Warren Vanders

{{more footnotes needed|date=March 2013}} {{infobox person | name = Warren Vanders | image = Warren Vanders 1963.jpg | caption = Vanders as Chuck Davis in ''Empire'', 1963 | birth_name = Warren John Vanderschuit | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|5|23}} | birth_place = San Fernando, California, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|11|27|1930|5|23}} | death_place = Pasadena, California, U.S. | occupation = Film and television actor | yearsactive = 1958–2006 | spouse = Dawn Bender (1953–1955) | children = }}

'''Warren Vanders''' (born '''Warren John Vanderschuit;''' May 23, 1930 – November 27, 2009)<ref name="t" /> was an American character actor on television and in films.

==Biography==

He was born in San Fernando, California, as Warren John Vanderschuit.{{Citation needed |date=May 2021}} Under the name Warren Vanders, he secured a recurring role as Chuck Davis in fifteen episodes of the NBC modern western television series, ''Empire''.<ref name="etvs">{{cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|page=307|edition=2nd}}</ref> He also portrayed Roy Bean on the TV series ''Hell Town''.{{r|etvs|page1=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.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings7-2009dec07-story.html|title=PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit, Eva Szorenyi, Eric Woolfson, Robert Kendall, Vyacheslav Tikhonov|date=2009-12-07|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-06-12|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref>

Quentin Tarantino named a character after him in ''Django Unchained''.<ref>{{cite news | author = Richard Corliss | title = Will Tarantino's The Hateful Eight Ride Again? | quote = ...is “Warren Vanders”; that’s name of an actor who appeared in Western movies | newspaper = TIME | date = 2014-02-04 | pages = | url = https://entertainment.time.com/2014/02/08/quentin-tarantino-the-hateful-eight-script/ | access-date = 2015-01-06 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fleming |first1=Mike |title='The Hateful Eight's Bruce Dern On His Passion For Nurturing Female Writers |url=https://deadline.com/2015/08/bruce-dern-the-hateful-eight-yesterdays-weirdness-female-writers-1201497319/ |accessdate=22 June 2018 |publisher=DEADLINE |date=11 August 2015}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whorton |first1=C. |title=EIGHT GOLDEN GLOVES CHAMPS CROWNED: ESCOBAR VOTED TOP SCRAPPER. |work=LOS ANGELES TIMES |date=14 February 1954}}</ref>

Vanders died on November 27, 2009, at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, after having lung cancer. He was 79 years old.<ref name="t">{{cite news |title=Actor in westerns |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78064206/warren-vanderschult/ |access-date=May 21, 2021 |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=December 8, 2009 |page=30|via = Newspapers.com}}</ref>

== Filmography == {| class="wikitable" |- ! 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 == <references /> *''The Los Angeles Times'', December 7, 2009, "PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit..." [http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings7-2009dec07,0,1384466.story]. *''New York Times'', 2010, Sandra Brennan, "Warren Vanders" [https://web.archive.org/web/20091218205524/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/72985/Warren-Vanders].

==External links== *[http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings7-2009dec07,0,1384466.story] at the ''Los Angeles Times'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091218205524/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/72985/Warren-Vanders] at the ''New York Times'' *[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888845/] at the Internet Movie Database *[http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-filmography/warren-vanders/?ipp=15]{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at MSN *[http://www.fandango.com/warrenvanders/filmography/p72985] at Fandango

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