R.G. Armstrong

Acting • Born 1917-04-07 – Died 2012-07-27

Acting2Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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.

Filmography

194 credits

Predator

Movie • 1987

Major General Homer Phillips

Tiger by the Tail

Movie • 1970

Ben Holmes

Children of the Corn

Movie • 1984

Diehl

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion

Movie • 1994

Retired Texas Ranger

Stay Hungry

Movie • 1976

Thor Erickson

White Lightning

Movie • 1973

Big Bear

The Best of Times

Movie • 1986

Schutte

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Movie • 1973

Ollinger

El Dorado

Movie • 1966

Kevin MacDonald

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Movie • 1970

Quittner

The Car

Movie • 1977

Amos Clements

Race with the Devil

Movie • 1975

Sheriff Taylor

My Name Is Nobody

Movie • 1973

Honest John

Boss Nigger

Movie • 1975

Mayor Griffin

Where the Buffalo Roam

Movie • 1980

Judge Simpson

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

Movie • 1972

Clell Miller

Ride the High Country

Movie • 1962

Joshua Knudsen

Major Dundee

Movie • 1965

Reverend Dahlstrom

White Line Fever

Movie • 1975

Prosecutor

Keeper of Souls

Movie • 2001

Heaven Can Wait

Movie • 1978

General Manager

The Legend of the Golden Gun

Movie • 1979

Judge Harrison Harding

Steel

Movie • 1979

Kellin

The Fugitive Kind

Movie • 1960

Sheriff Jordan Talbott

Evilspeak

Movie • 1981

Sarge

Cotter

Movie • 1973

Jack

Jocks

Movie • 1986

Bettlebom

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

Movie • 2005

Self

No Name on the Bullet

Movie • 1959

Asa Canfield

Dixie Dynamite

Movie • 1976

Charlie White - Bank President

Payback

Movie • 1995

Mac

The Pack

Movie • 1977

Cobb

The McMasters

Movie • 1970

Watson

Ghetto Blaster

Movie • 1989

Curtis

Raggedy Man

Movie • 1981

Rigby

Manhunter

Movie • 1974

Henry Stratemeyer

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

Movie • 1993

Self

Reflections of Murder

Movie • 1974

Mr. Turner

Texas Detour

Movie • 1978

Sheriff Burt

A Face in the Crowd

Movie • 1957

Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Movie • 1979

Mr. Hemmings

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

Movie • 1972

Squire Fisk

The Legend of Hillbilly John

Movie • 1974

Bristowe

He Rides Tall

Movie • 1964

Joshua 'Josh' McCloud

Ten Who Dared

Movie • 1960

Oramel Howland

80 Steps to Jonah

Movie • 1969

Mackray

From Hell to Texas

Movie • 1958

Hunter Boyd

The Century Turns

Movie • 1972

Ben Ritt

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Movie • 2004

Self

Red Headed Stranger

Movie • 1986

Sheriff Reese Scoby

Lone Wolf McQuade

Movie • 1983

T. Tyler

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Movie • 1978

Dunworth

Bulletproof

Movie • 1988

Miles Blackburn

Kingston

Movie • 1976

Father Reardon

LBJ: The Early Years

Movie • 1987

Samuel Ealey Johnson

Calhoun

Movie • 1964

Zac Laird

Don't Look Back

Movie • 1996

Parish

Mean Johnny Barrows

Movie • 1975

Richard

The Great White Hope

Movie • 1970

Captain Dan

Reds

Movie • 1981

Government Agent

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

Movie • 1981

Dempsey

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

Movie • 2024

Self

Warlock: The Armageddon

Movie • 1993

Franks

The Beast Within

Movie • 1982

Doc Schoonmaker

The Time Machine

Movie • 1978

Gen. Harris

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

Movie • 1979

Al Barber

Oceans of Fire

Movie • 1986

Rusty West

The Man in the Iron Mask

Movie • 1998

Old Man

Invasion of Privacy

Movie • 1996

Sam Logan - Storekeeper

Never Love a Stranger

Movie • 1958

Flix

Independence

Movie • 1987

Uriah Creed

Hammett

Movie • 1982

Lt. O'Mara

The Final Comedown

Movie • 1972

Mr. Freeman

J.W. Coop

Movie • 1972

Jim Sawyer

Dick Tracy

Movie • 1990

Pruneface

The Shadow Riders

Movie • 1982

Sheriff Miles Gillette

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

Movie • 1979

Leland Stanford

Dead Center

Movie • 1994

Art Fencer

Purgatory

Movie • 1999

Coachman

Running Wild

Movie • 1973

Bull

Trapper County War

Movie • 1989

Pop Luddigger

Mr. Billion

Movie • 1977

Sheriff T.C. Bishop

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait

Movie • 2006

Self

Baby Doll

Movie • 1956

Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)

Prologue to Wounded Knee

Movie • 1973

Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'

Garden of Eden

Movie • 1954

J. Randolph Latimore

The Man Who Found the Money

Movie • 1960

Captain Bone

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film

Movie • 2014

Self

The Andy Griffith Show

TV • 1960

Farmer Flint

The Time Tunnel

TV • 1966

Allan Pinkerton

Movin' On

TV • 1974

Cheyenne

TV • 1955

Trapper John, M.D.

TV • 1979

L.A. Law

TV • 1986

Frank Osgood

Starsky & Hutch

TV • 1975

'Dad' Watson

The F.B.I.

TV • 1965

Sheriff Crowley

Mr. Lucky

TV • 1959

Friday the 13th: The Series

TV • 1987

Lewis Vendredi

Matlock

TV • 1986

Sheriff Dalton Parks

Hawaii Five-O

TV • 1968

Capt. Wade

Beauty and the Beast

TV • 1987

Cybill

TV • 1995

Stitch Sullivan

Baretta

TV • 1975

Alias Smith and Jones

TV • 1971

Dynasty

TV • 1981

Walker, Texas Ranger

TV • 1993

Frank Dodge

Charlie's Angels

TV • 1976

Sebastian Craig

Quantum Leap

TV • 1989

Davison

Gunsmoke

TV • 1955

Capt. Benter

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Matthew Bartlett

General Electric Theater

TV • 1953

Jerry Boynton

Lassie

TV • 1954

Cannon

TV • 1971

Darkroom

TV • 1981

The Twilight Zone

TV • 1959

Contractor

The Tall Man

TV • 1960

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

TV • 1955

Captain Bone

Everglades

TV • 1961

Felony Squad

TV • 1966

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Enoch Talby

Vega$

TV • 1978

Skag

TV • 1980

Run for Your Life

TV • 1965

Edward Loomis

Have Gun, Will Travel

TV • 1957

Cimarron Strip

TV • 1967

The Fugitive

TV • 1963

Tully Gage

Daniel Boone

TV • 1964

Jarvis

The High Chaparral

TV • 1967

Ed Henderson

Switch

TV • 1975

Detective Wills

The Virginian

TV • 1962

Ben Winters

Lancer

TV • 1968

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

TV • 1955

Matt Houston

TV • 1982

The Big Valley

TV • 1965

Wallace Miles

Here Come the Brides

TV • 1968

Bronco

TV • 1958

The Sixth Sense

TV • 1972

Black Saddle

TV • 1959

Ben Dawes

Wanted: Dead or Alive

TV • 1958

Asa Wynter

T.H.E. Cat

TV • 1966

Police Capt. McAllister

Bat Masterson

TV • 1958

Marshal William MacWilliams

Sugarfoot

TV • 1957

Clay Calhoun

The Guns of Will Sonnett

TV • 1967

Riverboat

TV • 1959

Rothgate

The Texan

TV • 1958

The Manhunter

TV • 1974

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

Sheriff Fred Tomlinson

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

TV • 1977

Custer

TV • 1967

Jefferson Drum

TV • 1958

Kreiger

Maverick

TV • 1957

Wellington Cosgrove