Chuck Roberson
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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.
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Wagon Train
Junior
Bat Masterson
Henchman about to be Sawn in Half
Lawman
Stage Driver (uncredited)
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Brenner
The Virginian
Wagon Driver
Daniel Boone
Dark Panther
The Lucy Show
Fireman #1
Rawhide
Baxter
Have Gun, Will Travel
Perdidos en el espacio
Alien Fighter
The Big Valley
Stage Driver
Gunsmoke
Sgt. Keller
The Lone Ranger
Todd Gunder
Los Dos Mosqueteros
Laredo
The Mod Squad
El Álamo
Tennesseean
Espartaco
Slave (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
Sam - Ranger #1
Más corazón que odio
Ranger at Wedding (uncredited)
The Adventures of Kit Carson
Henchman Blake
Panic!
Mr. Terrific
Dawson
La conquista del oeste
Officer (uncredited)
Río Bravo
Gunman (uncredited)
El Dorado
Jason's Gunman
Los invencibles
Yankee Sergeant at River (uncredited)
Un tiro en la noche
Henchman (uncredited)
McLintock!
Sheriff Jeff Lord
Horizontes de grandeza
Terrill Cowboy
Detrás de Cámaras
El Álamo
Stunts
Más corazón que odio
Stunts
La conquista del oeste
Stunt Double, Stunts
Río Bravo
Stunts
El Dorado
Stunts
Bajo el planeta de los simios
Second Unit Director
Los inadaptados
Stunts
100 rifles
Second Unit Director
Los invencibles
Stunt Double
Río Rojo
Stunts
Horizontes de grandeza
Stunts
The Sons of Katie Elder
Stunts
Rio Lobo
Stunts, Stunt Double
Lucha de gigantes
Stunt Double, Stunts
Hondo
Stunt Double
El Ultimo Pistolero
Stunts
Rio Grande
Stunts
70 minutos para huir
Stunts
The Naked Spur
Stunts, Stunt Double
Hatari
Stunts
Winchester 73
Stunts
El hombre del oeste
Stunts
Hambre de venganza
Stunts
El ocaso de los Cheyennes
Stunts
Sin miedo y sin tacha
Stunt Double
The Tall Men
Stunts, Stunt Double
The War Lord
Stunts
Two Rode Together
Stunts
Cahill: United States Marshal
Coordinador de Escenas
La mujer codiciada
Stunts