Cast: Warren Oates

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Warren Oates. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

The Wild Bunch

1969 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast William Holden · Ernest Borgnine · Robert Ryan · Edmond O'Brien

Plot A band of brutal outlaws led by the bitter Pike Bishop (William Holden) is decimated when a railroad company ambush led by Pike's old pal Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan) turns...

8.0

25K votes

8.0

25K votes

Ride the High Country

1962 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Randolph Scott · Joel McCrea · Mariette Hartley · Ron Starr

Plot Aging lawman Steve Judd (Joel McCrea) takes a job transporting gold from the Sierra Nevada mining town of Coarsegold, and hires old pal Gil Westrum (Randolph Scott) not knowing that...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

In the Heat of the Night

1967 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Sidney Poitier · Rod Steiger · Warren Oates · Lee Grant

Plot When a prominent local businessman is found murdered in the tiny southern town of Sparta, Mississippi, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) gets picked up at the train station as a potential...

7.5

13K votes

7.5

13K votes

There Was a Crooked Man

1970 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Kirk Douglas · Henry Fonda · Warren Oates · Hume Cronyn

Plot Following the tradition of 1960s and '70s Westerns in which the criminals are the heroes, THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN takes devilish pride in the antics of armed robber and...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

1974 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Warren Oates · Isela Vega · Gig Young · Kris Kristofferson

Plot 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.

7.3

6K votes

7.3

6K votes

Badlands

1973 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Terrence Malick

Cast Martin Sheen · Sissy Spacek · Warren Oates · Ramon Bieri

Plot 1959. Kit Carruthers, a young garbage collector and his 15 years-old girlfriend Holly Sargis from Fort Dupree, South Dakota, are on the run after killing Holly's father who disagreed with...

7.3

12K votes

7.3

12K votes

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

1960 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Ray Danton · Karen Steele · Elaine Stewart · Jesse White

Plot Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from...

7.2

660 votes

7.2

660 votes

Two-Lane Blacktop

1971 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Monte Hellman

Cast James Taylor · Warren Oates · Laurie Bird · Dennis Wilson

Plot The Driver and The Mechanic are two car freaks driving a 1955 Chevy throughout the southwestern U.S. looking for other cars to race. They are totally dedicated to The Car...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

The Outer Limits (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Stevens · Joseph Stefano · Gerd Oswald · Byron Haskin

Cast Robert Duvall · Robert Culp · Dabney Coleman · Martin Landau

Plot TV Series (1963-1965). 49 episodes. Information from wikipedia.org: There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish...

6.8

704 votes

6.8

704 votes

Major Dundee

1965 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

Dillinger

1973 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction John Milius

Cast Warren Oates · Ben Johnson · Cloris Leachman · Michelle Phillips

Plot 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...

6.7

780 votes

6.7

780 votes

The Hired Hand

1971 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Peter Fonda

Cast Peter Fonda · Warren Oates · Verna Bloom · Robert Pratt

Plot Peter Fonda's superb yet little-seen directorial debut subverts the machismo of the Western genre with a quiet, understated tale of relationships and loyalty in the Wild West. Fonda stars as...

6.6

184 votes

6.6

184 votes

Private Property

1960 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Stevens

Cast Kate Manx · Corey Allen · Warren Oates · Robert Ward

Plot Duke and Boots, two young thugs, hold up a California gas-station owner. Duke, viral and savage, taunts the slower and psychologically-confused Boots because he has never made a sexual conquest....

6.6

38 votes

6.6

38 votes

Cockfighter

1974 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Monte Hellman

Cast Warren Oates · Richard B. Shull · Harry Dean Stanton · Ed Begley Jr.

Plot Frank Mansfield has wanted to win the Cockfighter of the Year medal for ages. Frank never speaks. After shooting his mouth off one too many times then losing a champion...

6.6

228 votes

6.6

228 votes

Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Thomas Carr · Don McDougall · George Blair · Murray Golden

Cast Steve McQueen · James Coburn · Jack Tornek · Michael Landon

Plot TV Series (1958-1961). Wanted: Dead or Alive was an American Western television show which ran for three seasons from 1958 to 1961, starred unconventional-looking leading man Steve McQueen, and was...

6.4

70 votes

6.4

70 votes

East of Eden (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Series · 480 min. · United States

Direction Harvey Hart

Cast Timothy Bottoms · Jane Seymour · Bruce Boxleitner · Oh Soon-tek

Plot This dramatization begins in the years following the Civil War. Braggadocio union officer Cyrus Trask (Warren Oates) is the father of gentle, loyal Adam (Timothy Bottoms) and hell raiser Charles...

6.3

49 votes

6.3

49 votes

The Twilight Zone: The Purple Testament (TV)

1959 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Richard L. Bare

Cast Dick York · William Reynolds · William Phipps · Barney Phillips

Plot In the Philippines in 1945, army Lt. Fitzgerald has developed the disturbing ability to look into his men's faces and know who will be killed in the next battle. He...

6.2

154 votes

6.2

154 votes

The Blue and the Gray (TV Miniseries)

1982 · Series · 381 min. · United States

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast Stacy Keach · John Hammond · Lloyd Bridges · Rory Calhoun

Plot The plot revolves around the families of two sisters; Maggie Geyser and Evelyn Hale. The Geysers are southern farmers from Charlottesville, Virginia. The Hales own a small newspaper in Gettysburg,...

6.2

125 votes

6.2

125 votes

The Shooting

1966 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Monte Hellman

Cast Warren Oates · Jack Nicholson · Will Hutchins · Millie Perkins

Plot Probably the first Western which really deserves to be called existential. Ex-bounty hunter Gashade and his young sidekick Coley are persuaded by an unknown woman to lead her through the...

6.1

936 votes

6.1

936 votes