Biography
Warren Mercer Oates was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in Western and crime films, most notably in collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Monte Hellman. He had starring roles in Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). Other of his most acclaimed performances was as officer Sam Wood in Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night (1967) and as Mr. Sargis in Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973).
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The Twilight Zone
The Outer Limits
Combat!
In the Heat of the Night
The Wild Bunch
Badlands
Bonanza
The Fugitive
Have Gun, Will Travel
Lost in Space
Rawhide
The Rifleman
Police Story
Shenandoah
Mail Order Bride
Ride the High Country
The Westerner
The Lawless Years
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Kid Blue
Tales of the Unexpected
There Was a Crooked Man...
Stoney Burke
The White Dawn
The Split
Major Dundee
Thriller
Gunsmoke
Stripes
Dillinger
Wagon Train
The Virginian
Race with the Devil
Tom Sawyer
Up Periscope
Barquero
Blue Thunder
The Brink's Job
The Shooting
The Big Valley
Private Property
Return of the Seven
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Yellowstone Kelly
Bat Masterson
The Border
Cockfighter
Smith!
1941
92 in the Shade