Chuck Roberson
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 Worl
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.
Born
May 10, 1919
Shannon, Texas, USA
Died
Jun 08, 1988
Known For
Acting
Movies
110 acting
58 crew
Popularity
0.8
Known For
The Searchers
1956
as Ranger at Wedding (uncredited)
Spartacus
1960
as Slave (uncredited)
Rio Bravo
1959
as Gunman (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Henchman (uncredited)
McQ
1974
as Santiago's Bodyguard (uncredited)
El Dorado
1966
as Jason's Gunman
Chisum
1970
as Trail Herder (uncredited)
How the West Was Won
1962
as Officer (uncredited)
McLintock!
1963
as Sheriff Jeff Lord
Calamity Jane
1953
as Barfly (uncredited)
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