Warren Vanders

American actor (1930–2009)

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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.

Died| November 27, 2009(2009-11-27) (aged 79)

Pasadena, California, U.S.

Occupation(s)| Film and television actor
Years active| 1958–2006
Spouse| Dawn 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

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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

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Year  | Title  | Role  | Notes

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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

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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].

## External links

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* [3] at the Los Angeles Times
* [4] at the New York Times
* [5] at the Internet Movie Database
* [6][permanent dead link] at MSN
* [7] at Fandango

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