Warren Oates
Department: Acting
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).
Known For
The Wild Bunch
1969
Badlands
1974
In the Heat of the Night
1967
Shenandoah
1965
Stripes
1981
1941
1979
The Border
1982
China 9, Liberty 37
1978
The White Dawn
1974
Blue Thunder
1983
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
The Split
1968
The Brink's Job
1978
Race with the Devil
1975
Barquero
1970
Return of the Seven
1966
There Was a Crooked Man...
1970
Two-Lane Blacktop
1971
Cockfighter
1974
Dillinger
1973
Ride the High Country
1962
Major Dundee
1965
The Hired Hand
1971
The Shooting
1966
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
1960
Sleeping Dogs
1977
92 in the Shade
1975
Tough Enough
1983
Yellowstone Kelly
1959
Dixie Dynamite
1976
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973
Drum
1976
Chandler
1971
Kid Blue
1973
Smith!
1969
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
Mail Order Bride
1964
Hero's Island
1962
Private Property
1960
Baby Comes Home
1980
The Rounders
1965
The Reluctant Heroes
1971
Tom Sawyer
1973
Rancho Deluxe
1975
Crooks and Coronets
1969
The Movie Murderer
1970
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
2006
My Old Man
1979
American Raspberry
1977
And Baby Makes Six
1979
Something for a Lonely Man
1968
True Grit: A Further Adventure
1978
Lanton Mills
1969
Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
1968
The African Queen
1977
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Warren Oates: Across the Border
1993
The Night America Trembled
1957
Up Periscope
1959
Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
1983
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Trackdown
1957
The F.B.I.
1965
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1963
Lost in Space
1965
Gunsmoke
1955
Studio One
1948
Combat!
1962
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Monroes
1966
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
Outlaws
1960
The Lawless Years
1959
Rawhide
1959
Run for Your Life
1965
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Cimarron Strip
1967
The Fugitive
1963
Police Story
1973
The Virginian
1962
Lancer
1968
Thriller
1960
The Big Valley
1965
Bronco
1958
Black Saddle
1959
Branded
1965
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
The Rebel
1959
The Rifleman
1958
Bat Masterson
1958
Tate
1960
Stoney Burke
1962
Johnny Ringo
1959
Shane
1966
The Fugitive
1963
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Rawhide
1959
Rawhide
1959
The Big Valley
1965
The Virginian
1962
The Virginian
1962
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
The Virginian
1962
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
Gunsmoke
1955
The Outer Limits
1963
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
The Twilight Zone
1959
Black Beauty
1978
Thriller
1960
Bat Masterson
1958
Wagon Train
1957
A Man Called Shenandoah
1965
12 O'Clock High
1964
The Untouchables
1959
The Blue and the Gray
1982
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Bonanza
1959
Trackdown
1957
The Blue and the Gray
1982
Trackdown
1957
The Westerner
1960
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
East of Eden
1981
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Name of the Game
1968
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
The Rifleman
1958
Stagecoach West
1960
The Rifleman
1958
Stagecoach West
1960