Warren Oates

Personal Info

Birthday

July 5, 1928

Day of Death

1982-04-03

(53 years old)

Place of Birth

Depoy, Kentucky, USA

Also Known As

Warren M. Oates

Warren Oats

Warren Mercer Oates

Warren Oates

Biography

Warren Mercer Oates 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

Bonanza

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Have Gun, Will Travel

Combat!

The Twilight Zone

The Rifleman

Wagon Train

The Fugitive

Filmography

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