Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

192

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-04-07

Deathday

2012-07-27 (95 years old)

Place of Birth

Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Also Known As

R. G. Armstrong
Robert Golden Armstrong
Robert Armstrong
Robert Golden Armstrong Jr.

R.G. Armstrong

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.

Known For

7.5%

Predator

Jun 12, 1987

5.7%

Children of the Corn

Mar 9, 1984

7.3%

My Name Is Nobody

Dec 13, 1973

6.2%

Dick Tracy

Apr 5, 1990

8.4%

The Twilight Zone

Oct 2, 1959

8.0%

Quantum Leap

Mar 26, 1989

7.4%

El Dorado

Dec 17, 1966

7.0%

Walker, Texas Ranger

Apr 21, 1993

7.5%

Bonanza

Sep 12, 1959

7.5%

Bonanza

Sep 12, 1959

7.5%

Bonanza

Sep 12, 1959

7.2%

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

May 23, 1973

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Acting

2024

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western as Self

2014

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film as Self

2006

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait as Self

2005

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah as Self

2004

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self

2001

Keeper of Souls

1999

Purgatory as Coachman

1998

The Man in the Iron Mask as Old Man

1996		Invasion of Privacy as Sam Logan - Storekeeper
1996		Millennium
1996		Millennium as The Old Man
1996		Don't Look Back as Parish

1995		Payback as Mac
1995		Cybill

1994		Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion as Retired Texas Ranger
1994		Dead Center as Art Fencer

1993		Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron as Self
1993		Warlock: The Armageddon as Franks
1993		Walker, Texas Ranger as Frank Dodge

1990

Dick Tracy as Pruneface

1989		Ghetto Blaster as Curtis
1989		Quantum Leap as Davison
1989		Trapper County War as Pop Luddigger

1988

Bulletproof as Miles Blackburn

1987		Friday the 13th: The Series as Lewis Vendredi
1987		Beauty and the Beast
1987		Predator as Major General Homer Phillips
1987		Independence as Uriah Creed
1987		LBJ: The Early Years as Samuel Ealey Johnson

1986		Jocks as Bettlebom
1986		Red Headed Stranger as Sheriff Reese Scoby
1986		Oceans of Fire as Rusty West
1986		L.A. Law as Frank Osgood
1986		Matlock
1986		The Best of Times as Schutte

1984

Children of the Corn as Diehl

1983

Lone Wolf McQuade as T. Tyler

1982		The Shadow Riders as Sheriff Miles Gillette
1982		Matt Houston
1982		Hammett as Lt. O'Mara
1982		The Beast Within as Doc Schoonmaker

1981		Reds as Government Agent
1981		Darkroom
1981		The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper as Dempsey
1981		Code Red
1981		Raggedy Man as Rigby
1981		Evilspeak as Sarge
1981		Dynasty

1980		Where the Buffalo Roam as Judge Simpson
1980		Skag

1979		The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang as Leland Stanford
1979		Steel as Kellin
1979		Trapper John, M.D.
1979		The Legend of the Golden Gun as Judge Harrison Harding
1979		Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider as Al Barber
1979		Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff as Mr. Hemmings

1978		The Time Machine as Gen. Harris
1978		Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell as Dunworth
1978		Vega$
1978		Heaven Can Wait as General Manager
1978		Texas Detour as Sheriff Burt

1977		The Pack as Cobb
1977		The Car as Amos Clements
1977		Mr. Billion as Sheriff T.C. Bishop
1977		Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected

1976		Charlie's Angels as Sebastian Craig
1976		Kingston as Father Reardon
1976		Dixie Dynamite as Charlie White - Bank President
1976		Stay Hungry as Thor Erickson

1975		Mean Johnny Barrows as Richard
1975		Starsky & Hutch as 'Dad' Watson
1975		Switch as Detective Wills
1975		Boss Nigger as Mayor Griffin
1975		White Line Fever as Prosecutor
1975		Race with the Devil as Sheriff Taylor
1975		Baretta

1974		Reflections of Murder as Mr. Turner
1974		Movin' On
1974		The Manhunter
1974		J.W. Coop as Jim Sawyer
1974		Manhunter as Henry Stratemeyer
1974		The Legend of Hillbilly John as Bristowe

1973		My Name Is Nobody as Honest John
1973		Running Wild as Bull
1973		White Lightning as Big Bear
1973		Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Ollinger
1973		Prologue to Wounded Knee as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'
1973		Cotter as Jack

1972		The Century Turns as Ben Ritt
1972		The Final Comedown as Mr. Freeman
1972		The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid as Clell Miller
1972		Justin Morgan Had a Horse as Squire Fisk
1972		The Sixth Sense

1971		McMillan & Wife as Sheriff Farraday
1971		Cannon
1971		Alias Smith and Jones

1970		The Great White Hope as Captain Dan
1970		The McMasters as Watson
1970		The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Quittner
1970		Tiger by the Tail as Ben Holmes

1969

80 Steps to Jonah as Mackray

1968		Here Come the Brides
1968		Lancer
1968		Hawaii Five-O as Capt. Wade
1968		Hawaii Five-O as Warden

1967		The High Chaparral as Ed Henderson
1967		The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967		Cimarron Strip
1967		Custer
1967		The Invaders as Gus Flagg
1967		The Invaders as Police Capt. Bill Battersea

1966		El Dorado as Kevin MacDonald
1966		T.H.E. Cat as Police Capt. McAllister
1966		T.H.E. Cat as Capt. McAllister
1966		Felony Squad
1966		The Time Tunnel as Allan Pinkerton

1965		The F.B.I. as Sheriff Crowley
1965		The F.B.I. as Ed Cray
1965		The F.B.I. as George David Owens
1965		The Big Valley as Wallace Miles
1965		Run for Your Life as Edward Loomis
1965		Major Dundee as Reverend Dahlstrom

1964		Daniel Boone as Jarvis
1964		Daniel Boone as Joseph Garth
1964		Calhoun as Zac Laird
1964		He Rides Tall as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud

1963		The Fugitive as Tully Gage
1963		The Fugitive as Marshal Matt Peters
1963		The Fugitive as Sheriff Bradley

1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as William Downey
1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as John Cooley
1962		The Virginian as Ben Winters
1962		The Virginian as Frederick Harley
1962		Ride the High Country as Joshua Knudsen

1961		Everglades
1961		87th Precinct as Franklin Phelps

1960		The Man Who Found the Money as Captain Bone
1960		Ten Who Dared as Oramel Howland
1960		Surfside 6 as Paul Wyatt
1960		The Andy Griffith Show as Farmer Flint
1960		The Westerner as Shell Davidson
1960		The Tall Man
1960		The Fugitive Kind as Sheriff Jordan Talbott

1959		Mr. Lucky
1959		The Twilight Zone as Contractor
1959		Riverboat as Rothgate
1959		Bonanza as Nathan Clay
1959		Bonanza as Andrew Holloway
1959		Bonanza as Col. Keith Jarrell
1959		No Name on the Bullet as Asa Canfield
1959		Black Saddle as Ben Dawes
1959		Rawhide as Enoch Talby
1959		Rawhide as Gantry Hobson
1959		Rawhide as Sheriff John Keeley
1959		Rawhide as Burke

1958		Bat Masterson as Marshal William MacWilliams
1958		The Rifleman as Sheriff Tomlinson
1958		The Rifleman as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
1958		The Texan
1958		The Texan as Big Sam Aldridge
1958		Bronco
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive as Asa Wynter
1958		Never Love a Stranger as Flix
1958		From Hell to Texas as Hunter Boyd
1958		Jefferson Drum as Kreiger

1957		Maverick as Wellington Cosgrove
1957		Perry Mason as Matthew Bartlett
1957		Perry Mason as Harry Bright
1957		Perry Mason as John Gregory
1957		Sugarfoot as Clay Calhoun
1957		Sugarfoot as Lou Stoner
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel as Mayor Lovett
1957		A Face in the Crowd as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)

1956		Baby Doll as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
1956		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
1956		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Sheriff Les Houghton

1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Captain Bone
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Fred Riordan
1955		Cheyenne
1955		Cheyenne as Nathanael Grimm
1955		Gunsmoke as Capt. Benter
1955		Gunsmoke as Major
1955		Gunsmoke as Jud Briar
1955		Gunsmoke as Carl Anderson
1955		The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

1954		The Wonderful World of Disney as Billy Soto
1954		The Wonderful World of Disney as Jack O'Neal
1954		The Wonderful World of Disney as Squire Fisk
1954		Lassie
1954		Garden of Eden as J. Randolph Latimore

1953

General Electric Theater as Jerry Boynton

Crew

2007

The Hottest State as Thanks