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

CREDIT
No Score Yet Tough Enough James Neese — 1983
80% Blue Thunder Capt. Jack Braddock — 1983
80% The Border Red — 1982
86% Stripes Sgt. Hulka — 1981
No Score Yet Prime Time (American Raspberry) (Funny America) Actor — 1980
39% 1941 Maddox — 1979
No Score Yet My Old Man Frank Butler — 1979
No Score Yet And Baby Makes Six Michael Cramer — 1979
80% 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
69% 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
78% There Was a Crooked Man Floyd Moon — 1970
94% 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 Something for a Lonely Man Angus Duren — 1968
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
100% 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

CREDIT
No Score Yet Gunsmoke
1955-1975
Lafe Jed Hakes Tresh Tate Seth Pickett Chris Kelly Deke Speeler
  • 1967
  • 1966
  • 1965
  • 1964
  • 1962
  • 1960
  • 1958
  • 1955
No Score Yet Lost in Space
1965-1968
Jim Hapgood
  • 1965
No Score Yet The Fugitive
1963-1967
Herbie McClure
  • 1965
  • 1964
No Score Yet Rawhide
1959-1965
Weed Jesse Waters
  • 1965
  • 1964
  • 1963
80% The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
Ambulance Driver Cpl. Richard Langsford
  • 1963
  • 1960
No Score Yet Bonanza
1959-1973
Paul
  • 1962

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