Apr 7, 1917 - Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Robert Golden Armstrong was an American actor and playwright. A veteran character actor who appeared in dozens of Westerns over the course of his 40-year career, he may be best remembered for his work with director Sam Peckinpah.
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| Movie | 1987 | Predator | Major General Homer Phillips | |
| Movie | 1970 | Tiger by the Tail | Ben Holmes | |
| Movie | 1984 | Children of the Corn | Diehl | |
| Movie | 1994 | Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion | Retired Texas Ranger | |
| Movie | 1976 | Stay Hungry | Thor Erickson | |
| Movie | 1973 | White Lightning | Big Bear | |
| Movie | 1986 | The Best of Times | Schutte | |
| Movie | 1973 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Ollinger | |
| Movie | 1966 | El Dorado | Kevin MacDonald | |
| Movie | 1970 | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Quittner | |
| Movie | 1977 | The Car | Amos Clements | |
| Movie | 1975 | Race with the Devil | Sheriff Taylor | |
| Movie | 1973 | My Name Is Nobody | Honest John | |
| Movie | 1975 | Boss Nigger | Mayor Griffin | |
| Movie | 1980 | Where the Buffalo Roam | Judge Simpson | |
| Movie | 1972 | The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Clell Miller | |
| Movie | 1962 | Ride the High Country | Joshua Knudsen | |
| Movie | 1965 | Major Dundee | Reverend Dahlstrom | |
| Movie | 1975 | White Line Fever | Prosecutor | |
| Movie | 2001 | Keeper of Souls | ||
| Movie | 1979 | The Legend of the Golden Gun | Judge Harrison Harding | |
| Movie | 1979 | Steel | Kellin | |
| Movie | 1978 | Heaven Can Wait | General Manager | |
| Movie | 1960 | The Fugitive Kind | Sheriff Jordan Talbott | |
| Movie | 1981 | Evilspeak | Sarge | |
| Movie | 1973 | Cotter | Jack | |
| Movie | 1986 | Jocks | Bettlebom | |
| Movie | 2005 | Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah | Self | |
| Movie | 1959 | No Name on the Bullet | Asa Canfield | |
| Movie | 1976 | Dixie Dynamite | Charlie White - Bank President | |
| Movie | 1995 | Payback | Mac | |
| Movie | 1977 | The Pack | Cobb | |
| Movie | 1970 | The McMasters | Watson | |
| Movie | 1989 | Ghetto Blaster | Curtis | |
| Movie | 1981 | Raggedy Man | Rigby | |
| Movie | 1974 | Manhunter | Henry Stratemeyer | |
| Movie | 1993 | Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Self | |
| Movie | 1974 | Reflections of Murder | Mr. Turner | |
| Movie | 1978 | Texas Detour | Sheriff Burt | |
| Movie | 1957 | A Face in the Crowd | Teleprompter Operator (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1979 | Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff | Mr. Hemmings | |
| Movie | 1972 | Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Squire Fisk | |
| Movie | 1974 | The Legend of Hillbilly John | Bristowe | |
| Movie | 1964 | He Rides Tall | Joshua 'Josh' McCloud | |
| Movie | 1960 | Ten Who Dared | Oramel Howland | |
| Movie | 1969 | 80 Steps to Jonah | Mackray | |
| Movie | 1958 | From Hell to Texas | Hunter Boyd | |
| Movie | 1972 | The Century Turns | Ben Ritt | |
| Movie | 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self | |
| Movie | 1986 | Red Headed Stranger | Sheriff Reese Scoby | |
| Movie | 1983 | Lone Wolf McQuade | T. Tyler | |
| Movie | 1978 | Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell | Dunworth | |
| Movie | 1988 | Bulletproof | Miles Blackburn | |
| Movie | 1976 | Kingston | Father Reardon | |
| Movie | 1981 | Reds | Government Agent | |
| Movie | 1970 | The Great White Hope | Captain Dan | |
| Movie | 1964 | Calhoun | Zac Laird | |
| Movie | 1996 | Don't Look Back | Parish | |
| Movie | 1987 | LBJ: The Early Years | Samuel Ealey Johnson | |
| Movie | 1975 | Mean Johnny Barrows | Richard | |
| Movie | 1981 | The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper | Dempsey | |
| Movie | 2024 | Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western | Self | |
| Movie | 1993 | Warlock: The Armageddon | Franks | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Beast Within | Doc Schoonmaker | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Old Man | |
| Movie | 1996 | Invasion of Privacy | Sam Logan - Storekeeper | |
| Movie | 1987 | Independence | Uriah Creed | |
| Movie | 1986 | Oceans of Fire | Rusty West | |
| Movie | 1982 | Hammett | Lt. O'Mara | |
| Movie | 1979 | Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider | Al Barber | |
| Movie | 1978 | The Time Machine | Gen. Harris | |
| Movie | 1958 | Never Love a Stranger | Flix | |
| Movie | 1972 | The Final Comedown | Mr. Freeman | |
| Movie | 1974 | J.W. Coop | Jim Sawyer | |
| Movie | 1990 | Dick Tracy | Pruneface | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Shadow Riders | Sheriff Miles Gillette | |
| Movie | 1979 | The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang | Leland Stanford | |
| Movie | 1999 | Purgatory | Coachman | |
| Movie | 1994 | Dead Center | Art Fencer | |
| Movie | 1973 | Running Wild | Bull | |
| Movie | 1989 | Trapper County War | Pop Luddigger | |
| Movie | 1977 | Mr. Billion | Sheriff T.C. Bishop | |
| Movie | 2006 | Sam Peckinpah: Portrait | Self | |
| Movie | 1956 | Baby Doll | Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1973 | Prologue to Wounded Knee | Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar' | |
| Movie | 1954 | Garden of Eden | J. Randolph Latimore | |
| Movie | 1960 | The Man Who Found the Money | Captain Bone | |
| Movie | 2014 | Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film | Self | |
| TV Show | 1966 | The Time Tunnel | Allan Pinkerton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show | Farmer Flint | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | Movin' On | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1955 | Cheyenne | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1979 | Trapper John, M.D. | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1986 | L.A. Law | Frank Osgood | 2 |
| TV Show | 1975 | Starsky & Hutch | 'Dad' Watson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | The F.B.I. | Sheriff Crowley | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Mr. Lucky | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1987 | Friday the 13th: The Series | Lewis Vendredi | 5 |
| TV Show | 1986 | Matlock | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Capt. Wade | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | Beauty and the Beast | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1995 | Cybill | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1975 | Baretta | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1981 | Dynasty | 3 | |
| TV Show | 1993 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Frank Dodge | 2 |
| TV Show | 1976 | Charlie's Angels | Sebastian Craig | 1 |
| TV Show | 1989 | Quantum Leap | Davison | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Capt. Benter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Perry Mason | Matthew Bartlett | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Millennium | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1953 | General Electric Theater | Jerry Boynton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1954 | Lassie | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1971 | Cannon | 3 | |
| TV Show | 1981 | Darkroom | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Contractor | 1 |
| TV Show | 1960 | The Tall Man | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Captain Bone | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | Everglades | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1966 | Felony Squad | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Enoch Talby | 1 |
| TV Show | 1978 | Vega$ | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1980 | Skag | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1965 | Run for Your Life | Edward Loomis | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1967 | Cimarron Strip | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Fugitive | Tully Gage | 1 |
| TV Show | 1964 | Daniel Boone | Jarvis | 1 |
| TV Show | 1967 | The High Chaparral | Ed Henderson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1975 | Switch | Detective Wills | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Virginian | Ben Winters | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | Lancer | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1982 | Matt Houston | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1965 | The Big Valley | Wallace Miles | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | Here Come the Brides | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1958 | Bronco | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1972 | The Sixth Sense | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1959 | Black Saddle | Ben Dawes | 1 |
| TV Show | 1966 | T.H.E. Cat | Police Capt. McAllister | 26 |
| TV Show | 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Asa Wynter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Sugarfoot | Clay Calhoun | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | Bat Masterson | Marshal William MacWilliams | 1 |
| TV Show | 1967 | The Guns of Will Sonnett | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1959 | Riverboat | Rothgate | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | The Texan | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1974 | The Manhunter | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Sheriff Fred Tomlinson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1977 | Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1967 | Custer | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1958 | Jefferson Drum | Kreiger | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Maverick | Wellington Cosgrove | 2 |
| TV Show | 1958 | The Texan | Big Sam Aldridge | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | The F.B.I. | Ed Cray | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | The F.B.I. | George David Owens | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Gantry Hobson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Fugitive | Sheriff Bradley | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Fugitive | Marshal Matt Peters | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Sheriff John Keeley | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Sugarfoot | Lou Stoner | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Virginian | Frederick Harley | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Major | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Jud Briar | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Carl Anderson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1981 | Code Red | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1956 | Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Sheriff Les Houghton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1964 | Daniel Boone | Joseph Garth | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Perry Mason | Harry Bright | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Warden | 1 |
| TV Show | 1971 | McMillan & Wife | Sheriff Farraday | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Perry Mason | John Gregory | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | Mayor Lovett | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Fred Riordan | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Bonanza | Nathan Clay | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Bonanza | Andrew Holloway | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Bonanza | Col. Keith Jarrell | 1 |
| TV Show | 1966 | T.H.E. Cat | Capt. McAllister | 1 |
| TV Show | 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Billy Soto | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Millennium | The Old Man | 2 |
| TV Show | 1967 | The Invaders | Gus Flagg | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Cheyenne | Nathanael Grimm | 1 |
| TV Show | 1967 | The Invaders | Police Capt. Bill Battersea | 1 |
| TV Show | 1960 | The Westerner | Shell Davidson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Jack O'Neal | 1 |
| TV Show | 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Squire Fisk | 1 |
| TV Show | 1960 | Surfside 6 | Paul Wyatt | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | The Rifleman | Sheriff Tomlinson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | William Downey | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | John Cooley | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Burke | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | The Rifleman | Sheriff Fred Tomlinson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | 87th Precinct | Franklin Phelps | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Wagon Train | John Muskie | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | Lawman | Major Ben Rogers | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Wagon Train | General Kirby | 1 |
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| Movie | 2007 | The Hottest State | Thanks | Crew |
