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