Warren Oates Net Worth

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Warren Mercer Oates Net Worth Is $1 Million Warren Mercer Oates Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3...

Warren Oates Net Worth


Warren Mercer Oates net worth is
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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 John Dillinger in the biopic Dillinger (1973) and Sergeant Hulka in the comedy Stripes (1981). 
Full NameWarren Mercer Oates
Net Worth$1 Million
Date Of BirthJuly 5, 1928
Died1982-04-03
Place Of BirthDepoy, Kentucky, USA
Height5' 11¼" (1.81 m)
ProfessionActor, Soundtrack, Music Department
SpouseVickery Turner
NicknamesWarren Oates, Oates, Warren
Star SignCancer
#Trademark
1A slight upturned grin, often communicating incredulousness
2Often played sweaty, conflicted men who are proved to be unreliable
3Raspy but loud voice
4Distinctive, squarish mug
5Often played violent-tempered, prideful characters
#Quote
1I believe what Camus [Albert Camus] says. When the curtain rings down, your job is done. The responsibility is pitched to someone else as to what the meaning is of what you played. What you represent is always one aspect of a moral question.
2What I'm beginning to wonder about myself is, have I removed myself from society? Have I been away too long on all of my location trips? Do I read enough? Do I question enough? My reason for being an actor, like most any other actor, is to really nail something important down, to really find something to say in my work. And I tell myself that if I am sincere about my work, I should understand the time I live in.
3I'm not angry because I'm not the leading man. Whatever they give me to do, I do. I don't want to be typed but I have learned a lesson in patience and resignation. If it's an anti-hero they want, I'm more than happy to oblige.
4I don't intentionally set out to be a villain. I do what is given me to do and from there I evolve my attitude and comment. Heavies are closer to life than leading men. The heavy is everyman -- everyman when he faces a tough moment in life. It's the heavy that has to do with the meat of life.
5[on Sam Peckinpah] I don't think he's a horrible maniac; it's just that he injures your innocence, and you get pissed off about it.
6Hopalong Cassidy and Ben Johnson have rubbed off on my life. That's about all I have to say.
7[on Sam Peckinpah] Sam has always believed, and I believe rightly, that he is there to make the film and that anyone who stands in his way is dead. They're in deep, deep trouble. And anyone who doesn't come up to snuff and do their job absolutely perfectly is in deep trouble with Sam.
8I feel most uncomfortable in a western role, because my image of the western man is John Wayne and I'm just a little shit.
#Fact
1His autopsy showed he had chronic emphysema. He had been ill with flu in the weeks before his death.
2Turned down the lead role in Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) in order to make The Wild Bunch (1969).
3In his long and prestigious career as one of the best character actors in film, he only had four leading roles: Bennie in "Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia", as well as the title roles in "Chandler", "Cockfighter", and "Dillinger". He got his first official lead role in "Garcia" as a gift from director Sam Peckinpah partly in appreciation for his work in two of his films, "Ride The High Country" and "The Wild Bunch", respectively, and because Oates had never been the star before.
4Brother of Gordon Oates.
5Father of Jennifer Oates and Tim Oates.
6The University of Louisville had a scholarship named after him for promising students in the arts programs.
7Sang in the backup chorus for "Rocket to Stardom" on Kris Kristofferson's 1975 album "Who's to Bless . . . Who's to Blame."
8Subject of the song by "Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes", title "Warren Oates", from their album "You Wanna Be There But You Don't Wanna Travel" phonogram 1994

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Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Drum1976Hammond Maxwell
Dixie Dynamite1976Mack
92 in the Shade1975Nichol Dance
Race with the Devil1975Frank
Rancho Deluxe1975Harmonica Player in Bar (uncredited)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia1974Bennie
Cockfighter1974Frank Mansfield
The White Dawn1974Billy
Badlands1973Father
Dillinger1973John Dillinger
Kid Blue1973Reese Ford
Tom Sawyer1973Muff Potter
The Thief Who Came to Dinner1973Dave Reilly
Chandler1971Chandler
The Reluctant Heroes1971TV MovieCpl. Leroy Sprague
The Hired Hand1971Arch Harris
Two-Lane Blacktop1971G.T.O
The Name of the Game1971TV SeriesLew Weatherford / John Weatherford
The F.B.I.1971TV SeriesRichie Billings
There Was a Crooked Man...1970Floyd Moon
Barquero1970Remy
Lancer1969-1970TV SeriesDrago / Sheriff Val Crawford
The Movie Murderer1970TV MovieAlfred Fisher
Lanton Mills1969ShortGunman
The Wild Bunch1969Lyle Gorch
Sophie's Place1969Marty Miller
Smith!1969Walter Charlie
Something for a Lonely Man1968TV MovieAngus Duren
The Split1968Marty Gough
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color1968TV SeriesJohn Blythe
Run for Your Life1968TV SeriesDeputy Potter
Cimarron Strip1967TV SeriesMobeetie
Iron Horse1967TV SeriesHode Avery
Gunsmoke1958-1967TV SeriesTate Crocker / Lafe / Al Tresh / ...
Dundee and the Culhane1967TV SeriesLafe Doolin
In the Heat of the Night1967Sam Wood
Welcome to Hard Times1967Leo Jenks
The Big Valley1965-1966TV SeriesDuke / Korby Kyles
Return of the Magnificent Seven1966Colbee
Shane1966TV SeriesKemp Spicer
The Monroes1966TV SeriesNick Beresford
The Virginian1963-1966TV SeriesBuxton / Bowers / Roy Judd / ...
The Shooting1966Willett Gashade
Lost in Space1965TV SeriesJimmy Hapgood
Rawhide1960-1965TV SeriesJesse Gufler / Weed / Charlie 'Rabbit' Waters / ...
12 O'Clock High1965TV SeriesLt. Col. Jerry Troper
Slattery's People1965TV SeriesStu Burns / Eugene Henson
A Man Called Shenandoah1965TV SeriesSergeant Ryder
Branded1965TV SeriesPierce / Frank
Major Dundee1965O. W. Hadley
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1965TV SeriesJoe Grover
The Rounders1965Harley Williams (uncredited)
The Fugitive1964TV SeriesHanes McClure / Herbie Grant
The Reporter1964TV SeriesMickroe
The Outer Limits1964TV SeriesReese Fowler
Mail Order Bride1964Jace
Combat!1964TV SeriesPvt. James Stark
The Twilight Zone1960-1963TV SeriesCPL Richard Langsford / Jeep Driver
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters1963TV SeriesEldon Bishop
Stoney Burke1962-1963TV SeriesVes Painter
77 Sunset Strip1960-1962TV SeriesOrville / Dink Strahman
Hero's Island1962Wayte Giddens
The Untouchables1962TV SeriesArtie Krebs
Bonanza1962TV SeriesPaul Magruder
Ride the High Country1962Henry Hammond
Target: The Corruptors1961-1962TV SeriesBilly Joe
The Rifleman1958-1962TV SeriesWillie Breen / Marty Ryan / Santos / ...
Thriller1960-1962TV SeriesHugo Wheeler / Benny
The Dick Powell Theatre1961TV SeriesBruno
The Lawless Years1961TV SeriesCharlie Brown
Stagecoach West1961TV SeriesTom Lochlin / Trooper Haig / Billy Joe
Bat Masterson1959-1961TV SeriesCat Crail / Sonny Parsons
Laramie1961TV SeriesPete Dixson
The Case of the Dangerous Robin1961TV Series
Michael Shayne1961TV SeriesFrank Hobbes
Wanted: Dead or Alive1958-1961TV SeriesClem Robinson / George Aswell / Billy Clegg / ...
Hawaiian Eye1960TV SeriesAl
Lawman1960TV SeriesAl May
Have Gun - Will Travel1958-1960TV SeriesHarrison / John Bosworth
The Westerner1960TV SeriesDrunk
Outlaws1960TV SeriesBill Hooton
Wrangler1960TV SeriesShep Martin
Tate1960TV SeriesCowpoke
Johnny Ringo1960TV SeriesBurt Scanlon
Private Property1960Boots
Bronco1960TV SeriesPvt. Hurd Maple
Hotel de Paree1960TV SeriesCharlie Aiken
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond1960Eddie Diamond
Tombstone Territory1958-1960TV SeriesVic Reel / Bob Pickett / Joe Clinton
The Rebel1959TV SeriesTroy Armbruster
Yellowstone Kelly1959Corporal
Wagon Train1959TV SeriesPrivate Silas Carpenter
Trackdown1959TV SeriesDeputy Norvil / Kelly Hooker / Lute Borden
The Rough Riders1959TV SeriesFrank Day
Buckskin1959TV SeriesCharlie
Black Saddle1959TV SeriesDeputy Simms
Up Periscope1959Seaman Kovacs (uncredited)
Playhouse 901958TV SeriesTed Ryan
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin1958TV SeriesDeke
Rescue 81958TV SeriesPete
Studio One in Hollywood1956-1958TV SeriesSecond Card Player
Kraft Theatre1957TV SeriesMilkman
The Big Story1956TV SeriesDanny, as an Adult
The United States Steel Hour1956TV SeriesPrivate Lear
Tales of the Unexpected1985TV SeriesHarry
Tough Enough1983James Neese
Blue Thunder1983Capt. Jack Braddock
The Blue and the Gray1982TV Mini-SeriesPreacher / Maj. Welles
The Border1982Red
Stripes1981Sgt. Hulka
East of Eden1981TV Mini-SeriesCyrus Trask
Baby Comes Home1980TV MovieMichael Kramer
19411979Col. 'Madman' Maddox
My Old Man1979TV MovieFrank Butler
And Baby Makes Six1979TV MovieMichael Kramer
Insight1979TV SeriesDan
The Brink's Job1978Specs O'Keefe
China 9, Liberty 371978Matthew Sebanek
True Grit: A Further Adventure1978TV MovieReuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn
Police Story1978TV SeriesRichey Neptune
Black Beauty1978TV Mini-SeriesJerry Barker
Sleeping Dogs1977Col. Willoughby
The African Queen1977TV MovieCapt. Charlie Allnut
American Raspberry1977Celebrity Sportsman

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Dillinger1973performer: "Honey" - uncredited
Tom Sawyer1973performer: "A Man's Gotta Be What He Was Born to Be"

Music Department

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Dixie Dynamite1976musical artist

Stunts

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Beat the Clock1950TV Series stunt tester

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Tough Enough1983in memory of
Blue Thunder1983in memory of

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Virginia Graham Show1971TV SeriesHimself

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Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1963Bronze WranglerWestern Heritage AwardsFictional Television DramaStoney Burke (1962)

2nd Place Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1971NSFC AwardNational Society of Film Critics Awards, USABest Supporting ActorTwo-Lane Blacktop (1971)
1971NYFCC AwardNew York Film Critics Circle AwardsBest Supporting ActorTwo-Lane Blacktop (1971)

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