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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-07-05 (96 years old)

Place of Birth

Depoy, Kentucky, USA

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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Known For

Acting

2006

2004

1993

Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1983

Blue Thunder as Braddock
Tough Enough as James Neese

1982

The Border as Red
The Blue and the Gray as Preacher / Maj. Welles
The Blue and the Gray as Major Welles

1981

Stripes as Sgt. Hulka
East of Eden as Cyrus Trask

1980

Baby Comes Home as Michael Kramer

1979

1941 as Col. 'Madman' Maddox
My Old Man as Frank Butler
And Baby Makes Six as Michael Kramer

1978

China 9, Liberty 37 as Matthew Sebanek
The Brink's Job as Specs O'Keefe
True Grit: A Further Adventure as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
Black Beauty as Jerry Barker

1977

Sleeping Dogs as Col. Willoughby
American Raspberry as Celebrity Sportsman
The African Queen as Capt. Charlie Allnut

1976

Drum as Hammond Maxwell

1975

92 in the Shade as Nichol Dance
Rancho Deluxe as Harmonica Player (uncredited)

1974

Badlands as Holly's Father
Cockfighter as Frank Mansfield

1973

Dillinger as John Dillinger
Kid Blue as Reese Ford
Tom Sawyer as Muff Potter

1971

The Hired Hand as Arch Harris
Chandler as Chandler
The Reluctant Heroes as Cpl. Leroy Sprague

1970

Barquero as Jake Remy
The Movie Murderer as Alfred Fisher

1969

The Wild Bunch as Lyle Gorch
Smith! as Walter Charlie
Crooks and Coronets as Marty Miller
Lanton Mills as Gunman

1968

The Split as Marty Gough
The Name of the Game as Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford

1967

In the Heat of the Night as Deputy Sam Wood
Dundee and the Culhane as Lafe Doolin

1966

The Shooting as Willett Gashade
Shane as Kemp Spicer

1965

Shenandoah as Billy Packer
Major Dundee as O.W. Hadley
The Rounders as Harley Williams (uncredited)
The F.B.I. as Richie Billings
Lost in Space as Jimmy Hapgood
Run for Your Life as Deputy LaVern Potter
The Big Valley as Korby Kyles
A Man Called Shenandoah as Sergeant Ryder

1964

12 O'Clock High as Lt. Col. Jerry Troper

1963

The Fugitive as Hanes McClure
The Fugitive as Herbie Grant
The Outer Limits as Reese Fowler

1962

Ride the High Country as Henry Hammond
Hero's Island as Wayte Giddens
Combat! as Pvt. James Stark
The Virginian as Corbie
Stoney Burke as Ves Painter
The Virginian as Roy Judd
The Virginian as Bowers
The Virginian as Buxton

1961

1960

Thriller as Hugo Wheeler
Thriller as Benny
The Westerner as Drunk
Stagecoach West as Tom Lochlin

1959

Yellowstone Kelly as Corporal
Up Periscope as Seaman Kovacs
The Twilight Zone as Jeep Driver
Rawhide as Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters
Black Saddle as Simms
The Rebel as Troy Armbruster
Johnny Ringo as Burt Scanlon
Rawhide as Weed
Rawhide as Jesse Gufler
The Twilight Zone as Richard Langsford
The Untouchables as Artie Krebs
Bonanza as Paul Magruder

1958

Bat Masterson as Sonny Parsons
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Billy Clegg
Wanted: Dead or Alive as George Aswell
Wanted: Dead or Alive as Clem Robinson
Bat Masterson as Cat Crail
77 Sunset Strip as Dink Strahman
The Rifleman as Andrew Sheltin
The Rifleman as Marty Ryan

1957

The Night America Trembled as 2nd Card Player
Wagon Train as Private Silas Carpenter
Trackdown as Kelly
Trackdown as Norvil

1955

Gunsmoke as Jed Hakes
Gunsmoke as Seth
Gunsmoke as Jep
Gunsmoke as Sweet Billy
Gunsmoke as Chris Kelly
Gunsmoke as Deke
Gunsmoke as Speeler
Gunsmoke as Al Tresh
Gunsmoke as Lafe
Gunsmoke as Reb

1954

1948

Studio One as Card Player #2

1947