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Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 7, 1917
Died
July 27, 2012
Place of Birth
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Also Known As
- R. G. Armstrong
- Robert Golden Armstrong
- Robert Armstrong
- Robert Golden Armstrong Jr.
R.G. Armstrong
1.1 Popularity
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
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Self
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
2024
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Self
Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film
2014
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Self
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
2006
7.0
Self
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
7.4
Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
2.0
Keeper of Souls
2001
7.2
Coachman
Purgatory
1999
5.2
Old Man
The Man in the Iron Mask
1998
4.4
Sam Logan - Storekeeper
Invasion of Privacy
1996
7.7
Millennium
1996
Credits
Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
as Self
2024
0.0
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Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film
as Self
2014
0.0
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Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
as Self
2006
0.0
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
as Self
2005
7.0
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self
2004
7.4
Keeper of Souls
2001
2.0
Purgatory
as Coachman
1999
7.2
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Old Man
1998
5.2
Invasion of Privacy
as Sam Logan - Storekeeper
1996
4.4
Millennium
1996
7.7
Millennium
as The Old Man
1996
7.7
Don't Look Back
as Parish
1996
4.6
Payback
as Mac
1995
5.3
Cybill
1995
5.8
Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
as Retired Texas Ranger
1994
7.2
Dead Center
as Art Fencer
1994
3.0
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
as Self
1993
6.9
Warlock: The Armageddon
as Franks
1993
5.2
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Frank Dodge
1993
7.0
Dick Tracy
as Pruneface
1990
6.1
Ghetto Blaster
as Curtis
1989
2.7
Quantum Leap
as Davison
1989
8.0
Trapper County War
as Pop Luddigger
1989
3.5
Bulletproof
as Miles Blackburn
1988
5.1
Friday the 13th: The Series
as Lewis Vendredi
1987
7.3
Beauty and the Beast
1987
7.5
Predator
as Major General Homer Phillips
1987
7.5
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Independence
as Uriah Creed
1987
0.0
LBJ: The Early Years
as Samuel Ealey Johnson
1987
7.5
Jocks
as Bettlebom
1986
4.4
Red Headed Stranger
as Sheriff Reese Scoby
1986
5.2
Oceans of Fire
as Rusty West
1986
4.4
L.A. Law
as Frank Osgood
1986
7.1
Matlock
1986
7.1
The Best of Times
as Schutte
1986
5.6
Children of the Corn
as Diehl
1984
5.7
Lone Wolf McQuade
as T. Tyler
1983
6.5
The Shadow Riders
as Sheriff Miles Gillette
1982
6.5
Matt Houston
1982
6.2
Hammett
as Lt. O'Mara
1982
6.2
The Beast Within
as Doc Schoonmaker
1982
5.5
Reds
as Government Agent
1981
6.9
Darkroom
1981
7.2
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
as Dempsey
1981
5.3
Code Red
1981
5.5
Raggedy Man
as Rigby
1981
5.3
Evilspeak
as Sarge
1981
5.3
Dynasty
1981
6.5
Where the Buffalo Roam
as Judge Simpson
1980
5.9
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Skag
1980
0.0
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
as Leland Stanford
1979
2.1
Steel
as Kellin
1979
5.3
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
6.5
The Legend of the Golden Gun
as Judge Harrison Harding
1979
5.0
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
as Al Barber
1979
5.1
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
as Mr. Hemmings
1979
5.4
The Time Machine
as Gen. Harris
1978
4.7
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
as Dunworth
1978
6.4
Vega$
1978
7.0
Heaven Can Wait
as General Manager
1978
6.6
Texas Detour
as Sheriff Burt
1978
4.3
The Pack
as Cobb
1977
6.9
The Car
as Amos Clements
1977
6.3
Mr. Billion
as Sheriff T.C. Bishop
1977
5.5
Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
1977
6.0
Charlie's Angels
as Sebastian Craig
1976
6.7
Kingston
as Father Reardon
1976
0.0
Dixie Dynamite
as Charlie White - Bank President
1976
5.4
Stay Hungry
as Thor Erickson
1976
5.7
Mean Johnny Barrows
as Richard
1975
5.5
Starsky & Hutch
as 'Dad' Watson
1975
7.2
Switch
as Detective Wills
1975
6.7
Boss Nigger
as Mayor Griffin
1975
6.7
White Line Fever
as Prosecutor
1975
6.0
Race with the Devil
as Sheriff Taylor
1975
6.4
Baretta
1975
6.3
Reflections of Murder
as Mr. Turner
1974
7.0
Movin' On
1974
5.2
The Manhunter
1974
5.0
J.W. Coop
as Jim Sawyer
1974
5.4
Manhunter
as Henry Stratemeyer
1974
6.5
The Legend of Hillbilly John
as Bristowe
1974
5.3
My Name Is Nobody
as Honest John
1973
7.3
Running Wild
as Bull
1973
0.0
White Lightning
as Big Bear
1973
6.2
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
as Ollinger
1973
7.2
Prologue to Wounded Knee
as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'
1973
6.0
Cotter
as Jack
1973
1.0
The Century Turns
as Ben Ritt
1972
0.0
The Final Comedown
as Mr. Freeman
1972
6.2
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
as Clell Miller
1972
5.6
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
as Squire Fisk
1972
7.8
The Sixth Sense
1972
6.3
McMillan & Wife
as Sheriff Farraday
1971
6.9
Cannon
1971
6.5
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
6.9
The Great White Hope
as Captain Dan
1970
6.1
The McMasters
as Watson
1970
4.4
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
as Quittner
1970
7.0
Tiger by the Tail
as Ben Holmes
1970
5.0
80 Steps to Jonah
as Mackray
1969
4.6
Here Come the Brides
1968
6.0
Lancer
1968
4.7
Hawaii Five-O
as Capt. Wade
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Warden
1968
7.1
The High Chaparral
as Ed Henderson
1967
6.5
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.2
Cimarron Strip
1967
5.0
Custer
1967
6.0
The Invaders
as Gus Flagg
1967
6.8
The Invaders
as Police Capt. Bill Battersea
1967
6.8
El Dorado
as Kevin MacDonald
1966
7.4
T.H.E. Cat
as Police Capt. McAllister
1966
8.0
T.H.E. Cat
as Capt. McAllister
1966
8.0
Felony Squad
1966
6.4
The Time Tunnel
as Allan Pinkerton
1966
7.6
The F.B.I.
as Sheriff Crowley
1965
5.5
The F.B.I.
as Ed Cray
1965
5.5
The F.B.I.
as George David Owens
1965
5.5
The Big Valley
as Wallace Miles
1965
6.1
Run for Your Life
as Edward Loomis
1965
7.2
Major Dundee
as Reverend Dahlstrom
1965
6.7
Daniel Boone
as Jarvis
1964
6.9
Daniel Boone
as Joseph Garth
1964
6.9
Calhoun
as Zac Laird
1964
6.0
He Rides Tall
as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
1964
5.6
The Fugitive
as Tully Gage
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Marshal Matt Peters
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Sheriff Bradley
1963
7.2
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as William Downey
1962
7.8
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as John Cooley
1962
7.8
The Virginian
as Ben Winters
1962
6.5
The Virginian
as Frederick Harley
1962
6.5
Ride the High Country
as Joshua Knudsen
1962
7.0
Everglades
1961
8.5
87th Precinct
as Franklin Phelps
1961
7.5
The Man Who Found the Money
as Captain Bone
1960
0.0
Ten Who Dared
as Oramel Howland
1960
5.9
Surfside 6
as Paul Wyatt
1960
5.0
The Andy Griffith Show
as Farmer Flint
1960
7.6
The Westerner
as Shell Davidson
1960
6.8
The Tall Man
1960
6.3
The Fugitive Kind
as Sheriff Jordan Talbott
1960
6.8
Mr. Lucky
1959
6.4
The Twilight Zone
as Contractor
1959
8.4
Riverboat
as Rothgate
1959
6.2
Bonanza
as Nathan Clay
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Andrew Holloway
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Col. Keith Jarrell
1959
7.5
No Name on the Bullet
as Asa Canfield
1959
6.6
Black Saddle
as Ben Dawes
1959
6.0
Rawhide
as Enoch Talby
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Gantry Hobson
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Sheriff John Keeley
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Burke
1959
7.2
Bat Masterson
as Marshal William MacWilliams
1958
6.1
Lawman
as Major Ben Rogers
1958
5.6
The Rifleman
as Sheriff Tomlinson
1958
7.0
The Rifleman
as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
1958
7.0
The Texan
1958
5.5
The Texan
as Big Sam Aldridge
1958
5.5
Bronco
1958
5.2
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Asa Wynter
1958
6.9
Never Love a Stranger
as Flix
1958
4.9
From Hell to Texas
as Hunter Boyd
1958
5.9
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Jefferson Drum
as Kreiger
1958
4.5
Maverick
as Wellington Cosgrove
1957
6.8
Perry Mason
as Matthew Bartlett
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Harry Bright
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as John Gregory
1957
7.7
Wagon Train
as John Muskie
1957
6.3
Sugarfoot
as Clay Calhoun
1957
4.8
Sugarfoot
as Lou Stoner
1957
4.8
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
7.4
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Mayor Lovett
1957
7.4
A Face in the Crowd
as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
1957
7.6
Baby Doll
as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
1956
7.1
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
1956
5.5
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Sheriff Les Houghton
1956
5.5
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Captain Bone
1955
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Fred Riordan
1955
7.7
Cheyenne
1955
5.8
Cheyenne
as Nathanael Grimm
1955
5.8
Gunsmoke
as Capt. Benter
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Major
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Jud Briar
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Carl Anderson
1955
6.6
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
6.6
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Billy Soto
1954
7.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Jack O'Neal
1954
7.8
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Squire Fisk
1954
7.8
Lassie
1954
6.1
Garden of Eden
as J. Randolph Latimore
1954
4.3
General Electric Theater
as Jerry Boynton
1953
6.3