R.G. Armstrong
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Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
Robert Golden Armstrong was an American actor and playwright. A veteran character actor who appeared in dozens of Westerns over the course of his 40-year career, he may be best remembered for his work with director Sam Peckinpah.
Known for
Credits
Boss Nigger (1975)
as Mayor Griffin
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Predator (1987)
as Major General Homer Phillips
Children of the Corn (1984)
as Diehl
Dick Tracy (1990)
as Pruneface
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
as Honest John
El Dorado (1966)
as Kevin MacDonald
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
as Ollinger
The Car (1977)
as Amos Clements
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
as T. Tyler
White Lightning (1973)
as Big Bear
Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)
as Franks
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
as Judge Simpson
Heaven Can Wait (1978)
as General Manager
Major Dundee (1965)
as Reverend Dahlstrom
Reds (1981)
as Government Agent
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
as Quittner
Ride the High Country (1962)
as Joshua Knudsen
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
as Clell Miller
Race with the Devil (1975)
as Sheriff Taylor
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
Stay Hungry (1976)
as Thor Erickson
The Beast Within (1982)
as Doc Schoonmaker
Evilspeak (1981)
as Sarge
Payback (1995)
as Mac
Baby Doll (1956)
as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
as Asa Canfield
The Shadow Riders (1982)
as Sheriff Miles Gillette
Purgatory (1999)
as Coachman
The Best of Times (1986)
as Schutte
Mr. Billion (1977)
as Sheriff T.C. Bishop
The Fugitive Kind (1960)
as Sheriff Jordan Talbott
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
as Dunworth
Hammett (1982)
as Lt. O'Mara
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
as Mr. Hemmings
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
as Dempsey
The Century Turns (1972)
as Ben Ritt
Raggedy Man (1981)
as Rigby
The Great White Hope (1970)
as Captain Dan
The McMasters (1970)
as Watson
Ten Who Dared (1960)
as Oramel Howland
Red Headed Stranger (1986)
as Sheriff Reese Scoby
The Pack (1977)
as Cobb
From Hell to Texas (1958)
as Hunter Boyd
Steel (1979)
as Kellin
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self
White Line Fever (1975)
as Prosecutor
Manhunter (1974)
as Henry Stratemeyer
Bulletproof (1988)
as Miles Blackburn
Garden of Eden (1954)
as J. Randolph Latimore
Cotter (1973)
as Jack
Oceans of Fire (1986)
as Rusty West
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
as Self
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (1979)
as Leland Stanford
The Time Machine (1978)
as Gen. Harris
Don't Look Back (1996)
as Parish
80 Steps to Jonah (1969)
as Mackray
The Legend of the Golden Gun (1979)
as Judge Harrison Harding
Never Love a Stranger (1958)
as Flix
Dixie Dynamite (1976)
as Charlie White - Bank President
Invasion of Privacy (1996)
as Sam Logan - Storekeeper
Jocks (1986)
as Bettlebom
Mean Johnny Barrows (1975)
as Richard
He Rides Tall (1964)
as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion (1994)
as Retired Texas Ranger
Texas Detour (1978)
as Sheriff Burt
LBJ: The Early Years (1987)
as Samuel Ealey Johnson
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
as Al Barber
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western (2024)
as Self
Kingston (1976)
as Father Reardon
Running Wild (1973)
as Bull
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993)
as Self
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006)
as Self
J.W. Coop (1972)
as Jim Sawyer
Tiger by the Tail (1970)
as Ben Holmes
Ghetto Blaster (1989)
as Curtis
Reflections of Murder (1974)
as Mr. Turner
Trapper County War (1989)
as Pop Luddigger
Prologue to Wounded Knee (1973)
as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'
The Legend of Hillbilly John (1974)
as Bristowe
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
as Old Man
Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1972)
as Squire Fisk
Dead Center (1994)
as Art Fencer
The Final Comedown (1972)
as Mr. Freeman
The Man Who Found the Money (1960)
as Captain Bone
Independence (1987)
as Uriah Creed
Calhoun (1964)
as Zac Laird
Keeper of Souls (2001)
Actor
Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film (2014)
as Self