The Outer Limits
1963
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Warren Oates was born and reared in Depoy, a tiny rural community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, located just a few miles west of Greenville, the county seat.According to the federal census of 1940, he was the younger of two sons born to Sarah Alice (née Mercer) and Bayless Earle Oates, who owned a general store. [1] [2] [3] His brother, Gordon, was five years his senior. [3]
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 ...
Warren Oates. Actor: The Wild Bunch. 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 ...
Warren Oates was an American actor, mostly known for his intense, off-beat roles in Hollywood Westerns. He was from a small town in Kentucky and had to struggle his way up, doing menial jobs in New York as a dishwasher and coffee-shop boy, while auditioning for TV and movie roles. He even worked as a hat-checker.
Apr 5, 1982 · Warren Oates, the character actor who appeared in ''Easy Rider,'' ''In the Heat of the Night'' and ''Dillinger,'' died, apparently of a heart attack, Saturday. He was 52 years old. Robert Ewert, a ...
Feb 8, 2010 · Susan Compo's exuberant, "Warren Oates, A Wild Life," out in paperback March 1st from The University of Kentucky Press, puts the star of The Wild Bunch, Badlands, Two-Lane Blacktop,_ In the Heat ...
Jul 1, 2009 · For my money, Warren Oates: A Wild Life is the finest biography since 1998 when Ronnie Pugh's Ernest Tubb biography hit the shelves. The book offers a richly-detailed and definitive portrait of Oates' intriguing life and career and upon finishing it, I decided it might be interesting to talk to the author about Warren Oates and how she came to ...
Jun 30, 2016 · Badass Intensity and Holy Cool: A Warren Oates Retrospective. In 2000, director Richard Linklater helped assemble a retrospective for cult filmmaker Monte Hellman as part of that year’s South by Southwest festival. For the screening of Hellman’s best-known work, the 1971 existential road race film “ Two-Lane Blacktop ,” he offered up a ...
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 ...
Jun 29, 2016 · June 29, 2016. The character actor Warren Oates, a symbol of anarchic frontier machismo, is being celebrated by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in a retrospective that focuses on his western ...
