Acting
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 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.
Filmography
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Film · 1992
McQ
Film · 1974
99 and 44/100% Dead
Film · 1974
The Stone Killer
Film · 1973
Cahill: United States Marshal
Film · 1973
Big Jake
Film · 1971
Alias Smith and Jones
Series · 1971
Rio Lobo
Film · 1970
Chisum
Film · 1970
The Undefeated
Film · 1969
The Scalphunters
Film · 1968
The Green Berets
Film · 1968
Hellfighters
Film · 1968
The Mod Squad
Series · 1968
Lancer
Series · 1968
Welcome to Hard Times
Film · 1967
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Film · 1967
The War Wagon
Film · 1967
Mr. Terrific
Series · 1967
Smoky
Film · 1966
Nevada Smith
Film · 1966
Smoky
Film · 1966
Blindfold
Film · 1966
El Dorado
Film · 1966
The Sons of Katie Elder
Film · 1965
Black Spurs
Film · 1965
Cat Ballou
Film · 1965
Shenandoah
Film · 1965
The Rounders
Film · 1965
Lost in Space
Series · 1965
Laredo
Series · 1965
The Big Valley
Series · 1965
Cheyenne Autumn
Film · 1964
Advance to the Rear
Film · 1964
Mail Order Bride
Film · 1964
Daniel Boone
Series · 1964
Daniel Boone
Series · 1964
Daniel Boone
Series · 1964
Daniel Boone
Series · 1964
Shock Corridor
Film · 1963
Donovan's Reef
Film · 1963
McLintock!
Film · 1963
Merrill's Marauders
Film · 1962
How the West Was Won
Film · 1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Film · 1962
The Lucy Show
Series · 1962
The Virginian
Series · 1962
Two Rode Together
Film · 1961
Two Rode Together
Film · 1961
Sergeant Rutledge
Film · 1960
Spartacus
Film · 1960
The Alamo
Film · 1960
Rio Bravo
Film · 1959
The Wonderful Country
Film · 1959
Rawhide
Series · 1959
The Big Country
Film · 1958
Man of the West
Film · 1958
The Western: A Lost TV Special
Film · 1958
Bat Masterson
Series · 1958
Lawman
Series · 1958
Night Passage
Film · 1957
Forty Guns
Film · 1957
The Wings of Eagles
Film · 1957
The Hired Gun
Film · 1957
Run of the Arrow
Film · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
Series · 1957
Panic!
Series · 1957
Wagon Train
Series · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
Series · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
Series · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
Series · 1957
7 Men from Now
Film · 1956
The Searchers
Film · 1956
The Rawhide Years
Film · 1956
Red Sundown
Film · 1956
The Great Locomotive Chase
Film · 1956
Kentucky Rifle
Film · 1956
The King and Four Queens
Film · 1956
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Series · 1956
Ten Wanted Men
Film · 1955
The Prodigal
Film · 1955
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Film · 1955
The Second Greatest Sex
Film · 1955
Timberjack
Film · 1955
The Tall Men
Film · 1955
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
Gunsmoke
Series · 1955
The Far Country
Film · 1954
Sign of the Pagan
Film · 1954
The Lone Gun
Film · 1954
Jubilee Trail
Film · 1954
The Wonderful World of Disney
Series · 1954
Hondo
Film · 1953
Calamity Jane
Film · 1953
Gun Belt
Film · 1953
Raiders of the Seven Seas
Film · 1953
Cow Country
Film · 1953
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Film · 1953
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Film · 1952
Way of a Gaucho
Film · 1952
The Lusty Men
Film · 1952
The Blazing Forest
Film · 1952
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Film · 1952
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Film · 1952
Cattle Town
Film · 1952
Indian Uprising
Film · 1952
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Series · 1951
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Series · 1951
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Series · 1951
Trail of the Rustlers
Film · 1950
The Capture
Film · 1950
Cow Town
Film · 1950
Hills of Oklahoma
Film · 1950
Hi-Jacked
Film · 1950
Atom Man vs. Superman
Film · 1950
Winchester '73
Film · 1950
Rio Grande
Film · 1950
Outcasts of Black Mesa
Film · 1950
Stampede
Film · 1949
Roughshod
Film · 1949
Law of the Golden West
Film · 1949
Haunted Trails
Film · 1949
The James Brothers of Missouri
Film · 1949
The Fighting Kentuckian
Film · 1949
Western Renegades
Film · 1949
Hellfire
Film · 1949
The Lone Ranger
Series · 1949
California Firebrand
Film · 1948
The Arizona Ranger
Film · 1948
Homicide for Three
Film · 1948
Last of the Wild Horses
Film · 1948
Wake of the Red Witch
Film · 1948
The Gallant Legion
Film · 1948
Albuquerque
Film · 1948
Calendar Girl
Film · 1947
Song of Scheherazade
Film · 1947
Jesse James Rides Again
Film · 1947
The Flame
Film · 1947
Song of Scheherazade
Film · 1947
The Plainsman and the Lady
Film · 1946