
Actor
Born July 5, 1928 in Depoy, Kentucky, USA
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).

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

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

True Grit: A Further Adventure
Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn

Black Beauty
Jerry Barker

Sleeping Dogs
Col. Willoughby

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

The Name of the Game
Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford

Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
John Blythe

Cimarron Strip

Dundee and the Culhane
Lafe Doolin

In the Heat of the Night
Deputy Sam Wood

Welcome to Hard Times
Leo Jenks

Return of the Seven
Colbee

Shane
Kemp Spicer

The Monroes

The Shooting
Willett Gashade

The F.B.I.
Richie Billings

Lost in Space
Jimmy Hapgood

The Big Valley
Korby Kyles

Run for Your Life
Deputy LaVern Potter

A Man Called Shenandoah
Sergeant Ryder

Shenandoah
Billy Packer

Major Dundee
O.W. Hadley

Branded

The Rounders
Harley Williams (uncredited)

12 O'Clock High
Lt. Col. Jerry Troper

Mail Order Bride
Jace

The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
Eldon Bishop

The Fugitive
Hanes McClure

The Outer Limits
Reese Fowler

Combat!
Pvt. James Stark

Stoney Burke
Ves Painter

The Virginian
Corbie

Hero's Island
Wayte Giddens

Ride the High Country
Henry Hammond

Target: The Corruptors!

Stagecoach West
Tom Lochlin

The Westerner
Drunk

Outlaws

Thriller
Hugo Wheeler

Tate

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Eddie Diamond

Private Property
Boots

Yellowstone Kelly
Corporal

The Untouchables
Artie Krebs

Hawaiian Eye
Al

The Rebel
Troy Armbruster

The Twilight Zone
Jeep Driver

Johnny Ringo
Burt Scanlon

Bonanza
Paul Magruder

The Lawless Years

Up Periscope
Seaman Kovacs

Black Saddle
Simms

Rawhide
Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters

77 Sunset Strip

Bat Masterson
Sonny Parsons

The Rifleman

Bronco

Wanted: Dead or Alive
Jesse Cox

Trackdown

Wagon Train
Private Silas Carpenter

Have Gun, Will Travel

The Night America Trembled
2nd Card Player

Gunsmoke
Jed Hakes

The Wonderful World of Disney
John Blythe

Studio One
Card Player #2

Kraft Television Theatre