Birthday:
Apr 07, 1917
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
R.G. Armstrong
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Predator | Major General Homer Phillips | 1987 |
| Tiger by the Tail | Ben Holmes | 1970 |
| Children of the Corn | Diehl | 1984 |
| Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion | Retired Texas Ranger | 1994 |
| Stay Hungry | Thor Erickson | 1976 |
| White Lightning | Big Bear | 1973 |
| The Best of Times | Schutte | 1986 |
| Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | Ollinger | 1973 |
| El Dorado | Kevin MacDonald | 1966 |
| The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Quittner | 1970 |
| The Car | Amos Clements | 1977 |
| Race with the Devil | Sheriff Taylor | 1975 |
| My Name Is Nobody | Honest John | 1973 |
| Boss Nigger | Mayor Griffin | 1975 |
| Where the Buffalo Roam | Judge Simpson | 1980 |
| The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Clell Miller | 1972 |
| Ride the High Country | Joshua Knudsen | 1962 |
| Major Dundee | Reverend Dahlstrom | 1965 |
| White Line Fever | Prosecutor | 1975 |
| Keeper of Souls | 2001 | |
| The Legend of the Golden Gun | Judge Harrison Harding | 1979 |
| Heaven Can Wait | General Manager | 1978 |
| Steel | Kellin | 1979 |
| The Fugitive Kind | Sheriff Jordan Talbott | 1960 |
| Evilspeak | Sarge | 1981 |
| Cotter | Jack | 1973 |
| Jocks | Bettlebom | 1986 |
| Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah | Self | 2005 |
| No Name on the Bullet | Asa Canfield | 1959 |
| Dixie Dynamite | Charlie White - Bank President | 1976 |
| Payback | Mac | 1995 |
| The Pack | Cobb | 1977 |
| Ghetto Blaster | Curtis | 1989 |
| The McMasters | Watson | 1970 |
| Raggedy Man | Rigby | 1981 |
| Manhunter | Henry Stratemeyer | 1974 |
| Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | Self | 1993 |
| Reflections of Murder | Mr. Turner | 1974 |
| Texas Detour | Sheriff Burt | 1978 |
| A Face in the Crowd | Teleprompter Operator (uncredited) | 1957 |
| Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff | Mr. Hemmings | 1979 |
| Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Squire Fisk | 1972 |
| The Legend of Hillbilly John | Bristowe | 1974 |
| He Rides Tall | Joshua 'Josh' McCloud | 1964 |
| Ten Who Dared | Oramel Howland | 1960 |
| 80 Steps to Jonah | Mackray | 1969 |
| From Hell to Texas | Hunter Boyd | 1958 |
| The Century Turns | Ben Ritt | 1972 |
| Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self | 2004 |
| Red Headed Stranger | Sheriff Reese Scoby | 1986 |
| Lone Wolf McQuade | T. Tyler | 1983 |
| Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell | Dunworth | 1978 |
| Bulletproof | Miles Blackburn | 1988 |
| Kingston | Father Reardon | 1976 |
| Reds | Government Agent | 1981 |
| Mean Johnny Barrows | Richard | 1975 |
| Don't Look Back | Parish | 1996 |
| Calhoun | Zac Laird | 1964 |
| The Great White Hope | Captain Dan | 1970 |
| LBJ: The Early Years | Samuel Ealey Johnson | 1987 |
| The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper | Dempsey | 1981 |
| Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western | Self | 2024 |
| Warlock: The Armageddon | Franks | 1993 |
| The Beast Within | Doc Schoonmaker | 1982 |
| Invasion of Privacy | Sam Logan - Storekeeper | 1996 |
| Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider | Al Barber | 1979 |
| Independence | Uriah Creed | 1987 |
| Hammett | Lt. O'Mara | 1982 |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | Old Man | 1998 |
| Oceans of Fire | Rusty West | 1986 |
| Never Love a Stranger | Flix | 1958 |
| The Time Machine | Gen. Harris | 1978 |
| The Final Comedown | Mr. Freeman | 1972 |
| J.W. Coop | Jim Sawyer | 1974 |
| Dick Tracy | Pruneface | 1990 |
| The Shadow Riders | Sheriff Miles Gillette | 1982 |
| The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang | Leland Stanford | 1979 |
| Purgatory | Coachman | 1999 |
| Dead Center | Art Fencer | 1994 |
| Running Wild | Bull | 1973 |
| Trapper County War | Pop Luddigger | 1989 |
| Mr. Billion | Sheriff T.C. Bishop | 1977 |
| Sam Peckinpah: Portrait | Self | 2006 |
| Baby Doll | Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited) | 1956 |
| Prologue to Wounded Knee | Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar' | 1973 |
| Garden of Eden | J. Randolph Latimore | 1954 |
| The Man Who Found the Money | Captain Bone | 1960 | Series | Cast | Year |
| The Time Tunnel | Allan Pinkerton | 1966 |
| The Andy Griffith Show | Farmer Flint | 1960 |
| Movin' On | 1974 | |
| Cheyenne | 1955 | |
| Trapper John, M.D. | 1979 | |
| L.A. Law | Frank Osgood | 1986 |
| Starsky & Hutch | 'Dad' Watson | 1975 |
| The F.B.I. | Sheriff Crowley | 1965 |
| Mr. Lucky | 1959 | |
| Friday the 13th: The Series | Lewis Vendredi | 1987 |
| Matlock | 1986 | |
| Hawaii Five-O | Capt. Wade | 1968 |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1987 | |
| Cybill | 1995 | |
| Baretta | 1975 | |
| Alias Smith and Jones | 1971 | |
| Dynasty | 1981 | |
| Walker, Texas Ranger | Frank Dodge | 1993 |
| Charlie's Angels | Sebastian Craig | 1976 |
| Quantum Leap | Davison | 1989 |
| Gunsmoke | Capt. Benter | 1955 |
| Perry Mason | Matthew Bartlett | 1957 |
| Millennium | 1996 | |
| General Electric Theater | Jerry Boynton | 1953 |
| Lassie | 1954 | |
| Cannon | 1971 | |
| Darkroom | 1981 | |
| The Twilight Zone | Contractor | 1959 |
| The Tall Man | 1960 | |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Captain Bone | 1955 |
| Everglades | 1961 | |
| 87th Precinct | 1961 | |
| Felony Squad | 1966 | |
| Rawhide | Enoch Talby | 1959 |
| Vega$ | 1978 | |
| Skag | 1980 | |
| Run for Your Life | Edward Loomis | 1965 |
| Have Gun, Will Travel | 1957 | |
| Cimarron Strip | 1967 | |
| The Fugitive | Tully Gage | 1963 |
| Daniel Boone | Jarvis | 1964 |
| The High Chaparral | Ed Henderson | 1967 |
| Switch | Detective Wills | 1975 |
| The Virginian | Ben Winters | 1962 |
| Lancer | 1968 | |
| The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | 1955 | |
| Matt Houston | 1982 | |
| The Big Valley | Wallace Miles | 1965 |
| Here Come the Brides | 1968 | |
| Bronco | 1958 | |
| The Sixth Sense | 1972 | |
| Black Saddle | Ben Dawes | 1959 |
| T.H.E. Cat | Police Capt. McAllister | 1966 |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | Asa Wynter | 1958 |
| Sugarfoot | Clay Calhoun | 1957 |
| Bat Masterson | Marshal William MacWilliams | 1958 |
| The Guns of Will Sonnett | 1967 | |
| Riverboat | Rothgate | 1959 |
| The Texan | 1958 | |
| The Manhunter | 1974 | |
| Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Sheriff Fred Tomlinson | 1956 |
| Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected | 1977 | |
| Custer | 1967 | |
| Jefferson Drum | Kreiger | 1958 |
| Maverick | Wellington Cosgrove | 1957 |
| The Texan | Big Sam Aldridge | 1958 |
| The F.B.I. | Ed Cray | 1965 |
| The F.B.I. | George David Owens | 1965 |
| Rawhide | Gantry Hobson | 1959 |
| The Fugitive | Sheriff Bradley | 1963 |
| The Fugitive | Marshal Matt Peters | 1963 |
| Rawhide | Sheriff John Keeley | 1959 |
| Sugarfoot | Lou Stoner | 1957 |
| The Virginian | Frederick Harley | 1962 |
| Gunsmoke | Major | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | Jud Briar | 1955 |
| Gunsmoke | Carl Anderson | 1955 |
| Code Red | 1981 | |
| Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre | Sheriff Les Houghton | 1956 |
| Daniel Boone | Joseph Garth | 1964 |
| Perry Mason | Harry Bright | 1957 |
| Hawaii Five-O | Warden | 1968 |
| McMillan & Wife | Sheriff Farraday | 1971 |
| Perry Mason | John Gregory | 1957 |
| Have Gun, Will Travel | Mayor Lovett | 1957 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Fred Riordan | 1955 |
| Bonanza | Nathan Clay | 1959 |
| Bonanza | Andrew Holloway | 1959 |
| Bonanza | Col. Keith Jarrell | 1959 |
| T.H.E. Cat | Capt. McAllister | 1966 |
| The Wonderful World of Disney | Billy Soto | 1954 |
| Millennium | The Old Man | 1996 |
| The Invaders | Gus Flagg | 1967 |
| Cheyenne | Nathanael Grimm | 1955 |
| The Invaders | Police Capt. Bill Battersea | 1967 |
| The Westerner | Shell Davidson | 1960 |
| The Wonderful World of Disney | Jack O'Neal | 1954 |
| The Wonderful World of Disney | Squire Fisk | 1954 |
| Surfside 6 | Paul Wyatt | 1960 |
| The Rifleman | Sheriff Tomlinson | 1958 |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | William Downey | 1962 |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | John Cooley | 1962 |
| Rawhide | Burke | 1959 |
| The Rifleman | Sheriff Fred Tomlinson | 1958 |
