Chuck Roberson

Also Known As: Charles Hugh "Chuck" Roberson, Charles Hugh 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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Shannon, Texas, USA

Adult: No

Birthday: May 10, 1919

Age: 106 years old

Gender: Male

Deathday: June 08, 1988

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Known For:

Shock Corridor
The Stone Killer
Hondo
The Plainsman and the Lady
Calendar Girl
Song of Scheherazade
Jesse James Rides Again
The Flame
California Firebrand
The Arizona Ranger
Homicide for Three
Stampede
Roughshod
Law of the Golden West
Haunted Trails
The James Brothers of Missouri
The Fighting Kentuckian
Western Renegades
Trail of the Rustlers
The Capture
Cow Town
Hills of Oklahoma
Hi-Jacked
Atom Man vs. Superman
The Scalphunters
Night Passage
Seven Men from Now
Merrill's Marauders
Rio Lobo
The Sons of Katie Elder
Forty Guns
Smoky
Hellfire
Black Spurs
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
The Big Country
Ten Wanted Men
The Searchers
Sergeant Rutledge
The Wings of Eagles
Man of the West
Two Rode Together
How the West Was Won
Cheyenne Autumn
Donovan's Reef
Way of a Gaucho
The Lusty Men
Cat Ballou
The Far Country
The Green Berets
Sign of the Pagan
The Prodigal
McQ
Big Jake
Chisum
The Undefeated
Hellfighters
Welcome to Hard Times
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Nevada Smith
Shenandoah
Smoky
Blindfold
Lady Godiva of Coventry
The Rounders
Advance to the Rear
Mail Order Bride
The Hired Gun
The Rawhide Years
Red Sundown
The Great Locomotive Chase
The Second Greatest Sex
Kentucky Rifle
Timberjack
The Lone Gun
Jubilee Trail
Calamity Jane
Gun Belt
Raiders of the Seven Seas
The Blazing Forest
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Cattle Town
Indian Uprising
McLintock!
Spartacus
Winchester '73
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rio Bravo
Last of the Wild Horses
Rio Grande
Two Rode Together
Wake of the Red Witch
The Gallant Legion
99 and 44/100% Dead
Outcasts of Black Mesa
The War Wagon
Cow Country
The King and Four Queens
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Cahill: United States Marshal
Run of the Arrow
The Alamo
El Dorado
The Tall Men
Albuquerque
The Wonderful Country
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Song of Scheherazade