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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

138

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-07-05

Deathday

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 (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).

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Acting

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
1983		Blue Thunder as Braddock

1982		The Blue and the Gray as Preacher / Maj. Welles
1982		The Blue and the Gray as Major Welles
1982		The Border as Red

1981		Stripes as Sgt. Hulka
1981		East of Eden as Cyrus Trask

1980

Baby Comes Home as Michael Kramer

1979		1941 as Col. 'Madman' Maddox
1979		My Old Man as Frank Butler
1979		And Baby Makes Six as Michael Kramer
1979		Tales of the Unexpected as Harry

1978		The Brink's Job as Specs O'Keefe
1978		China 9, Liberty 37 as Matthew Sebanek
1978		True Grit: A Further Adventure as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
1978		Black Beauty as Jerry Barker

1977		Sleeping Dogs as Col. Willoughby
1977		American Raspberry as Celebrity Sportsman
1977		The African Queen as Capt. Charlie Allnut

1976		Drum as Hammond Maxwell
1976		Dixie Dynamite as Mack

1975		92 in the Shade as Nichol Dance
1975		Race with the Devil as Frank
1975		Rancho Deluxe as Harmonica Player (uncredited)

1974		Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Bennie
1974		Cockfighter as Frank Mansfield
1974		The White Dawn as Billy
1974		Badlands as Holly's Father

1973		Dillinger as John Dillinger
1973		Police Story
1973		Tom Sawyer as Muff Potter
1973		The Thief Who Came to Dinner as Dave Reilly
1973		Kid Blue as Reese Ford

1971		Chandler as Chandler
1971		The Reluctant Heroes as Cpl. Leroy Sprague
1971		The Hired Hand as Arch Harris
1971		Two-Lane Blacktop as G.T.O.

1970		There Was a Crooked Man... as Floyd Moon
1970		Barquero as Jake Remy
1970		The Movie Murderer as Alfred Fisher

1969		Lanton Mills as Gunman
1969		The Wild Bunch as Lyle Gorch
1969		Crooks and Coronets as Marty Miller
1969		Smith! as Walter Charlie

1968		Something for a Lonely Man as Angus Duren
1968		The Split as Marty Gough
1968		Lancer
1968		The Name of the Game as Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford
1968		Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims as John Blythe

1967		Cimarron Strip
1967		Dundee and the Culhane as Lafe Doolin
1967		In the Heat of the Night as Deputy Sam Wood
1967		Welcome to Hard Times as Leo Jenks

1966		Return of the Seven as Colbee
1966		Shane as Kemp Spicer
1966		The Monroes
1966		The Shooting as Willett Gashade

1965		The F.B.I. as Richie Billings
1965		Lost in Space as Jimmy Hapgood
1965		The Big Valley as Korby Kyles
1965		The Big Valley as Duke
1965		Run for Your Life as Deputy LaVern Potter
1965		A Man Called Shenandoah as Sergeant Ryder
1965		Shenandoah as Billy Packer
1965		Major Dundee as O.W. Hadley
1965		Branded
1965		The Rounders as Harley Williams (uncredited)

1964		12 O'Clock High as Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
1964		Mail Order Bride as Jace

1963		Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Joe Grover
1963		The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters as Eldon Bishop
1963		The Fugitive as Hanes McClure
1963		The Fugitive as Herbie Grant
1963		The Outer Limits as Reese Fowler

1962		Combat! as Pvt. James Stark
1962		Stoney Burke as Ves Painter
1962		The Virginian as Corbie
1962		The Virginian as Roy Judd
1962		The Virginian as Bowers
1962		The Virginian as Buxton
1962		Hero's Island as Wayte Giddens
1962		Ride the High Country as Henry Hammond

1961

Target: The Corruptors!

1960		The Westerner as Drunk
1960		Outlaws
1960		Thriller as Hugo Wheeler
1960		Thriller as Benny
1960		Tate
1960		The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond as Eddie Diamond
1960		Private Property as Boots

1959		Yellowstone Kelly as Corporal
1959		The Untouchables as Artie Krebs
1959		Hawaiian Eye as Al
1959		The Rebel as Troy Armbruster
1959		The Twilight Zone as Jeep Driver
1959		The Twilight Zone as Richard Langsford
1959		Johnny Ringo as Burt Scanlon
1959		Bonanza as Paul Magruder
1959		The Lawless Years
1959		Up Periscope as Seaman Kovacs
1959		Black Saddle as Simms
1959		Rawhide as Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters
1959		Rawhide as Weed
1959		Rawhide as Jesse Gufler

1958		77 Sunset Strip
1958		77 Sunset Strip as Dink Strahman
1958		Bat Masterson as Sonny Parsons
1958		Bat Masterson as Cat Crail
1958		The Rifleman
1958		The Rifleman as Andrew Sheltin
1958		Bronco
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive as Jesse Cox
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive as Billy Clegg
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive as George Aswell
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive as Clem Robinson

1957		Trackdown
1957		Trackdown as Kelly
1957		Trackdown as Norvil
1957		Wagon Train as Private Silas Carpenter
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel as Harrison
1957		The Night America Trembled as 2nd Card Player

1955		Gunsmoke as Jed Hakes
1955		Gunsmoke as Seth
1955		Gunsmoke as Jep
1955		Gunsmoke as Sweet Billy
1955		Gunsmoke as Chris Kelly
1955		Gunsmoke as Deke
1955		Gunsmoke as Speeler
1955		Gunsmoke as Al Tresh
1955		Gunsmoke as Lafe
1955		Gunsmoke as Reb

1954

The Wonderful World of Disney as John Blythe

1948

Studio One as Card Player #2

1947

Kraft Television Theatre