Chuck Roberson

Acting · 0.7 popularity

Age

107

Movies

107

Born: May 10, 1919 – June 8, 1988
From: Shannon, Texas, USA

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.

Works

107 films

Spartacus

19607.5

The Searchers

19567.7

Rio Bravo

19597.8

How the West Was Won

19627.0

El Dorado

19667.4

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

19627.8

The Alamo

19607.1

The Big Country

19587.6

Mail Order Bride

19647.0

Chisum

19706.7

Rio Grande

19506.8

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

19676.6

Rio Lobo

19706.5

McLintock!

19636.6

The Green Berets

19685.7

Cat Ballou

19656.4

Winchester '73

19507.3

The Undefeated

19696.3

Calamity Jane

19537.0

Big Jake

19716.8

The Tall Men

19556.5

The War Wagon

19676.8

Nevada Smith

19666.7

Hondo

19536.5

Donovan's Reef

19636.2

The Sons of Katie Elder

19657.0

McQ

19746.1

Cheyenne Autumn

19646.7

The Far Country

19546.9

Shenandoah

19656.9

Lady Godiva of Coventry

19555.5

The Rounders

19655.5

7 Men from Now

19566.8

Two Rode Together

19616.4

Man of the West

19586.6

Hellfighters

19686.3

The Wonderful Country

19596.1

Cahill: United States Marshal

19736.1

The Wings of Eagles

19576.3

The Fighting Kentuckian

19495.9

Night Passage

19576.5

The Lusty Men

19526.7

Sergeant Rutledge

19607.0

The Stone Killer

19736.3

The King and Four Queens

19565.6

The Scalphunters

19686.4

Ten Wanted Men

19555.9

Wake of the Red Witch

19485.8

Shock Corridor

19637.0

The Prodigal

19554.6

The Flame

19475.8

Forty Guns

19576.6

The Great Locomotive Chase

19566.3

Blackbeard, the Pirate

19525.9

Way of a Gaucho

19525.7

Run of the Arrow

19576.1

The Hired Gun

19575.9

Raiders of the Seven Seas

19536.1

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

19526.0

The Lone Gun

19545.6

Blindfold

19666.3

Advance to the Rear

19645.2

Merrill's Marauders

19626.2

Welcome to Hard Times

19675.3

The Rawhide Years

19565.6

Hi-Jacked

19505.4

Gun Belt

19536.4

Black Spurs

19656.3

Red Sundown

19566.1

The Capture

19506.2

The Second Greatest Sex

19557.8

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

19536.7

The Plainsman and the Lady

19466.0

99 and 44/100% Dead

19745.1

The Western: A Lost TV Special

1958

Song of Scheherazade

19476.6

Albuquerque

19486.8

Sign of the Pagan

19546.0

Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

19524.8

Timberjack

19554.2

Atom Man vs. Superman

19505.5

Cow Country

19534.6

Kentucky Rifle

19565.8

Outcasts of Black Mesa

19509.0

Jubilee Trail

19545.2

John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

19928.3

Last of the Wild Horses

19483.3

The Blazing Forest

19526.5

Jesse James Rides Again

194710.0

Hellfire

19496.4

Roughshod

19495.7

Indian Uprising

19526.5

Law of the Golden West

19497.5

The Arizona Ranger

19486.7

Cattle Town

19527.6

Smoky

19666.7

Haunted Trails

19499.0

The James Brothers of Missouri

19496.7

Stampede

19496.3

Homicide for Three

19485.7

Calendar Girl

19475.6

Cow Town

19505.5

California Firebrand

19485.5

Western Renegades

19496.5

The Gallant Legion

19487.2

Hills of Oklahoma

19507.0

Trail of the Rustlers

19507.3