Chuck Roberson

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Charles Hugh Roberson (May 10, 1919 – June 8, 1988) was an American actor and stuntman. Roberson was born near Shannon, Texas, the son of farmer Ollie W. Roberson and Jannie Hamm Roberson. Raised on cattle ranches in Shannon, Texas, and Roswell, New Mexico, he left school at 13 to become a cowhand and oilfield roughneck. He married and took his wife and daughter to California, where he joined the Culver City Police Department and guarded the gate at MGM Studios. Following army service in World War II, he returned to the police force. During duty at Warner Bros. studios during a labor strike, he met stuntman Guy Teague, who alerted him to a stunt job at Republic Pictures. Teague had been John Wayne's stunt double for many years and was able to show him the ropes. Chuck also resembled John Carrol whom Roberson doubled in his first picture, Wyoming (1947). He played small roles and stunted in other roles in the same film. He graduated to larger supporting roles in Westerns for Wayne and John Ford, and to a parallel career as a second-unit director. His television appearances include The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Kit Carson, Lawman, Death Valley Days, Have Gun – Will Travel, Laramie, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Laredo, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, and The Big Valley. Roberson also appeared in Disney's television Westerns The Swamp Fox and Texas John Slaughter. They were part of The Wonderful World of Color. Before that, he portrayed a Confederate Prison Captain in The Great Locomotive Chase. In 1980 he published an autobiography, The Fall Guy: 30 Years as the Duke's Double. Roberson died of cancer on June 8, 1988, in Bakersfield, California, and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, next to his brother, actor Lou Roberson. Bob Dylan drew him as Long Tom in his Beaten Path series, the drawing is entitled "Untitled 1" and is based on a frame from the film Winchester '73 (1950). Roberson and Wayne Burson, another stuntman, were partners in breeding and training racehorses, with Roberson furnishing the horses from his Bakersfield, California, ranch and Burson training them.

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  • wc Gender: Male
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1919-05-10
  • event Death Date 1988-06-08
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 5
  • info Birth Place Shannon, Texas, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Chuck Roberson

6.9

Shock Corridor

1963-09-25

6.2

The Stone Killer

1973-08-08

6.6

Hondo

1953-11-26

3

The Plainsman and the Lady

1946-11-11

5.9

Calendar Girl

1947-01-31

5.8

Song of Scheherazade

1947-02-26

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Jesse James Rides Again

1947-08-02

5.4

The Flame

1947-11-24

3

California Firebrand

1948-04-01

6

The Arizona Ranger

1948-05-14

5

Homicide for Three

1948-12-08

5.5

Stampede

1949-05-01

5.3

Roughshod

1949-05-11

6

Law of the Golden West

1949-05-23

0

Haunted Trails

1949-08-21

6

The James Brothers of Missouri

1949-08-31

5.9

The Fighting Kentuckian

1949-09-15

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Western Renegades

1949-10-08

0

Trail of the Rustlers

1950-02-02

5.9

The Capture

1950-04-08

4

Cow Town

1950-05-19

0

Hills of Oklahoma

1950-06-01

4.8

Hi-Jacked

1950-07-07

5.6

Atom Man vs. Superman

1950-07-20

6.4

The Scalphunters

1968-02-29

6.3

Night Passage

1957-07-24

6.8

7 Men from Now

1956-08-04

6.2

Merrill's Marauders

1962-03-16

6.5

Rio Lobo

1970-04-01

7.1

The Sons of Katie Elder

1965-06-23

6.5

Forty Guns

1957-09-10

5.5

Smoky

1966-08-03

5.8

Hellfire

1949-05-29

6

Black Spurs

1965-05-28

4

Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

1952-02-08

7.7

The Big Country

1958-09-30

5.8

Ten Wanted Men

1955-02-01

7.7

The Searchers

1956-05-16

7.2

Sergeant Rutledge

1960-05-25

6.2

The Wings of Eagles

1957-01-31

6.6

Man of the West

1958-06-20

6.4

Two Rode Together

1961-05-24

7

How the West Was Won

1962-11-02

6.7

Cheyenne Autumn

1964-10-15

6.3

Donovan's Reef

1963-06-12

5.6

Way of a Gaucho

1952-10-16

6.6

The Lusty Men

1952-10-24

6.4

Cat Ballou

1965-06-24

6.5

Rio Lobo

1970-04-01

6.9

The Far Country

1954-02-12

5.8

The Green Berets

1968-07-04

5.2

Sign of the Pagan

1954-11-24

4

The Prodigal

1955-05-06

6.1

McQ

1974-01-04

6.8

Big Jake

1971-05-26

6.8

Chisum

1970-07-23

6.2

The Undefeated

1969-10-04

6.4

Hellfighters

1968-11-27

5

Welcome to Hard Times

1967-04-30

6.4

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

1967-03-08

6.9

Nevada Smith

1966-06-10

6.9

Shenandoah

1965-06-03

5.5

Smoky

1966-08-03

5.9

Blindfold

1966-05-23

5.5

Lady Godiva of Coventry

1955-11-02

5.5

The Rounders

1965-01-08

5

Advance to the Rear

1964-06-10

6.8

Mail Order Bride

1964-03-10

5.5

The Hired Gun

1957-09-20

5.5

The Rawhide Years

1956-07-01

6.1

Red Sundown

1956-03-01

6

The Great Locomotive Chase

1956-06-08

6.5

The Second Greatest Sex

1955-09-30

5.1

Kentucky Rifle

1956-07-01

3.2

Timberjack

1955-02-18

5.3

The Lone Gun

1954-04-25

4.6

Jubilee Trail

1954-05-15

6.9

Calamity Jane

1953-11-04

6.3

Gun Belt

1953-07-24

5.7

Raiders of the Seven Seas

1953-05-27

6

The Blazing Forest

1952-12-01

5.9

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

1952-12-27

5.8

Blackbeard, the Pirate

1952-12-24

6.7

Cattle Town

1952-09-06

6.2

Indian Uprising

1952-01-02

6.5

McLintock!

1963-11-12

7.6

Spartacus

1960-10-13

7.3

Winchester '73

1950-07-12

7.8

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962-04-13

7.9

Rio Bravo

1959-03-18

2.6

Last of the Wild Horses

1948-12-27

6.9

Rio Grande

1950-11-15

6.4

Two Rode Together

1961-05-24

5.5

Wake of the Red Witch

1948-12-30

7

The Gallant Legion

1948-05-24

4.6

99 and 44/100% Dead

1974-08-29

0

Outcasts of Black Mesa

1950-04-13

6.9

The War Wagon

1967-05-26

4.4

Cow Country

1953-04-25

5.5

The King and Four Queens

1956-12-21

4

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

1953-07-13

6.1

Cahill: United States Marshal

1973-07-11

6.2

Run of the Arrow

1957-09-05

7.1

The Alamo

1960-10-23

7.3

El Dorado

1966-12-17

6.4

The Tall Men

1955-09-22

6.8

Albuquerque

1948-02-20

6.2

The Wonderful Country

1959-10-21

6

John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

1992-06-06

7.1

The Lucy Show

1962-10-01

6.9

Alias Smith and Jones

1971-01-05

6.5

The Mod Squad

1968-09-24

7.1

Lost in Space

1965-09-15

6.5

Gunsmoke

1955-09-10

6.4

Laredo

1965-09-16

7

Rawhide

1959-01-09

7.4

Have Gun, Will Travel

1957-09-14

6.9

Daniel Boone

1964-09-24

6

The Big Valley

1965-09-15

6.3

Bat Masterson

1958-10-08

5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956-10-05

6.8

The Lone Ranger

1949-09-15

0

Panic!

1957-03-05

7.1

Mr. Terrific

1967-01-09

6.4

Wagon Train

1957-09-18

6.5

Gunsmoke

1955-09-10

6.5

Gunsmoke

1955-09-10

6.9

Daniel Boone

1964-09-24

6.9

Daniel Boone

1964-09-24

6.9

Daniel Boone

1964-09-24

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