A golden career was reflected in his name. Robert Golden Armstrong ("Bob" to his friends) was born in Birmingham, Alabama on April 7, 1917. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While there, he was frequently performing on stage with the Carolina Playmakers. After graduating, R.G. headed to New York, where his acting career ...
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| 1 | Was hunting buddy with high school classmate a.m. leonard. Their fathers also hunted together--in Birmingham in those days hunting was the only way to put meat on the table. |
| 2 | Died 24 days after the death of his best friend, Andy Griffith. |
| 3 | Attended Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio in the mid-1950s. |
| 4 | Armstrong was semi-retired from films, continuing to be active in off-Broadway theater, until retiring because of near-blindness. |
| 5 | He won considerable acclaim for his role in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on stage. He also began writing his own plays, which were performed off-Broadway. |
| 6 | Armstrong initially enrolled at Samford University. While there he became interested in acting, and transferred to the University of North Carolina. While there (along with classmate Andy Griffith) he began acting on stage with the Carolina Playmakers. Upon graduating he attended the Actors Studio. |
| 7 | After meeting writer / director Sam Peckinpah on the set of his 1960 series The Westerner (1960), Armstrong became a regular in his films--playing an outspoken Christian fundamentalist in Ride the High Country (1962), with Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea; a minister in Major Dundee (1965) with Charlton Heston in the title role; and a vicious deputy sheriff alongside Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan (in a small role) in Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973). |
| 8 | Has four daughters - Robbie Armstrong-Dunham, Laurie Nell, Daryl Armstrong and Betty and one son - Wynn Armstrong. |
| 9 | Profiled in "Names You Never Remember, With Faces You Never Forget", by Justin Humphreys (BearManor Media). |
| 10 | Has a masters' degree in English from the University of North Carolina, and trained at the famed Actors Studio in New York. |
| 11 | Frequently cast by director Warren Beatty. |
| 12 | Was credited as R. K. Armstrong in the English-language version of My Name Is Nobody (1973) (My Name is Nobody). |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| The F.B.I. | 1965-1967 | TV Series | George David Owens / Ed Cray / Sheriff Crowley |
| Cimarron Strip | 1967 | TV Series | William Payne |
| El Dorado | 1967 | | Kevin MacDonald |
| The Virginian | 1963-1967 | TV Series | Frederick Harley / Ben Winters |
| T.H.E. Cat | 1966-1967 | TV Series | Police Capt. McAllister / Captain McAllister |
| The Time Tunnel | 1966 | TV Series | Alan Pinkerton |
| Bonanza | 1959-1966 | TV Series | Col. Keith Jarrell / Nathan Clay / Andrew Holloway |
| Run for Your Life | 1965 | TV Series | Edward Loomis |
| The Big Valley | 1965 | TV Series | Wallace Miles |
| The Fugitive | 1963-1965 | TV Series | Marshall Matt Peters / Tully / Sheriff Bradley |
| Rawhide | 1959-1965 | TV Series | Sheriff John Keeley / Gantry Hobson / Burke / ... |
| Death Valley Days | 1963-1965 | TV Series | Bundage / Steve |
| Major Dundee | 1965 | | Reverend Dahlstrom |
| Slattery's People | 1965 | TV Series | Jonathan Blaine |
| Calhoun: County Agent | 1964 | TV Movie | Zac Laird |
| He Rides Tall | 1964 | | Joshua 'Josh' McCloud |
| Kraft Suspense Theatre | 1964 | TV Series | Sheriff Harder |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | 1962-1963 | TV Series | John Cooley / William Downey |
| Wide Country | 1963 | TV Series | Charlie Devlin |
| It's a Man's World | 1963 | TV Series | Coach Bergstrom |
| Laramie | 1960-1962 | TV Series | Vic Prescott / Marshal Al Dawson / Jud / ... |
| Perry Mason | 1958-1962 | TV Series | John Gregory / Harry Bright / Matthew Bartlett |
| Wagon Train | 1962 | TV Series | General Kirby / John Muskie |
| Alcoa Premiere | 1962 | TV Series | R.V. Reagan |
| Surfside 6 | 1962 | TV Series | Paul Wyatt |
| Ride the High Country | 1962 | | Joshua Knudsen |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1960-1962 | TV Series | Fred Riordan / Captain Bone |
| 87th Precinct | 1962 | TV Series | Franklin Phelps |
| Tales of Wells Fargo | 1962 | TV Series | Hanson |
| General Electric Theater | 1962 | TV Series | Jerry Boynton |
| The Twilight Zone | 1962 | TV Series | Contractor |
| Frontier Circus | 1962 | TV Series | Uriah Foster |
| Everglades | 1961 | TV Series | Luther Jacks |
| Great Ghost Tales | 1961 | TV Series | |
| The Andy Griffith Show | 1961 | TV Series | Farmer Flint |
| Bat Masterson | 1961 | TV Series | Marshal William MacWilliams |
| Cheyenne | 1960-1961 | TV Series | Nathanael Grimm / Angus Emmett |
| The Tall Man | 1960 | TV Series | Neal Bailey |
| Ten Who Dared | 1960 | | Oramel Howland |
| The Westerner | 1960 | TV Series | Shell Davidson |
| The Fugitive Kind | 1960 | | Sheriff Jordan Talbott |
| Mr. Lucky | 1960 | TV Series | Mike Haley |
| Maverick | 1959-1960 | TV Series | Wellington Cosgrove / Colonel Karl Bent |
| Riverboat | 1959 | TV Series | Rothgate |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | 1959 | TV Series | Asa Wynter |
| The DuPont Show of the Month | 1959 | TV Series | |
| The Texan | 1958-1959 | TV Series | Big Sam Aldridge / Cliff Clifford |
| Lawman | 1959 | TV Series | Major Ben Rogers / Gabe Dallas |
| Sugarfoot | 1958-1959 | TV Series | Lou Stoner / Clay Calhoun |
| U.S. Marshal | 1959 | TV Series | Link Thompson |
| No Name on the Bullet | 1959 | | Asa Canfield |
| Black Saddle | 1959 | TV Series | Ben Dawes |
| Zane Grey Theater | 1958 | TV Series | Sheriff Les Houghton / Sheriff Fred Tomlinson |
| Bronco | 1958 | TV Series | Reverend Hardin |
| The Rifleman | 1958 | TV Series | Sheriff Fred Tomlinson |
| The Californians | 1958 | TV Series | Malone |
| Never Love a Stranger | 1958 | | Flix |
| Have Gun - Will Travel | 1958 | TV Series | Mayor S. J. Lovett / Marshall Tom Jaffey |
| From Hell to Texas | 1958 | | Hunter Boyd |
| Jefferson Drum | 1958 | TV Series | Kreiger |
| A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | | TV Prompter Operator (uncredited) |
| Baby Doll | 1956 | | Townsman Sid (voice, uncredited) |
| West Point | 1956 | TV Series | Football Coach |
| Garden of Eden | 1954 | | J. Randolph Latimore |
| The Waking | 2001 | | Edward Sloan |
| Purgatory | 1999 | TV Movie | Coachman |
| Millennium | 1997-1998 | TV Series | The Old Man |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | 1998/II | | Old Farmer |
| Good Guys Bad Guys | 1997 | TV Series | Clergyman |
| Invasion of Privacy | 1996 | | Sam Logan - Storekeeper |
| Don't Look Back | 1996 | TV Movie | Isaiah Parish |
| Cybill | 1995 | TV Series | Stitch Sullivan |
| Payback | 1995 | | Mac |
| Walker, Texas Ranger | 1994 | TV Series | Frank Dodge |
| Dead Center | 1993 | | Art Fencer |
| Warlock: The Armageddon | 1993 | | Franks |
| L.A. Law | 1992-1993 | TV Series | Frank Osgood |
| Quantum Leap | 1991 | TV Series | Davison |
| Silk Stalkings | 1991 | TV Series | Mr. Cameron |
| Metallica: Enter Sandman | 1991 | Video short | Old Man (uncredited) |
| Dick Tracy | 1990 | | Pruneface |
| Trapper County War | 1989 | | Pop Luddigger |
| Matlock | 1989 | TV Series | Sheriff Dalton Parks |
| Ghetto Blaster | 1989 | | Curtis |
| War and Remembrance | 1988-1989 | TV Mini-Series | Gen. 'Moose' Fitzgerald |
| Beauty and the Beast | 1989 | TV Series | Stanley Kazmarek |
| Friday the 13th: The Series | 1987-1989 | TV Series | Lewis Vendredi |
| Bulletproof | 1988 | | Miles Blackburn |
| Werewolf | 1987 | TV Series | Dawson |
| Predator | 1987 | | Gen. Phillips |
| Independence | 1987 | TV Movie | Uriah Creed |
| LBJ: The Early Years | 1987 | TV Movie | Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr. |
| Jocks | 1986 | | Coach Bettlebom |
| Red Headed Stranger | 1986 | | Sheriff Reese Scoby - Driscoll, Montana |
| Oceans of Fire | 1986 | TV Movie | Rusty West |
| The Best of Times | 1986 | | Schutte |
| Trapper John, M.D. | 1981-1985 | TV Series | George / Repairman / Telephone Repairman / ... |
| Matt Houston | 1984 | TV Series | Bert |
| Children of the Corn | 1984 | | Diehl |
| Lone Wolf McQuade | 1983 | | T. Tyler |
| The Dukes of Hazzard | 1979-1983 | TV Series | Calloway / Tom Pryor |
| Dynasty | 1982 | TV Series | Alfred Grimes |
| The Shadow Riders | 1982 | TV Movie | Sheriff Miles Gillette |
| Hammett | 1982 | | Lt. O'Mara |
| The Beast Within | 1982 | | Doc Schoonmaker |
| Darkroom | 1981 | TV Series | Sheriff Dodson |
| Reds | 1981 | | Government Agent |
| The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper | 1981 | | Dempsey |
| Raggedy Man | 1981 | | Rigby |
| Evilspeak | 1981 | | Sarge |
| Stockers | 1981 | TV Movie | Mr. Fisk |
| Where the Buffalo Roam | 1980 | | Judge Simpson |
| Skag | 1980 | TV Series | Zanski |
| Visions | 1980 | TV Series | |
| Charlie's Angels | 1980 | TV Series | Sebastian Craig |
| The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang | 1979 | TV Movie | Leland Stanford |
| Fantasy Island | 1979 | TV Series | Capt. Hawks |
| Steel | 1979 | | Kellin |
| Salvage 1 | 1979 | TV Series | Sheriff |
| Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider | 1979 | | Al Barber |
| Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff | 1979 | | Mr. Hemmings |
| The Legend of the Golden Gun | 1979 | TV Movie | Judge Harrison Harding |
| Dear Detective | 1979 | TV Series | |
| Vega$ | 1979 | TV Series | Wellman |
| The Time Machine | 1978 | TV Movie | Gen. Harris |
| Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell | 1978 | TV Movie | Dunworth |
| Heaven Can Wait | 1978 | | General Manager |
| Texas Detour | 1978 | | Sheriff Burt |
| The Pack | 1977 | | Cobb |
| Baretta | 1977 | TV Series | Fayso |
| The Car | 1977 | | Amos |
| Mr. Billion | 1977 | | Sheriff T.C. Bishop |
| Starsky and Hutch | 1977 | TV Series | 'Dad' Watson |
| Tales of the Unexpected | 1977 | TV Mini-Series | |
| Switch | 1976 | TV Series | Detective Wills |
| Kingston: Confidential | 1976 | TV Series | Father Reardon |
| Dixie Dynamite | 1976 | | Charlie White - Bank President |
| Stay Hungry | 1976 | | Thor Erickson |
| Ellery Queen | 1976 | TV Series | Stan Buffo |
| Movin' On | 1976 | TV Series | Sam Jellico |
| Mean Johnny Barrows | 1976 | | Richard |
| White Line Fever | 1975 | | Prosecutor |
| Race with the Devil | 1975 | | Sheriff Taylor |
| Boss Nigger | 1975 | | Mayor Griffin |
| Police Story | 1974 | TV Series | Elwood Fraser |
| Reflections of Murder | 1974 | TV Movie | Mr. Turner |
| The Manhunter | 1974 | TV Series | Sheriff Mosley |
| McMillan & Wife | 1974 | TV Series | Sheriff Farraday |
| Manhunter | 1974 | TV Movie | Henry Stratemeyer |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | 1974 | TV Series | Grandee MacAllister |
| Cotter | 1973 | | |
| My Name Is Nobody | 1973 | | Honest John (as R.K. Armstrong) |
| Cannon | 1971-1973 | TV Series | Banner / Sheriff |
| Running Wild | 1973 | | Bull |
| White Lightning | 1973 | | Big Bear |
| Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid | 1973 | | Ollinger |
| Gentle Savage | 1973 | | Rupert Beeker - Owner of 'Beeker's Bar' |
| The Sixth Sense | 1972 | TV Series | Jack Preston |
| Hec Ramsey | 1972 | TV Series | Ben Ritt |
| The Legend of Hillbilly John | 1972 | | Bristowe |
| The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | 1972 | | Clell Miller |
| The Final Comedown | 1972 | | Mr. Freeman |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1959-1972 | TV Series | Squire Fisk / Billy Soto / Jack O'Neal |
| Justin Morgan Had a Horse | 1972 | | Squire Fisk |
| Alias Smith and Jones | 1971 | TV Series | Max |
| J W Coop | 1971 | | Jim Sawyer |
| Hawaii Five-O | 1969-1970 | TV Series | Warden / Capt. Wade |
| The Great White Hope | 1970 | | Cap'n Dan |
| The High Chaparral | 1970 | TV Series | Ed Henderson |
| The McMasters | 1970 | | Watson |
| Angels Die Hard | 1970 | | Mel |
| The Ballad of Cable Hogue | 1970 | | Quittner |
| Tiger by the Tail | 1970 | | Ben Holmes |
| 80 Steps to Jonah | 1969 | | Mackray |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | 1969 | TV Series | |
| Here Come the Brides | 1969 | TV Series | Lijah |
| Lancer | 1968 | TV Series | Gant Foley |
| The Doris Day Show | 1968 | TV Series | Henry R. Pritchart |
| The Invaders | 1967-1968 | TV Series | Police Capt. Bill Battersea / Gus Flagg |
| Daniel Boone | 1967-1968 | TV Series | Joseph Garth / Jarvis |
| The Guns of Will Sonnett | 1967 | TV Series | Collin Atwood |
| Gunsmoke | 1961-1967 | TV Series | Carl Anderson / Argonaut Moonercan / Jud Briar / ... |
| The Felony Squad | 1967 | TV Series | Arnie Kale |
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|
| Passion & Poetry: Sam's Favorite Film | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Passion & Poetry: The Early Sam | 2010 | Video short | Himself |
| Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Passion & Poetry: Major Dundee | 2005 | Video short | Himself |
| Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
| Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Film Genre | 2002 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right | 1996 | Documentary | Himself |
| Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Making of 'Lone Wolf McQuade' | 1983 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
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