Warren Vanders

Warren Vanders
Vanders in upper left as Chuck Davis in Empire, 1963
Born
Warren John Vanderschuit

(1930-05-23)May 23, 1930
San Fernando, California, U.S.
DiedNovember 27, 2009(2009-11-27) (aged 79)
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Film and television actor
Years active1958–2006
SpouseDawn Bender (1953–1955)

Warren Vanders (born Warren John Vanderschuit; May 23, 1930 – November 27, 2009)[1] was an American character actor on television and in films.

Biography

He was born in San Fernando, California, as Warren John Vanderschuit.[citation needed] Under the name Warren Vanders, he secured a recurring role as Chuck Davis in fifteen episodes of the NBC modern western television series, Empire.[2] He also portrayed Roy Bean on the TV series Hell Town.[2]: 449 

He guest starred in such series as Tate, The Big Valley (twice), The Fugitive (twice), Bonanza (five times between 1965 and 1971), Daniel Boone (eight times), Alias Smith and Jones (as Curly Red Johnson in "The Day the Amnesty Came Through"), The Waltons, Gunsmoke (twelve times), Combat! (twice), Kung Fu, Hawaii Five-O (1970, as Jase Gorman in the episode: The Payoff), The Rockford Files, and How the West Was Won. He appeared in such films as Nevada Smith with Steve McQueen, Hot Lead and Cold Feet, and in the John Wayne/Katharine Hepburn film Rooster Cogburn, in the role of Bagsby.[3]

Quentin Tarantino named a character after him in Django Unchained.[4][5]

He was also a boxer, winning the Los Angeles 1954 Golden Gloves Championship, and continued to box when he was in the United States Navy.[6]

Vanders died on November 27, 2009, at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, after having lung cancer. He was 79 years old.[1]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1960 The Great Impostor Minor Role Uncredited
1967 Rough Night in Jericho Harvey
1968 Stay Away, Joe Hike Bowers
1968 The Split Mason
1969 The Price of Power Arthur McDonald
1972 The Revengers Tarp
1975 Rooster Cogburn Bagby
1977 Little House on the Prairie: "Little Women" Harold Mayfield Air Date: 01/24/1977
1978 Hot Lead and Cold Feet Boss Snead
2006 Touched Wylie Tucker (final film role)

References

  1. ^ a b "Actor in westerns". The Los Angeles Times. December 8, 2009. p. 30. Retrieved May 21, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
  3. ^ "PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit, Eva Szorenyi, Eric Woolfson, Robert Kendall, Vyacheslav Tikhonov". Los Angeles Times. 2009-12-07. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  4. ^ Richard Corliss (2014-02-04). "Will Tarantino's The Hateful Eight Ride Again?". TIME. Retrieved 2015-01-06. ...is "Warren Vanders"; that's name of an actor who appeared in Western movies
  5. ^ Fleming, Mike (11 August 2015). "'The Hateful Eight's Bruce Dern On His Passion For Nurturing Female Writers". DEADLINE. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  6. ^ Whorton, C. (14 February 1954). "EIGHT GOLDEN GLOVES CHAMPS CROWNED: ESCOBAR VOTED TOP SCRAPPER". LOS ANGELES TIMES.
  • The Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2009, "PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit..." [1].
  • New York Times, 2010, Sandra Brennan, "Warren Vanders" [2].