Warren Oates
Acting

Warren Oates

Born 5 July 1928 · Depoy, Kentucky, USA · Died 3 April 1982

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

Badlands
The Wild Bunch
In the Heat of the Night
The Twilight Zone
Stripes
1941
Blue Thunder
Bonanza
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Return of the Seven
Two-Lane Blacktop
Ride the High Country
Blue Thunder
Tough Enough
The Border
Stripes
Baby Comes Home
1941
My Old Man
And Baby Makes Six
China 9, Liberty 37
The Brink's Job
Sleeping Dogs
True Grit: A Further Adventure
American Raspberry
The African Queen
Dixie Dynamite
Drum
Race with the Devil
92 in the Shade
The White Dawn
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Cockfighter
Badlands
Dillinger
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Kid Blue
Tom Sawyer
Two-Lane Blacktop
The Hired Hand
Chandler
The Reluctant Heroes
Barquero
There Was a Crooked Man...
The Movie Murderer
The Wild Bunch
Smith!
Crooks and Coronets
Lanton Mills
The Split
Something for a Lonely Man
Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
In the Heat of the Night
Welcome to Hard Times
Return of the Seven
The Shooting
Shenandoah
Major Dundee
Mail Order Bride
Ride the High Country
Hero's Island
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Private Property
Yellowstone Kelly
Up Periscope
The Night America Trembled
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