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...
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The Wild Bunch
As Lyle Gorch
Badlands
As Holly's Father
In the Heat of the Night
As Deputy Sam Wood
Shenandoah
As Billy Packer
Stripes
As Sgt. Hulka
1941
As Col. 'Madman' Maddox
The Border
As Red
China 9, Liberty 37
As Matthew Sebanek
The White Dawn
As Billy
Blue Thunder
As Braddock
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
As Bennie
The Split
As Marty Gough
The Brink's Job
As Specs O'Keefe
Race with the Devil
As Frank
Barquero
As Jake Remy
Return of the Seven
As Colbee
There Was a Crooked Man...
As Floyd Moon
Two-Lane Blacktop
As G.T.O.
Cockfighter
As Frank Mansfield
Dillinger
As John Dillinger
Ride the High Country
As Henry Hammond
Major Dundee
As O.W. Hadley
The Hired Hand
As Arch Harris
The Shooting
As Willett Gashade
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
As Eddie Diamond
Sleeping Dogs
As Col. Willoughby
92 in the Shade
As Nichol Dance
Tough Enough
As James Neese
Yellowstone Kelly
As Corporal
Dixie Dynamite
As Mack
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
As Dave Reilly
Drum
As Hammond Maxwell
Chandler
As Chandler
Kid Blue
As Reese Ford
Smith!
As Walter Charlie
Welcome to Hard Times
As Leo Jenks
Mail Order Bride
As Jace
Hero's Island
As Wayte Giddens
Private Property
As Boots
Baby Comes Home
As Michael Kramer
The Rounders
As Harley Williams (uncredited)
The Reluctant Heroes
As Cpl. Leroy Sprague
Tom Sawyer
As Muff Potter
Rancho Deluxe
As Harmonica Player (uncredited)
Crooks and Coronets
As Marty Miller
The Movie Murderer
As Alfred Fisher
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
As Self (archive footage)
My Old Man
As Frank Butler
American Raspberry
As Celebrity Sportsman
And Baby Makes Six
As Michael Kramer
Something for a Lonely Man
As Angus Duren
True Grit: A Further Adventure
As Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
Lanton Mills
As Gunman
Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
As John Blythe
The African Queen
As Capt. Charlie Allnut
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
As Self (archive footage)
Warren Oates: Across the Border
As Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Night America Trembled
Up Periscope
As Seaman Kovacs
77 Sunset Strip
Trackdown
The F.B.I.
As Richie Billings
Tales of the Unexpected
As Harry
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
As Eldon Bishop
Lost in Space
As Jimmy Hapgood
Gunsmoke
As Jed Hakes
Studio One
As Card Player #2
Combat!
As Pvt. James Stark
The Twilight Zone
As Jeep Driver
The Monroes
Target: The Corruptors!
Outlaws
The Lawless Years
Rawhide
As Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters
Run for Your Life
As Deputy LaVern Potter
Have Gun, Will Travel
Cimarron Strip
The Fugitive
As Hanes McClure
Police Story
The Virginian
As Corbie
Lancer
Thriller
As Hugo Wheeler
The Big Valley
As Korby Kyles
Bronco
Black Saddle
As Simms
Branded
Wanted: Dead or Alive
As Jesse Cox
The Rebel
As Troy Armbruster
The Rifleman
Bat Masterson
As Sonny Parsons
Tate
Stoney Burke
As Ves Painter
Johnny Ringo
As Burt Scanlon
Shane
As Kemp Spicer
Hawaiian Eye
As Al
The Outer Limits
As Reese Fowler
Dundee and the Culhane
As Lafe Doolin
Black Beauty
As Jerry Barker
Wagon Train
As Private Silas Carpenter
A Man Called Shenandoah
As Sergeant Ryder
12 O'Clock High
As Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
The Untouchables
As Artie Krebs
The Blue and the Gray
As Preacher / Maj. Welles
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
As Joe Grover
Bonanza
As Paul Magruder
The Westerner
As Drunk
The Wonderful World of Disney
As John Blythe
East of Eden
As Cyrus Trask
The Name of the Game
As Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford
Kraft Television Theatre