Warren Oates

Warren Oates
Date of Birth: 05 Jul 1928
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 49 (Actor)
Biography submitted by Dunstan-xxx
Titles you haven't rated - Actor (49)
The Wild Bunch
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them (imdb)
+4
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
A family scandal causes a wealthy and powerful Mexican rancher to make the pronouncement -- Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia! (imdb)
Badlands
Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands (imdb)
+3
In the Heat of the Night
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town. (imdb)
+9
The Hired Hand
Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had given up on him, reluctantly allows him to stay, and soon believes that all will be well again (imdb)
1941
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. (imdb)
+2
Stripes
Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
+3
Two-Lane Blacktop
Story of two men drag racing across the USA in a primer grey 55 chevy. Wilson is the mechanic, James Taylor is the driver. (imdb)
Cockfighter
Southern action drama film about cockfighting.
+14
Blue Thunder
The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle. (imdb)
+3
The Border
A border agent involved in drug smuggling decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market. (imdb)
+2
The Shooting
A mysterious woman persuades two cowboys to help her in a revenge scheme.
+19
Ride the High Country
An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him. (imdb)
+2
Major Dundee
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas. (imdb)
+2
The Brink\
After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds out that their security standard is low beyond belief. Now a really big coup is prepared... (imdb)
Race with the Devil
Frank and Roger and their wives take off for Colorado in a recreational vehicle, looking forward to some skiing and dirt biking. While camping en route, they witness a Satanic ritual sacrifice, but the local sheriff finds no evidence to support their claims and urges them to continue on their vacation. On the way, however, they find themselves repeatedly attacked by cult members, and they take measures to defend themselves. (imdb)
+2
Dillinger
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him. (imdb)
+6
Tough Enough
An aspiring country/western singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities, enters a "Tough Man" amateur boxing contest to earn some cash to pay his bills. Amazingly enough, he wins it, and is picked to go onto the national finals. He's torn between his first love, music, and the glitz, glamor and money of the "Tough Man" world. (imdb)
Welcome to Hard Times
In the town of Hard Times, a stranger rides in and terrorizes the small settlement. He kills a number of townsfolk, including Fee, the town's founder. Mayor Will Blue fails to stand up to the man, who rapes saloon whore Molly and burns down the town... (imdb)
+2
The Split
Thieves fall out when over a half million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football game, each one accusing the other of having the money. (imdb)
+2
The Blue and the Gray
America just before and during the Civil War, as seen through the eyes of an artist correspondent. (imdb)
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder. (imdb)
+6
Up Periscope
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes. (imdb)
There Was a Crooked Man...
Charm, intelligence and succes in criminal career doesn't prevent Paris Pitman Jr. to start doing ten years in territory prison. However, those years should pass quickly because of an enormous loot previously stashed away. New idealistic warden would only make Pitman think of getting his fortyne even sooner. (imdb)
Mail Order Bride
Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him. (imdb)
Return of the Magnificent Seven
Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most of the men prisoner. His wife seeks out Chris, the leader of The Seven for help. Chris also meets Vin another member of The Seven. They find four other men and they go to help Chico. (imdb)
+8
Barquero
The picture narrates as a renegade motley group (Warren Oates, Kerwin Matthews, Armando Sivestre) execute a massacre and they are robbing to the village's inhabitants. They flee but are stopped for a barge's proprietary(Lee Van Cleef) in the frontier on the river Grande. He only is helped for a mountain man (Forrest Tucker).The confrontation will be terrible and they will fight until the death. (imdb)
Rancho Deluxe
Two drifters, of wildly different backgrounds, become cattle rustlers in modern-day Montana. (imdb)
+3
China 9 Liberty 37
Condemned gunman Clayton is given a last minute reprieve on condition he murders rancher Matthew for a railway company. Visiting Matthew's ranch, Clayton is unable to bring himself to kill Matthew and leaves, but Matthew's wife, Catherine, believing she has killed Matthew during an argument joins Clayton. Matthew, still alive, and mad as hell joins Clayton's equally angered employers to hunt down the pair. (imdb)
Kid Blue
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Ft. Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue... (imdb)
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
O'Neal plays a computer expert named Webster, who alleviates on-the-job doldrums by moonlighting as a successful jewel thief. Webster invites himself to upscale soirees, where he cases out the location and proceeds with his heists. During his adventures, he meets up with Laura, a high society woman who teams up with Webster to assist on his heists... (Answers.com)
The White Dawn
In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Gradually they gain control with the Eskimo village and introduce gambling, booze, theft and their special variation of sex. In the beginning, the Eskimos accept it but slowly the cultural tension starts growing. (imdb)
+2
Yellowstone Kelly
A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps in Sioux territory during the late 1870s. Reluctantly he takes on a tenderfoot assistant named Anse and together they give shelter to a runaway Arapaho woman. Tensions develop when Anse falls in love with this woman and when the Sioux chief arrives with his warriors to re-claim her. (imdb)
92 in the Shade
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain. (imdb)
+9
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself, and sets about getting close to gangster boss Arnold Rothstein to move in on his booze, girls, gambling, and drugs operations. (imdb)
Sleeping Dogs
Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions. (imdb)
+3
Dixie Dynamite
When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him killed. (imdb)
Drum
Drum is the 1976 sequel to the movie Mandingo, and released by United Artists. Starring Warren Oates and Ken Norton, it parodies on nineteenth century American slavery like its predecessor. (Wikipedia.org)
+2
Smith!
When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith, who's well known for his tolerance for Indians, since he was raised by the old Indian Antoine. Smith helps Jimmyboy against the mean Sheriff and promises to speak for him in court, thus persuading him to surrender himself to the police. (imdb)
Chandler
A former private eye lands in hot water when he agrees to protect a government witness. (TCM.com)
Hero\
On an island off the Carolina coast, an 18th century family is being besieged by murderous local fisherman. An outsider joins the family, aided by a mysterious stranger who turns out to be Blackbeard the Pirate. (imdb)
+4
Crooks and Coronets
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it. (imdb)
The Reluctant Heroes
During the Korean War, a newly commissioned lieutenant find that they are trapped when the enemy surrounds their position. He uses ancient tactics he remembers from his history books to try to get them out of it.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty (1978) - TV Mini-Series
Anna Sewell's 1906 novel Black Beauty was given its most elaborate and thorough filmization to date in this five-part TV presentation. The scene has been shifted from England to Maryland, but otherwise Sewell's story about 13 years in the life of the beautiful and headstrong colt Black Beauty remains intact. In part one, telecast January 31, 1978, we see how Black Beauty is raised from a foal by the family of farmer Tom Gray (Martin Milner). (allmovie.com)
The Movie Murderer
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets. (imdb)
Private Property
Two criminal drifters set their sights on a sexually frustrated married woman.
Something for a Lonely Man
The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west in hopes of starting a new life, only to find the town that they founded is to be bypassed by the railroad.
East of Eden
East of Eden (1981) - TV Mini-Series
Screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel which begins in the years after the American Civil War and, through the story of the Trask family, brings to light a struggle and conflict inherent in the human condition. (imdb)
Stoney Burke
Stoney Burke is a rodeo rider who wants to win the Golden Buckle, the award to the world's champion saddle bronco rider. He didn't win it, but he encountered a considerable amount of violence along the way. (imdb)