R.G. Armstrong

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-04-07 (95 years old)

Deathday

2012-07-27

Place of Birth

Birmingham, Alabama, USA

R.G. Armstrong

Biography

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.

Acting

1987

Predator

as Major General Homer Phillips

1970

Tiger by the Tail

as Ben Holmes

1994

1976

Stay Hungry

as Thor Erickson

1973

White Lightning

as Big Bear

1986

1966

El Dorado

as Kevin MacDonald

1977

The Car

as Amos Clements

1975

Race with the Devil

as Sheriff Taylor

1973

My Name Is Nobody

as Honest John

1975

Boss Nigger

as Mayor Griffin

1980

Where the Buffalo Roam

as Judge Simpson

1962

Ride the High Country

as Joshua Knudsen

1965

Major Dundee

as Reverend Dahlstrom

1975

White Line Fever

as Prosecutor

1978

Heaven Can Wait

as General Manager

1979

The Legend of the Golden Gun

as Judge Harrison Harding

1979

Steel

as Kellin

1960

The Fugitive Kind

as Sheriff Jordan Talbott

1981

Evilspeak

as Sarge

1973

Cotter

as Jack

1986

Jocks

as Bettlebom

1959

No Name on the Bullet

as Asa Canfield

1976

Dixie Dynamite

as Charlie White - Bank President

1995

Payback

as Mac

1977

The Pack

as Cobb

1970

The McMasters

as Watson

1989

1981

Raggedy Man

as Rigby

1974

Manhunter

as Henry Stratemeyer

1974

1978

Texas Detour

as Sheriff Burt

1957

A Face in the Crowd

as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)

1979

1972

1964

He Rides Tall

as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud

1960

Ten Who Dared

as Oramel Howland

1969

1958

From Hell to Texas

as Hunter Boyd

1972

1986

Red Headed Stranger

as Sheriff Reese Scoby

1983

1988

Bulletproof

as Miles Blackburn

1976

Kingston

as Father Reardon

1987

LBJ: The Early Years

as Samuel Ealey Johnson

1964

Calhoun

as Zac Laird

1996

1975

1970

The Great White Hope

as Captain Dan

1981

Reds

as Government Agent

1982

The Beast Within

as Doc Schoonmaker

1978

The Time Machine

as Gen. Harris

1986

Oceans of Fire

as Rusty West

1996

Invasion of Privacy

as Sam Logan - Storekeeper

1987

Independence

as Uriah Creed

1982

Hammett

as Lt. O'Mara

1972

The Final Comedown

as Mr. Freeman

1974

J.W. Coop

as Jim Sawyer

1990

Dick Tracy

as Pruneface

1982

The Shadow Riders

as Sheriff Miles Gillette

1979

1994

Dead Center

as Art Fencer

1999

Purgatory

as Coachman

1973

1989

Trapper County War

as Pop Luddigger

1977

Mr. Billion

as Sheriff T.C. Bishop

1956

Baby Doll

as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)

1973

Prologue to Wounded Knee

as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'

1954

Garden of Eden

as J. Randolph Latimore

1960

Production

2007

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