Warren Oates

Born: 1928-07-05

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Warren Oates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Stripes

as Sgt. Hulka
Released: 1981-06-26

John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the US Army after losing his...

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Badlands

as Holly's Father
Released: 1974-01-05

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a...

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as Braddock
Released: 1983-02-05

Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot...

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Major Dundee

as O.W. Hadley
Released: 1965-04-07

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop...

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The Border

as Red
Released: 1982-01-29

A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up...

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Shenandoah

as Billy Packer
Released: 1965-06-03

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle...

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In the Heat of the Night

as Deputy Sam Wood
Released: 1967-08-02

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder...

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1941

as Col. 'Madman' Maddox
Released: 1979-12-14

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer...

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The Wild Bunch

as Lyle Gorch
Released: 1969-06-19

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is...

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Tom Sawyer

as Muff Potter
Released: 1973-03-15

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River,...

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Ride the High Country

as Henry Hammond
Released: 1962-06-20

An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But...

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Barquero

as Jake Remy
Released: 1970-07-29

Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful...

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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

as Bennie
Released: 1974-08-01

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican...

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Return of the Seven

as Colbee
Released: 1966-10-19

Chico one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven now lives in the town that they (The...

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The Shooting

as Willett Gashade
Released: 1966-06-02

Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a...

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Yellowstone Kelly

as Corporal
Released: 1959-11-11

A fur-trapper named Kelly, who once saved the life of a Sioux chief, is allowed to set his traps...

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The Split

as Marty Gough
Released: 1968-11-04

A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.

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There Was a Crooked Man...

as Floyd Moon
Released: 1970-09-18

Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular...

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Drum

as Hammond Maxwell
Released: 1976-07-30

A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices...

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Private Property

as Boots
Released: 1960-01-20

A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.

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Sleeping Dogs

as Col. Willoughby
Released: 1977-10-06

Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New...

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Cockfighter

as Frank Mansfield
Released: 1974-08-01

A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.

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Up Periscope

as Seaman Kovacs
Released: 1959-03-04

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually...

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The Rounders

as Harley Williams (uncredited)
Released: 1965-01-08

Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild...

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Tough Enough

as James Neese
Released: 1983-05-20

An aspiring country singer, whose money is disappearing faster than his career opportunities,...

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Two-Lane Blacktop

as G.T.O.
Released: 1971-07-07

A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in...

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Kid Blue

as Reese Ford
Released: 1973-01-31

Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of...

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Rancho Deluxe

as Harmonica Player (uncredited)
Released: 1975-03-14

Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in...

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Dillinger

as John Dillinger
Released: 1973-07-20

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one...

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Race with the Devil

as Frank
Released: 1975-06-01

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they...

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Smith!

as Walter Charlie
Released: 1969-03-21

When the Indian Jimmyboy is accused of murder of a white man, he flees onto the ranch of Smith,...

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American Raspberry

as Celebrity Sportsman
Released: 1977-09-12

Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of...

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Chandler

as Chandler
Released: 1971-12-01

A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.

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The Hired Hand

as Arch Harris
Released: 1971-08-11

Harry Collings returns home to his farm after drifting with his friend, Arch. His wife, who had...

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China 9, Liberty 37

as Matthew Sebanek
Released: 1978-08-04

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will...

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The Brink's Job

as Specs O'Keefe
Released: 1978-12-08

In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by...

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Dixie Dynamite

as Mack
Released: 1976-05-13

When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over...

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Welcome to Hard Times

as Leo Jenks
Released: 1967-04-30

A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its...

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The Reluctant Heroes

as Cpl. Leroy Sprague
Released: 1971-11-23

An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from...

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Lanton Mills

as Gunman
Released: 1969-11-03

Tilman and Lanton Mills, two cowboys who set off on horseback to rob a bank. On the way, they...

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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

as Eddie Diamond
Released: 1960-02-03

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a...

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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2004-07-25

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured...

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The Night America Trembled

as uncredited
Released: 1957-09-09

A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The...

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True Grit: A Further Adventure

as Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
Released: 1978-05-19

The further adventures of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn has him battling injustice in his own...

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92 in the Shade

as Nichol Dance
Released: 1975-08-22

A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter...

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Crooks and Coronets

as Marty Miller
Released: 1969-04-02

Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they...

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The Movie Murderer

as Alfred Fisher
Released: 1970-02-02

An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an...

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And Baby Makes Six

as Michael Kramer
Released: 1979-10-22

A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once...

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The White Dawn

as Billy
Released: 1974-07-21

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by...

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Something for a Lonely Man

as Angus Duren
Released: 1968-11-26

The blacksmith of a small western town finds himself an outcast. He had led the townspeople west...

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Mail Order Bride

as Jace
Released: 1964-03-10

Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.

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The Thief Who Came to Dinner

as Dave Reilly
Released: 1973-03-01

A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance...

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Hero's Island

as Wayte Giddens
Released: 1962-09-16

A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.

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My Old Man

as Frank Butler
Released: 1979-12-07

An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter...

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The African Queen

as Capt. Charlie Allnut
Released: 1977-03-18

After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and...

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Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims

as John Blythe
Released: 1968-03-31

The cub reporter, Gallegher, becomes involved in a land fraud, when some valueless land is sold...

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Baby Comes Home

as Michael Kramer
Released: 1980-10-16

In this sequel to "And Baby Makes Six," a middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after...

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Bonanza

as Paul Magruder
First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

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The Fugitive

as Hanes McClure
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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The Fugitive

as Herbie Grant
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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Have Gun, Will Travel

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-14

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...

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Tales of the Unexpected

as Harry
First aired: 1979-03-24

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...

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The Twilight Zone

as Jeep Driver
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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The Twilight Zone

as Richard Langsford
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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The Big Valley

as Korby Kyles
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Duke
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The F.B.I.

as Richie Billings
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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Lost in Space

as Jimmy Hapgood
First aired: 1965-09-15

The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The...

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The Outer Limits

as Reese Fowler
First aired: 1963-09-16

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes...

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Run for Your Life

as Deputy LaVern Potter
First aired: 1965-09-13

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only...

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Jesse Cox
First aired: 1958-09-06

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Billy Clegg
First aired: 1958-09-06

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

as George Aswell
First aired: 1958-09-06

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Clem Robinson
First aired: 1958-09-06

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...

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Studio One

as Card Player #2
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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77 Sunset Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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77 Sunset Strip

as Dink Strahman
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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The Virginian

as Corbie
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Roy Judd
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Bowers
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Buxton
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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Bat Masterson

as Sonny Parsons
First aired: 1958-10-08

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...

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Bat Masterson

as Cat Crail
First aired: 1958-10-08

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...

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12 O'Clock High

as Lt. Col. Jerry Troper
First aired: 1964-09-18

This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th...

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The Untouchables

as Artie Krebs
First aired: 1959-10-15

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in...

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Gunsmoke

as Jed Hakes
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Seth
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Jep
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Sweet Billy
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Chris Kelly
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Deke
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Speeler
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Al Tresh
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Lafe
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Reb
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Thriller

as Hugo Wheeler
First aired: 1960-09-13

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62...

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Thriller

as Benny
First aired: 1960-09-13

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62...

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Black Saddle

as Simms
First aired: 1959-01-10

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44...

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Target: The Corruptors!

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-09-29

Target: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired...

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Combat!

as Pvt. James Stark
First aired: 1962-10-02

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The...

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The Lawless Years

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-04-16

The Lawless Years is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16 1959, to...

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Johnny Ringo

as Burt Scanlon
First aired: 1959-10-02

Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from...

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The Rifleman

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-30

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas...

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Wagon Train

as Private Silas Carpenter
First aired: 1957-09-18

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...

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Hawaiian Eye

as Al
First aired: 1959-10-07

Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they...

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Cimarron Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-07

Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to...

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Shane

as Kemp Spicer
First aired: 1966-09-10

Shane works for the Starett family, a young widow, her son, and her aging father-in-law,...

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Rawhide

as Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Rawhide

as Weed
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Rawhide

as Jesse Gufler
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Lancer

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-24

Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The...

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The Rebel

as Troy Armbruster
First aired: 1959-10-04

The Rebel is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on...

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Outlaws

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-26

Outlaws is an NBC Western television series, starring Barton MacLane as U.S. marshal Frank...

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Bronco

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-23

Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United...

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Trackdown

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-10-04

Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS...

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Trackdown

as Kelly
First aired: 1957-10-04

Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS...

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Branded

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-01-24

Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by...

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The Westerner

as Drunk
First aired: 1960-09-30

The Westerner is an American Western series that aired on NBC from September to December 1960....

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The Blue and the Gray

as Major Welles
First aired: 1982-11-14

The Blue and the Gray is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in three installments...

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The Blue and the Gray

as Preacher / Maj. Welles
First aired: 1982-11-14

The Blue and the Gray is a television miniseries that first aired on CBS in three installments...

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Police Story

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-03-20

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and...

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Stoney Burke

as Ves Painter
First aired: 1962-10-01

Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962...

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East of Eden

as Cyrus Trask
First aired: 1981-02-08

A powerful eight-hour adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 generational saga stars Bruce...

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East of Eden

as Cyrus Trask (creditOnly)
First aired: 1981-02-08

A powerful eight-hour adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 generational saga stars Bruce...

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Dundee and the Culhane

as Lafe Doolin
First aired: 1967-09-06

Dundee and the Culhane is an American Western television series starring John Mills and Sean...

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Tate

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-06-08

Tate is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from June 8 until September 14,...

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The Monroes

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-07

The Monroes is a 26-segment Western television series which originally aired on ABC during the...

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Black Beauty

as Jerry Barker
First aired: 1978-01-31

Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick...

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A Man Called Shenandoah

as Sergeant Ryder
First aired: 1965-09-13

A Man Called Shenandoah is an American Western series that aired Monday evenings on ABC-TV from...

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