Warren Oates
Actor
- Rise and Fall of 'Legs' Diamond, The (1960)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart…
- A professionally–shot thriller about the career of New York gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond, who rose to prominence in the 1920s and maintained…
- Shooting, The (1965)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Millie Perkins
- Avant–garde cowboy tale co–written by and featuring a typically crazed performance from Jack Nicholson, plus a memorable and unexpected…
- Major Dundee (1965)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton…
- Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…
- Wild Bunch, The (1969)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan…
- Sam Peckinpah's uncompromising Western bloodbath with William Holden and Ernest Borgnine leading the famous band of unruly marauders. Astonishing in…
- Barquero (1970)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker…
- Taut and bloody morality play set by a river's edge with Van Cleef as an ornery barge owner holding out against a band of mercenaries desperate to…
- Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates
- Ambling across a relentless roadscape of diners and gas stations, young petrol–heads James Taylor (yes, the pop singer) and Dennis Wilson (yes,…
- Hired Hand, The (1971)
- Dir. Peter Fonda
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom…
- An unusual directorial debut for Peter Fonda, who turns out a small masterpiece with this revisionist Western bathed in the hippie afterglow of the…
- Tom Sawyer (1973)
- Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Johnnie Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates…
- Award–winning musical version of Mark Twain's classic raggamuffin adventures. A youthful Jodie Foster appears as Tom's girlfriend.
- Dillinger (1973)
- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman…
- A tough portait of the Depression–era bank robber that like BONNIE AND CLYDE, invests the criminal with the mythic qualities of the outlaw.…
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Warren Oates, Kris Kristofferson, Gig Young…
- One of the director's best, a modern–day western set in Mexico, with wash–out gringo Warren Oates questing for the bounty–prize…
- Cockfighter, The (1974)
- Dir. Monte Hellman
Feat. Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Patricia Pearcy…
- A typically raw–boned performance by Warren Oates centres this cult gem of 1970s American cinema, playing a cockfighting specialist who refuses…
- White Dawn, The (1974)
- Dir. Philip Kaufman
Feat. Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Jr. Gossett
- Adventure film set in the Canadian arctic where three ship wreck survivors are saved and adopted by an Inuit tribe, but take advantage of them and…
- Race with the Devil (1975)
- Dir. Jack Starrett
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates
- Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and their bell–bottomed chicks go east in a Winnebago, but are plagued en route by an occult conspiracy. Memorably…
- 92 In the Shade (1975)
- Dir. Thomas McGuane
Feat. Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder…
- Drama based on director's novel of the same name, about a young man who opens a charter fishing business in the swampy rot of Key West, Florida,…
- Sleeping Dogs (1977)
- Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Sam Neill, Warren Oates
- Roger Donaldson's nihilistic action–thriller in which Sam Neill finds himself alone between two opposing extremist groups. A trail–blazer…
- Brink's Job, The (1977)
- Dir. William Friedkin
Feat. Peter Falk, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands…
- In 1950, the Brink’s security firm in Boston was robbed of nearly $3,000,000, in one of the US’ largest ever heists. This version of events…
- Stripes (1981)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates…
- In a moment of weakness and despair, a slobbish Bill Murray enlists in the US Army and spends the rest of the movie humourously regretting the…
- Border, The (1981)
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine…
- Rather underrated drama set along the Texas–Mexico borderlands, where a soiled but still–idealistic cop (Nicholson) becomes embroiled…
- East of Eden (TV Mini-series) (1981)
- Dir. Harvey Hart
Feat. Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour, Bruce Boxleitner…
- Over six hours long, this sumptuous Emmy and Golden Globe winning mini–series, adapts Steinbeck’s quintessential novel "more fully and…
- Blue and the Gray, The (TV Mini-Series) (1982)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. Stacy Keach, Colleen Dewhurst, Lloyd Bridges…
- Handsomely staged mini–series views the Civil War throught the eyes of a Southern war correspondent bearing witness to the war's key events.
- Blue Thunder (1983)
- Dir. John Badham
Feat. Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark…
- Cartoonish action flick with Roy Scheider as a test pilot selected to fly the world's most high–tech helicopter pilot who uncovers a…