Chuck Roberson
Acting
Born 1919-05-10
Died 1988-06-08
Shannon, Texas, USA
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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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Acting
54 credits
Wagon Train
The Virginian
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Lucy Show
Rawhide
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Lost in Space
The Big Valley
Gunsmoke
Daniel Boone
Lawman
Bat Masterson
The Lone Ranger
Lancer
Spartacus
The Searchers
Rio Bravo
The Adventures of Kit Carson
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Misfits
How the West Was Won
Mail Order Bride
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
El Dorado
Mr. Terrific
The Alamo
Chisum
The Big Country
Red River
Rio Grande
The Shootist
Rio Lobo
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Miracle Mile
McLintock!
Cat Ballou
The Undefeated
Calamity Jane
The Green Berets
Nevada Smith
Winchester '73
Big Jake
McQ
The War Wagon
The Tall Men
Hatari!
The Sons of Katie Elder
Hondo
Donovan's Reef
The Man from Laramie
Two Rode Together
The Far Country
Cheyenne Autumn
The War Lord
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Directing
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