R. G. Armstrong

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 151

Gender Male

Birthday 1917-04-07

Day of Death 2012-07-27 (95 years old)

Place of Birth Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Also Known As

R. G. Armstrong
Robert Golden Armstrong
Robert Armstrong
R.G. Armstrong

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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.

Known For

Acting

2006

2005

2004

as Self

2001

1999

as Coachman

1998

as Old Man

1996		Millennium (1 episode)
1996		Don't Look Back as Parish
1996		Invasion of Privacy as Sam Logan - Storekeeper

1995		Payback as Mac
1995		Cybill (1 episode)

1994

as Art Fencer

1993		Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron as Self
1993		Warlock: The Armageddon as Franks
1993		Walker, Texas Ranger (2 episodes)

1990

as Pruneface

1989		Quantum Leap (1 episode) as Davison
1989		Trapper County War as Pop Luddigger
1989		Ghetto Blaster as Curtis

1988

as Miles Blackburn

1987		Friday the 13th: The Series (5 episodes) as Lewis Vendredi
1987		Beauty and the Beast (1 episode)
1987		Predator as Major General Homer Phillips
1987		Independence as Uriah Creed
1987		LBJ: The Early Years as Samuel Ealey Johnson

1986		Jocks as Coach Bettlebom
1986		Red Headed Stranger as Sheriff Reese Scoby
1986		Oceans of Fire as Rusty West
1986		L.A. Law (2 episodes) as Frank Osgood
1986		Matlock (2 episodes)
1986		The Best of Times as Schutte

1984

as Diehl

1983

as T. Tyler

1982		The Shadow Riders as Sheriff Miles Gillette
1982		Matt Houston (1 episode)
1982		Hammett as Lt. O'Mara
1982		The Beast Within as Doc Schoonmaker

1981		Reds as Government Agent
1981		Darkroom (1 episode)
1981		The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper as Dempsey
1981		Code Red (1 episode)
1981		Raggedy Man as Rigby
1981		Evilspeak as Sarge
1981		Dynasty (3 episodes)

1980		Where the Buffalo Roam as Judge Simpson
1980		Skag (1 episode)

1979		The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang as Leland Stanford
1979		Steel as Kellin
1979		Trapper John, M.D. (1 episode)
1979		The Legend of the Golden Gun as Judge Harrison Harding
1979		Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider as Al Barber
1979		Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff as Mr. Hemmings

1978		The Time Machine as Gen. Harris
1978		Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell as Dunworth
1978		Vega$ (1 episode)
1978		Heaven Can Wait as General Manager
1978		Texas Detour as Sheriff Burt

1977		The Pack as Cobb
1977		The Car as Amos Clements
1977		Mr. Billion as Sheriff T.C. Bishop
1977		Tales of the Unexpected (1 episode)

1976		Charlie's Angels (1 episode)
1976		Dixie Dynamite as Charlie White - Bank President
1976		Stay Hungry as Thor Erickson

1975		Mean Johnny Barrows as Richard
1975		Starsky & Hutch (1 episode)
1975		Switch (1 episode)
1975		Boss Nigger as Mayor Griffin
1975		White Line Fever as Prosecutor
1975		Race with the Devil as Sheriff Taylor
1975		Baretta (1 episode)

1974		Reflections of Murder as Mr. Turner
1974		The Manhunter (1 episode)
1974		Movin' On (1 episode)
1974		Manhunter as Henry Stratemeyer
1974		The Legend of Hillbilly John as Bristowe

1973		My Name Is Nobody as Honest John
1973		Running Wild as Bull
1973		White Lightning as Big Bear
1973		Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as Ollinger
1973		Prologue to Wounded Knee as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'

1972		The Final Comedown as Mr. Freeman
1972		The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid as Clell Miller
1972		Justin Morgan Had a Horse as Squire Fisk
1972		The Sixth Sense (1 episode)
1972		J.W. Coop as Jim Sawyer

1971		Cannon (3 episodes)
1971		Alias Smith and Jones (1 episode)

1970		The Great White Hope as Captain Dan
1970		The McMasters as Watson
1970		The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Quittner
1970		Tiger by the Tail as Ben Holmes

1969

as Mackray

1968		Here Come the Brides (1 episode)
1968		Lancer (1 episode)
1968		Hawaii Five-O (1 episode) as Warden (1 episode) as Capt. Wade

1967		The High Chaparral (1 episode) as Ed Henderson
1967		The Guns of Will Sonnett (1 episode)
1967		Cimarron Strip (1 episode)
1967		Custer (1 episode)
1967		The Invaders (1 episode) as Police Capt. Bill Battersea (1 episode) as Gus Flagg

1966		El Dorado as Kevin MacDonald
1966		The CAT (26 episodes) as Police Capt. McAllister
1966		Felony Squad (1 episode)
1966		The Time Tunnel (1 episode) as Allan Pinkerton

1965		The F.B.I. (1 episode) as George David Owens (1 episode) as Ed Cray (1 episode) as Sheriff Crowley
1965		The Big Valley (1 episode) as Wallace Miles
1965		Run for Your Life (1 episode) as Edward Loomis
1965		Major Dundee as Reverend Dahlstrom

1964		Daniel Boone (1 episode) as Joseph Garth (1 episode) as Jarvis
1964		Calhoun as Zac Laird
1964		He Rides Tall as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud

1963

(1 episode) as Marshal Matt Peters (1 episode) as Sheriff Bradley (1 episode) as Tully Gage

1962		The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1 episode) as John Cooley (1 episode) as William Downey
1962		The Virginian (1 episode) as Frederick Harley (1 episode) as Ben Winters
1962		Ride the High Country as Joshua Knudsen

1961		Everglades (1 episode)
1961		87th Precinct (1 episode)

1960		Ten Who Dared as Oramel Howland
1960		Surfside 6 (1 episode)
1960		The Andy Griffith Show (1 episode) as Farmer Flint
1960		The Tall Man (1 episode)
1960		The Fugitive Kind as Sheriff Jordan Talbott

1959		Mr. Lucky (1 episode)
1959		The Twilight Zone (1 episode) as Contractor
1959		Riverboat (1 episode) as Rothgate
1959		Bonanza (1 episode) as Nathan Clay (1 episode) as Col. Keith Jarrell (1 episode) as Andrew Holloway
1959		No Name on the Bullet as Asa Canfield
1959		Black Saddle (1 episode)
1959		Rawhide (1 episode) as Sheriff John Keeley (1 episode) as Gantry Hobson (2 episodes) as Enoch Talby

1958		Bat Masterson (1 episode) as Marshal William MacWilliams
1958		The Rifleman (2 episodes)
1958		The Texan (2 episodes)
1958		Bronco (1 episode)
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive (1 episode) as Asa Wynter
1958		Never Love a Stranger as Flix
1958		From Hell to Texas as Hunter Boyd

1957		Maverick (2 episodes) as Wellington Cosgrove
1957		Perry Mason (1 episode) as John Gregory (1 episode) as Harry Bright (1 episode) as Matthew Bartlett
1957		Sugarfoot (1 episode) as Lou Stoner (1 episode) as Clay Calhoun
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel (2 episodes)
1957		A Face in the Crowd as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)

1956		Baby Doll as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
1956		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1 episode) as Sheriff Les Houghton (1 episode) as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson

1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode) as Fred Riordan (1 episode) as Captain Bone
1955		Cheyenne (2 episodes)
1955		Gunsmoke (1 episode) as Carl Anderson (1 episode) as Jud Briar (1 episode) as Major (3 episodes) as Capt. Benter
1955		The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1 episode)

1954		Lassie (1 episode)
1954		Garden of Eden as J. Randolph Latimore

1953

(1 episode) as Jerry Boynton

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