Birthday
1928/07/05
Day of death
1982/04/03 (53 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Depoy, Kentucky, USA
Also know as
Warren M. Oates, Warren Oats, Warren Mercer 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). Description above...Read more
(1969) The Wild Bunch
as Lyle Gorch
(1974) Badlands
as Holly's Father
(1967) In the Heat of the Night
as Deputy Sam Wood
(1965) Shenandoah
as Billy Packer
(1981) Stripes
as Sgt. Hulka
(1979) 1941
as Col. 'Madman' Maddox
(1982) The Border
as Red
(1978) China 9, Liberty 37
as Matthew Sebanek
(1974) The White Dawn
as Billy
(1983) Blue Thunder
as Braddock
(1974) Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
as Bennie
(1968) The Split
as Marty Gough
(1978) The Brink's Job
as Specs O'Keefe
(1975) Race with the Devil
as Frank
(1970) Barquero
as Jake Remy
(1966) Return of the Seven
as Colbee
(1970) There Was a Crooked Man...
as Floyd Moon
(1971) Two-Lane Blacktop
as G.T.O.
(1974) Cockfighter
as Frank Mansfield
(1973) Dillinger
as John Dillinger
(1962) Ride the High Country
as Henry Hammond
(1965) Major Dundee
as O.W. Hadley
(1971) The Hired Hand
as Arch Harris
(1966) The Shooting
as Willett Gashade
(1960) The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
as Eddie Diamond
(1977) Sleeping Dogs
as Col. Willoughby
(1975) 92 in the Shade
as Nichol Dance
(1983) Tough Enough
as James Neese
(1959) Yellowstone Kelly
as Corporal
(1976) Dixie Dynamite
as Mack
(1973) The Thief Who Came to Dinner
as Dave Reilly
(1976) Drum
as Hammond Maxwell
(1971) Chandler
as Chandler
(1973) Kid Blue
as Reese Ford
(1969) Smith!
as Walter Charlie
(1967) Welcome to Hard Times
as Leo Jenks
(1964) Mail Order Bride
as Jace
(1962) Hero's Island
as Wayte Giddens
(1960) Private Property
as Boots
(1980) Baby Comes Home
as Michael Kramer
(1965) The Rounders
as Harley Williams (uncredited)
(1971) The Reluctant Heroes
as Cpl. Leroy Sprague
(1973) Tom Sawyer
as Muff Potter
(1975) Rancho Deluxe
as Harmonica Player (uncredited)
(1969) Crooks and Coronets
as Marty Miller
(1970) The Movie Murderer
as Alfred Fisher
(2006) Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
as Self (archive footage)
(1979) My Old Man
as Frank Butler
(1977) American Raspberry
as Celebrity Sportsman
(1979) And Baby Makes Six
as Michael Kramer
(1968) Something for a Lonely Man
as Angus Duren
(1978) True Grit: A Further Adventure
as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
(1969) Lanton Mills
as Gunman
(1968) Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
as John Blythe
(1977) The African Queen
as Capt. Charlie Allnut
(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)
(1957) The Night America Trembled
as Self
(1959) Up Periscope
as Seaman Kovacs
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as ---
(1957) Trackdown
as ---
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Richie Billings
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Harry
(1963) The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
as Eldon Bishop
(1965) Lost in Space
as Jimmy Hapgood
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Jed Hakes
(1948) Studio One
as Card Player #2
(1962) Combat!
as Pvt. James Stark
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Jeep Driver
(1966) The Monroes
as ---
(1961) Target: The Corruptors!
as ---
(1960) Outlaws
as ---
(1959) The Lawless Years
as ---
(1959) Rawhide
as Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters
(1965) Run for Your Life
as Deputy LaVern Potter
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1967) Cimarron Strip
as ---
(1963) The Fugitive
as Hanes McClure
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1962) The Virginian
as Corbie
(1968) Lancer
as ---
(1960) Thriller
as Hugo Wheeler
(1965) The Big Valley
as Korby Kyles
(1958) Bronco
as ---
(1959) Black Saddle
as Simms
(1965) Branded
as ---
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Jesse Cox
(1959) The Rebel
as Troy Armbruster
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Sonny Parsons
(1960) Tate
as ---
(1962) Stoney Burke
as Ves Painter
(1959) Johnny Ringo
as Burt Scanlon
(1966) Shane
as Kemp Spicer
(1963) The Fugitive
as Herbie Grant
(1959) Hawaiian Eye
as Al
(1959) Rawhide
as Weed
(1959) Rawhide
as Jesse Gufler
(1965) The Big Valley
as Duke
(1962) The Virginian
as Roy Judd
(1962) The Virginian
as Bowers
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Seth
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Jep
(1962) The Virginian
as Buxton
(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
(1963) The Outer Limits
as Reese Fowler
(1967) Dundee and the Culhane
as Lafe Doolin
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Billy Clegg
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as George Aswell
(1958) Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Clem Robinson
(1959) The Twilight Zone
as Richard Langsford
(1978) Black Beauty
as Jerry Barker
(1960) Thriller
as Benny
(1958) Bat Masterson
as Cat Crail
(1965) A Man Called Shenandoah
as Sergeant Ryder
(1964) 12 O'Clock High
as Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
(1959) The Untouchables
as Artie Krebs
(1957) Wagon Train
as Private Silas Carpenter
(1982) The Blue and the Gray
as Preacher / Maj. Welles
(1958) 77 Sunset Strip
as Dink Strahman
(1963) Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Joe Grover
(1959) Bonanza
as Paul Magruder
(1957) Trackdown
as Kelly
(1982) The Blue and the Gray
as Major Welles
(1957) Trackdown
as Norvil
(1960) The Westerner
as Drunk
(1954) The Wonderful World of Disney
as John Blythe
(1981) East of Eden
as Cyrus Trask
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as Harrison
(1968) The Name of the Game
as Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford
(1947) Kraft Television Theatre
as ---
(1958) The Rifleman
as Andrew Sheltin