Chuck Roberson

Chuck Roberson

Biography: 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.

Place of Birth: Not available

Birthday: May 10, 1919

Deathday: June 08, 1988

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Known For

Shock Corridor
Shock Corridor

1963-09-25

The Stone Killer
The Stone Killer

1973-08-08

Hondo
Hondo

1953-11-26

The Flame
The Flame

1947-11-24

Law of the Golden West
Law of the Golden West

1949-05-23

Song of Scheherazade
Song of Scheherazade

1947-02-26

The Plainsman and the Lady
The Plainsman and the Lady

1946-11-11

The Fighting Kentuckian
The Fighting Kentuckian

1949-09-15

Jesse James Rides Again
Jesse James Rides Again

1947-08-02

Homicide for Three
Homicide for Three

1948-12-08

Calendar Girl
Calendar Girl

1947-01-31

Roughshod
Roughshod

1949-05-11

California Firebrand
California Firebrand

1948-04-01

The Arizona Ranger
The Arizona Ranger

1948-05-14

Atom Man vs. Superman
Atom Man vs. Superman

1950-07-20

The Capture
The Capture

1950-04-08

Hi-Jacked
Hi-Jacked

1950-07-07

The James Brothers of Missouri
The James Brothers of Missouri

1949-08-31

Hills of Oklahoma
Hills of Oklahoma

1950-06-01

Stampede
Stampede

1949-05-01

Trail of the Rustlers
Trail of the Rustlers

1950-02-02

Haunted Trails
Haunted Trails

1949-08-21

Western Renegades
Western Renegades

1949-10-08

Cow Town
Cow Town

1950-05-19

The Scalphunters
The Scalphunters

1968-02-29

Night Passage
Night Passage

1957-07-24

7 Men from Now
7 Men from Now

1956-07-24

Merrill's Marauders
Merrill's Marauders

1962-03-16

Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo

1970-04-01

The Sons of Katie Elder
The Sons of Katie Elder

1965-06-23

Forty Guns
Forty Guns

1957-09-10

Smoky
Smoky

1966-08-03

Hellfire
Hellfire

1949-05-29

Black Spurs
Black Spurs

1965-05-28

Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

1952-02-08

The Big Country
The Big Country

1958-09-30

Ten Wanted Men
Ten Wanted Men

1955-02-01

The Searchers
The Searchers

1956-05-16

Way of a Gaucho
Way of a Gaucho

1952-10-16

Sign of the Pagan
Sign of the Pagan

1954-11-24

Man of the West
Man of the West

1958-06-20

Sergeant Rutledge
Sergeant Rutledge

1960-05-25

The Wings of Eagles
The Wings of Eagles

1957-01-31

The Lusty Men
The Lusty Men

1952-10-24

Cat Ballou
Cat Ballou

1965-06-24

The Green Berets
The Green Berets

1968-07-04

Donovan's Reef
Donovan's Reef

1963-06-12

The Far Country
The Far Country

1954-02-12

How the West Was Won
How the West Was Won

1962-11-02

Cheyenne Autumn
Cheyenne Autumn

1964-10-15

Two Rode Together
Two Rode Together

1961-05-24

The Prodigal
The Prodigal

1955-05-06

McQ
McQ

1974-01-04

The Undefeated
The Undefeated

1969-10-04

Hellfighters
Hellfighters

1968-11-27

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

1967-03-08

Welcome to Hard Times
Welcome to Hard Times

1967-04-30

Nevada Smith
Nevada Smith

1966-06-10

Big Jake
Big Jake

1971-05-26

Chisum
Chisum

1970-07-23

Shenandoah
Shenandoah

1965-06-03

Smoky
Smoky

1966-08-03

Lady Godiva of Coventry
Lady Godiva of Coventry

1955-11-02

Blindfold
Blindfold

1966-05-23

The Rawhide Years
The Rawhide Years

1956-07-01

The Great Locomotive Chase
The Great Locomotive Chase

1956-06-08

The Hired Gun
The Hired Gun

1957-09-20

The Lone Gun
The Lone Gun

1954-04-25

Kentucky Rifle
Kentucky Rifle

1956-07-01

Red Sundown
Red Sundown

1956-03-01

Cattle Town
Cattle Town

1952-09-06

Indian Uprising
Indian Uprising

1952-01-02

Jubilee Trail
Jubilee Trail

1954-05-15

The Second Greatest Sex
The Second Greatest Sex

1955-09-30

The Rounders
The Rounders

1965-01-08

Gun Belt
Gun Belt

1953-07-24

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

1952-12-27

Timberjack
Timberjack

1955-02-18

The Blazing Forest
The Blazing Forest

1952-12-01

Advance to the Rear
Advance to the Rear

1964-06-10

Mail Order Bride
Mail Order Bride

1964-03-10

Calamity Jane
Calamity Jane

1953-11-04

Raiders of the Seven Seas
Raiders of the Seven Seas

1953-05-27

Blackbeard, the Pirate
Blackbeard, the Pirate

1952-12-24

McLintock!
McLintock!

1963-11-12

Spartacus
Spartacus

1960-10-13

Winchester '73
Winchester '73

1950-07-12

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962-04-13

Rio Bravo
Rio Bravo

1959-03-18

Last of the Wild Horses
Last of the Wild Horses

1948-12-27

Rio Grande
Rio Grande

1950-11-15

Two Rode Together
Two Rode Together

1961-05-24

Wake of the Red Witch
Wake of the Red Witch

1948-12-30

The Gallant Legion
The Gallant Legion

1948-05-24

99 and 44/100% Dead
99 and 44/100% Dead

1974-08-29

Outcasts of Black Mesa
Outcasts of Black Mesa

1950-04-13

The War Wagon
The War Wagon

1967-05-26

Cow Country
Cow Country

1953-04-25

The King and Four Queens
The King and Four Queens

1956-12-21

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

1953-07-13

Cahill: United States Marshal
Cahill: United States Marshal

1973-07-11

Run of the Arrow
Run of the Arrow

1957-09-05

The Alamo
The Alamo

1960-10-23

El Dorado
El Dorado

1966-12-17

The Tall Men
The Tall Men

1955-09-22

Albuquerque
Albuquerque

1948-02-20

The Wonderful Country
The Wonderful Country

1959-10-21

John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

1992-06-06

Song of Scheherazade
Song of Scheherazade

1947-02-26

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