Warren Vanders

Warren Vanders was an American character actor on television and in films.

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. He also portrayed Roy Bean on the TV series Hell Town.
He guest starred in such series as Tate, The Big Valley, The Fugitive, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, Alias Smith and Jones, The Waltons, Gunsmoke, Combat!, Kung Fu, Hawaii Five-O, 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.
Quentin Tarantino named a character after him in Django Unchained.
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.
Vanders died on November 27, 2009, at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, after having lung cancer. He was 79 years old.