Warren Oates

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Warren Oates was an American character actor of the 1960s and 1970s and early 1980s whose distinctive style and intensity brought him to offbeat leading roles.Oates was born in Depoy, a very small Kentucky town. He was the son of Sarah Alice (Mercer) and Bayless Earle Oates, a general store owner. He attended high school in Louisville, continuing on to the University of Louisville and military service with the U.S. Marines.In college he became interested in the theatre and in 1954 headed for New York to make his mark as an actor. However, his first real job in television was, as it had been for James Dean before him, testing the contest gags on the game show Beat the Clock (1950). He did numerous menial jobs while auditioning, including serving as the hat-check man at the nightclub "21".By 1957 he had begun appearing in live dramas such as Studio One (1948), but Oates' rural drawl seemed more fitted for the Westerns that were proliferating on the big screen at the time, so he moved to Hollywood and immediately stared getting steady work as an increasingly prominent supporting player, often as either craven or vicious types. With his role as one of the Hammond brothers in the Sam Peckinpah masterpiece Coups de feu dans la Sierra (1962), Oates found a niche both as an actor and as a colleague of one of the most distinguished and distinctive directors of the period. Peckinpah used Oates repeatedly, and Oates, in large part due to the prominence given him by Peckinpah, became one of those rare character actors whose name and face is as familiar as those of many leading stars. He began to play roles which, while still character parts, were also leads, particularly in cult hits like Macadam à deux voies (1971) and Apportez-moi la tête d'Alfredo Garcia (1974).Although never destined to be a traditional leading man, Oates remained one of Hollywood's most valued and in-demand character players up until his sudden death from a heart attack on April 3, 1982 at the age of 53. His final two films, Tough Enough (1983) (filmed in late 1981) and Tonnerre de feu (1983) (filmed in early 1980), were released over one year after his death and were dedicated to his memory. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Warren Oates’s flixes, followed by Google Play Movies compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Warren Oates on average has worked on 2 movies per year from 1970 to 1983. See the full graphs of the number of Warren Oates movies released per year from 1971 till 1983.

Top Genres

Warren Oates works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Action Genre flixes. 34% of Warren Oates movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Warren Oates worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Warren Oates has worked on is 6.5.

6.5 / 10

Warren Oates's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Action,Crime,Drama
Badlands (1973)

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

7.7/1094 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

2 men drag-racing across the U.S., in a '55 Chevy. Dennis Wilson's the mechanic, James Taylor's the driver.

7.2/10102 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Adventure,Drama,History
The White Dawn (1974)

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

7.1/10110 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Southern action drama film about cockfighting.

7/1083 min

Available in 12 platform(s).

Harry returns home to his wife and farm after drifting with his friend Arch and has to make a difficult decision regarding his loyalties.

7/1090 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Action,Biography,Crime
Dillinger (1973)

John Dillinger and his gang go on a bank robbing spree across the midwest, but one G-Man is determined to bring him down.

6.9/10107 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

6.9/10126 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Comedy,War
Stripes (1981)

Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.

6.8/10106 min

Available in 11 platform(s).