R. G. Armstrong

R. G. Armstrong

出生 : 1917-04-07, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

死亡 : 2012-07-27

略歴

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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The Hottest State
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
Self
A portrait of director Sam Peckinpah focusing more on his personal life than his moviemaking - featuring lots of interviews, backstage footage and even some of his TV commercials and rock videos.
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
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 director. Against all odds Sam Peckinpah was able to create a very personal body of work in the studio system of Hollywood and with his powerful directing and editing style changed the way of filmmaking forever. Legendary for his use of slow-motion violence, various scandals and his ongoing problems with sudios and producers, the story of Peckinpah is filled with tragedy, humor, success and defeat.
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
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 genre forever.
Keeper of Souls
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 Southern town.
Purgatory
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 the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven... or screw up and go to Hell.
The Man in the Iron Mask
Old Man
Don't Look Back
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, and returns home with it to Texas. Hoping to turn his life around with his newfound wealth, Jessie endures detox with the support of his friends. However, the gang leader behind the drug deal, along with his cronies, trace Jesse's footsteps to Texas to exact revenge and take back their money.
Invasion of Privacy
Sam Logan - Storekeeper
A mentally unbalanced man kidnaps the woman carrying his child to prevent her from having an abortion.
Payback
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. Oscar is eventually released from prison but when he goes to get revenge, he gets sidetracked by the now-handicapped guard and his alluring wife, Rose. The tension builds as Oscar becomes more and more attracted to Rose.
Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
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 to assassinate a US senator who will be among the spectators.
Dead Center
Art Fencer
Street killer is retrained by a black-belt fighter who works for the government.
Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
Self
This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs had a telling effect on the cinema of the 1970s and 80s. Those who knew and worked with him, including actor James Coburn, actress Ali MacGraw, his associate Katherine Haber, his cousin Bob Peckinpah, and several screenwriters and producers, examine his life in an attempt to separate the man from the persona. Clips from key films reinforce this detailed discussion of Peckinpah's art and a fixation on violence that still permeates Hollywood today.
Warlock: The Armageddon
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 evil, or banish it for another six hundred years. An order of Druids battles with a Warlock determined to unleash his father upon the world.
ディック・トレイシー
Pruneface
1930年代、悪がはびこる犯罪都市で心優しきタフな刑事とみなしごキッド少年が正義の為に立ち上がる。しかし2人の行く手を阻むのは、かつてないギャングたちの集結であった・・・。ウォーレン・ベイティ率いる超豪華キャストで贈る『ディック・トレイシー』。特撮シーン満載、ユニークで美しい色彩と映像でつくりあげた、スリルいっぱいのおしゃれなアクション・アドベンチャー!!
Trapper County War
Pop Luddigger
A Vietnam veteran and a young man set out to rescue a woman kidnapped by a backwoods family.
Ghetto Blaster
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 gang warfare. Quickly, Travis finds himself thrust into a position to defend his family and neighbors from the punks who terrorize them on a daily basis. Good thing he has a military training, enabling the man to become a one-man vigilante unit against the forces of evil in his town.
Bulletproof
Miles Blackburn
A group of dangerous terrorists succeeds to get hold of a tank of the army and all its crew.
プレデター
Major General Homer Phillips
南米某国で行方を絶った重要人物奪還のためにジャングルに潜入する特殊コマンド部隊。だがゲリラを掃討した彼らを待ち受けていたのは宇宙から飛来した肉食異星人プレデターだった。体を透明化させて周囲の風景に溶け込み、どこからともなく牙を向くプレデターに隊員たちは次々に倒されていく。仲間を全て失った隊長シェイファーは、姿なき敵が熱に反応して攻撃してくる事を突き止め、ついに一対一の闘いを挑む。
Independence
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 outlaws threaten his new family and the frontier town he single handedly tamed.
LBJ: The Early Years
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 States Lyndon B. Johnson from 1934 until 1973. Actor Randy Quaid won a Golden Globe award for his portrayal of Johnson.
Jocks
Coach Bettlebom
The coach of a college tennis team is given an ultimatum: put together a winning team, or else.
Red Headed Stranger
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 she had left him for. It was the beginning of his violent transformation from God-Loving preacher to ruthless outlaw.
Oceans of Fire
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 he needs men who are willing to take the risk. He gets in touch with an old friend from the Navy who works in a prison as sort of an diving training base and there Ben selects out the best to complete the task, but with superiors breathing down his neck, a camera crew now jumping on board and a deadline to meet he wants to finish the job and make sure the men stay alive, but not all things work out as he plans.
The Best of Times
Schutte
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
チルドレン・オブ・ザ・コーン
Diehl
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Lone Wolf McQuade
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 his partner dead. All of this inevitably culminates in a martial arts showdown between the drug lord and the ranger, and involving the woman they both love.
The Shadow Riders
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'Amour novel. They are brothers, who meet up at the end of the Civil War fighting on opposite sides. They go home only to find their family in dire need and their sisters and brother kidnapped by ruthless raiders. They set out to rescue their family.
Hammett
Lt. O'Mara
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
The Beast Within
Doc Schoonmaker
A young woman gets raped by a mysterious man-creature, and years later her son begins a horrific transformation into a similar beast.
Reds
Government Agent
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
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 meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop?
Raggedy Man
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 leave causes tongues to wag in town.
Evilspeak
Sarge
Bullied by classmates, a pudgy military-school student fights back by computer with the devil.
Where the Buffalo Roam
Judge Simpson
Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
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 gang of horse thieves and train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.
超高層プロフェッショナル
Kellin
町の新しい名物となる超高層ビル、ハイエス・プラザ・ビルの建設中、鉄骨組みの陣頭指揮を執っていた建築会社の社長ルー・キャシディが転落事故で命を落としてしまう。ルーの一人娘キャスは、自分が会社を引き継いでビルを完成させることを決意。伝説の建築士キャットンを探し出し、建築のプロフェッショナルたちを集めて工事に着手する。しかし、ルーの弟エディが兄の会社を乗っ取ろうと目論み、様々な妨害工作を仕掛けてくる。
The Legend of the Golden Gun
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 Quantrill. Rescued by runaway slave Joshua Brown, Golden is determined to get revenge. With the help of a legendary gunfighter and a special gun, Golden must not only deal with Quantrill and his men, but has to dodge General Custer and his army, as well.
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
Al Barber
A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
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 grips with her sexuality and emotions.
The Time Machine
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
Dunworth
A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
天国から来たチャンピオン
General Manager
ウォーレン・ベイティが製作・初監督・脚本・主演の4役を手がけたコメディー。アカデミー美術・装置賞受賞。 前途有望なプロ・フットボール選手が交通事故で即死するが、それは天使のミスによるものだった。困った天界は彼の魂を殺されたばかりの若き実業家の中に送り込む。全く新しい人物となった彼は、再びフットボールの世界に乗り出すが……。
Texas Detour
Sheriff Burt
Teenagers' van gets stolen and while the local authorites refuse to help they decidet to take manners to their own hands.
The Pack
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
Amos Clements
The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff, it becomes the job of Captain Wade Parent to stop the murderous driver.
Mr. Billion
Sheriff T.C. Bishop
A fortuneless auto mechanic inherits a billion dollar financial empire when his uncle dies. However, there is one stipulation. In order to claim his fortune he must arrive in San Francisco within twenty days, and along the way there are a number of people who want to "share" his wealth.
Kingston
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 utilize nuclear power plants in a scheme to take over the world.
Dixie Dynamite
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 killed
Stay Hungry
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 spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.
Mean Johnny Barrows
Richard
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
Boss Nigger
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 position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
White Line Fever
Prosecutor
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
Race with the Devil
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
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 school and await for it to surface. After several days, some unusual circumstances point to clues that he is not dead after all.
Manhunter
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 Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.
The Legend of Hillbilly John
Bristowe
A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.
ミスター・ノーボディ
Honest John
伝説の老ガンマンの前に現われた風来坊。その男はいつの日か、無敵と謳われたガンマンを自分の手で倒したい、と語りながらも、老ガンマンとの対決を何故か避けようとする。果たして、彼の真意は......?
Running Wild
Bull
A photographer travels to the stunning vistas of Colorado and becomes involved in an effort to save a herd of wild horses.
白熱
Big Bear
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
ビリー・ザ・キッド 21才の生涯
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
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 that it was actually he who committed the crime.
The Final Comedown
Mr. Freeman
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
ミネソタ大強盗団
Clell Miller
1876年、コール・ヤンガーとジェシー・ジェイムズ率いる強盗一味が中西部を荒らし回っていた。そんな彼らに鉄道会社が追手を差し向けるが……。フィリップ・カウフマン監督が手掛けたニューシネマ実録西部劇。
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Squire Fisk
This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed.
J.W. Coop
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 for the lost 'prime' years of his career, he doggedly goes forward, and learns that not only has the business of rodeo changed during his incarceration but society as a whole has made dramatic changes as well.
The Great White Hope
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
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 Indian wife.
砂漠の流れ者
Quittner
サム・ペキンパー監督が、古き良き開拓時代への惜別を込めて描く異色の西部劇。時代の流れに取り残された一人の男の風変わりな復讐譚がセンチメンタルに綴られてゆく。仲間に裏切られて砂漠の真ん中で一人取り残された主人公ケーブル・ホーグ。着の身着のままのケーブルは4日間歩き続けてついに水を掘り当て命拾いした。近くに駅馬車の通り道があると知ったケーブルはそこに給水所を作り、裏切り者が現われるのを待伏せるため、たった一人で砂漠生活を始めるのだった…。
Tiger by the Tail
Ben Holmes
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.
80 Steps to Jonah
Mackray
Wayne Newton stars as an accused thug hiding out at a camp for blind children.
El Dorado
Kevin MacDonald
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Hara. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
Major Dundee
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 an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Calhoun
Zac Laird
Unaired pilot for a drama/adventure series about a county agent.
He Rides Tall
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 son in self defense.
昼下がりの決斗
Joshua Knudsen
カリフォルニアの鉱山で掘り出された金を町の銀行へ預けるため、搬送人として元保安官のスティーヴが雇われた。責任重大な任務を受けたスティーヴは、旧知の仲のギルとその若い相棒ヘックを助手に抜擢すると鉱山へ出発。道中立ち寄った家で会った若い娘エルザも、恋人のビリーが鉱山で働いていることから三人と同行することになった。だが一行が鉱山に着いた時、ヘックがエルザをめぐってビリーたちハモンド兄弟と対立してしまい、抗争の火種を作ることに。一方、ギルとヘックは元々計画していた金の強奪に及ぶもスティーヴに見つかり失敗してしまう。そんな中、一行はハモンド兄弟の襲撃に遭う。
Ten Who Dared
Oramel Howland
The John Wesley Powell expedition of 1869 explores the dangerous Colorado River, withstands internal dissension, and finally discovers the Grand Canyon.
蛇皮の服を着た男
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 dying of cancer. Val is pursued by Carol Cutere, the enigmatic local tramp-of-good-family.
No Name on the Bullet
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 a professional killer for personal revenge.
Never Love a Stranger
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 leading man being John Drew Barrymore, father of the more famous Drew, and for being based on a novel by Harold Robbins, famous for steamy writing in his day.
From Hell to Texas
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 vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he'll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.
A Face in the Crowd
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-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
Baby Doll
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 financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
Garden of Eden
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.