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