Warren Oates
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 5 July 1928 · Depoy, Kentucky, USA
- Died
- 3 April 1982
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
Acting 60
- 2006Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' as Self (archive footage)
- 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
- 1993Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1983Tough Enough as James Neese
- 1983Blue Thunder as Braddock
- 1983Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
- 1982The Border as Red
- 1981Stripes as Sgt. Hulka
- 1980Baby Comes Home as Michael Kramer
- 19791941 as Col. 'Madman' Maddox
- 1979My Old Man as Frank Butler
- 1979And Baby Makes Six as Michael Kramer
- 1978The Brink's Job as Specs O'Keefe
- 1978China 9, Liberty 37 as Matthew Sebanek
- 1978Sleeping Dogs as Col. Willoughby
- 1978True Grit: A Further Adventure as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
- 1977American Raspberry as Celebrity Sportsman
- 1977The African Queen as Capt. Charlie Allnut
- 1976Drum as Hammond Maxwell
- 1976Dixie Dynamite as Mack
- 197592 in the Shade as Nichol Dance
- 1975Race with the Devil as Frank
- 1975Rancho Deluxe as Harmonica Player (uncredited)
- 1974Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Bennie
- 1974Cockfighter as Frank Mansfield
- 1974The White Dawn as Billy
- 1974Badlands as Holly's Father
- 1973Dillinger as John Dillinger
- 1973Tom Sawyer as Muff Potter
- 1973The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Dave Reilly
- 1973Kid Blue as Reese Ford
- 1971Chandler as Chandler
- 1971The Reluctant Heroes as Cpl. Leroy Sprague
- 1971The Hired Hand as Arch Harris
- 1971Two-Lane Blacktop as G.T.O.
- 1970There Was a Crooked Man... as Floyd Moon
- 1970Barquero as Jake Remy
- 1970The Movie Murderer as Alfred Fisher
- 1969Lanton Mills as Gunman
- 1969The Wild Bunch as Lyle Gorch
- 1969Crooks and Coronets as Marty Miller
- 1969Smith! as Walter Charlie
- 1968Something for a Lonely Man as Angus Duren
- 1968The Split as Marty Gough
- 1968Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims as John Blythe
- 1967In the Heat of the Night as Deputy Sam Wood
- 1967Welcome to Hard Times as Leo Jenks
- 1966Return of the Seven as Colbee
- 1966The Shooting as Willett Gashade
- 1965Shenandoah as Billy Packer
- 1965Major Dundee as O.W. Hadley
- 1965The Rounders as Harley Williams (uncredited)
- 1964Mail Order Bride as Jace
- 1962Hero's Island as Wayte Giddens
- 1962Ride the High Country as Henry Hammond
- 1960The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond as Eddie Diamond
- 1960Private Property as Boots
- 1959Yellowstone Kelly as Corporal
- 1959Up Periscope as Seaman Kovacs
- 1957The Night America Trembled as 2nd Card Player