
R.G. Armstrong
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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

Predator (1987)
as Major General Homer Phillips

Dick Tracy (1990)
as Pruneface

Children of the Corn (1984)
as Diehl

My Name Is Nobody (1973)
as Honest John

El Dorado (1966)
as Kevin MacDonald

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
as Ollinger

Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
as T. Tyler

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
as Quittner

The Car (1977)
as Amos Clements

The Shadow Riders (1982)
as Sheriff Miles Gillette

Heaven Can Wait (1978)
as General Manager

Payback (1995)
as Mac

Reds (1981)
as Government Agent

Never Love a Stranger (1958)
as Flix

Purgatory (1999)
as Coachman

Major Dundee (1965)
as Reverend Dahlstrom

Manhunter (1974)
as Henry Stratemeyer

No Name on the Bullet (1959)
as Asa Canfield

Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
as Judge Simpson

A Face in the Crowd (1957)
as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)

Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)
as Franks

Baby Doll (1956)
as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
as Mr. Hemmings

Ride the High Country (1962)
as Joshua Knudsen

Raggedy Man (1981)
as Rigby

Race with the Devil (1975)
as Sheriff Taylor

Ten Who Dared (1960)
as Oramel Howland

White Lightning (1973)
as Big Bear

The Fugitive Kind (1960)
as Sheriff Jordan Talbott

Jocks (1986)
as Bettlebom

Red Headed Stranger (1986)
as Sheriff Reese Scoby

Stay Hungry (1976)
as Thor Erickson

Don't Look Back (1996)
as Parish
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006)
as Self

Boss Nigger (1975)
as Mayor Griffin

Reflections of Murder (1974)
as Mr. Turner

Hammett (1982)
as Lt. O'Mara

The Pack (1977)
as Cobb

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
as Dempsey

The Great White Hope (1970)
as Captain Dan

White Line Fever (1975)
as Prosecutor

Cotter (1973)
as Jack

The McMasters (1970)
as Watson

The Time Machine (1978)
as Gen. Harris

Mean Johnny Barrows (1975)
as Richard

From Hell to Texas (1958)
as Hunter Boyd

The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
as Old Man

Bulletproof (1988)
as Miles Blackburn

Steel (1979)
as Kellin

Mr. Billion (1977)
as Sheriff T.C. Bishop

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
as Self

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
as Al Barber

The Century Turns (1972)
as Ben Ritt

Dixie Dynamite (1976)
as Charlie White - Bank President

The Final Comedown (1972)
as Mr. Freeman

Ghetto Blaster (1989)
as Curtis

He Rides Tall (1964)
as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud

Tiger by the Tail (1970)
as Ben Holmes

LBJ: The Early Years (1987)
as Samuel Ealey Johnson

Texas Detour (1978)
as Sheriff Burt

Oceans of Fire (1986)
as Rusty West

J.W. Coop (1972)
as Jim Sawyer

Invasion of Privacy (1996)
as Sam Logan - Storekeeper

Garden of Eden (1954)
as J. Randolph Latimore

The Legend of Hillbilly John (1974)
as Bristowe

80 Steps to Jonah (1969)
as Mackray

The Legend of the Golden Gun (1979)
as Judge Harrison Harding

The Man Who Found the Money (1960)
as Captain Bone

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
as Clell Miller

Evilspeak (1981)
as Sarge

The Best of Times (1986)
as Schutte

Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1972)
as Squire Fisk

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993)
as Self

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion (1994)
as Retired Texas Ranger

Trapper County War (1989)
as Pop Luddigger

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
as Dunworth

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (1979)
as Leland Stanford

The Beast Within (1982)
as Doc Schoonmaker

Dead Center (1994)
as Art Fencer
Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film (2014)
as Self

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western (2024)
as Self

Prologue to Wounded Knee (1973)
as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'

Kingston (1976)
as Father Reardon

Calhoun (1964)
as Zac Laird

Keeper of Souls (2001)
Actor
Independence (1987)
as Uriah Creed

Running Wild (1973)
as Bull





