
R.G. Armstrong
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 7, 1917
- Died
- July 27, 2012 (aged 95)
- Birthplace
- Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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
Filmography
Stockers
Movie · as Mr. Fisk

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
Movie · as Self
Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film
Movie · as Self
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
Movie · as Self

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Movie · as Self

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie · as Self

Keeper of Souls
Movie · as Edward Sloan

Purgatory
Movie · as Coachman

The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie · as Old Man

Don't Look Back
Movie · as Parish

Invasion of Privacy
Movie · as Sam Logan - Storekeeper

Millennium
TV · as The Old Man · 3 eps

Payback
Movie · as Mac

Cybill
TV · as Stitch Sullivan · 1 ep

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
Movie · as Retired Texas Ranger

Dead Center
Movie · as Art Fencer

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Movie · as Self

Warlock: The Armageddon
Movie · as Franks

Walker, Texas Ranger
TV · as Frank Dodge · 2 eps

Dick Tracy
Movie · as Pruneface

Ghetto Blaster
Movie · as Curtis

Trapper County War
Movie · as Pop Luddigger

Quantum Leap
TV · as Davison · 1 ep

Bulletproof
Movie · as Miles Blackburn

War and Remembrance
TV · as 'Moose' Fitzgerald · 1 ep

Predator
Movie · as Major General Homer Phillips

LBJ: The Early Years
Movie · as Samuel Ealey Johnson
Independence
Movie · as Uriah Creed

Friday the 13th: The Series
TV · as Lewis Vendredi · 5 eps

Beauty and the Beast
TV · as Stanley Kazmarek · 1 ep

The Best of Times
Movie · as Schutte

Jocks
Movie · as Bettlebom

Red Headed Stranger
Movie · as Sheriff Reese Scoby

Oceans of Fire
Movie · as Rusty West

L.A. Law
TV · as Frank Osgood · 2 eps

Matlock
TV · as Sheriff Dalton Parks · 2 eps

Children of the Corn
Movie · as Diehl

Lone Wolf McQuade
Movie · as T. Tyler

The Beast Within
Movie · as Doc Schoonmaker

Hammett
Movie · as Lt. O'Mara

The Shadow Riders
Movie · as Sheriff Miles Gillette

Matt Houston
TV · 1 ep

Evilspeak
Movie · as Sarge

Raggedy Man
Movie · as Rigby

Reds
Movie · as Government Agent

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
Movie · as Dempsey

Dynasty
TV · 3 eps

Code Red
TV · 1 ep

Darkroom
TV · as Sheriff Dodson · 1 ep

Where the Buffalo Roam
Movie · as Judge Simpson
Skag
TV · 1 ep

The Legend of the Golden Gun
Movie · as Judge Harrison Harding

Steel
Movie · as Kellin

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Movie · as Mr. Hemmings

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
Movie · as Al Barber

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Movie · as Leland Stanford

Trapper John, M.D.
TV · 1 ep

Heaven Can Wait
Movie · as General Manager

Texas Detour
Movie · as Sheriff Burt

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell
Movie · as Dunworth

The Time Machine
Movie · as Gen. Harris

Vega$
TV · 1 ep

The Car
Movie · as Amos Clements

The Pack
Movie · as Cobb

Mr. Billion
Movie · as Sheriff T.C. Bishop

Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected
TV · 1 ep

Stay Hungry
Movie · as Thor Erickson

Dixie Dynamite
Movie · as Charlie White - Bank President

Kingston
Movie · as Father Reardon

Charlie's Angels
TV · as Sebastian Craig · 1 ep

Race with the Devil
Movie · as Sheriff Taylor

Boss Nigger
Movie · as Mayor Griffin

White Line Fever
Movie · as Prosecutor

Mean Johnny Barrows
Movie · as Richard

Starsky & Hutch
TV · as 'Dad' Watson · 1 ep

Baretta
TV · 1 ep

Switch
TV · as Detective Wills · 1 ep

Manhunter
Movie · as Henry Stratemeyer

Reflections of Murder
Movie · as Mr. Turner

The Legend of Hillbilly John
Movie · as Bristowe

Movin' On
TV · 1 ep

The Manhunter
TV · as Sheriff Mosley

White Lightning
Movie · as Big Bear

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
Movie · as Ollinger

My Name Is Nobody
Movie · as Honest John

Cotter
Movie · as Jack

Running Wild
Movie · as Bull

Prologue to Wounded Knee
Movie · as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Movie · as Clell Miller

Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Movie · as Squire Fisk

The Century Turns
Movie · as Ben Ritt

The Final Comedown
Movie · as Mr. Freeman

J.W. Coop
Movie · as Jim Sawyer

The Sixth Sense
TV · 1 ep

Alias Smith and Jones
TV · 1 ep

Cannon
TV · 3 eps

McMillan & Wife
TV · as Sheriff Farraday · 1 ep

Tiger by the Tail
Movie · as Ben Holmes

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Movie · as Quittner

The McMasters
Movie · as Watson

The Great White Hope
Movie · as Captain Dan

80 Steps to Jonah
Movie · as Mackray

Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Capt. Wade, Warden · 1 ep

Lancer
TV · 1 ep

Here Come the Brides
TV · 1 ep

Cimarron Strip
TV · 1 ep

The High Chaparral
TV · as Ed Henderson · 1 ep

The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV · 1 ep

Custer
TV · 1 ep

The Invaders
TV · as Gus Flagg, Police Capt. Bill Battersea · 1 ep

El Dorado
Movie · as Kevin MacDonald

The Time Tunnel
TV · as Allan Pinkerton · 1 ep

Felony Squad
TV · 1 ep

T.H.E. Cat
TV · as Police Capt. McAllister · 26 eps

Major Dundee
Movie · as Reverend Dahlstrom

The F.B.I.
TV · as Sheriff Crowley, Ed Cray, George David Owens · 1 ep

Run for Your Life
TV · as Edward Loomis · 1 ep

The Big Valley
TV · as Wallace Miles · 1 ep

He Rides Tall
Movie · as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud

Calhoun
Movie · as Zac Laird

Daniel Boone
TV · as Jarvis, Joseph Garth · 1 ep

The Fugitive
TV · as Tully Gage, Sheriff Bradley, Marshal Matt Peters · 1 ep

Ride the High Country
Movie · as Joshua Knudsen

The Virginian
TV · as Ben Winters, Frederick Harley · 1 ep

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as William Downey, John Cooley · 1 ep

Everglades
TV · 1 ep

87th Precinct
TV · as Franklin Phelps · 1 ep

The Fugitive Kind
Movie · as Sheriff Jordan Talbott

Ten Who Dared
Movie · as Oramel Howland

The Man Who Found the Money
Movie · as Captain Bone

The Andy Griffith Show
TV · as Farmer Flint · 1 ep

The Tall Man
TV · 1 ep

The Westerner
TV · as Shell Davidson · 1 ep

Surfside 6
TV · as Paul Wyatt · 1 ep

No Name on the Bullet
Movie · as Asa Canfield

Mr. Lucky
TV · 1 ep

The Twilight Zone
TV · as Contractor · 1 ep

Rawhide
TV · as Enoch Talby, Gantry Hobson, Sheriff John Keeley, Burke · 1 ep

Black Saddle
TV · as Ben Dawes · 1 ep

Riverboat
TV · as Rothgate · 1 ep

Bonanza
TV · as Nathan Clay, Andrew Holloway, Col. Keith Jarrell · 1 ep

From Hell to Texas
Movie · as Hunter Boyd

Never Love a Stranger
Movie · as Flix

Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV · as Asa Wynter · 1 ep

Bat Masterson
TV · as Marshal William MacWilliams · 1 ep

Jefferson Drum
TV · as Kreiger · 1 ep

The Texan
TV · as Big Sam Aldridge, Cliff Clifford · 1 ep

The Rifleman
TV · as Sheriff Tomlinson, Sheriff Fred Tomlinson · 1 ep

Lawman
TV · as Major Ben Rogers · 1 ep

Bronco
TV · as Reverend Hardin · 1 ep

A Face in the Crowd
Movie · as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)

Perry Mason
TV · as Matthew Bartlett, Harry Bright, John Gregory · 1 ep

Have Gun, Will Travel
TV · as Mayor Lovett · 1 ep

Sugarfoot
TV · as Clay Calhoun, Lou Stoner · 1 ep

Maverick
TV · as Wellington Cosgrove · 2 eps

Wagon Train
TV · as John Muskie, General Kirby · 1 ep

Baby Doll
Movie · as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Fred Tomlinson, Sheriff Les Houghton · 1 ep

Cheyenne
TV · as Nathanael Grimm · 1 ep

Gunsmoke
TV · as Capt. Benter, Major, Jud Briar, Carl Anderson · 1 ep

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Captain Bone, Fred Riordan · 1 ep

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
TV · 1 ep

Garden of Eden
Movie · as J. Randolph Latimore

Lassie
TV · 1 ep

The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · as Billy Soto, Jack O'Neal, Squire Fisk · 1 ep

General Electric Theater
TV · as Jerry Boynton · 1 ep