Armstrong, Robert Golden (1920)

Actor. Armstrong's impressive portrayal of the fearsome bible-quoting Joshua Knudsen in Sam Peckinpah's Ride the High Country established a gruff and unsmiling persona which was to be used in many Westerns during the 60s and 70s. He became part of the Peckinpah stock company, appearing in three more films from the dominant West?ern director of the time, and he also worked with other significant genre specialists such as Hawks, Hathaway and the prolific R. 0. Springsteen