Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982) 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).

Filmography

• 1983Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder
• 1983Blue Thunder — Braddock
• 1983Tough Enough — James Neese
• The Blue and the Gray — Preacher / Maj. Welles, Major Welles
• 1982The Border — Red
• East of Eden — Cyrus Trask
• 1981Stripes — Sgt. Hulka
• 1980Baby Comes Home — Michael Kramer
• 19791941 — Col. 'Madman' Maddox
• 1979And Baby Makes Six — Michael Kramer
• 1979My Old Man — Frank Butler
• Tales of the Unexpected — Harry
• Black Beauty — Jerry Barker
• 1978China 9, Liberty 37 — Matthew Sebanek
• 1978Sleeping Dogs — Col. Willoughby
• 1978The Brink's Job — Specs O'Keefe
• 1978True Grit: A Further Adventure — Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
• 1977American Raspberry — Celebrity Sportsman
• 1977The African Queen — Capt. Charlie Allnut
• 1976Dixie Dynamite — Mack
• 1976Drum — Hammond Maxwell
• 197592 in the Shade — Nichol Dance
• 1975Race with the Devil — Frank
• 1975Rancho Deluxe — Harmonica Player (uncredited)
• 1974Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia — Bennie
• 1974Cockfighter — Frank Mansfield
• 1974The White Dawn — Billy
• 1973Badlands — Holly's Father
• 1973Dillinger — John Dillinger
• 1973Kid Blue — Reese Ford
• Police Story
• 1973The Thief Who Came to Dinner — Dave Reilly
• 1973Tom Sawyer — Muff Potter
• 1971Chandler — Chandler
• 1971The Hired Hand — Arch Harris
• 1971The Reluctant Heroes — Cpl. Leroy Sprague
• 1971Two-Lane Blacktop — G.T.O.
• 1970Barquero — Jake Remy
• 1970The Movie Murderer — Alfred Fisher
• 1970There Was a Crooked Man... — Floyd Moon
• 1969Crooks and Coronets — Marty Miller
• 1969Lanton Mills — Gunman
• 1969Smith! — Walter Charlie
• 1969The Wild Bunch — Lyle Gorch
• 1968Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims — John Blythe
• Lancer
• 1968Something for a Lonely Man — Angus Duren
• The Name of the Game — Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford
• 1968The Split — Marty Gough
• Cimarron Strip
• Dundee and the Culhane — Lafe Doolin
• 1967In the Heat of the Night — Deputy Sam Wood
• 1967Welcome to Hard Times — Leo Jenks
• 1966Return of the Seven — Colbee
• Shane — Kemp Spicer
• The Monroes
• 1966The Shooting — Willett Gashade
• A Man Called Shenandoah — Sergeant Ryder
• Branded
• Lost in Space — Jimmy Hapgood
• 1965Major Dundee — O.W. Hadley
• Run for Your Life — Deputy LaVern Potter
• 1965Shenandoah — Billy Packer
• The Big Valley — Korby Kyles, Duke
• The F.B.I. — Richie Billings
• 1965The Rounders — Harley Williams (uncredited)
• 12 O'Clock High — Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
• 1964Mail Order Bride — Jace
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Joe Grover
• The Fugitive — Hanes McClure, Herbie Grant
• The Outer Limits — Reese Fowler
• The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters — Eldon Bishop
• Combat! — Pvt. James Stark
• 1962Hero's Island — Wayte Giddens
• 1962Ride the High Country — Henry Hammond
• Stoney Burke — Ves Painter
• The Virginian — Corbie, Roy Judd, Bowers, Buxton
• Target: The Corruptors!
• Outlaws
• 1960Private Property — Boots
• Stagecoach West — Tom Lochlin, Warren Oates
• Tate
• 1960The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond — Eddie Diamond
• The Westerner — Drunk
• Thriller — Hugo Wheeler, Benny
• Black Saddle — Simms
• Bonanza — Paul Magruder
• Hawaiian Eye — Al
• Johnny Ringo — Burt Scanlon
• Rawhide — Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters, Weed, Jesse Gufler
• The Lawless Years
• The Rebel — Troy Armbruster
• The Twilight Zone — Jeep Driver, Richard Langsford
• The Untouchables — Artie Krebs
• 1959Up Periscope — Seaman Kovacs
• 1959Yellowstone Kelly — Corporal
• 77 Sunset Strip — Dink Strahman
• Bat Masterson — Sonny Parsons, Cat Crail
• Bronco
• The Rifleman — Andrew Sheltin, Marty Ryan
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Jesse Cox, Billy Clegg, George Aswell, Clem Robinson
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Harrison
• 1957The Night America Trembled — 2nd Card Player
• Trackdown — Kelly, Norvil
• Wagon Train — Private Silas Carpenter
• Gunsmoke — Jed Hakes, Seth, Jep, Sweet Billy, Chris Kelly, Deke, Speeler, Al Tresh, Lafe, Reb
• The Wonderful World of Disney — John Blythe
• Studio One — Card Player #2
• Kraft Television Theatre

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2006Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder' — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self (archive footage)
• 1993Warren Oates: Across the Border — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)