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R.G. Armstrong

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: Acting

Born: Birmingham, Alabama, USA, 1917-04-07

Died: 2012-07-27

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Garden of Eden	J. Randolph Latimore	43
2	1956	Baby Doll	Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)	71
3	1957	A Face in the Crowd	Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)	76
4	1958	From Hell to Texas	Hunter Boyd	59
5	1958	Never Love a Stranger	Flix	49
6	1959	No Name on the Bullet	Asa Canfield	66
7	1960	The Fugitive Kind	Sheriff Jordan Talbott	69
8	1960	Ten Who Dared	Oramel Howland	59
9	1960	The Man Who Found the Money	Captain Bone	0
10	1962	Ride the High Country	Joshua Knudsen	70
11	1964	He Rides Tall	Joshua 'Josh' McCloud	56
12	1964	Calhoun	Zac Laird	60
13	1965	Major Dundee	Reverend Dahlstrom	67
14	1966	El Dorado	Kevin MacDonald	74
15	1969	80 Steps to Jonah	Mackray	46
16	1970	Tiger by the Tail	Ben Holmes	50
17	1970	The Ballad of Cable Hogue	Quittner	70
18	1970	The McMasters	Watson	44
19	1970	The Great White Hope	Captain Dan	61
20	1972	Justin Morgan Had a Horse	Squire Fisk	78
21	1972	The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid	Clell Miller	56
22	1972	The Final Comedown	Mr. Freeman	62
23	1972	The Century Turns	Ben Ritt	0
24	1973	Cotter	Jack	10
25	1973	Prologue to Wounded Knee	Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'	60
26	1973	Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid	Ollinger	72
27	1973	White Lightning	Big Bear	62
28	1973	Running Wild	Bull	0
29	1973	My Name Is Nobody	Honest John	73
30	1974	The Legend of Hillbilly John	Bristowe	53
31	1974	Manhunter	Henry Stratemeyer	65
32	1974	J.W. Coop	Jim Sawyer	54
33	1974	Reflections of Murder	Mr. Turner	70
34	1975	Race with the Devil	Sheriff Taylor	64
35	1975	White Line Fever	Prosecutor	60
36	1975	Boss Nigger	Mayor Griffin	67
37	1975	Mean Johnny Barrows	Richard	55
38	1976	Stay Hungry	Thor Erickson	57
39	1976	Dixie Dynamite	Charlie White - Bank President	54
40	1976	Kingston	Father Reardon	0
41	1977	Mr. Billion	Sheriff T.C. Bishop	55
42	1977	The Car	Amos Clements	63
43	1977	The Pack	Cobb	69
44	1978	Texas Detour	Sheriff Burt	43
45	1978	Heaven Can Wait	General Manager	66
46	1978	Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell	Dunworth	64
47	1978	The Time Machine	Gen. Harris	47
48	1979	Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff	Mr. Hemmings	54
49	1979	Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider	Al Barber	51
50	1979	The Legend of the Golden Gun	Judge Harrison Harding	50
51	1979	Steel	Kellin	53
52	1979	The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang	Leland Stanford	21
53	1980	Where the Buffalo Roam	Judge Simpson	59
54	1981	Evilspeak	Sarge	53
55	1981	Raggedy Man	Rigby	53
56	1981	The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper	Dempsey	53
57	1981	Reds	Government Agent	69
58	1982	The Beast Within	Doc Schoonmaker	55
59	1982	Hammett	Lt. O'Mara	62
60	1982	The Shadow Riders	Sheriff Miles Gillette	65
61	1983	Lone Wolf McQuade	T. Tyler	65
62	1984	Children of the Corn	Diehl	57
63	1986	The Best of Times	Schutte	56
64	1986	Oceans of Fire	Rusty West	44
65	1986	Red Headed Stranger	Sheriff Reese Scoby	52
66	1986	Jocks	Bettlebom	44
67	1987	LBJ: The Early Years	Samuel Ealey Johnson	75
68	1987	Independence	Uriah Creed	0
69	1987	Predator	Major General Homer Phillips	75
70	1988	Bulletproof	Miles Blackburn	50
71	1989	Trapper County War	Pop Luddigger	35
72	1989	Ghetto Blaster	Curtis	27
73	1990	Dick Tracy	Pruneface	61
74	1993	Warlock: The Armageddon	Franks	53
75	1993	Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron	Self	69
76	1994	Dead Center	Art Fencer	30
77	1994	Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion	Retired Texas Ranger	72
78	1995	Payback	Mac	53
79	1996	Don't Look Back	Parish	46
80	1996	Invasion of Privacy	Sam Logan - Storekeeper	44
81	1998	The Man in the Iron Mask	Old Man	52
82	1999	Purgatory	Coachman	72
83	2001	Keeper of Souls		20
84	2004	Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade	Self	74
85	2005	Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah	Self	70
86	2006	Sam Peckinpah: Portrait	Self	0
87	2014	Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film	Self	0
88	2024	Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	General Electric Theater	Jerry Boynton	63
2	1954	Lassie		61
3	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Billy Soto	78
4	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Jack O'Neal	78
5	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Squire Fisk	78
6	1955	The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp		68
7	1955	Gunsmoke	Capt. Benter	66
8	1955	Gunsmoke	Major	66
9	1955	Gunsmoke	Jud Briar	66
10	1955	Gunsmoke	Carl Anderson	66
11	1955	Cheyenne		58
12	1955	Cheyenne	Nathanael Grimm	58
13	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Captain Bone	77
14	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Fred Riordan	77
15	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sheriff Fred Tomlinson	55
16	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Sheriff Les Houghton	55
17	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel		74
18	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Mayor Lovett	74
19	1957	Sugarfoot	Clay Calhoun	48
20	1957	Sugarfoot	Lou Stoner	48
21	1957	Wagon Train	John Muskie	63
22	1957	Perry Mason	Matthew Bartlett	77
23	1957	Perry Mason	Harry Bright	77
24	1957	Perry Mason	John Gregory	77
25	1957	Maverick	Wellington Cosgrove	68
26	1958	Jefferson Drum	Kreiger	45
27	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Asa Wynter	69
28	1958	Bronco		52
29	1958	The Texan		55
30	1958	The Texan	Big Sam Aldridge	55
31	1958	The Rifleman	Sheriff Tomlinson	70
32	1958	The Rifleman	Sheriff Fred Tomlinson	70
33	1958	Lawman	Major Ben Rogers	56
34	1958	Bat Masterson	Marshal William MacWilliams	61
35	1959	Rawhide	Enoch Talby	72
36	1959	Rawhide	Gantry Hobson	72
37	1959	Rawhide	Sheriff John Keeley	72
38	1959	Rawhide	Burke	72
39	1959	Black Saddle	Ben Dawes	60
40	1959	Bonanza	Nathan Clay	75
41	1959	Bonanza	Andrew Holloway	75
42	1959	Bonanza	Col. Keith Jarrell	75
43	1959	Riverboat	Rothgate	62
44	1959	The Twilight Zone	Contractor	85
45	1959	Mr. Lucky		64
46	1960	The Tall Man		63
47	1960	The Westerner	Shell Davidson	68
48	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Farmer Flint	76
49	1960	Surfside 6	Paul Wyatt	50
50	1961	87th Precinct	Franklin Phelps	75
51	1961	Everglades		85
52	1962	The Virginian	Ben Winters	65
53	1962	The Virginian	Frederick Harley	65
54	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	William Downey	78
55	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	John Cooley	78
56	1963	The Fugitive	Tully Gage	72
57	1963	The Fugitive	Marshal Matt Peters	72
58	1963	The Fugitive	Sheriff Bradley	72
59	1964	Daniel Boone	Jarvis	69
60	1964	Daniel Boone	Joseph Garth	69
61	1965	Run for Your Life	Edward Loomis	72
62	1965	The Big Valley	Wallace Miles	61
63	1965	The F.B.I.	Sheriff Crowley	55
64	1965	The F.B.I.	Ed Cray	55
65	1965	The F.B.I.	George David Owens	55
66	1966	The Time Tunnel	Allan Pinkerton	76
67	1966	Felony Squad		64
68	1966	T.H.E. Cat	Police Capt. McAllister	80
69	1966	T.H.E. Cat	Capt. McAllister	80
70	1967	The Invaders	Gus Flagg	68
71	1967	The Invaders	Police Capt. Bill Battersea	68
72	1967	Custer		60
73	1967	Cimarron Strip		50
74	1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett		62
75	1967	The High Chaparral	Ed Henderson	65
76	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Capt. Wade	71
77	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Warden	71
78	1968	Lancer		47
79	1968	Here Come the Brides		60
80	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
81	1971	Cannon		65
82	1971	McMillan & Wife	Sheriff Farraday	69
83	1972	The Sixth Sense		63
84	1974	The Manhunter		50
85	1974	Movin' On		52
86	1975	Baretta		63
87	1975	Switch	Detective Wills	67
88	1975	Starsky & Hutch	'Dad' Watson	73
89	1976	Charlie's Angels	Sebastian Craig	67
90	1977	Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected		60
91	1978	Vega$		70
92	1979	Trapper John, M.D.		65
93	1980	Skag		0
94	1981	Dynasty		65
95	1981	Code Red		55
96	1981	Darkroom		72
97	1982	Matt Houston		62
98	1986	Matlock		71
99	1986	L.A. Law	Frank Osgood	71
100	1987	Beauty and the Beast		75
101	1987	Friday the 13th: The Series	Lewis Vendredi	73
102	1989	Quantum Leap	Davison	80
103	1993	Walker, Texas Ranger	Frank Dodge	70
104	1995	Cybill		58
105	1996	Millennium		77
106	1996	Millennium	The Old Man	77