Warren Oates
Birthday: 1928-07-05
Place of Birth: Depoy, Kentucky, USA
Biography: 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).
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The Wild Bunch
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappea...
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Badlands
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a kill...
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In the Heat of the Night
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bi...
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Shenandoah
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of th...
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Stripes
Hard-luck cabbie John Winger, directionless after being fired from his job and dumped by his girlfri...
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1941
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads...
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The Border
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for...
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China 9, Liberty 37
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to mur...
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The White Dawn
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...
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Blue Thunder
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering fr...
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld...
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The Brink's Job
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pi...
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Race with the Devil
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness...
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Barquero
Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robb...
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Return of the Seven
Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The S...
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There Was a Crooked Man...
A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of hi...
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Two-Lane Blacktop
A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who c...
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Cockfighter
A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship....
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Dillinger
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of th...
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Ride the High Country
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But wha...
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Major Dundee
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Ar...
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The Hired Hand
Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had give...
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The Shooting
Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a near...
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell...
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Sleeping Dogs
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zea...
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92 in the Shade
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter busi...
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Tough Enough
An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters...
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Yellowstone Kelly
A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in ...
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Dixie Dynamite
When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his ...
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance inves...
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Drum
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of ...
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Kid Blue
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dim...
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Smith!
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who'...
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Welcome to Hard Times
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its surv...
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Mail Order Bride
Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him....
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Hero's Island
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates....
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Private Property
A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend....
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Baby Comes Home
In this sequel to "And Baby Makes Six," a middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after givi...
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The Rounders
Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild hor...
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The Reluctant Heroes
An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the ...
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Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending t...
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Rancho Deluxe
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contempo...
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Crooks and Coronets
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can'...
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The Movie Murderer
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist wh...
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My Old Man
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a ho...
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American Raspberry
Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of the r...
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And Baby Makes Six
A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more an...
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Something for a Lonely Man
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in ...
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True Grit: A Further Adventure
The further adventures of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn has him battling injustice in his own unorthod...
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Lanton Mills
Two cowboy desperados attempt to hold up a modern-day bank in this absurd western....
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Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
The cub reporter, Gallegher, becomes involved in a land fraud, when some valueless land is sold to a...
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The African Queen
After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and for...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
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Warren Oates: Across the Border
A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews...
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The Night America Trembled
A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in...
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Up Periscope
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been ...
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