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Warren Oates

Warren Oates

05/07/1928- 03/04/1982
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Stripes

Stripes
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 25/06/1981
  • Character: Sgt. Hulka
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.

Badlands

Badlands
7.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/10/1973
  • Character: Holly's Father
A dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

1941

1941
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyWar
  • Release: 14/12/1979
  • Character: Col. 'Madman' Maddox
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder
6.4/10
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.

The Wild Bunch

The Wild Bunch
7.9/10
Aging outlaw Pike Bishop prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, Dutch Engstrom and brothers Lyle and Tector Gorch, Bishop discovers the heist is a setup orchestrated in part by a former partner, Deke Thornton. As the remaining gang takes refuge in Mexican territory, Thornton trails them—resulting in fierce gunfights with plenty of casualties.

In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night
7.9/10
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.

Major Dundee

Major Dundee
6.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 07/04/1965
  • Character: O.W. Hadley
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.

Ride the High Country

Ride the High Country
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 20/06/1962
  • Character: Henry Hammond
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.

The Border

The Border
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/01/1982
  • Character: Red
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.

There Was a Crooked Man...

There Was a Crooked Man...
6.9/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/09/1970
  • Character: Floyd Moon
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.

Race With the Devil

Race With the Devil
6.6/10
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

Kid Blue

Kid Blue
6.2/10
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.

The Split

The Split
6/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 04/11/1968
  • Character: Marty Gough
A group of thieves attempt a daring robbery of a football stadium.

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs
6.3/10
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.

Welcome to Hard Times

Welcome to Hard Times
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/04/1967
  • Character: Leo Jenks
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.

Up Periscope

Up Periscope
6.4/10
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.

Yellowstone Kelly

Yellowstone Kelly
6.5/10
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.

92 in the Shade

92 in the Shade
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/08/1975
  • Character: Nichol Dance
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.

China 9, Liberty 37

China 9, Liberty 37
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 04/08/1978
  • Character: Matthew Sebanek
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm (Testi) is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), 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.

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
6.7/10
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.

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