Warren Oates
Also Known As: Warren M. Oates, Warren Oats, Warren Mercer Oates
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Warren Oates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Depoy, Kentucky, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: July 05, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 03, 1982
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The Wild Bunch
Overview: An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-19
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Badlands
Overview: An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-05
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In the Heat of the Night
Overview: African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-02
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Shenandoah
Overview: Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North, the Civil War is forced upon him.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-03
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Stripes
Overview: John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the US Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-26
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1941
Overview: In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Genres: Comedy War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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The Border
Overview: A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-29
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China 9, Liberty 37
Overview: Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-08-04
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The White Dawn
Overview: In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-21
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Blue Thunder
Overview: Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-05
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Overview: An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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The Split
Overview: A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-04
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The Brink's Job
Overview: In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Race with the Devil
Overview: Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-01
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Barquero
Overview: Jake Remy leads a gang of outlaw cutthroats making their escape toward Mexico from a successful robbery. Barring their way is a river--crossable only by means of a ferry barge. The barge operator, Travis, refuses to be bullied into providing transport for the gang and escapes across river with most of the local populace--leaving Remy and his gang behind, desperately seeking a way across. A river-wide stand-off begins between the gang and the townspeople, both groups of which have left people on the wrong side of the river.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-29
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Return of the Seven
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-19
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There Was a Crooked Man...
Overview: Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-18
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Two-Lane Blacktop
Overview: A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-07
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Cockfighter
Overview: A man who trains fighting cocks vows to remain silent until one of his birds wins a championship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Dillinger
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-20
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Ride the High Country
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Major Dundee
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-15
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The Hired Hand
Overview: 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. But then Harry has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties and priorities.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-11
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The Shooting
Overview: Two miners agree to guide a mysterious woman, who has appeared in their camp from nowhere, to a nearby town; but soon, because of her erratic behavior, they begin to suspect that her true purpose is quite different.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-02
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The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Overview: Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry 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.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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Sleeping Dogs
Overview: Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas 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.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-06
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92 in the Shade
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-22
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Tough Enough
Overview: An aspiring country 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.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-14
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Yellowstone Kelly
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-11
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Dixie Dynamite
Overview: 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
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-13
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Overview: A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Drum
Overview: A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Genres: History Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-30
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Chandler
Overview: A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Kid Blue
Overview: Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort 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. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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Smith!
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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Welcome to Hard Times
Overview: A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-30
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Mail Order Bride
Overview: Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-10
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Hero's Island
Overview: A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-16
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Private Property
Overview: A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-20
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Baby Comes Home
Overview: In this sequel to "And Baby Makes Six," a middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after giving birth to an unplanned fourth baby --- 17 years after their last child.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-16
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The Rounders
Overview: Ben (Glenn Ford) and Marion (Henry Fonda) are two cowboys who make a meager living breaking wild horses. Their frequent employer Jim (Chill Wills), who always gets the better of them, talks them into taking a nondescript horse in lieu of some of their wages. Ben finds that the horse is un-rideable, he comes up with the idea of taking it to a rodeo and betting other cowhands they cannot ride it.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-08
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The Reluctant Heroes
Overview: An army tale about an egghead ninety-day-wonder who relies on ancient tactics he remembers from the history books to save his beleaguered squad on an important mission in Korea.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-23
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Tom Sawyer
Overview: 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.
Genres: Family Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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Rancho Deluxe
Overview: Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-14
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Crooks and Coronets
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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The Movie Murderer
Overview: An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-02
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Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'
Overview: Making of 'Blue Thunder'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-04
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My Old Man
Overview: An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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American Raspberry
Overview: Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of the regular broadcasts, a lineup of extremely tasteless programs and commercials have been substituted. Included in the mix are such show as The Shitheads, The Charles Whitman Invitational, and commercials for a number of improbable products.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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And Baby Makes Six
Overview: A middle-aged couple with three grown children discovers that they soon will be parents once more and faces a variety of emotional responses from friends and family.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-22
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Something for a Lonely Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-26
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True Grit: A Further Adventure
Overview: The further adventures of True Grit's Rooster Cogburn has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-19
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Lanton Mills
Overview: Two cowboy desperados attempt to hold up a modern-day bank in this absurd western.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-03
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Gallegher: The Mystery of Edward Sims
Overview: The cub reporter, Gallegher, becomes involved in a land fraud, when some valueless land is sold to a group of Cornish immigrants. A murder implicates one of the immigrants, and it is up to Gallegher to prove that a local resident is actually the murderer and the swindler is a local banker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-03-31
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The African Queen
Overview: After the events of The African Queen (1951), Charlie and Rose are recaptured by the Germans and forced to tug one of their big cannons that could bring the Nazis victory against the local Allied forces.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Overview: An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-25
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Warren Oates: Across the Border
Overview: A retrospective of the work of the late actor Warren Oates, with clips from his films and interviews with cast and crew members who worked with him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-10
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The Night America Trembled
Overview: A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938. [An episode of the CBS anthology series "Studio One".]
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-09
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Up Periscope
Overview: 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.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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