R.G. Armstrong

R.G. Armstrong

1917-04-07 Birmingham, Alabama, USA 89 Credits

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.

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Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western

2024

as Self

Acting

A documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's last western, "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid" (1973).

Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film

2014

as Self

Acting

A new documentary about Sam Peckinpah's 1974 film 'Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia'.

The Hottest State

The Hottest State

2007

Thanks

5.4

A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait

2006

as Self

Acting

A portrait of director Sam Peckinpah focusing more on his personal life than his moviemaking - featuring lots of interviews, backstage footage and eve...

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

2005

as Self

7.0
Acting

Portrayal of a talented, influencial and troubled artist: a filmmaker who fought his own demons and seemed to live his own legend like no other direct...

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self

7.8
Acting

An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western...

Keeper of Souls

Keeper of Souls

2001

2.0
Acting

A young couple hopes to begin their lives together, but the appearance of a demon threatens to destroy their plans as it wreaks havoc on a small South...

Purgatory

Purgatory

1999

as Coachman

7.2
Acting

An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and th...

The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

1998

as Old Man

5.2
Acting

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...

Invasion of Privacy

Invasion of Privacy

1996

as Sam Logan - Storekeeper

4.4
Acting

A mentally unbalanced man kidnaps the woman carrying his child to prevent her from having an abortion.

Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back

1996

as Parish

4.6
Acting

Los Angeles heroin addict Jesse endangers the lives of his childhood friends after he discovers a briefcase full of money from a drug deal gone bad, a...

Payback

Payback

1995

as Mac

5.2
Acting

Oscar Bonsetter tells a dying prisoner that he will take revenge on the sadistic guard who killed him. In exchange, Oscar is told of a stash of money....

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion

Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion

1994

as Retired Texas Ranger

7.2
Acting

An experienced member of Texas Rangers, a special police unit, arrives to compete in a pistol shooting tournament, but so does a hitman who's planing ...

Dead Center

Dead Center

1994

as Art Fencer

3.0
Acting

Street killer is retrained by a black-belt fighter who works for the government.

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

1993

as Self

6.9
Acting

This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw ...

Warlock: The Armageddon

Warlock: The Armageddon

1993

as Franks

5.3
Acting

Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the ev...

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

1990

as Pruneface

6.2
Acting

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Ca...

Ghetto Blaster

Ghetto Blaster

1989

as Curtis

2.7
Acting

When Travis, middle-aged, working class man, returns home to visit his parents, he quickly learns that his hood is rife with criminal activity and gan...

Trapper County War

Trapper County War

1989

as Pop Luddigger

3.5
Acting

A pair of city boys get in trouble with a backwoods North Carolina family, when the boys try to stop the abuse of the family's step daughter. A pair o...

Bulletproof

Bulletproof

1988

as Miles Blackburn

5.0
Acting

A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.

Predator

Predator

1987

as Major General Homer Phillips

7.5
Acting

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

Independence

1987

as Uriah Creed

Acting

A dedicated sheriff in the 1880s who, after his first family is ravaged by a gang of renegades, gets a chance for revenge years later when the same ou...

LBJ: The Early Years

LBJ: The Early Years

1987

as Samuel Ealey Johnson

7.5
Acting

LBJ: The Early Years was a television movie that appeared on the NBC network in February 1987, depicting the life of former President of the United St...

Jocks

Jocks

1986

as Bettlebom

4.4
Acting

When an odd-ball tennis team of a Los Angeles college sets out on a road trip to a regional college tennis tournament in fun-filled Las Vegas, all the...

Red Headed Stranger

Red Headed Stranger

1986

as Sheriff Reese Scoby

5.2
Acting

Reverend Julian Shay (Willie Nelson) strode into the saloon, pulled out his six-shooter, and killed his adulterous wife (Morgan Fairchild) and the man...

Oceans of Fire

Oceans of Fire

1986

as Rusty West

4.4
Acting

Ben, a former Navy officer now works on a rig as the guy in charge, but since a lot of crew keeps dying whilst diving and planting the rig in the sea ...

The Best of Times

The Best of Times

1986

as Schutte

5.6
Acting

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

Children of the Corn

Children of the Corn

1984

as Diehl

5.7
Acting

A traveling couple end up in an abandoned Nebraska town inhabited by a cult of murderous children who worship a demon that lives in the local cornfiel...

Lone Wolf McQuade

Lone Wolf McQuade

1983

as T. Tyler

6.5
Acting

The archetypical renegade Texas Ranger wages war against a drug kingpin with automatic weapons, his wits and martial arts after a gun battle leaves hi...

The Shadow Riders

The Shadow Riders

1982

as Sheriff Miles Gillette

6.5
Acting

After starring in "The Sacketts", Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott team up again but this time as Mac and Dal Traven, in a movie based on a classic Louis L...

Hammett

Hammett

1982

as Lt. O'Mara

6.2
Acting

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...

The Beast Within

The Beast Within

1982

as Doc Schoonmaker

5.5
Acting

A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty na...

Reds

Reds

1981

as Government Agent

6.9
Acting

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co...

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

1981

as Dempsey

5.3
Acting

A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a ...

Raggedy Man

Raggedy Man

1981

as Rigby

5.3
Acting

Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on l...

Evilspeak

Evilspeak

1981

as Sarge

5.3
Acting

Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

Where the Buffalo Roam

Where the Buffalo Roam

1980

as Judge Simpson

5.9
Acting

Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

1979

as Leland Stanford

2.1
Acting

A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a ...

Steel

Steel

1979

as Kellin

5.3
Acting

Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heigh...

The Legend of the Golden Gun

The Legend of the Golden Gun

1979

as Judge Harrison Harding

5.0
Acting

In Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw William Q...

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

1979

as Al Barber

5.1
Acting

A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

1979

as Mr. Hemmings

5.4
Acting

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to gri...

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

1978

as Gen. Harris

4.7
Acting

A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell

1978

as Dunworth

6.4
Acting

A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven Can Wait

1978

as General Manager

6.6
Acting

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to...

Texas Detour

Texas Detour

1978

as Sheriff Burt

4.3
Acting

Three California teenagers on a road trip have their van stolen and end up stranded in a backwoods town with a sheriff who refuses to help. The trip t...

The Pack

The Pack

1977

as Cobb

6.9
Acting

The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs -- the remnants of discarded pets by visiting vacationers.

The Car

The Car

1977

as Amos Clements

6.3
Acting

The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the...

Mr. Billion

Mr. Billion

1977

as Sheriff T.C. Bishop

5.5
Acting

An Italian mechanic finds that he has inherited a billion-dollar company from his dead uncle, but he needs to be in San Francisco in 20 days to sign o...

Kingston

Kingston

1976

as Father Reardon

Acting

In this pilot for the "Kingston: Confidential" series, an investigative reporter, backed by the head of a newspaper and TV chain, uncovers a plot to u...

Dixie Dynamite

Dixie Dynamite

1976

as Charlie White - Bank President

5.4
Acting

When their moonshiner father is killed by a corrupt deputy, two young girls decide to take over his business and get revenge on the men who had him ki...

Stay Hungry

Stay Hungry

1976

as Thor Erickson

5.7
Acting

A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after...

Mean Johnny Barrows

Mean Johnny Barrows

1975

as Richard

5.5
Acting

A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.

Boss Nigger

Boss Nigger

1975

as Mayor Griffin

6.7
Acting

Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that ...

White Line Fever

White Line Fever

1975

as Prosecutor

6.0
Acting

An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.

Race with the Devil

Race with the Devil

1975

as Sheriff Taylor

6.4
Acting

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

Reflections of Murder

Reflections of Murder

1974

as Mr. Turner

7.0
Acting

The wife and mistress of the abusive headmaster of a boy's school plot and carry out his murder. They dump his body in the murky swimming pool at the ...

J.W. Coop

J.W. Coop

1974

as Jim Sawyer

5.4
Acting

After losing eight years to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professional rodeo cowboy in the 60's. Determined to make up ...

Manhunter

Manhunter

1974

as Henry Stratemeyer

6.5
Acting

Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two...

The Legend of Hillbilly John

The Legend of Hillbilly John

1974

as Bristowe

5.3
Acting

A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.

My Name Is Nobody

My Name Is Nobody

1973

as Honest John

7.3
Acting

Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idoli...

Running Wild

Running Wild

1973

as Bull

Acting

A photographer travels to the stunning vistas of Colorado and becomes involved in an effort to save a herd of wild horses.

White Lightning

White Lightning

1973

as Big Bear

6.2
Acting

An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973

as Ollinger

7.2
Acting

Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

Prologue to Wounded Knee

Prologue to Wounded Knee

1973

as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'

6.0
Acting

An Indian is accused of the rape and murder of a white girl. The girl's stepfather incites the townspeople to punish the Indian - to cover up the fact...

Cotter

Cotter

1973

as Jack

1.0
Acting

A rodeo rider is killed because Cotter is too drunk to distract the raging bull.

The Century Turns

The Century Turns

1972

as Ben Ritt

Acting

An old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. He teams up with college-educated criminologist to s...

The Final Comedown

The Final Comedown

1972

as Mr. Freeman

6.2
Acting

Prejudice transforms a young black man into an armed militant leader, who believes the only answer to racism is violent revolution.

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

1972

as Clell Miller

5.6
Acting

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

Justin Morgan Had a Horse

1972

as Squire Fisk

7.8
Acting

This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed.

The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope

1970

as Captain Dan

6.2
Acting

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

The McMasters

The McMasters

1970

as Watson

4.4
Acting

When a black Civil War veteran becomes co-owner of the southern McMasters ranch, the incensed local Confederate veterans come gunning for him and his ...

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970

as Quittner

7.0
Acting

Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest ...

Tiger by the Tail

Tiger by the Tail

1970

as Ben Holmes

5.0
Acting

Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.

80 Steps to Jonah

80 Steps to Jonah

1969

as Mackray

4.6
Acting

Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children.

El Dorado

El Dorado

1966

as Kevin MacDonald

7.4
Acting

Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher...

Major Dundee

Major Dundee

1965

as Reverend Dahlstrom

6.7
Acting

During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on a...

Calhoun

Calhoun

1964

as Zac Laird

6.0
Acting

Unaired pilot for a drama/adventure series about a county agent.

He Rides Tall

He Rides Tall

1964

as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud

5.6
Acting

A rancher is pressured by his cheating wife and a gang leader, into trying to cripple a marshal's gun hand, after that marshal killed his murderous so...

Ride the High Country

Ride the High Country

1962

as Joshua Knudsen

7.0
Acting

An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old f...

The Man Who Found the Money

The Man Who Found the Money

1960

as Captain Bone

Acting

A teacher reports to the police that he found $92,000 in a clip, amid claims that $10,000 of the money is missing.

Ten Who Dared

Ten Who Dared

1960

as Oramel Howland

5.9
Acting

The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyo...

The Fugitive Kind

The Fugitive Kind

1960

as Sheriff Jordan Talbott

6.9
Acting

Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dy...

No Name on the Bullet

No Name on the Bullet

1959

as Asa Canfield

6.6
Acting

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of...

Never Love a Stranger

Never Love a Stranger

1958

as Flix

4.9
Acting

Orphan turns bad, finds redemption with some help from boyhood pal. This movie is of interest because of the presence of a young Steve McQueen, the l...

From Hell to Texas

From Hell to Texas

1958

as Hunter Boyd

5.9
Acting

The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man's vengef...

A Face in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd

1957

as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)

7.6
Acting

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king...

Baby Doll

Baby Doll

1956

as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for fi...

Garden of Eden

Garden of Eden

1954

as J. Randolph Latimore

4.3
Acting

War widow and pre-teen daughter leave home of tyrannical father-in-law in Florida, get lost on a detour, and find shelter at a nudist colony.