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Biography

American character actor of the 1960s and 1970s whose distinctive style and intensity brought him to offbeat leading roles. Oates was born in a…more

Born

7/5/1928, Depoy, Kentucky, USA

Died

4/3/1982

Birth Name

Warren Mercer Oates

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (3)

Role
- Beat the Clock (2002)
  Stunt Tester
  - S 16: Ep 5 Show 1023
    2/20/03
  - S 16: Ep 4 Show 1022
    2/19/03
  - S 16: Ep 3 Show 1021
    2/18/03
  - S 16: Ep 2 Show 1020
    2/17/03
  - S 16: Ep 1 Show 1019
    2/16/03
  - + 22 More Credits
- East of Eden
  Cyrus Trask
- Stoney Burke
  Ves Painter
  - S 1: Ep 32 The Journey
    5/20/63
  - S 1: Ep 31 The Test
    5/13/63
  - S 1: Ep 30 Tigress by the Tail
    5/6/63
  - S 1: Ep 29 A Girl Named Amy
    4/29/63
  - S 1: Ep 28 Kincaid
    4/22/63
  - + 27 More Credits
Recurring Role (12)

Role
- Gunsmoke
  Tate Crocker
  - S 13: Ep 1 The Wreckers
    9/11/67
- Gunsmoke
  Lafe
  - S 12: Ep 4 The Mission
    10/8/66
- Gunsmoke
  Al Tresh
  - S 11: Ep 4 Ten Little Indians
    10/9/65
- Gunsmoke
  Speeler
  - S 10: Ep 20 Circus Trick
    2/6/65
- Gunsmoke
  Deke Bassop
  - S 9: Ep 21 The Bassops
    2/22/64
- The Rifleman
  Willie Breen
  - S 4: Ep 28 Day of Reckoning
    4/9/62
- Gunsmoke
  Chris Kelly
  - S 7: Ep 15 The Do-Badder
    1/6/62
- Gunsmoke
  Sweet Billy Cathcart
  - S 7: Ep 13 Marry Me
    12/23/61
- Gunsmoke
  Jep
  - S 6: Ep 20 Love Thy Neighbor
    1/28/61
- The Rifleman
  Marty Ryan
  - S 3: Ep 8 Miss Milly
    11/15/60
- Gunsmoke
  Seth Pickett
  - S 6: Ep 3 Small Water
    9/24/60
- Gunsmoke
  Jed Hakes
  - S 4: Ep 15 Snakebite
    12/20/58
Guest Star (83)

Role
- Tales of the Unexpected
  Harry
  - S 8: Ep 3 Nothin' Short of Highway Robbery
    7/21/85
- Insight
  Guest Star
  - S 19: Ep 34 The Man Who Mugged God
    4/21/79
- Police Story
  Richey Neptune
  - S 5: Ep 4 Day Of Terror, Night Of Fear
    3/4/78
- The Merv Griffin Show
  Himself
  - S 11: Ep 225 July 31, 1974
    7/31/74
- The Name of the Game
  Lew Weatherford/John
  - S 3: Ep 24 The Showdown
    3/19/71
- The F.B.I.
  Richie Billings
  - S 6: Ep 24 Turnabout
    3/7/71
- Lancer
  Drago
  - S 2: Ep 21 The Buscaderos
    3/17/70
- Lancer
  Sheriff Val Crawford
  - S 1: Ep 23 The Man Without a Gun
    3/25/69
- Run for Your Life
  Deputy Potter
  - S 3: Ep 17 One Bad Turn
    1/10/68
- Cimarron Strip
  Mobeetie
  - S 1: Ep 12 Nobody
    12/7/67
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Battleground
    9/28/67
- The Iron Horse
  Hode Avery
  - S 2: Ep 8 The Return Of Hode Avery
    11/4/67
- Dundee and the Culhane
  Lafe Doolin
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Turn The Other Cheek Brief
    9/6/67
- The Big Valley
  Duke
  - S 2: Ep 10 The Great Safe Robbery
    11/21/66
- Shane
  Kemp Spicer
  - S 1: Ep 4 An Echo of Anger
    10/1/66
- The Virginian
  Wally Buxton
  - S 5: Ep 2 Ride to Delphi
    9/21/66
- The Virginian
  Bowers
  - S 4: Ep 24 One Spring Like Long Ago
    3/2/66
- The Big Valley
  Korbie Kyles
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Murdered Party
    11/17/65
- Lost In Space
  Jimmy Hapgood
  - S 1: Ep 6 Welcome Stranger
    10/20/65
- Rawhide
  Jesse Gufler
  - S 8: Ep 6 Hostage for Hanging
    10/19/65
- Twelve O'Clock High
  Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Troper
  - S 2: Ep 6 The Hotshot
    10/18/65
- Slattery's People
  Stu Burns
  - S 2: Ep 5 Rally 'Round Your Own Flag, Mister
    10/15/65
- A Man Called Shenandoah
  Sgt. Ryder
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Fort
    9/27/65
- Branded
  Pierce Crowley/Frank Crowley
  - S 2: Ep 1 Judge Not
    9/12/65
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  Joe Grover
  - S 2: Ep 17 The War and Eric Kurtz
    3/5/65
- The Virginian
  Ray Judd
  - S 3: Ep 21 A Slight Case of Charity
    2/10/65
- Slattery's People
  Eugene Hanson
  - S 1: Ep 14 Question: What Is a Requiem for a Loser?
    1/8/65
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Haney McClure
  - S 2: Ep 14 Devil's Carnival
    12/22/64
- The Reporter
  Mickroe
  - S 1: Ep 6 No Comment
    10/30/64
- Rawhide
  Weed
  - S 7: Ep 1 Race
    9/25/64
- The Outer Limits
  Reese Fowler
  - S 1: Ep 25 The Mutant
    3/16/64
- The Fugitive (1963)
  Herbie
  - S 1: Ep 21 Rat in a Corner
    2/18/64
- Combat!
  Stark
  - S 2: Ep 17 The Pillbox
    1/7/64
- The Twilight Zone
  Cpl. Langsford
  - S 5: Ep 10 The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
    12/6/63
- The Virginian
  Corbie
  - S 2: Ep 10 Stopover in a Western Town
    11/27/63
- Rawhide
  Charlie "Rabbit" Waters
  - S 6: Ep 9 Incident of the Prophecy
    11/21/63
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
  Eldon Bishop
  - S 1: Ep 3 The Day Of The First Suitor
    9/29/63
- 77 Sunset Strip
  Orville
  - S 5: Ep 3 Terror in a Small Town
    10/26/62
- The Untouchables
  Artie Krebs
  - S 3: Ep 26 Pressure
    6/14/62
- Bonanza
  Paul MacGruder
  - S 3: Ep 33 The Mountain Girl
    5/13/62
- Target: The Corruptors
  Billy Joe
  - S 1: Ep 27 Journey into Mourning
    4/13/62
- Thriller
  Hugo Wheeler
  - S 2: Ep 20 The Hollow Watcher
    2/12/62
- Dick Powell Show
  Bruno
  - S 1: Ep 7 Somebody's Waiting
    11/7/61
- The Lawless Years
  Brown
  - S 3: Ep 16 Artie Moon
    8/25/61
- Stagecoach West
  Tom Lochfin
  - S 1: Ep 37 The Renegades
    6/20/61
- Bat Masterson
  Cat Crail
  - S 3: Ep 27 Meeting at Mimbres
    4/13/61
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 19 Baubles and Bullets
    2/20/61
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
  Clem Robinson
  - S 3: Ep 16 The Last Retreat
    1/11/61
- Stagecoach West
  Billy Goe
  - S 1: Ep 13 Object: Patrimony
    1/3/61
- Thriller
  Benny
  - S 1: Ep 13 Knock Three-One-Two
    12/13/60
- Hawaiian Eye
  Al
  - S 2: Ep 12 The Contenders
    11/30/60
- Lawman (1958)
  Al May
  - S 3: Ep 11 Second Son
    11/27/60
- Have Gun - Will Travel
  Harrison
  - S 4: Ep 9 The Poker Fiend
    11/12/60
- The Westerner
  The Drunk
  - S 1: Ep 1 Jeff
    9/30/60
- Outlaws
  Billy Hooton
  - S 1: Ep 1 Thirty A Month
    9/29/60
- Tate
  Cowpoke
  - S 1: Ep 8 Before Sunup
    8/17/60
- Johnny Ringo
  Burt Scanlon
  - S 1: Ep 31 Single Debt
    5/12/60
- The Rifleman
  Santos
  - S 2: Ep 31 The Prodigal
    4/26/60
- Rawhide
  Marco
  - S 2: Ep 24 Incident of the Dancing Death
    4/8/60
- 77 Sunset Strip
  Dink Strahman
  - S 2: Ep 23 Blackout
    3/11/60
- Bronco
  Private Hurd Maple
  - S 2: Ep 12 Every Man a Hero
    2/23/60
- The Twilight Zone
  Jeep Driver
  - S 1: Ep 19 The Purple Testament
    2/12/60
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
  George Aswell
  - S 2: Ep 18 Angela
    1/9/60
- The Rebel
  Troy Armbruster
  - S 1: Ep 7 School Days
    11/15/59
- Wagon Train
  Silas
  - S 3: Ep 6 The Martha Barham Story
    11/4/59
- The Rifleman
  Jud Malakie
  - S 2: Ep 2 Bloodlines
    10/6/59
- Trackdown
  Norvi
  - S 2: Ep 36 Back To Crawford
    9/9/59
- Bat Masterson
  Sonny Parsons
  - S 1: Ep 28 Lottery of Death
    5/13/59
- Buckskin
  Charlie
  - S 1: Ep 32 Charlie, My Boy
    4/6/59
- Black Saddle
  Simms
  - S 1: Ep 10 Client: Steele
    3/21/59
- Trackdown
  Kelly
  - S 2: Ep 26 Fear
    3/18/59
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
  Billy Clegg
  - S 1: Ep 27 The Legend
    3/7/59
- Trackdown
  Lute Borden
  - S 2: Ep 19 Bad Judgement
    1/28/59
- Rescue 8
  Pete
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Subterranean City
    1/12/59
- Playhouse 90
  Ted Ryan
  - S 3: Ep 11 Seven Against the Wall
    12/11/58
- Wanted: Dead or Alive
  Cox
  - S 1: Ep 14 Die by the Gun
    12/6/58
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
  Deke
  - S 5: Ep 10 The Epidemic
    11/21/58
- The Rifleman
  Andrew Sheltin
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Marshal
    10/21/58
- Have Gun - Will Travel
  John Bosworth
  - S 1: Ep 34 Three Sons
    5/10/58
- Kraft Television Theatre
  Milkman
  - S 11: Ep 5 Gun at a Fair One
    10/30/57
- Studio One
  2nd Card Player
  - S 10: Ep 1 The Night America Trembled
    9/9/57
- The Big Story
  Danny (as a adult)
  - S 8: Ep 12 Dom Frasca Of The New Jersey Courier
    12/21/56
- Kraft Television Theatre
  Guest Star
  - S 10: Ep 9 Before It's Too Late
    11/14/56
  - S 10: Ep 4 The Murder of a Sand Flea
    10/10/56
- The United States Steel Hour
  Private Lear
  - S 3: Ep 28 Operation Three R's
    7/4/56

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