R.G. Armstrong
Birthday
1917/04/07
Day of death
2012/07/27 (95 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Also know as
R. G. Armstrong, Robert Golden Armstrong, Robert Armstrong, Robert Golden Armstrong Jr.
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.
Acting
(1987) Predator
as Major General Homer Phillips
(1970) Tiger by the Tail
as Ben Holmes
(1984) Children of the Corn
as Diehl
(1994) Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
as Retired Texas Ranger
(1976) Stay Hungry
as Thor Erickson
(1973) White Lightning
as Big Bear
(1986) The Best of Times
as Schutte
(1973) Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Ollinger
(1966) El Dorado
as Kevin MacDonald
(1970) The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Quittner
(1977) The Car
as Amos Clements
(1975) Race with the Devil
as Sheriff Taylor
(1973) My Name Is Nobody
as Honest John
(1975) Boss Nigger
as Mayor Griffin
(1980) Where the Buffalo Roam
as Judge Simpson
(1972) The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
as Clell Miller
(1962) Ride the High Country
as Joshua Knudsen
(1965) Major Dundee
as Reverend Dahlstrom
(1975) White Line Fever
as Prosecutor
(2001) Keeper of Souls
as ---
(1979) The Legend of the Golden Gun
as Judge Harrison Harding
(1979) Steel
as Kellin
(1978) Heaven Can Wait
as General Manager
(1960) The Fugitive Kind
as Sheriff Jordan Talbott
(1981) Evilspeak
as Sarge
(1973) Cotter
as Jack
(1986) Jocks
as Bettlebom
(2005) Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
as Self
(1959) No Name on the Bullet
as Asa Canfield
(1976) Dixie Dynamite
as Charlie White - Bank President
(1995) Payback
as Mac
(1977) The Pack
as Cobb
(1970) The McMasters
as Watson
(1989) Ghetto Blaster
as Curtis
(1981) Raggedy Man
as Rigby
(1974) Manhunter
as Henry Stratemeyer
(1993) Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
(1974) Reflections of Murder
as Mr. Turner
(1978) Texas Detour
as Sheriff Burt
(1957) A Face in the Crowd
as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
(1979) Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
as Mr. Hemmings
(1972) Justin Morgan Had a Horse
as Squire Fisk
(1974) The Legend of Hillbilly John
as Bristowe
(1964) He Rides Tall
as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
(1960) Ten Who Dared
as Oramel Howland
(1969) 80 Steps to Jonah
as Mackray
(1958) From Hell to Texas
as Hunter Boyd
(1972) The Century Turns
as Ben Ritt
(2004) Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self
(1986) Red Headed Stranger
as Sheriff Reese Scoby
(1983) Lone Wolf McQuade
as T. Tyler
(1978) Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
as Dunworth
(1988) Bulletproof
as Miles Blackburn
(1976) Kingston
as Father Reardon
(1981) Reds
as Government Agent
(1970) The Great White Hope
as Captain Dan
(1964) Calhoun
as Zac Laird
(1996) Don't Look Back
as Parish
(1987) LBJ: The Early Years
as Samuel Ealey Johnson
(1975) Mean Johnny Barrows
as Richard
(1981) The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
as Dempsey
(2024) Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
as Self
(1993) Warlock: The Armageddon
as Franks
(1982) The Beast Within
as Doc Schoonmaker
(1998) The Man in the Iron Mask
as Old Man
(1996) Invasion of Privacy
as Sam Logan - Storekeeper
(1987) Independence
as Uriah Creed
(1986) Oceans of Fire
as Rusty West
(1982) Hammett
as Lt. O'Mara
(1979) Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
as Al Barber
(1978) The Time Machine
as Gen. Harris
(1958) Never Love a Stranger
as Flix
(1972) The Final Comedown
as Mr. Freeman
(1974) J.W. Coop
as Jim Sawyer
(1990) Dick Tracy
as Pruneface
(1982) The Shadow Riders
as Sheriff Miles Gillette
(1979) The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
as Leland Stanford
(1999) Purgatory
as Coachman
(1994) Dead Center
as Art Fencer
(1973) Running Wild
as Bull
(1989) Trapper County War
as Pop Luddigger
(1977) Mr. Billion
as Sheriff T.C. Bishop
(2006) Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
as Self
(1956) Baby Doll
as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
(1973) Prologue to Wounded Knee
as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'
(1954) Garden of Eden
as J. Randolph Latimore
(1960) The Man Who Found the Money
as Captain Bone
(1966) The Time Tunnel
as Allan Pinkerton
(1960) The Andy Griffith Show
as Farmer Flint
(1974) Movin' On
as ---
(1955) Cheyenne
as ---
(1979) Trapper John, M.D.
as ---
(1986) L.A. Law
as Frank Osgood
(1975) Starsky & Hutch
as 'Dad' Watson
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Sheriff Crowley
(1959) Mr. Lucky
as ---
(1987) Friday the 13th: The Series
as Lewis Vendredi
(1986) Matlock
as ---
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Capt. Wade
(1987) Beauty and the Beast
as ---
(1995) Cybill
as ---
(1975) Baretta
as ---
(1971) Alias Smith and Jones
as ---
(1981) Dynasty
as ---
(1993) Walker, Texas Ranger
as Frank Dodge
(1976) Charlie's Angels
as Sebastian Craig
(1989) Quantum Leap
as Davison
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Capt. Benter
(1957) Perry Mason
as Matthew Bartlett
(1996) Millennium
as ---
(1953) General Electric Theater
as Jerry Boynton
(1954) Lassie
as ---
(1971) Cannon
as ---
(1981) Darkroom
as ---
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Contractor
(1960) The Tall Man
as ---
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Captain Bone
(1961) Everglades
as ---
(1966) Felony Squad
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Enoch Talby
(1978) Vega$
as ---
(1980) Skag
as ---
(1965) Run for Your Life
as Edward Loomis
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1967) Cimarron Strip
as ---
(1963) The Fugitive
as Tully Gage
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Jarvis
(1967) The High Chaparral
as Ed Henderson
(1975) Switch
as Detective Wills
(1962) The Virginian
as Ben Winters
(1968) Lancer
as ---
(1955) The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
as ---
(1982) Matt Houston
as ---
(1965) The Big Valley
as Wallace Miles
(1968) Here Come the Brides
as ---
(1958) Bronco
as ---
(1972) The Sixth Sense
as ---
(1959) Black Saddle
as Ben Dawes
(1966) T.H.E. Cat
as Police Capt. McAllister
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Asa Wynter
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Clay Calhoun
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Marshal William MacWilliams
(1967) The Guns of Will Sonnett
as ---
(1959) Riverboat
as Rothgate
(1958) The Texan
as ---
(1974) The Manhunter
as ---
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
(1977) Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
as ---
(1967) Custer
as ---
(1958) Jefferson Drum
as Kreiger
(1957) Maverick
as Wellington Cosgrove
(1958) The Texan
as Big Sam Aldridge
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Ed Cray
(1965) The F.B.I.
as George David Owens
(1959) Rawhide
as Gantry Hobson
(1963) The Fugitive
as Sheriff Bradley
(1963) The Fugitive
as Marshal Matt Peters
(1959) Rawhide
as Sheriff John Keeley
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Lou Stoner
(1962) The Virginian
as Frederick Harley
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Major
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Jud Briar
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Carl Anderson
(1981) Code Red
as ---
(1956) Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Les Houghton
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Joseph Garth
(1957) Perry Mason
as Harry Bright
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Warden
(1971) McMillan & Wife
as Sheriff Farraday
(1957) Perry Mason
as John Gregory
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as Mayor Lovett
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Fred Riordan
(1959) Bonanza
as Nathan Clay
(1959) Bonanza
as Andrew Holloway
(1959) Bonanza
as Col. Keith Jarrell
(1966) T.H.E. Cat
as Capt. McAllister
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Billy Soto
(1996) Millennium
as The Old Man
(1967) The Invaders
as Gus Flagg
(1955) Cheyenne
as Nathanael Grimm
(1967) The Invaders
as Police Capt. Bill Battersea
(1960) The Westerner
as Shell Davidson
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Jack O'Neal
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as Squire Fisk
(1960) Surfside 6
as Paul Wyatt
(1958) The Rifleman
as Sheriff Tomlinson
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as William Downey
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as John Cooley
(1959) Rawhide
as Burke
(1958) The Rifleman
as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
(1961) 87th Precinct
as Franklin Phelps