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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).
Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
as Self (archive footage)

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)

Warren Oates: Across the Border
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tough Enough
as James Neese

Blue Thunder
as Braddock
Behind-the-Scenes: Blue Thunder

The Blue and the Gray
as Preacher / Maj. Welles

The Border
as Red

Stripes
as Sgt. Hulka

East of Eden
as Cyrus Trask

Baby Comes Home
as Michael Kramer

1941
as Col. 'Madman' Maddox

My Old Man
as Frank Butler

And Baby Makes Six
as Michael Kramer

Tales of the Unexpected
as Harry

The Brink's Job
as Specs O'Keefe

China 9, Liberty 37
as Matthew Sebanek

True Grit: A Further Adventure
as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn

Black Beauty
as Jerry Barker

Sleeping Dogs
as Col. Willoughby

American Raspberry
as Celebrity Sportsman

The African Queen
as Capt. Charlie Allnut

Drum
as Hammond Maxwell

Dixie Dynamite
as Mack

92 in the Shade
as Nichol Dance

Race with the Devil
as Frank

Rancho Deluxe
as Harmonica Player (uncredited)

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
as Bennie

Cockfighter
as Frank Mansfield

The White Dawn
as Billy

Badlands
as Holly's Father

Dillinger
as John Dillinger

Police Story

Tom Sawyer
as Muff Potter

The Thief Who Came to Dinner
as Dave Reilly

Kid Blue
as Reese Ford

Chandler
as Chandler

The Reluctant Heroes
as Cpl. Leroy Sprague

The Hired Hand
as Arch Harris

Two-Lane Blacktop
as G.T.O.

There Was a Crooked Man...
as Floyd Moon

Barquero
as Jake Remy

The Movie Murderer
as Alfred Fisher

Lanton Mills
as Gunman

The Wild Bunch
as Lyle Gorch

Crooks and Coronets
as Marty Miller

Smith!
as Walter Charlie

Something for a Lonely Man
as Angus Duren

The Split
as Marty Gough

Lancer

The Name of the Game
as Lew Weatherford / John Weatherford

Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
as John Blythe

Cimarron Strip

Dundee and the Culhane
as Lafe Doolin

In the Heat of the Night
as Deputy Sam Wood

Welcome to Hard Times
as Leo Jenks

Return of the Seven
as Colbee

Shane
as Kemp Spicer

The Monroes

The Shooting
as Willett Gashade