Detour as Sheriff Burt
The Time Machine as Gen. Harris

1977

The Car as Amos Clements
The Pack as Cobb
Mr. Billion as Sheriff T.C. Bishop

1976

Stay Hungry as Thor Erickson
Dixie Dynamite as Charlie White - Bank President
Kingston as Father Reardon
Charlie's Angels as Sebastian Craig

1975

Race with the Devil as Sheriff Taylor
Boss Nigger as Mayor Griffin
White Line Fever as Prosecutor
Starsky & Hutch as 'Dad' Watson
Switch as Detective Wills

1974

Manhunter as Henry Stratemeyer
Reflections of Murder as Mr. Turner
J.W. Coop as Jim Sawyer

1973

White Lightning as Big Bear
My Name Is Nobody as Honest John
Cotter as Jack
Running Wild as Bull
Prologue to Wounded Knee as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'

1972

The Century Turns as Ben Ritt
The Final Comedown as Mr. Freeman

1971

McMillan & Wife as Sheriff Farraday

1970

Tiger by the Tail as Ben Holmes
The McMasters as Watson
The Great White Hope as Captain Dan

1969

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Capt. Wade
Hawaii Five-O as Warden

1967

The High Chaparral as Ed Henderson
The Invaders as Gus Flagg
The Invaders as Police Capt. Bill Battersea

1966

El Dorado as Kevin MacDonald
The Time Tunnel as Allan Pinkerton
T.H.E. Cat as Police Capt. McAllister
T.H.E. Cat as Capt. McAllister

1965

Major Dundee as Reverend Dahlstrom
The F.B.I. as Sheriff Crowley
Run for Your Life as Edward Loomis
The Big Valley as Wallace Miles
The F.B.I. as Ed Cray
The F.B.I. as George David Owens

1964

He Rides Tall as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
Calhoun as Zac Laird
Daniel Boone as Jarvis
Daniel Boone as Joseph Garth

1963

The Fugitive as Tully Gage
The Fugitive as Sheriff Bradley
The Fugitive as Marshal Matt Peters

1962

Ride the High Country as Joshua Knudsen
The Virginian as Ben Winters
The Virginian as Frederick Harley
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as William Downey

1961

87th Precinct as Franklin Phelps

1960

The Fugitive Kind as Sheriff Jordan Talbott
Ten Who Dared as Oramel Howland
The Andy Griffith Show as Farmer Flint
The Westerner as Shell Davidson
Surfside 6 as Paul Wyatt

1959

No Name on the Bullet as Asa Canfield
The Twilight Zone as Contractor
Rawhide as Enoch Talby
Black Saddle as Ben Dawes
Riverboat as Rothgate
Rawhide as Gantry Hobson
Rawhide as Sheriff John Keeley
Bonanza as Nathan Clay
Bonanza as Andrew Holloway
Bonanza as Col. Keith Jarrell
Rawhide as Burke

1958

From Hell to Texas as Hunter Boyd
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Asa Wynter
Bat Masterson as Marshal William MacWilliams
Jefferson Drum as Kreiger
The Texan as Big Sam Aldridge
The Rifleman as Sheriff Tomlinson
The Rifleman as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson

1957

A Face in the Crowd as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
Perry Mason as Matthew Bartlett
Sugarfoot as Clay Calhoun
Maverick as Wellington Cosgrove
Sugarfoot as Lou Stoner
Perry Mason as Harry Bright
Perry Mason as John Gregory
Have Gun, Will Travel as Mayor Lovett

1956

Baby Doll as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sheriff Les Houghton

1955

Gunsmoke as Capt. Benter
Gunsmoke as Major
Gunsmoke as Jud Briar
Gunsmoke as Carl Anderson
Cheyenne as Nathanael Grimm

1954

Garden of Eden as J. Randolph Latimore

1953

General Electric Theater as Jerry Boynton

Crew

2007