Jul 5, 1928 - Depoy, Kentucky, USA
Warren Mercer Oates 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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| Movie | 1969 | The Wild Bunch | Lyle Gorch | |
| Movie | 1974 | Badlands | Holly's Father | |
| Movie | 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | Deputy Sam Wood | |
| Movie | 1965 | Shenandoah | Billy Packer | |
| Movie | 1981 | Stripes | Sgt. Hulka | |
| Movie | 1979 | 1941 | Col. 'Madman' Maddox | |
| Movie | 1982 | The Border | Red | |
| Movie | 1978 | China 9, Liberty 37 | Matthew Sebanek | |
| Movie | 1974 | The White Dawn | Billy | |
| Movie | 1983 | Blue Thunder | Braddock | |
| Movie | 1974 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Bennie | |
| Movie | 1968 | The Split | Marty Gough | |
| Movie | 1978 | The Brink's Job | Specs O'Keefe | |
| Movie | 1975 | Race with the Devil | Frank | |
| Movie | 1970 | Barquero | Jake Remy | |
| Movie | 1966 | Return of the Seven | Colbee | |
| Movie | 1970 | There Was a Crooked Man... | Floyd Moon | |
| Movie | 1971 | Two-Lane Blacktop | G.T.O. | |
| Movie | 1974 | Cockfighter | Frank Mansfield | |
| Movie | 1973 | Dillinger | John Dillinger | |
| Movie | 1962 | Ride the High Country | Henry Hammond | |
| Movie | 1965 | Major Dundee | O.W. Hadley | |
| Movie | 1971 | The Hired Hand | Arch Harris | |
| Movie | 1966 | The Shooting | Willett Gashade | |
| Movie | 1960 | The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond | Eddie Diamond | |
| Movie | 1977 | Sleeping Dogs | Col. Willoughby | |
| Movie | 1975 | 92 in the Shade | Nichol Dance | |
| Movie | 1983 | Tough Enough | James Neese | |
| Movie | 1959 | Yellowstone Kelly | Corporal | |
| Movie | 1976 | Dixie Dynamite | Mack | |
| Movie | 1973 | The Thief Who Came to Dinner | Dave Reilly | |
| Movie | 1976 | Drum | Hammond Maxwell | |
| Movie | 1971 | Chandler | Chandler | |
| Movie | 1973 | Kid Blue | Reese Ford | |
| Movie | 1969 | Smith! | Walter Charlie | |
| Movie | 1967 | Welcome to Hard Times | Leo Jenks | |
| Movie | 1964 | Mail Order Bride | Jace | |
| Movie | 1962 | Hero's Island | Wayte Giddens | |
| Movie | 1960 | Private Property | Boots | |
| Movie | 1980 | Baby Comes Home | Michael Kramer | |
| Movie | 1965 | The Rounders | Harley Williams (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1971 | The Reluctant Heroes | Cpl. Leroy Sprague | |
| Movie | 1973 | Tom Sawyer | Muff Potter | |
| Movie | 1975 | Rancho Deluxe | Harmonica Player (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1969 | Crooks and Coronets | Marty Miller | |
| Movie | 1970 | The Movie Murderer | Alfred Fisher | |
| Movie | 2006 | Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1979 | My Old Man | Frank Butler | |
| Movie | 1977 | American Raspberry | Celebrity Sportsman | |
| Movie | 1979 | And Baby Makes Six | Michael Kramer | |
| Movie | 1968 | Something for a Lonely Man | Angus Duren | |
| Movie | 1978 | True Grit: A Further Adventure | Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn | |
| Movie | 1969 | Lanton Mills | Gunman | |
| Movie | 1968 | Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims | John Blythe | |
| Movie | 1977 | The African Queen | Capt. Charlie Allnut | |
| Movie | 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1993 | Warren Oates: Across the Border | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1957 | The Night America Trembled | 2nd Card Player | |
| Movie | 1959 | Up Periscope | Seaman Kovacs | |
| TV Show | 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1957 | Trackdown | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1965 | The F.B.I. | Richie Billings | 1 |
| TV Show | 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Harry | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | Eldon Bishop | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | Lost in Space | Jimmy Hapgood | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Jed Hakes | 1 |
| TV Show | 1948 | Studio One | Card Player #2 | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | Combat! | Pvt. James Stark | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Jeep Driver | 2 |
| TV Show | 1966 | The Monroes | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1961 | Target: The Corruptors! | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1960 | Outlaws | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1959 | The Lawless Years | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | Run for Your Life | Deputy LaVern Potter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1967 | Cimarron Strip | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Fugitive | Hanes McClure | 1 |
| TV Show | 1973 | Police Story | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Virginian | Corbie | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | Lancer | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1960 | Thriller | Hugo Wheeler | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | The Big Valley | Korby Kyles | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | Bronco | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1959 | Black Saddle | Simms | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | Branded | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Jesse Cox | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | The Rebel | Troy Armbruster | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | The Rifleman | 3 | |
| TV Show | 1958 | Bat Masterson | Sonny Parsons | 1 |
| TV Show | 1960 | Tate | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1962 | Stoney Burke | Ves Painter | 32 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Johnny Ringo | Burt Scanlon | 1 |
| TV Show | 1966 | Shane | Kemp Spicer | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Fugitive | Herbie Grant | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Hawaiian Eye | Al | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Weed | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Rawhide | Jesse Gufler | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | The Big Valley | Duke | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Virginian | Roy Judd | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Virginian | Bowers | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Seth | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Jep | 1 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Virginian | Buxton | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Sweet Billy | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Chris Kelly | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Deke | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Speeler | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Al Tresh | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Lafe | 1 |
| TV Show | 1955 | Gunsmoke | Reb | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | The Outer Limits | Reese Fowler | 1 |
| TV Show | 1967 | Dundee and the Culhane | Lafe Doolin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Billy Clegg | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | George Aswell | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive | Clem Robinson | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Richard Langsford | 1 |
| TV Show | 1978 | Black Beauty | Jerry Barker | 5 |
| TV Show | 1960 | Thriller | Benny | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | Bat Masterson | Cat Crail | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Preacher / Maj. Welles | 3 |
| TV Show | 1964 | 12 O'Clock High | Lt. Col. Jerry Troper | 1 |
| TV Show | 1965 | A Man Called Shenandoah | Sergeant Ryder | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | The Untouchables | Artie Krebs | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Wagon Train | Private Silas Carpenter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip | Dink Strahman | 1 |
| TV Show | 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Joe Grover | 1 |
| TV Show | 1959 | Bonanza | Paul Magruder | 1 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Trackdown | Kelly | 1 |
| TV Show | 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Major Welles | 3 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Trackdown | Norvil | 1 |
| TV Show | 1960 | The Westerner | Drunk | 1 |
| TV Show | 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | John Blythe | 1 |
| TV Show | 1981 | East of Eden | Cyrus Trask | 3 |
| TV Show | 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | Harrison | 1 |
| TV Show | 1968 | The Name of the Game | Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford | 1 |
| TV Show | 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1958 | The Rifleman | Andrew Sheltin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1960 | Stagecoach West | Tom Lochlin | 1 |
| TV Show | 1958 | The Rifleman | Marty Ryan | 1 |
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