Actor dies aged 52
NZPA Los Angeles Warren Oates, a veteran character actor in television and films including “In the Heat of the Night.” has died at th'e age of 52. The Los Angeles Fire Department batallion chief (Mr Robert Ewert) said Mr Oates apparently suffered a heart attack at his Hollywood Hills home and paramedics'could not revive him. Mr Oates began his professional career with a role in “Have Gun Will Travel.” He appeared in the films “The Hired Hand,” “Two-Lane Blacktop” and the New Zealand produced “Sleeping Dogs.”
His other credits included the early television 1960 s series "Stoney Burke” with Jack Lord and Bruce Dern, in which he plaveed a rodeo rider. Bom in a poor coal-mining area in Kentucky, Warren Oates moved with his family to Louisville when he was 13. Five years later he joined the Marines, and after two years as an aeroplane mechanic he began attending the University of Louisville.' He began acting when he joined a student theatre group at the university.
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Press, 7 April 1982, Page 15
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