Warren Vanders

Warren Vanders (May 23, 1930 – November 27, 2009) was an American character actor on television and in films. He was initially a substitute teacher for the Montebello Unified School District. He was also a substitute mathematics teacher at El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera California. Mr. Vanders was also a well-regarded substitute teacher at La Serna High School in Whittier CA in the 1960s.

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.
OccupationFilm and television actor
Years active1958–2006
Spouse(s)Dawn Bender (1953–1955)

Biography

He was born in San Fernando, California, as Warren John Vanderschuit. Under the name Warren Vanders, he secured a recurring role as Chuck Davis in fifteen episodes of the NBC modern western television series, Empire, starring Richard Egan.

He guest starred in such series as Tate, The Big Valley (twice), The Fugitive (twice), Bonanza (five times between 1965-1971), 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), and How the West Was Won. He appeared in such films as Nevada Smith, Hot Lead and Cold Feet and in the John Wayne film, Rooster Cogburn in the role of as Bagsby.[1]

Quentin Tarantino named a character after him in Django Unchained.[2][3]

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.[4]

Vanders died on November 27, 2009, at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, following a battle with lung cancer. He was seventy-nine years old.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1960The Great ImpostorMinor RoleUncredited
1967Rough Night in JerichoHarvey
1968Stay Away, JoeHike Bowers
1968The SplitMason
1969The Price of PowerArthur McDonald
1972The RevengersTarp
1975Rooster CogburnBagby
1978Hot Lead and Cold FeetBoss Snead
2006TouchedWylie Tucker(final film role)

References
  1. "PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit, Eva Szorenyi, Eric Woolfson, Robert Kendall, Vyacheslav Tikhonov". Los Angeles Times. 2009-12-07. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
  2. 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
  3. Fleming, Mike (11 August 2015). "'The Hateful Eight's Bruce Dern On His Passion For Nurturing Female Writers". DEADLINE. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  4. Whorton, C. (14 February 1954). "EIGHT GOLDEN GLOVES CHAMPS CROWNED: ESCOBAR VOTED TOP SCRAPPER". LOS ANGELES TIMES (1923-1995). Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  • The Los Angeles Times, December 7, 2009, "PASSINGS: Warren Vanderschuit..." .
  • New York Times, 2010, Sandra Brennan, "Warren Vanders" .
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