Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 05, 1928
Died
Apr 03, 1982
Place of Birth
Depoy, Kentucky, USA
Credits
112 titles
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).
Known For
Filmography
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
Self (archive footage)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
Warren Oates: Across the Border
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tough Enough
James Neese
Blue Thunder
Braddock
Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
The Blue and the Gray
Preacher / Maj. Welles
The Border
Red
Stripes
Sgt. Hulka
East of Eden
Cyrus Trask
Baby Comes Home
Michael Kramer
1941
Col. 'Madman' Maddox
My Old Man
Frank Butler
And Baby Makes Six
Michael Kramer
Tales of the Unexpected
Harry
The Brink's Job
Specs O'Keefe
China 9, Liberty 37
Matthew Sebanek
Sleeping Dogs
Col. Willoughby
True Grit: A Further Adventure
Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
Black Beauty
Jerry Barker
American Raspberry
Celebrity Sportsman
The African Queen
Capt. Charlie Allnut
Drum
Hammond Maxwell
Dixie Dynamite
Mack
92 in the Shade
Nichol Dance
Race with the Devil
Frank
Rancho Deluxe
Harmonica Player (uncredited)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Bennie
Cockfighter
Frank Mansfield
The White Dawn
Billy
Badlands
Holly's Father
Dillinger
John Dillinger
Police Story
Tom Sawyer
Muff Potter
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Dave Reilly
Kid Blue
Reese Ford
Chandler
Chandler
The Reluctant Heroes
Cpl. Leroy Sprague
The Hired Hand
Arch Harris
Two-Lane Blacktop
G.T.O.
There Was a Crooked Man...
Floyd Moon
Barquero
Jake Remy
The Movie Murderer
Alfred Fisher
Lanton Mills
Gunman
The Wild Bunch
Lyle Gorch
Crooks and Coronets
Marty Miller
Smith!
Walter Charlie
Something for a Lonely Man
Angus Duren
The Split
Marty Gough
Lancer