Warren Oates

Warren Oates

Birthday: Jul 5, 1928
Birthplace: Depoy, Kentucky, USA

Bio: Lanky, laconic actor Warren Oates made his first stage appearance in a student play at the University of Louisville. Moving to New York in 1954, Oates took a variety of jobs to sustain himself, including a "stunt tester" for the TV audience-participation series Beat the Clock (one of Oates' predecessors in this endeavor was James Dean). He worked in live New… More Bio: Lanky, laconic actor Warren Oates made his first stage appearance in a student play at the University of Louisville. Moving to New York in 1954, Oates took a variety of jobs to sustain himself, including a "stunt tester" for the TV audience-participation series Beat the Clock (one of Oates' predecessors in this endeavor was James Dean). He worked in live New York-based TV dramas before moving to Hollywood in 1957, where thanks to such Western TV series as Have Gun Will Travel, he established himself as a brooding villain. One of his rare opportunities to exhibit anything other than menace was his semicomic supporting role on the 1962 Jack Lord TV weekly Stoney Burke. One of director Sam Peckinpah's favorite actors, Oates was well served with meaty roles in such Peckinpah films as Ride the High Country (1962), Major Dundee (1965), and, best of all, The Wild Bunch (1969). With his remarkable performance as an ageing hot rodder in 1971's Two-Lane Blacktop, Oates began a fruitful association with director Monte Hellman, who provided Oates with his best-ever film assignments in Cockfighter (1974) and China 9 Liberty 37 (1982). Shortly after completing work on Blue Thunder (1982), Warren Oates' long-overdue rising stardom came to a tragic halt as a result of a sudden, fatal heart attack. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Filmography

Hired Hand (2003)
- Actor
Gunfire (1990)
- Actor
Battleground (1986)
- Actor
Tough Enough (1983)
- James Neese
Blue Thunder (1983)
- Braddock
- 83%
The Border (1982)
- Red
- 89%
Stripes (1981)
- Sgt. Hulka
- 88%
Prime Time (American Raspberry) (Funny America) (1980)
- Actor
1941 (1979)
- Maddox
- 33%
My Old Man (1979)
- Frank Butler
And Baby Makes Six (1979)
- Michael Cramer
The Brink's Job (Big Stickup at Brink's) (1978)
- Specs O'Keefe
Amore, piombo e furore (Gunfire)(China 9, Liberty 37) (Love, Bullets and Frenzy) (1978)
- Actor
China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
- Matthew Sebanek
Sleeping dogs (1977)
- Willoughby
Drum (1976)
- Hammond Maxwell
Dixie Dynamite (1976)
- Mack
92 in the Shade (1975)
- Nichol Dance
Rancho Deluxe (1975)
- Actor
- 67%
Race With the Devil (1975)
- Frank
- 40%
Cockfighter (Born to Kill) (1974)
- Frank Mansfield
- 100%
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
- Bennie
- 83%
The White Dawn (1974)
- Billy
Major Dundee (1974)
- O.W. Hadley
- 97%
Badlands (1973)
- Mr. Sargis Father
- 98%
Kid Blue (1973)
- Reese Ford
Dillinger (1973)
- John Dillinger
- 92%
Tom Sawyer (1973)
- Muff Potter
Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
- Dave Reilly
Chandler (1971)
- Chandler
The Hired Hand (1971)
- Arch
- 91%
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
- G.T.O.
- 93%
Barquero (1970)
- Remy
There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
- Floyd Moon
- 100%
The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Lyle Gorch
- 97%
Crooks and Coronets (1969)
- Marty Miller
Smith! (1969)
- Walter Charlie
The Split (1968)
- Gough
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
- Deputy Sam Wood
- 96%
Welcome to Hard Times (Killer on a Horse) (1967)
- Jenks
The Shooting (1967)
- Willett Gashade
- 100%
Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966)
- Colbee
- 13%
Shenandoah (1965)
- Billy Packer
Outer Limits - "The Mutant" (1963)
- Actor
Hero's Island (1962)
- Wayte Giddens
Ride the High Country (1962)
- Henry Hammond
- 93%
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
- Eddie Diamond
- 67%
Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
- Corporal
Up Periscope (1959)
- Actor
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