R.G. Armstrong

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

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

Perry Mason

The Rifleman

The Rifleman

The Fugitive

The Fugitive

The Fugitive

All Movies (88)

• Passion & Poetry: Peckinpah's Last Western2024 · as Self
• Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film2014 · as Self
• Sam Peckinpah: Portrait2006 · as Self
• Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah2005 · as Self
• Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade2004 · as Self
• Keeper of Souls2001
• Purgatory1999 · as Coachman
• The Man in the Iron Mask1998 · as Old Man
• Invasion of Privacy1996 · as Sam Logan - Storekeeper
• Don't Look Back1996 · as Parish
• Payback1995 · as Mac
• Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion1994 · as Retired Texas Ranger
• Dead Center1994 · as Art Fencer
• Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron1993 · as Self
• Warlock: The Armageddon1993 · as Franks
• Dick Tracy1990 · as Pruneface
• Ghetto Blaster1989 · as Curtis
• Trapper County War1989 · as Pop Luddigger
• Bulletproof1988 · as Miles Blackburn
• Predator1987 · as Major General Homer Phillips
• Independence1987 · as Uriah Creed
• LBJ: The Early Years1987 · as Samuel Ealey Johnson
• Jocks1986 · as Bettlebom
• Red Headed Stranger1986 · as Sheriff Reese Scoby
• Oceans of Fire1986 · as Rusty West
• The Best of Times1986 · as Schutte
• Children of the Corn1984 · as Diehl
• Lone Wolf McQuade1983 · as T. Tyler
• The Shadow Riders1982 · as Sheriff Miles Gillette
• Hammett1982 · as Lt. O'Mara
• The Beast Within1982 · as Doc Schoonmaker
• Reds1981 · as Government Agent
• The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper1981 · as Dempsey
• Raggedy Man1981 · as Rigby
• Evilspeak1981 · as Sarge
• Where the Buffalo Roam1980 · as Judge Simpson
• The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang1979 · as Leland Stanford
• Steel1979 · as Kellin
• The Legend of the Golden Gun1979 · as Judge Harrison Harding
• Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider1979 · as Al Barber
• Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff1979 · as Mr. Hemmings
• The Time Machine1978 · as Gen. Harris
• Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell1978 · as Dunworth
• Heaven Can Wait1978 · as General Manager
• Texas Detour1978 · as Sheriff Burt
• The Pack1977 · as Cobb
• The Car1977 · as Amos Clements
• Mr. Billion1977 · as Sheriff T.C. Bishop
• Kingston1976 · as Father Reardon
• Dixie Dynamite1976 · as Charlie White - Bank President
• Stay Hungry1976 · as Thor Erickson
• Mean Johnny Barrows1975 · as Richard
• Boss Nigger1975 · as Mayor Griffin
• White Line Fever1975 · as Prosecutor
• Race with the Devil1975 · as Sheriff Taylor
• Reflections of Murder1974 · as Mr. Turner
• Manhunter1974 · as Henry Stratemeyer
• The Legend of Hillbilly John1974 · as Bristowe
• My Name Is Nobody1973 · as Honest John
• Running Wild1973 · as Bull
• White Lightning1973 · as Big Bear
• Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid1973 · as Ollinger
• Prologue to Wounded Knee1973 · as Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar'
• Cotter1973 · as Jack
• The Century Turns1972 · as Ben Ritt
• The Final Comedown1972 · as Mr. Freeman
• The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid1972 · as Clell Miller
• Justin Morgan Had a Horse1972 · as Squire Fisk
• J.W. Coop1972 · as Jim Sawyer
• The Great White Hope1970 · as Captain Dan
• The McMasters1970 · as Watson
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue1970 · as Quittner
• Tiger by the Tail1970 · as Ben Holmes
• 80 Steps to Jonah1969 · as Mackray
• El Dorado1966 · as Kevin MacDonald
• Major Dundee1965 · as Reverend Dahlstrom
• Calhoun1964 · as Zac Laird
• He Rides Tall1964 · as Joshua 'Josh' McCloud
• Ride the High Country1962 · as Joshua Knudsen
• The Man Who Found the Money1960 · as Captain Bone
• Ten Who Dared1960 · as Oramel Howland
• The Fugitive Kind1960 · as Sheriff Jordan Talbott
• No Name on the Bullet1959 · as Asa Canfield
• Never Love a Stranger1958 · as Flix
• From Hell to Texas1958 · as Hunter Boyd
• A Face in the Crowd1957 · as Teleprompter Operator (uncredited)
• Baby Doll1956 · as Townsman Sid (voice) (uncredited)
• Garden of Eden1954 · as J. Randolph Latimore

All TV Shows (107)

• Millennium1996 · as The Old Man
• Cybill1995 · as Stitch Sullivan
• Walker, Texas Ranger1993 · as Frank Dodge
• Quantum Leap1989 · as Davison
• War and Remembrance1988 · as 'Moose' Fitzgerald
• Friday the 13th: The Series1987 · as Lewis Vendredi
• Beauty and the Beast1987 · as Stanley Kazmarek
• L.A. Law1986 · as Frank Osgood
• Matlock1986 · as Sheriff Dalton Parks
• Matt Houston1982
• Darkroom1981 · as Sheriff Dodson
• Code Red1981
• Dynasty1981
• Skag1980
• Trapper John, M.D.1979
• Vega$1978
• Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected1977
• Charlie's Angels1976 · as Sebastian Craig
• Starsky & Hutch1975 · as 'Dad' Watson
• Switch1975 · as Detective Wills
• Baretta1975
• Movin' On1974
• The Manhunter1974
• The Sixth Sense1972
• McMillan & Wife1971 · as Sheriff Farraday
• Cannon1971
• Alias Smith and Jones1971
• Here Come the Brides1968
• Lancer1968
• Hawaii Five-O1968 · as Capt. Wade
• Hawaii Five-O1968 · as Warden
• The High Chaparral1967 · as Ed Henderson
• The Guns of Will Sonnett1967
• Cimarron Strip1967
• Custer1967
• The Invaders1967 · as Gus Flagg
• The Invaders1967 · as Police Capt. Bill Battersea
• T.H.E. Cat1966 · as Police Capt. McAllister
• T.H.E. Cat1966 · as Capt. McAllister
• Felony Squad1966
• The Time Tunnel1966 · as Allan Pinkerton
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Sheriff Crowley
• The F.B.I.1965 · as Ed Cray
• The F.B.I.1965 · as George David Owens
• The Big Valley1965 · as Wallace Miles
• Run for Your Life1965 · as Edward Loomis
• Daniel Boone1964 · as Jarvis
• Daniel Boone1964 · as Joseph Garth
• The Fugitive1963 · as Tully Gage
• The Fugitive1963 · as Sheriff Bradley
• The Fugitive1963 · as Marshal Matt Peters
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as William Downey
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as John Cooley
• The Virginian1962 · as Ben Winters
• The Virginian1962 · as Frederick Harley
• Everglades1961
• 87th Precinct1961 · as Franklin Phelps
• Surfside 61960 · as Paul Wyatt
• The Andy Griffith Show1960 · as Farmer Flint
• The Westerner1960 · as Shell Davidson
• The Tall Man1960
• Mr. Lucky1959
• The Twilight Zone1959 · as Contractor
• Riverboat1959 · as Rothgate
• Bonanza1959 · as Nathan Clay
• Bonanza1959 · as Andrew Holloway
• Bonanza1959 · as Col. Keith Jarrell
• Black Saddle1959 · as Ben Dawes
• Rawhide1959 · as Enoch Talby
• Rawhide1959 · as Gantry Hobson
• Rawhide1959 · as Sheriff John Keeley
• Rawhide1959 · as Burke
• Bat Masterson1958 · as Marshal William MacWilliams
• Lawman1958 · as Major Ben Rogers
• The Rifleman1958 · as Sheriff Tomlinson
• The Rifleman1958 · as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
• The Texan1958 · as Big Sam Aldridge
• The Texan1958 · as Cliff Clifford
• Bronco1958 · as Reverend Hardin
• Wanted: Dead or Alive1958 · as Asa Wynter
• Jefferson Drum1958 · as Kreiger
• Maverick1957 · as Wellington Cosgrove
• Perry Mason1957 · as Matthew Bartlett
• Perry Mason1957 · as Harry Bright
• Perry Mason1957 · as John Gregory
• Wagon Train1957 · as John Muskie
• Wagon Train1957 · as General Kirby
• Sugarfoot1957 · as Clay Calhoun
• Sugarfoot1957 · as Lou Stoner
• Have Gun, Will Travel1957
• Have Gun, Will Travel1957 · as Mayor Lovett
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Sheriff Fred Tomlinson
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Sheriff Les Houghton
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Captain Bone
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Fred Riordan
• Cheyenne1955
• Cheyenne1955 · as Nathanael Grimm
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Capt. Benter
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Major
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Jud Briar
• Gunsmoke1955 · as Carl Anderson
• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp1955
• The Wonderful World of Disney1954 · as Billy Soto
• The Wonderful World of Disney1954 · as Jack O'Neal
• The Wonderful World of Disney1954 · as Squire Fisk
• Lassie1954
• General Electric Theater1953 · as Jerry Boynton