Dale Robertson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dayle Lymoine Robertson (July 14, 1923 – February 27, 2013) was an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the long-running NBC/ABC hit television series Tales of Wells Fargo, and Ben Calhoun, the owner of an incomplete railroad line in ABC's The Iron Horse. He was often presented as a deceptively thoughtful but modest Western hero. From 1968 to 1970, Robertson was the fourth and final host of the syndicated Death Valley Days anthology series. For most of his career, Robertson played in western films and television shows—well over sixty titles in all. His best-remembered series, Tales of Wells Fargo aired on NBC from 1957 to 1961, when it moved to ABC and expanded to an hour-long program for its final season in 1961-1962. The show was originally produced by Nat Holt whom Robertson felt he owed his career to for giving him his first leading roles.[10] Robertson also did the narration for Tales of Wells Fargo through which he often presented his own commentary on matters of law, morality, and common sense. He was unique among his television contemporaries, stating that he hated the gun he was forced to carry, but saw it as a necessary evil, a "tool of the trade", and kept practicing.[citation needed] In its March 30, 1959, cover story on television westerns, Time reported Robertson was 6 feet tall, weighed 180 pounds, and measured 42-34-34. He sometimes made use of his physique in "beefcake" scenes, such as one in 1952's Return of the Texan where he is seen bare-chested and sweaty, repairing a fence. In 1960, Robertson guest-starred as himself in NBC's The Ford Show, starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.[12] In 1962, he similarly appeared on a short-lived western comedy and variety series, ABC's The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show. In 1963, after Tales of Wells Fargo ended its five-year run, he played the lead role in the first of A.C. Lyles' second feature westerns, Law of the Lawless.
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Birthday: July 14, 1923
Deathday: February 27, 2013
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Son of Sinbad
1955-06-02
Son of Sinbad
Overview: Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-02
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Flamingo Road
1949-04-30
Flamingo Road
Overview: A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-30
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The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1952-11-03
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Overview: Four undesirables run out of a mining town and become marooned in a deserted mountain cabin during a raging snowstorm.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-03
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Dakota Incident
1956-07-23
Dakota Incident
Overview: Indians attack a stagecoach, and a disparate band of passengers must band together to fight them off.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-23
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Two Flags West
1950-10-12
Two Flags West
Overview: A group of confedarate prisoners is sent to a unionist fort in the west to help the local garrison to fight the indians.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-12
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Sitting Bull
1954-10-06
Sitting Bull
Overview: Chief Sitting Bull of the Sioux tribe is forced by the Indian-hating General Custer to react with violence, resulting in the famous Last Stand at Little Bighorn. Parrish, a friend to the Sioux, tries to prevent the bloodshed, but is court- martialed for "collaborating" with the enemy. Sitting Bull, however, manages to intercede with President Grant on Parrish's behalf.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-06
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The Man from Button Willow
1965-04-03
The Man from Button Willow
Overview: In 1869, Justin Eagle lives on his ranch called "The Eagle's Nest" near the town of Button Willow, California. In addition to being a rancher, Juston is a trouble-shooter for the U. S. Government which calls for him to act as an undercover operative and thwart the forces of evil in the rapidly-growing West. He is sent to San Franciso to find missing U. S. Senaator Freeman, who has disappeared while fighting the efforts of Montgomery Blaine, a villain who has been, with the aid of his henchman, "The Whip," forcing settlers to sell their land to him, not knowing that the land is in the path of a proposed railroad, from Utah, that will link the western United States to the East. Senator Freeman is the leader of an effort to veer the railroad southward to bypass Blaine's land and, for his efforts, is kidnapped by Bliane's henchmen and shanghaied from the San Francisco waterfront. Justin Eagle's job is to find and return him safely.
Genres: Animation Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Legends of the West
1992-09-08
Legends of the West
Overview: Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, Billy the Kid, Crazy Horse and the O.K. Corral
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
1953-06-12
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Overview: Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-horse driver Dan Harrow and the inevitable triangle develops (complicated by Dan's desire to farm and Molly's to boat) against a background of the canalmen's fight against the encroaching railroad.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-12
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Coast of Skeletons
1965-03-19
Coast of Skeletons
Overview: A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-03-19
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A Day of Fury
1956-05-02
A Day of Fury
Overview: Town marshal Alan Burnett life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade, a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been settled between "his" people (i.e. the saloon-keepers, gamblers, etc.) and the righteous, "respectable" folk.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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Devil's Canyon
1953-08-13
Devil's Canyon
Overview: An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-13
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Top of the World
1955-05-01
Top of the World
Overview: A team of Air Force servicemen become stranded after setting up a weather station on an island of ice in Alaska.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-01
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Golden Girl
1951-11-01
Golden Girl
Overview: Against the background of the Civil War, sixteen-year-old song-and-dance artiste Lotta Crabtree works her way across America, becoming ever more popular.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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Take Care of My Little Girl
1951-07-06
Take Care of My Little Girl
Overview: A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-06
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Law of the Lawless
1964-05-13
Law of the Lawless
Overview: A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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The Kansas City Massacre
1975-09-19
The Kansas City Massacre
Overview: Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-19
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The Cariboo Trail
1950-08-01
The Cariboo Trail
Overview: A cattleman fights to establish a ranch in the middle of gold country.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Scalplock
1966-04-10
Scalplock
Overview: This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a railroad line in a poker game and has his hands full holding it from the clutches of various conniving bad guys.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-10
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The Gambler from Natchez
1954-08-04
The Gambler from Natchez
Overview: A discharged army Captain returns home to New Orleans to take revenge on the men who murdered his father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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City of Bad Men
1953-09-11
City of Bad Men
Overview: Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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Melvin Purvis G-Man
1975-02-28
Melvin Purvis G-Man
Overview: Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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Return of the Texan
1952-02-13
Return of the Texan
Overview: A young widower named Sam Crockett returns from Kansas City to his small hometown in rural Texas, bringing with him his feisty grandfather and two young sons, Steve and Yoyo. He tries to make a go of the old family homestead but faces financial problems and pressures from his well-to-do neighbor, Rod Marshall. He also begins an on-again-off-again romance with Rod's sister-in-law, even though she's engaged to wed the town's doctor. Events come to head when Sam's grandfather suffers a stroke.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-13
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O. Henry's Full House
1952-08-07
O. Henry's Full House
Overview: Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics' acclaim was "The Cop and the Anthem". Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get arrested so he can spend the winter in a nice jail cell. He fails. He can't even accost a woman; she turns out to be a streetwalker. The other stories are "The Clarion Call", "The Last Leaf", "The Ransom of Red Chief", and "The Gift of the Magi".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-07
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Lydia Bailey
1952-05-30
Lydia Bailey
Overview: A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-30
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The Silver Whip
1953-02-04
The Silver Whip
Overview: Frustrated with the lack of opportunities in his hometown, young Jess Harker plans to leave, but sympathetic stagecoach armed guard Race Crim persuades his boss to give Jess the stage driver job.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-04
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Hell Canyon Outlaws
1957-10-05
Hell Canyon Outlaws
Overview: In this western, a sheriff attempts to exact his revenge against the desperadoes who cost him his job. The former lawman successfully gets rid of the bad hombres and clears his name.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-05
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Fast and Sexy
1958-04-18
Fast and Sexy
Overview: A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-18
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Call Me Mister
1951-02-01
Call Me Mister
Overview: A G.I. in occupied Japan tries to re-woo his old love, who's putting on a show for the troops.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-01
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Blood on the Arrow
1964-10-11
Blood on the Arrow
Overview: In this western, the sole survivor of an Apache ambush rides out to save a young boy who has been captured. The hero was a captured outlaw en route to his trial.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-11
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Fighting Man of the Plains
1949-11-16
Fighting Man of the Plains
Overview: Former bandit Jim Dancer becomes marshal of a Kansas town and cleans up the criminal element - with the help of his old pal, Jesse James.
Genres: Action Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
1961-10-17
Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon
Overview: Feature-length Western based on the hit TV show 'Tales of Wells Fargo,' about a Wells Fargo Company troubleshooter who becomes the target of an outlaw he helped send to prison.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-17
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The One Eyed Soldiers
1966-01-01
The One Eyed Soldiers
Overview: Action - The body of Dr. Charles Berens, Chief of the United Nations Medical Relief Organization, is seen hurtling from the lofty parapet of an ancient church. He has chosen death rather than capitulate to his murderous pursuers. Police chief Colonel Ferrer (Andrew Faulds) arrives in time to hear the dying Berens last words: "July the 18th! The One Eyed Soldiers." - Dale Robertson, Luciana Paluzzi, Guy Deghy
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Boy with Green Hair
1948-11-26
The Boy with Green Hair
Overview: Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-26
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The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
1979-11-20
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Overview: A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves and train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.
Genres: Western Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-20
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The Secret of Convict Lake
1951-07-29
The Secret of Convict Lake
Overview: After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women. Things get direr when rumors of hidden money arise, and Canfield discovers that the man who framed him is part of the community.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-29
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The High Terrace
1956-10-01
The High Terrace
Overview: A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000-05-31
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Overview: Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses and background accounts by historians.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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The Walking Major
1970-06-06
The Walking Major
Overview: U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambling with U.S. servicemen in order to raise funds to rebuild an orphanage. Suspicious of Allen's motives, a Japanese newsman, Hiroshi Kitabayashi, traces the American's background until he discovers the motive behind Allen's long walk.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-06
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