Movies by Warren Oates
As part of the cast:
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Blue Thunder (1983)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark …
Directed by: John Badham
While testing an experimental high-tech helicopter ostensibly created to quash potential terrorism at the Olympics, chopper pilot Frank Murphy hijacks the craft when he learns its true…
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Tough Enough (1983)
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Stan Shaw, Warren Oates …
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
All tree trimmer Art Long (Dennis Quaid) has to do to get everything he wants is knock down five different guys in one night as part of the televised Toughman Contest. But is he tough enough…
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The Border (1982)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine …
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Border patrol guard Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) is plagued by a guilty conscience when, after moving to El Paso with his wife, he goes on the take and helps to smuggle aliens across the…
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Stripes (1981)
Cast: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates …
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Bill Murray stars as John Winger, an indolent sad sack who impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his car, his girlfriend and his apartment and, for good measure, he cajoles…
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1941 (1979)
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
In the days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, panic sets in among California's citizens, who imagine their shores as the next target. Military and civilian defenders of the West…
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My Old Man (1979)
Cast: Kristy McNichol, Warren Oates, Eileen Brennan …
Directed by: John Erman
Frank Butler (Warren Oates), a drunken, down-on-his-luck horse trainer, reunites with his teenage daughter, Jo (Kristy McNichol), whom he hasn't seen in years. Frank takes Jo under his…
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The Brink's Job (1978)
Cast: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield …
Directed by: William Friedkin
A small-time criminal concocts a big-time heist -- and inadvertently the crime of the century -- in this spirited comedy based on the infamous Brink's robbery in Boston, which netted the…
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China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
Cast: Warren Oates, Fabio Testi, Jenny Agutter …
Directed by: Monte Hellman, Tony Brandt
Shortly before he's scheduled to be hanged, convicted criminal Clayton Drumm (Fabio Testi) saves his skin by accepting a deal from a railroad cartel to kill Matthew Sebanek (Warren…
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American Raspberry (1977)
Cast: Kinky Friedman, Warren Oates, Dick O'Neill …
Directed by: Bradley R. Swirnoff
This cross between a sketch comedy show and a biting satire of 1970s television features a variety of hilariously crude commercials, politically incorrect TV shows and other outrageously…
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Dixie Dynamite (1976)
Cast: R.G. Armstrong, Christopher George, Warren Oates …
Directed by: Lee Frost
When the crooked town sheriff (Christopher George) guns down their moonshine-making father, sisters Dixie (Jane Anne Johnstone) and Patsy (Kathy McHaley) go on the warpath against the law and…
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The Vigilantes: Joshua / China 9, Liberty 37 (1976)
Cast: Fred Williamson, Warren Oates, Calvin Bartlett …
Directed by: Larry Spangler, Monte Hellman
Starved for Wild West carbs? This double serving of classic spaghetti Westerns celebrates the renegades and heroes who took the law into their own hands and coined the term "vigilante…
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Drum (1976)
Cast: Warren Oates, Ken Norton, Pam Grier …
Directed by: Steve Carver
Set in the pre-Civil War South, this passionate drama focuses on the triumphs and tribulations of Drum (Ken Norton), a slave who becomes a ferocious pit fighter as well as a charismatic…
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Rancho Deluxe (1975)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley …
Directed by: Frank Perry
Set against the backdrop of Montana's Big Sky country, director Frank Perry's comic Western centers on bumbling cattle rustlers Jack McKee (Jeff Bridges) and Cecil Colson (Sam…
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Race with the Devil (1975)
Cast: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit …
Directed by: Jack Starrett
Blend action and horror, mix with a solid cast and Jack Starrett's expert direction, and you get this spooky brew from 1975. Peter Fonda, Lara Parker, Warren Oates and Loretta Swit star…
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92 in the Shade (1975)
Cast: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder …
Directed by: Thomas McGuane
This atmospheric drama follows aimless Tom Skelton (Peter Fonda) as he returns to his Key West home to start a fishing charter business, thereby arousing the ire of established guides Nichol…
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Cockfighter (1974)
Cast: Warren Oates, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Dean Stanton …
Directed by: Monte Hellman
After an offhand boast costs him his best fighting cock -- and his chances at the Cockfighter of the Year award along with it -- Frank (Warren Oates) swears not to speak again until he has…
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The White Dawn (1974)
Cast: Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr. …
Directed by: Philip Kaufman
Separated from their Arctic hunting party, three men (Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms and Louis Gossett Jr.) are saved from the bitter cold by Inuit natives. It's not long before they…
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Cast: Emilio Fernandez, Warren Oates, Isela Vega …
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Writer-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…
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Badlands (1973)
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Warren Oates …
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Young garbageman Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen) and his girlfriend, Holly (Sissy Spacek), kill Holly's father in South Dakota and hit the road on the run from the law. Writer-director…
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Dillinger (1973)
Cast: Reed Morgan, Roy Jenson, Ben Johnson …
Directed by: John Milius
Notorious bank robber John Dillinger has turned into a folk hero among Depression-era Americans, capturing their fancy with the adventures of his criminal gang. But the clock could be running…
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Tom Sawyer (1973)
Cast: Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates …
Directed by: Don Taylor
Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster and Johnny Whitaker ("Family Affair") star in this musical adaptation of Mark Twain's classic tale. Orphan Tom Sawyer (Whitaker) and his scrappy pal…
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Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Cast: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Dennis Wilson …
Directed by: Monte Hellman
Legendary 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…
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The Hired Hand (1971)
Cast: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom …
Directed by: Peter Fonda
Harry 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…
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There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, John Randolph …
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Kirk Douglas stars in this classic Western about amiable convict Paris Pitman, who's hidden a half million in stolen loot. Now, he just needs to persuade his prison cronies to escape and…
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Barquero (1970)
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Warren Oates, Forrest Tucker …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
With a raging river standing between them and a mob of angry townspeople, a band of thieves works out a way to reach their destination. But a fearless barge operator is determined to sink their hopes.
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
Cast: Emilio Fernandez, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine …
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Director Sam Peckinpah's brilliant 1969 Western epic tells the story of a bunch of aging outlaws, led by Pike Bishop (William Holden), whose botched plans to pull off one last job forces…
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The Shooting (1967)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Will Hutchins …
Directed by: Monte Hellman
Featuring 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…
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates …
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Black Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs helps a redneck Southern sheriff solve a murder in this riveting study in racism that still strikes a chord. Rod Steiger won a Best Actor Oscar for…
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Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966)
Cast: Emilio Fernandez, Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller …
Directed by: Burt Kennedy
Full of beans and buckshot, this sequel to The Magnificent Seven again stars Yul Brynner as the man in black. This time, he rounds up a new group of seven very different gunfighters. Seems…
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Major Dundee: The Extended Version (1965)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton …
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Directed with gusto by Sam Peckinpah, this seminal Western stars Charlton Heston as the titular Maj. Amos Dundee, a Union Army officer marshaling assorted deserters and Confederate detainees…
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Ride the High Country (1962)
Cast: Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley …
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Out of work and in need of cash, two former lawmen (Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott) agree to accompany a shipment of gold from the Sierras to a faraway town. But while one of the friends…
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Hero's Island (1962)
Cast: James Mason, Neville Brand, Kate Manx …
Directed by: Leslie Stevens
In 1719, the Mainwaring family inherits an island off the Carolina coast and establishes a homestead there. Thomas (Brendan Dillon) and his wife, Devon (Kate Manx), may own the land, but a…
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Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
Cast: Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes, John Russell …
Directed by: Gordon Douglas
American trapper "Yellowstone" Kelly (Clint Walker of "Cheyenne" fame) finds his loyalties tested when his Sioux Indian friends attack the U.S. cavalry and stir up tensions on both sides.…
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Studio One: Sentence of Death / The Night America Trembled (1948)
Cast: Ed Asner, Edward Asner, Warren Beatty …
Directed by: Paul Nickell
One of the superb live series from the golden age of television, "Studio One" featured both famous actors and future stars. These two installments include "Sentence of Death," starring an…