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