Actor
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). Description above ...

Known For
Acting
2006 -- Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' | Self (archive footage)
2004 -- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage)
1993 -- Warren Oates: Across the Border | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983 -- Tough Enough | James Neese
1983 -- Blue Thunder | Braddock
1982 -- The Border | Red
1981 -- Stripes | Sgt. Hulka
1980 -- Baby Comes Home | Michael Kramer
1979 -- 1941 | Col. 'Madman' Maddox
1979 -- My Old Man | Frank Butler
1979 -- And Baby Makes Six | Michael Kramer
1978 -- The Brink's Job | Specs O'Keefe
1978 -- China 9, Liberty 37 | Matthew Sebanek
1978 -- True Grit: A Further Adventure | Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
1977 -- Sleeping Dogs | Col. Willoughby
1977 -- American Raspberry | Celebrity Sportsman
1977 -- The African Queen | Capt. Charlie Allnut
1976 -- Drum | Hammond Maxwell
1976 -- Dixie Dynamite | Mack
1975 -- 92 in the Shade | Nichol Dance
1975 -- Race with the Devil | Frank
1975 -- Rancho Deluxe | Harmonica Player (uncredited)
1974 -- Cockfighter | Frank Mansfield
1974 -- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Bennie
1974 -- The White Dawn | Billy
1974 -- Badlands | Holly's Father
1973 -- Dillinger | John Dillinger
1973 -- Tom Sawyer | Muff Potter
1973 -- The Thief Who Came to Dinner | Dave Reilly
1973 -- Kid Blue | Reese Ford
1971 -- Chandler | Chandler
1971 -- The Reluctant Heroes | Cpl. Leroy Sprague
1971 -- The Hired Hand | Arch Harris
1971 -- Two-Lane Blacktop | G.T.O.
1970 -- There Was a Crooked Man... | Floyd Moon
1970 -- Barquero | Jake Remy
1970 -- The Movie Murderer | Alfred Fisher
1969 -- Lanton Mills | Gunman
1969 -- The Wild Bunch | Lyle Gorch
1969 -- Crooks and Coronets | Marty Miller
1969 -- Smith! | Walter Charlie
1968 -- Something for a Lonely Man | Angus Duren
1968 -- The Split | Marty Gough
1968 -- Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims | John Blythe
1967 -- In the Heat of the Night | Deputy Sam Wood
1967 -- Welcome to Hard Times | Leo Jenks
1966 -- Return of the Seven | Colbee
1966 -- The Shooting | Willett Gashade
1965 -- Shenandoah | Billy Packer
1965 -- Major Dundee | O.W. Hadley
1965 -- The Rounders | Harley Williams (uncredited)
1964 -- Mail Order Bride | Jace
1962 -- Hero's Island | Wayte Giddens
1962 -- Ride the High Country | Henry Hammond
1960 -- The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond | Eddie Diamond
1960 -- Private Property | Boots
1959 -- Yellowstone Kelly | Corporal
1959 -- Up Periscope | Seaman Kovacs
1957 -- The Night America Trembled | 2nd Card Player
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