After working on New York-based TV dramas during the mid-'50s, Oates relocated to Hollywood, where he quickly established himself as a leading villain on TV Westerns such as "Have Gun Will Travel." In 1962, Sam Peckinpah cast Oates in Ride the High Country, marking the beginning of a long association that would result in some of Oates's most memorable work in films such as Major Dundee and The Wild Bunch.
In the '70s, Oates began another important collaboration -- this time with director Monte Helmon -- and the result was more stellar roles in films such as Cockfighter (1974) and China 9 Liberty 37 (1978). Oates died in 1982.
Two-Lane BlacktopLegendary musicians Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys) and James Taylor co-star in this controversial and acclaimed film about drag-racing drifters who are more devoted to their '55 Chevy than they are to each other. Directed by cult legend Monte Hellman, this definitive American road movie tells the... Read More
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo GarciaWriter-director Sam Peckinpah brings us the story of a wealthy Mexican businessman who places a million-dollar bounty on a man who broke his daughter's heart. Two men (Robert Webber and Gig Young) decide to pursue the money, and hire a local barkeep (Warren Oates) to do the killing for them. In the... Read More
The Hired HandHarry Collings (Peter Fonda) has been traveling around with his fellow drifter and friend Arch Harris (Warren Oates). Disturbed by thoughts of the wife (Verna Bloom) and child he left behind so long ago, Harry decides to attempt a reunion with them by working on the family farm. All is well until... Read More
Blue ThunderPolice pilot Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider) gets chosen to test a high-tech surveillance helicopter. While flying the chopper, Murphy and his partner, Richard Lymangood (Daniel Stern), discover the craft is designed to facilitate a government plot against civilians. Sinister Col. F.E. Cochrane (Malcolm... Read More
The ShootingFeaturing an early career performance by Jack Nicholson, this cryptic Western centers on a pair of cowboys (Warren Oates, Will Hutchins) who agree to escort a mysterious revenge-seeking woman (Millie Perkins) through the treacherous Utah desert. Nicholson co-stars as a cocky young gunslinger looking... Read More
Blue Thunder (1983) | R | |
Tough Enough (1983) | PG | |
The Blue and the Gray (1982) | NR | |
The Border (1982) | R | |
Stripes (1981) | R | |
NR | ||
1941 (1979) | PG | |
My Old Man (1979) | NR | |
The Brink's Job (1978) | PG | |
R | ||
Drum (1976) | R | |
Dixie Dynamite (1976) | NR | |
Joshua / China 9, Liberty 37 (1976) | R | |
Rancho Deluxe (1975) | R | |
Race with the Devil (1975) | PG | |
R | ||
Cockfighter (1974) | R | |
The White Dawn (1974) | PG | |
Dillinger (1973) | R | |
Badlands (1973) | PG | |
Tom Sawyer (1973) | G | |
The Hired Hand (1971) | R | |
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) | R | |
Barquero (1970) | R | |
There Was a Crooked Man (1970) | R | |
R | ||
In the Heat of the Night (1967) | NR | |
The Shooting (1967) | PG-13 | |
NR | ||
PG-13 | ||
Hero's Island (1962) | NR | |
Ride the High Country (1962) | NR | |
Tate (1960) | NR | |
NR | ||
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