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.

Filmography

• 2007The Hottest State — Thanks
• 2001Keeper of Souls — Edward Sloan
• 1999Purgatory — Coachman
• 1998The Man in the Iron Mask — Old Man
• 1996Don't Look Back — Parish
• 1996Invasion of Privacy — Sam Logan - Storekeeper
• Millennium — The Old Man
• Cybill — Stitch Sullivan
• 1995Payback — Mac
• 1994Dead Center — Art Fencer
• 1994Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion — Retired Texas Ranger
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Frank Dodge
• 1993Warlock: The Armageddon — Franks
• 1990Dick Tracy — Pruneface
• 1989Ghetto Blaster — Curtis
• Quantum Leap — Davison
• 1989Trapper County War — Pop Luddigger
• 1988Bulletproof — Miles Blackburn
• War and Remembrance — 'Moose' Fitzgerald
• Beauty and the Beast — Stanley Kazmarek
• Friday the 13th: The Series — Lewis Vendredi
• 1987Independence — Uriah Creed
• 1987LBJ: The Early Years — Samuel Ealey Johnson
• 1987Predator — Major General Homer Phillips
• 1986Jocks — Bettlebom
• L.A. Law — Frank Osgood
• Matlock — Sheriff Dalton Parks
• 1986Oceans of Fire — Rusty West
• 1986Red Headed Stranger — Sheriff Reese Scoby
• 1986The Best of Times — Schutte
• 1984Children of the Corn — Diehl
• 1983Lone Wolf McQuade — T. Tyler
• 1982Hammett — Lt. O'Mara
• Matt Houston
• 1982The Beast Within — Doc Schoonmaker
• 1982The Shadow Riders — Sheriff Miles Gillette
• Code Red
• Darkroom — Sheriff Dodson
• Dynasty
• 1981Evilspeak — Sarge
• 1981Raggedy Man — Rigby
• 1981Reds — Government Agent
• 1981The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper — Dempsey
• Skag
• 1980Where the Buffalo Roam — Judge Simpson
• 1979Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider — Al Barber
• 1979Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff — Mr. Hemmings
• 1979Steel — Kellin
• 1979The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang — Leland Stanford
• 1979The Legend of the Golden Gun — Judge Harrison Harding
• Trapper John, M.D.
• 1978Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell — Dunworth
• 1978Heaven Can Wait — General Manager
• 1978Texas Detour — Sheriff Burt
• 1978The Time Machine — Gen. Harris
• Vega$
• 1977Mr. Billion — Sheriff T.C. Bishop
• Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
• 1977The Car — Amos Clements
• 1977The Pack — Cobb
• Charlie's Angels — Sebastian Craig
• 1976Dixie Dynamite — Charlie White - Bank President
• 1976Kingston — Father Reardon
• 1976Stay Hungry — Thor Erickson
• Baretta
• 1975Boss Nigger — Mayor Griffin
• 1975Mean Johnny Barrows — Richard
• 1975Race with the Devil — Sheriff Taylor
• Starsky & Hutch — 'Dad' Watson
• Switch — Detective Wills
• 1975White Line Fever — Prosecutor
• 1974Manhunter — Henry Stratemeyer
• Movin' On
• 1974Reflections of Murder — Mr. Turner
• 1974The Legend of Hillbilly John — Bristowe
• The Manhunter
• 1973Cotter — Jack
• 1973My Name Is Nobody — Honest John
• 1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid — Ollinger
• 1973Prologue to Wounded Knee — Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'
• 1973Running Wild — Bull
• 1973White Lightning — Big Bear
• 1972J.W. Coop — Jim Sawyer
• 1972Justin Morgan Had a Horse — Squire Fisk
• 1972The Century Turns — Ben Ritt
• 1972The Final Comedown — Mr. Freeman
• 1972The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid — Clell Miller
• The Sixth Sense
• Alias Smith and Jones
• Cannon
• McMillan & Wife — Sheriff Farraday
• 1970The Ballad of Cable Hogue — Quittner
• 1970The Great White Hope — Captain Dan
• 1970The McMasters — Watson
• 1970Tiger by the Tail — Ben Holmes
• 196980 Steps to Jonah — Mackray
• Hawaii Five-O — Capt. Wade, Warden
• Here Come the Brides
• Lancer
• Cimarron Strip
• Custer
• The Guns of Will Sonnett
• The High Chaparral — Ed Henderson
• The Invaders — Gus Flagg, Police Capt. Bill Battersea
• 1966El Dorado — Kevin MacDonald
• Felony Squad
• T.H.E. Cat — Police Capt. McAllister
• The Time Tunnel — Allan Pinkerton
• 1965Major Dundee — Reverend Dahlstrom
• Run for Your Life — Edward Loomis
• The Big Valley — Wallace Miles
• The F.B.I. — Sheriff Crowley, Ed Cray, George David Owens
• 1964Calhoun — Zac Laird
• Daniel Boone — Jarvis, Joseph Garth
• 1964He Rides Tall — Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
• The Fugitive — Tully Gage, Sheriff Bradley, Marshal Matt Peters
• 1962Ride the High Country — Joshua Knudsen
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — William Downey, John Cooley
• The Virginian — Ben Winters, Frederick Harley
• 87th Precinct — Franklin Phelps
• Everglades
• Surfside 6 — Paul Wyatt
• 1960Ten Who Dared — Oramel Howland
• The Andy Griffith Show — Farmer Flint
• 1960The Fugitive Kind — Sheriff Jordan Talbott
• 1960The Man Who Found the Money — Captain Bone
• The Tall Man
• The Westerner — Shell Davidson
• Black Saddle — Ben Dawes
• Bonanza — Nathan Clay, Andrew Holloway, Col. Keith Jarrell
• Mr. Lucky
• 1959No Name on the Bullet — Asa Canfield
• Rawhide — Enoch Talby, Gantry Hobson, Sheriff John Keeley, Burke
• Riverboat — Rothgate
• The Twilight Zone — Contractor
• Bat Masterson — Marshal William MacWilliams
• Bronco — Reverend Hardin
• 1958From Hell to Texas — Hunter Boyd
• Jefferson Drum — Kreiger
• Lawman — Major Ben Rogers
• 1958Never Love a Stranger — Flix
• The Rifleman — Sheriff Tomlinson, Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
• The Texan — Big Sam Aldridge, Cliff Clifford
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Asa Wynter
• 1957A Face in the Crowd — Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Mayor Lovett
• Maverick — Wellington Cosgrove
• Perry Mason — Matthew Bartlett, Harry Bright, John Gregory
• Sugarfoot — Clay Calhoun, Lou Stoner
• Wagon Train — John Muskie, General Kirby
• 1956Baby Doll — Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Fred Tomlinson, Sheriff Les Houghton
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Captain Bone, Fred Riordan
• Cheyenne — Nathanael Grimm
• Gunsmoke — Capt. Benter, Major, Jud Briar, Carl Anderson
• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
• 1954Garden of Eden — J. Randolph Latimore
• Lassie
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Billy Soto, Jack O'Neal, Squire Fisk
• General Electric Theater — Jerry Boynton

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2024Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western — Self
• 2014Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film — Self
• 2006Sam Peckinpah: Portrait — Self
• 2005Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah — Self
• 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self
• 1993Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron — Self