Warren Oates
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).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.262 |
| Birthday | 1928-07-05 |
| Place of Birth | Depoy, Kentucky, USA |
| Also Known As | Warren M. Oates, Warren Oats, Warren Mercer Oates, |
1969
The Wild Bunch
7.594/1177
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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The Wild Bunch
1974
Badlands
7.5/1177
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
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Badlands
1967
In the Heat of the Night
7.629/1052
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Spar...
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In the Heat of the Night
1965
Shenandoah
6.8/135
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his...
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Shenandoah
1981
Stripes
6.5/891
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the US Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
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Stripes
1979
1941
5.8/601
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
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1941
1982
The Border
6/121
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
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The Border
1978
China 9, Liberty 37
5.3/26
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused t...
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China 9, Liberty 37
1974
The White Dawn
6.5/14
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three st...
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The White Dawn
1983
Blue Thunder
6.2/471
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences duri...
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Blue Thunder
1974
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
7/355
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a d...
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1968
The Split
6.7/28
A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.
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The Split
1978
The Brink's Job
6/61
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McG...
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The Brink's Job
1975
Race with the Devil
6.4/124
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
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Race with the Devil
1970
Barquero
6.3/43
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only...
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Barquero
1966
Return of the Seven
6.2/267
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most o...
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Return of the Seven
1970
There Was a Crooked Man...
6.8/116
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in...
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There Was a Crooked Man...
1971
Two-Lane Blacktop
6.9/230
A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, bett...
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Two-Lane Blacktop
1974
Cockfighter
6/52
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
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Cockfighter
1973
Dillinger
6.534/104
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Feder...
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Dillinger
1962
Ride the High Country
7/211
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old f...
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Ride the High Country
1965
Major Dundee
6.656/154
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on a...
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Major Dundee
1971
The Hired Hand
6.1/69
Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and s...
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The Hired Hand
1966
The Shooting
6.3/114
Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior...
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The Shooting
1960
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
5.8/19
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the...
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
1977
Sleeping Dogs
5.7/39
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revol...
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Sleeping Dogs
1975
92 in the Shade
5.4/6
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fish...
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92 in the Shade
1983
Tough Enough
5.1/7
An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some...
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Tough Enough
1959
Yellowstone Kelly
6.1/19
A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly...
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Yellowstone Kelly
1976
Dixie Dynamite
5.3/9
When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him ki...
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Dixie Dynamite
1973
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
6.9/16
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who beco...
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1976
Drum
5.2/16
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
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Drum
1971
Chandler
4.5/9
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
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Chandler
1973
Kid Blue
6.9/16
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...
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Kid Blue
1969
Smith!
5.6/11
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since...
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Smith!
1967
Welcome to Hard Times
5/21
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
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Welcome to Hard Times
1964
Mail Order Bride
6.8/4
Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.
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Mail Order Bride
1962
Hero's Island
4.8/4
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
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Hero's Island
1960
Private Property
6.1/40
A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.
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Private Property
1980
Baby Comes Home
0/0
In this sequel to "And Baby Makes Six," a middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after giving birth to an unplanned fourth baby --- 17 years...
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Baby Comes Home
1965
The Rounders
5.5/27
Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), wh...
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The Rounders
1971
The Reluctant Heroes
0/0
An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an...
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The Reluctant Heroes
1973
Tom Sawyer
6.3/54
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and wit...
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Tom Sawyer
1975
Rancho Deluxe
5.4/26
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.
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Rancho Deluxe
1969
Crooks and Coronets
8.3/3
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.
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Crooks and Coronets
1970
The Movie Murderer
6.5/3
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
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The Movie Murderer
2006
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
0/0
Making of 'Blue Thunder'
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Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
1979
My Old Man
3/2
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is h...
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My Old Man
1977
American Raspberry
5.6/7
Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of the regular broadcasts, a lineup of extremely tasteless...
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American Raspberry
1979
And Baby Makes Six
0/0
A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from frie...
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And Baby Makes Six
1968
Something for a Lonely Man
7.4/8
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the tow...
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Something for a Lonely Man
1978
True Grit: A Further Adventure
5.3/3
The further adventures of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent o...
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True Grit: A Further Adventure
1969
Lanton Mills
0/0
Tilman and Lanton Mills, two cowboys who set off on horseback to rob a bank. On the way, they stop to see their boss, the "Old Man", only to discover...
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Lanton Mills
1968
Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
10/1
The cub reporter, Gallegher, becomes involved in a land fraud, when some valueless land is sold to a group of Cornish immigrants. A murder implicates...
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Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
1977
The African Queen
6/1
After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bri...
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The African Queen
2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.3/6
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
1993
Warren Oates: Across the Border
5.7/3
A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews with cast and crew members who worked with him.
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Warren Oates: Across the Border
1957
The Night America Trembled
7/1
A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938. [An episode of the CBS anthology series "St...
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The Night America Trembled
1959
Up Periscope
6.2/30
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy...
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