Warren Oates

Highest Rated: 100% Cockfighter (1974)

Lowest Rated: 13% Return of the Seven (1966)

Birthday: Jul 5, 1928

Birthplace: Depoy, Kentucky, USA

Oates first acted in a student play while attending the University of Louisville. He moved to New York in 1954, hoping to find work on the stage or TV; instead he had a series of odd jobs. Eventually he appeared in a few live TV dramas, and when this work slowed down he moved to Hollywood; there he became a stock villain in many TV and film Westerns. Over the years he gained respect as an excellent character actor; by the early '70s he was appearing in both unusual, unglamorous leads and significant supporting roles. His breakthrough role was in In the Heat of the Night (1967). He played the title role in Dillinger (1973).

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Tough Enough	James Neese	—	1983
84%	Blue Thunder	Capt. Jack Braddock	—	1983
89%	The Border	Red	—	1982
86%	Stripes	Sgt. Hulka	—	1981
No Score Yet	Prime Time (American Raspberry) (Funny America)	Actor	—	1980
33%	1941	Maddox	—	1979
No Score Yet	My Old Man	Frank Butler	—	1979
No Score Yet	And Baby Makes Six	Michael Cramer	—	1979
No Score Yet	The Brink's Job	Specs O'Keefe	—	1978
No Score Yet	Amore, piombo e furore (Gunfire)(China 9, Liberty 37) (Love, Bullets and Frenzy)	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	China 9, Liberty 37	Matthew Sebanek	—	1978
No Score Yet	Sleeping dogs	Willoughby	—	1977
No Score Yet	Drum	Hammond Maxwell	—	1976
No Score Yet	Dixie Dynamite	Mack	—	1976
No Score Yet	92 in the Shade	Nicholas Dance	—	1975
57%	Race with the Devil	Frank Stewart	—	1975
100%	Cockfighter	Frank Mansfield	—	1974
83%	Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia	Bennie	—	1974
98%	Badlands	Mr. Sargis	—	1974
No Score Yet	The White Dawn	Billy	—	1974
No Score Yet	Kid Blue	Reese Ford	—	1973
92%	Dillinger	John Dillinger	—	1973
No Score Yet	Tom Sawyer	Muff Potter	—	1973
No Score Yet	The Thief Who Came to Dinner	Dave	—	1973
No Score Yet	Chandler	Chandler	—	1971
92%	The Hired Hand	Arch Harris	—	1971
94%	Two-Lane Blacktop	G.T.O	—	1971
No Score Yet	Barquero	Jake	—	1970
100%	There Was a Crooked Man	Floyd Moon	—	1970
96%	The Wild Bunch	Lyle Gorch	—	1969
No Score Yet	Crooks and Coronets	Marty Miller	—	1969
No Score Yet	Smith!	Walter Charlie	—	1969
No Score Yet	The Split	Marty Gough	—	1968
96%	In the Heat of the Night	Sam Wood	—	1967
No Score Yet	Welcome to Hard Times (Killer on a Horse)	Jenks	—	1967
100%	The Shooting	Willett Gashade	—	1967
13%	Return of the Seven	Colbee	—	1966
No Score Yet	Shenandoah	Billy Packer	—	1965
97%	Major Dundee	O.W. Hadley	—	1965
No Score Yet	Mail Order Bride	Jace	—	1964
No Score Yet	Hero's Island	Wayte	—	1962
93%	Ride the High Country	Henry	—	1962
100%	Private Property	Boots	—	1960
71%	The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond	Eddie Diamond	—	1960
No Score Yet	Yellowstone Kelly	Corporal	—	1959
No Score Yet	Up Periscope	Seaman Kovacs	—	1959

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Ambulance Driver Cpl. Richard Langsford	1963 1960

Quotes from Warren Oates' Characters

Matthew Sebanek:	women are like coyotes, if there wasn't a pussy between their legs there would be a bounty on their heads
Matthew Sebanek:	Women are like coyotes, if there wasn't a pussy between their legs there would be a bounty on their heads.

Sgt. Hulka:	son, there ain't no draft anymore.
Sgt. Hulka:	Son, there ain't no draft anymore.

Pike:	Let's go!
Lyle Gorch:	Why the hell not?

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