Warren Oates
Acting • Born 1928-07-05 – Died 1982-04-03
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).
Filmography
142 credits
The Wild Bunch
Movie • 1969
Lyle Gorch
Badlands
Movie • 1974
Holly's Father
In the Heat of the Night
Movie • 1967
Deputy Sam Wood
Shenandoah
Movie • 1965
Billy Packer
Stripes
Movie • 1981
Sgt. Hulka
1941
Movie • 1979
Col. 'Madman' Maddox
The Border
Movie • 1982
Red
China 9, Liberty 37
Movie • 1978
Matthew Sebanek
The White Dawn
Movie • 1974
Billy
Blue Thunder
Movie • 1983
Braddock
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Movie • 1974
Bennie
The Split
Movie • 1968
Marty Gough
The Brink's Job
Movie • 1978
Specs O'Keefe
Race with the Devil
Movie • 1975
Frank
Barquero
Movie • 1970
Jake Remy
Return of the Seven
Movie • 1966
Colbee
There Was a Crooked Man...
Movie • 1970
Floyd Moon
Two-Lane Blacktop
Movie • 1971
G.T.O.
Cockfighter
Movie • 1974
Frank Mansfield
Dillinger
Movie • 1973
John Dillinger
Ride the High Country
Movie • 1962
Henry Hammond
Major Dundee
Movie • 1965
O.W. Hadley
The Hired Hand
Movie • 1971
Arch Harris
The Shooting
Movie • 1966
Willett Gashade
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Movie • 1960
Eddie Diamond
Sleeping Dogs
Movie • 1977
Col. Willoughby
92 in the Shade
Movie • 1975
Nichol Dance
Tough Enough
Movie • 1983
James Neese
Yellowstone Kelly
Movie • 1959
Corporal
Dixie Dynamite
Movie • 1976
Mack
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Movie • 1973
Dave Reilly
Drum
Movie • 1976
Hammond Maxwell
Chandler
Movie • 1971
Chandler
Kid Blue
Movie • 1973
Reese Ford
Smith!
Movie • 1969
Walter Charlie
Welcome to Hard Times
Movie • 1967
Leo Jenks
Mail Order Bride
Movie • 1964
Jace
Hero's Island
Movie • 1962
Wayte Giddens
Private Property
Movie • 1960
Boots
Baby Comes Home
Movie • 1980
Michael Kramer
The Rounders
Movie • 1965
Harley Williams (uncredited)
The Reluctant Heroes
Movie • 1971
Cpl. Leroy Sprague
Tom Sawyer
Movie • 1973
Muff Potter
Rancho Deluxe
Movie • 1975
Harmonica Player (uncredited)
Crooks and Coronets
Movie • 1969
Marty Miller
The Movie Murderer
Movie • 1970
Alfred Fisher
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
My Old Man
Movie • 1979
Frank Butler
American Raspberry
Movie • 1977
Celebrity Sportsman
And Baby Makes Six
Movie • 1979
Michael Kramer
Something for a Lonely Man
Movie • 1968
Angus Duren
True Grit: A Further Adventure
Movie • 1978
Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
Lanton Mills
Movie • 1969
Gunman
Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
Movie • 1968
John Blythe
The African Queen
Movie • 1977
Capt. Charlie Allnut
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Movie • 1993
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Night America Trembled
Movie • 1957
2nd Card Player
Up Periscope
Movie • 1959
Seaman Kovacs
Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
Movie • 1983
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Trackdown
TV • 1957
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Richie Billings
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Harry
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
TV • 1963
Eldon Bishop
Lost in Space
TV • 1965
Jimmy Hapgood
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jed Hakes
Studio One
TV • 1948
Card Player #2
Combat!
TV • 1962
Pvt. James Stark
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Jeep Driver
The Monroes
TV • 1966
Target: The Corruptors!
TV • 1961
Outlaws
TV • 1960
The Lawless Years
TV • 1959
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters
Run for Your Life
TV • 1965
Deputy LaVern Potter
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Cimarron Strip
TV • 1967
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Hanes McClure
Police Story
TV • 1973
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Corbie
Lancer
TV • 1968
Thriller
TV • 1960
Hugo Wheeler
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Korby Kyles
Bronco
TV • 1958
Black Saddle
TV • 1959
Simms
Branded
TV • 1965
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Jesse Cox
The Rebel
TV • 1959
Troy Armbruster
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Sonny Parsons
Tate
TV • 1960
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
Ves Painter
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Burt Scanlon
Shane
TV • 1966
Kemp Spicer
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Herbie Grant
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
Al
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Weed
Rawhide
TV • 1959
Jesse Gufler
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Duke
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Roy Judd
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Bowers
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Seth
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Jep
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Buxton
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Sweet Billy
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Chris Kelly
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Deke
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Speeler
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Al Tresh
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Lafe
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Reb
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Reese Fowler
Dundee and the Culhane
TV • 1967
Lafe Doolin
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Billy Clegg
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
George Aswell
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Clem Robinson
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Richard Langsford
Black Beauty
TV • 1978
Jerry Barker
Thriller
TV • 1960
Benny
Bat Masterson
TV • 1958
Cat Crail
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Private Silas Carpenter
A Man Called Shenandoah
TV • 1965
Sergeant Ryder
12 O'Clock High
TV • 1964
Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Artie Krebs
The Blue and the Gray
TV • 1982
Preacher / Maj. Welles
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Dink Strahman
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV • 1963
Joe Grover
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Paul Magruder
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Kelly
The Blue and the Gray
TV • 1982
Major Welles
Trackdown
TV • 1957
Norvil
The Westerner
TV • 1960
Drunk
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
John Blythe
East of Eden
TV • 1981
Cyrus Trask
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Harrison
The Name of the Game
TV • 1968
Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Andrew Sheltin
Stagecoach West
TV • 1960
Tom Lochlin
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Marty Ryan
Stagecoach West
TV • 1960
Warren Oates