Actor
· Acting
R.G. Armstrong
Born 1917-04-07
Died 2012-07-27
📍 Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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.
Filmography 190
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
as Self
2024
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
as Self
2005
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self
2004
Keeper of Souls
2001
Purgatory
as Coachman
1999
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Old Man
1998
Invasion of Privacy
as Sam Logan - Storekeeper
1996
Millennium
as The Old Man
1996
Don't Look Back
as Parish
1996
Payback
as Mac
1995
Cybill
as Stitch Sullivan
1995
Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
as Retired Texas Ranger
1994
Dead Center
as Art Fencer
1994
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
1993
Warlock: The Armageddon
as Franks
1993
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Frank Dodge
1993
Dick Tracy
as Pruneface
1990
Ghetto Blaster
as Curtis
1989
Quantum Leap
as Davison
1989
Trapper County War
as Pop Luddigger
1989
War and Remembrance
as 'Moose' Fitzgerald
1988
Bulletproof
as Miles Blackburn
1988
Friday the 13th: The Series
as Lewis Vendredi
1987
Beauty and the Beast
as Stanley Kazmarek
1987
Predator
as Major General Homer Phillips
1987
LBJ: The Early Years
as Samuel Ealey Johnson
1987
Jocks
as Bettlebom
1986
Red Headed Stranger
as Sheriff Reese Scoby
1986
Oceans of Fire
as Rusty West
1986
L.A. Law
as Frank Osgood
1986
Matlock
as Sheriff Dalton Parks
1986
The Best of Times
as Schutte
1986
Children of the Corn
as Diehl
1984
Lone Wolf McQuade
as T. Tyler
1983
The Shadow Riders
as Sheriff Miles Gillette
1982
Matt Houston
1982
Hammett
as Lt. O'Mara
1982
The Beast Within
as Doc Schoonmaker
1982
Reds
as Government Agent
1981
Darkroom
1981
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
as Dempsey
1981
Code Red
1981
Raggedy Man
as Rigby
1981
Evilspeak
as Sarge
1981
Dynasty
1981
Where the Buffalo Roam
as Judge Simpson
1980
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
as Leland Stanford
1979
Steel
as Kellin
1979
Trapper John, M.D.
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
1979
The Time Machine
as Gen. Harris
1978
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
as Dunworth
1978
Vega$
1978
Heaven Can Wait
as General Manager
1978
Texas Detour
as Sheriff Burt
1978
The Pack
as Cobb
1977
The Car
as Amos Clements
1977
Mr. Billion
as Sheriff T.C. Bishop
1977
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
Charlie's Angels
as Sebastian Craig
1976
Kingston
as Father Reardon
1976
Dixie Dynamite
as Charlie White - Bank President
1976
Stay Hungry
as Thor Erickson
1976
Mean Johnny Barrows
as Richard
1975
Starsky & Hutch
as 'Dad' Watson
1975
Switch
as Detective Wills
1975
Boss Nigger
as Mayor Griffin
1975
White Line Fever
as Prosecutor
1975
Race with the Devil
as Sheriff Taylor
1975
Baretta
1975
Reflections of Murder
as Mr. Turner
1974
Movin' On
1974
The Manhunter
1974
Manhunter
as Henry Stratemeyer
1974
The Legend of Hillbilly John
as Bristowe
1974
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'
1973
Cotter
as Jack
1973
The Century Turns
as Ben Ritt
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
1972
J.W. Coop
as Jim Sawyer
1972
McMillan & Wife
as Sheriff Farraday
1971
Cannon
1971
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
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
1970
80 Steps to Jonah
as Mackray
1969
Here Come the Brides
1968
Lancer
1968
Hawaii Five-O
as Capt. Wade
1968
Hawaii Five-O
as Warden
1968
The High Chaparral
as Ed Henderson
1967
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Cimarron Strip
1967
Custer
1967
The Invaders
as Gus Flagg
1967
The Invaders
as Police Capt. Bill Battersea
1967
El Dorado
as Kevin MacDonald
1966
T.H.E. Cat
as Police Capt. McAllister
1966
T.H.E. Cat
as Capt. McAllister
1966
Felony Squad
1966
The Time Tunnel
as Allan Pinkerton
1966
The F.B.I.
as Sheriff Crowley
1965
The F.B.I.
as Ed Cray
1965
The F.B.I.
as George David Owens
1965
The Big Valley
as Wallace Miles
1965
Run for Your Life
as Edward Loomis
1965
Major Dundee
as Reverend Dahlstrom
1965
Daniel Boone
as Jarvis
1964
Daniel Boone
as Joseph Garth
1964
Calhoun
as Zac Laird
1964
He Rides Tall
as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
1964
The Fugitive
as Tully Gage
1963
The Fugitive
as Sheriff Bradley
1963
The Fugitive
as Marshal Matt Peters
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as William Downey
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as John Cooley
1962
The Virginian
as Ben Winters
1962
The Virginian
as Frederick Harley
1962
Ride the High Country
as Joshua Knudsen
1962
Everglades
1961
87th Precinct
as Franklin Phelps
1961
The Man Who Found the Money
as Captain Bone
1960
Ten Who Dared
as Oramel Howland
1960
Surfside 6
as Paul Wyatt
1960
The Andy Griffith Show
as Farmer Flint
1960
The Westerner
as Shell Davidson
1960
The Tall Man
1960
The Fugitive Kind
as Sheriff Jordan Talbott
1960
Mr. Lucky
1959
The Twilight Zone
as Contractor
1959
Riverboat
as Rothgate
1959
Bonanza
as Nathan Clay
1959
Bonanza
as Andrew Holloway
1959
Bonanza
as Col. Keith Jarrell
1959
No Name on the Bullet
as Asa Canfield
1959
Black Saddle
as Ben Dawes
1959
Rawhide
as Enoch Talby
1959
Rawhide
as Gantry Hobson
1959
Rawhide
as Sheriff John Keeley
1959
Rawhide
as Burke
1959
Bat Masterson
as Marshal William MacWilliams
1958
Lawman
as Major Ben Rogers
1958
The Rifleman
as Sheriff Tomlinson
1958
The Rifleman
as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
1958
The Texan
as Big Sam Aldridge
1958
The Texan
as Cliff Clifford
1958
Bronco
1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Asa Wynter
1958
Never Love a Stranger
as Flix
1958
From Hell to Texas
as Hunter Boyd
1958
Maverick
as Wellington Cosgrove
1957
Perry Mason
as Matthew Bartlett
1957
Perry Mason
as Harry Bright
1957
Perry Mason
as John Gregory
1957
Wagon Train
as John Muskie
1957
Wagon Train
as General Kirby
1957
Sugarfoot
as Clay Calhoun
1957
Sugarfoot
as Lou Stoner
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Mayor Lovett
1957
A Face in the Crowd
as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
1957
Baby Doll
as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Les Houghton
1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Captain Bone
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Fred Riordan
1955
Cheyenne
1955
Cheyenne
as Nathanael Grimm
1955
Gunsmoke
as Capt. Benter
1955
Gunsmoke
as Major
1955
Gunsmoke
as Jud Briar
1955
Gunsmoke
as Carl Anderson
1955
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Billy Soto
1954
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Jack O'Neal
1954
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Squire Fisk
1954
Lassie
1954
Garden of Eden
as J. Randolph Latimore
1954
General Electric Theater
as Jerry Boynton
1953