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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Warren_Vanders > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Warren_Vanders.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Vanders > Source revision: 1314452427 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American actor (1930–2009)}} {{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](/source/San_Fernando%2C_California), U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|11|27|1930|5|23}} | death_place = [Pasadena](/source/Pasadena%2C_California), California, U.S. | occupation = Film and television actor | yearsactive = 1958–2006 | spouse = [Dawn Bender](/source/Dawn_Bender) (1953–1955) | children = }} '''Warren Vanders''' (born '''Warren John Vanderschuit;''' May 23, 1930 – November 27, 2009) was an American [character actor](/source/character_actor) on television and in films. ==Biography== He was born in [San Fernando](/source/San_Fernando%2C_California), 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](/source/NBC) modern [western](/source/Western_(genre)) [television series](/source/television_series), ''[Empire](/source/Empire_(1962_TV_series))''.{{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}} He also portrayed Roy Bean on the TV series ''[Hell Town](/source/Hell_Town_(TV_series))''.{{r|etvs|page1=449}} He guest starred in such series as ''[Tate](/source/Tate_(TV_series))'', ''[The Big Valley](/source/The_Big_Valley)'' (twice), ''[The Fugitive](/source/The_Fugitive_(1963_TV_series))'' (twice), ''[Bonanza](/source/Bonanza)'' (five times between 1965 and 1971), ''[Daniel Boone](/source/Daniel_Boone_(1964_TV_series))'' (eight times), ''[Alias Smith and Jones](/source/Alias_Smith_and_Jones)'' (as Curly Red Johnson in "The Day the Amnesty Came Through"), ''[The Waltons](/source/The_Waltons)'', ''[Gunsmoke](/source/Gunsmoke)'' (twelve times), ''[Combat!](/source/Combat!)'' (twice), ''[Kung Fu](/source/Kung_Fu_(1972_TV_series))'', ''[Hawaii Five-O](/source/Hawaii_Five-O_(1968_TV_series))'' (1970, as Jase Gorman in the episode: The Payoff), ''[The Rockford Files](/source/The_Rockford_Files)'', and ''[How the West Was Won](/source/How_the_West_Was_Won_(TV_series))''. He appeared in such films as ''[Nevada Smith](/source/Nevada_Smith)'' with [Steve McQueen](/source/Steve_McQueen), ''[Hot Lead and Cold Feet](/source/Hot_Lead_and_Cold_Feet)'', and in the [John Wayne](/source/John_Wayne)/[Katharine Hepburn](/source/Katharine_Hepburn) film ''[Rooster Cogburn](/source/Rooster_Cogburn_(film))'', in the role of Bagsby.{{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}} [Quentin Tarantino](/source/Quentin_Tarantino) named a character after him in ''[Django Unchained](/source/Django_Unchained)''.{{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 }}{{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}} He was also a boxer, winning the [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles) 1954 [Golden Gloves](/source/Golden_Gloves) Championship, and continued to box when he was in the [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy).{{cite news |last1=Whorton |first1=C. |title=EIGHT GOLDEN GLOVES CHAMPS CROWNED: ESCOBAR VOTED TOP SCRAPPER. |work=LOS ANGELES TIMES |date=14 February 1954}} Vanders died on November 27, 2009, at [Huntington Memorial Hospital](/source/Huntington_Memorial_Hospital) in [Pasadena, California](/source/Pasadena%2C_California), after having [lung cancer](/source/lung_cancer). He was 79 years old.{{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](/source/Newspapers.com)}} == Filmography == {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1960|| ''[The Great Impostor](/source/The_Great_Impostor)'' || Minor Role || Uncredited |- |1967|| ''[Rough Night in Jericho](/source/Rough_Night_in_Jericho_(film))'' || Harvey || |- |1968|| ''[Stay Away, Joe](/source/Stay_Away%2C_Joe)'' || Hike Bowers || |- |1968|| ''[The Split](/source/The_Split_(film))'' || Mason || |- |1969|| ''[The Price of Power](/source/The_Price_of_Power)'' || Arthur McDonald || |- |1972|| ''[The Revengers](/source/The_Revengers_(film))'' || Tarp || |- |1975|| ''[Rooster Cogburn](/source/Rooster_Cogburn_(film))'' || Bagby || |- |1977 | ''Little House on the Prairie: "Little Women"'' | Harold Mayfield | Air Date: 01/24/1977 |- |1978|| ''[Hot Lead and Cold Feet](/source/Hot_Lead_and_Cold_Feet)'' || Boss Snead || |- |2006|| ''Touched'' || Wylie Tucker || (final film role) |} == References == *''[The Los Angeles Times](/source/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](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)'' *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091218205524/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/72985/Warren-Vanders] at the ''[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)'' *[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888845/] at the [Internet Movie Database](/source/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](/source/MSN) *[http://www.fandango.com/warrenvanders/filmography/p72985] at [Fandango](/source/Fandango_(ticket_service)) {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Vanders, Warren}} Category:1930 births Category:2009 deaths Category:American male film actors Category:American male television actors Category:Deaths from lung cancer in California Category:People from San Fernando, California Category:20th-century American educators Category:Western (genre) television actors Category:20th-century American male actors Category:Male actors from Los Angeles County, California --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Warren Vanders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Vanders) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Vanders?action=history)). 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