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
Complete Filmography

Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western
2024
as Self
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
A new documentary about Sam Peckinpah's 1974 film 'Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia'.

The Hottest State
2007
Thanks
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
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
2005
as Self
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
2004
as Self
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
2001
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
1999
as Coachman
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
1998
as Old Man
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
1996
as Sam Logan - Storekeeper
A mentally unbalanced man kidnaps the woman carrying his child to prevent her from having an abortion.

Don't Look Back
1996
as Parish
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
1995
as Mac
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
1994
as Retired Texas Ranger
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
1994
as Art Fencer
Street killer is retrained by a black-belt fighter who works for the government.

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
1993
as Self
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
1993
as Franks
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
1990
as Pruneface
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
1989
as Curtis
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
1989
as Pop Luddigger
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
1988
as Miles Blackburn
A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.

Predator
1987
as Major General Homer Phillips
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
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
1987
as Samuel Ealey Johnson
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
1986
as Bettlebom
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
1986
as Sheriff Reese Scoby
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
1986
as Rusty West
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
1986
as Schutte
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

Children of the Corn
1984
as Diehl
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
1983
as T. Tyler
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
1982
as Sheriff Miles Gillette
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
1982
as Lt. O'Mara
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living...

The Beast Within
1982
as Doc Schoonmaker
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
1981
as Government Agent
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
1981
as Dempsey
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
1981
as Rigby
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
1981
as Sarge
Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.

Where the Buffalo Roam
1980
as Judge Simpson
Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
1979
as Leland Stanford
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
1979
as Kellin
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
1979
as Judge Harrison Harding
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
1979
as Al Barber
A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
1979
as Mr. Hemmings
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
1978
as Gen. Harris
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
1978
as Dunworth
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.

Heaven Can Wait
1978
as General Manager
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
1978
as Sheriff Burt
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
1977
as Cobb
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
1977
as Amos Clements
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
1977
as Sheriff T.C. Bishop
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
1976
as Father Reardon
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
1976
as Charlie White - Bank President
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
1976
as Thor Erickson
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
1975
as Richard
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.

Boss Nigger
1975
as Mayor Griffin
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
1975
as Prosecutor
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.

Race with the Devil
1975
as Sheriff Taylor
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
1974
as Mr. Turner
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
1974
as Jim Sawyer
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
1974
as Henry Stratemeyer
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
1974
as Bristowe
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
1973
as Honest John
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
1973
as Bull
A photographer travels to the stunning vistas of Colorado and becomes involved in an effort to save a herd of wild horses.

White Lightning
1973
as Big Bear
An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1973
as Ollinger
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
1973
as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'
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
1973
as Jack
A rodeo rider is killed because Cotter is too drunk to distract the raging bull.

The Century Turns
1972
as Ben Ritt
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
1972
as Mr. Freeman
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
1972
as Clell Miller
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
1972
as Squire Fisk
This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed.

The Great White Hope
1970
as Captain Dan
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
1970
as Watson
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
1970
as Quittner
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
1970
as Ben Holmes
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.

80 Steps to Jonah
1969
as Mackray
Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children.

El Dorado
1966
as Kevin MacDonald
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
1965
as Reverend Dahlstrom
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
1964
as Zac Laird
Unaired pilot for a drama/adventure series about a county agent.

He Rides Tall
1964
as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
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
1962
as Joshua Knudsen
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
1960
as Captain Bone
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
1960
as Oramel Howland
The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyo...

The Fugitive Kind
1960
as Sheriff Jordan Talbott
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
1959
as Asa Canfield
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
1958
as Flix
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
1958
as Hunter Boyd
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
1957
as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
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
1956
as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
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
1954
as J. Randolph Latimore
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.