Chuck Roberson

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

136

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-05-10

Day of death

1988-06-08 (69 years old)

Place of Birth

Shannon, Texas, USA

Chuck 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.

Known For

  • Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel

  • Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel

  • Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel

  • Have Gun, Will Travel

    Have Gun, Will Travel

  • The Virginian

    The Virginian

  • Wagon Train

    Wagon Train

  • The Big Valley

    The Big Valley

  • The Lucy Show

    The Lucy Show

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

  • Rawhide

    Rawhide

  • The Lone Ranger

    The Lone Ranger

  • Lost in Space

    Lost in Space

  • Bat Masterson

    Bat Masterson

  • Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

  • Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

  • Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

  • Laredo

    Laredo

  • Alias Smith and Jones

    Alias Smith and Jones

  • The Mod Squad

    The Mod Squad

  • Spartacus

    Spartacus

  • How the West Was Won

    How the West Was Won

  • The Big Country

    The Big Country

  • El Dorado

    El Dorado

  • Rio Bravo

    Rio Bravo

  • Hondo

    Hondo

  • The Alamo

    The Alamo

  • The Great Locomotive Chase

    The Great Locomotive Chase

  • The Capture

    The Capture

  • Panic!

    Panic!

  • Mr. Terrific

    Mr. Terrific

  • The Sons of Katie Elder

    The Sons of Katie Elder

  • Merrill's Marauders

    Merrill's Marauders

  • Donovan's Reef

    Donovan's Reef

  • Gun Belt

    Gun Belt

  • The James Brothers of Missouri

    The James Brothers of Missouri

  • Cat Ballou

    Cat Ballou

  • Shock Corridor

    Shock Corridor

  • Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

    Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

  • Raiders of the Seven Seas

    Raiders of the Seven Seas

  • Red Sundown

    Red Sundown

  • Jubilee Trail

    Jubilee Trail

  • Nevada Smith

    Nevada Smith

  • Jesse James Rides Again

    Jesse James Rides Again

  • Night Passage

    Night Passage

  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

  • McLintock!

    McLintock!

  • The Tall Men

    The Tall Men

  • The Scalphunters

    The Scalphunters

  • The Arizona Ranger

    The Arizona Ranger

  • Blindfold

    Blindfold

  • The Green Berets

    The Green Berets

  • The Undefeated

    The Undefeated

  • The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

    The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

  • The Rounders

    The Rounders

  • The Gallant Legion

    The Gallant Legion

  • Cattle Town

    Cattle Town

  • Roughshod

    Roughshod

  • Cahill: United States Marshal

    Cahill: United States Marshal

  • Kentucky Rifle

    Kentucky Rifle

  • Winchester '73

    Winchester '73

  • Run of the Arrow

    Run of the Arrow

  • The Searchers

    The Searchers

  • Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

    Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

  • Haunted Trails

    Haunted Trails

  • Indian Uprising

    Indian Uprising

  • Rio Lobo

    Rio Lobo

  • Rio Grande

    Rio Grande

  • The King and Four Queens

    The King and Four Queens

  • Two Rode Together

    Two Rode Together

  • Two Rode Together

    Two Rode Together

  • The Rawhide Years

    The Rawhide Years

  • Big Jake

    Big Jake

  • Calamity Jane

    Calamity Jane

  • Smoky

    Smoky

  • Smoky

    Smoky

  • The Stone Killer

    The Stone Killer

  • McQ

    McQ

  • The Wonderful Country

    The Wonderful Country

  • The Lusty Men

    The Lusty Men

  • Man of the West

    Man of the West

  • The Wonderful World of Disney

    The Wonderful World of Disney

  • Hellfire

    Hellfire

  • Seven Men from Now

    Seven Men from Now

  • The Hired Gun

    The Hired Gun

  • Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

    Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

  • Wake of the Red Witch

    Wake of the Red Witch

  • The Far Country

    The Far Country

  • Welcome to Hard Times

    Welcome to Hard Times

  • Shenandoah

    Shenandoah

  • Stampede

    Stampede

  • Hellfighters

    Hellfighters

  • Song of Scheherazade

    Song of Scheherazade

  • Song of Scheherazade

    Song of Scheherazade

  • Western Renegades

    Western Renegades

  • Ten Wanted Men

    Ten Wanted Men

  • 99 and 44/100% Dead

    99 and 44/100% Dead

  • Chisum

    Chisum

  • Sign of the Pagan

    Sign of the Pagan

  • Sergeant Rutledge

    Sergeant Rutledge

  • Cow Town

    Cow Town

  • The Prodigal

    The Prodigal

  • The Wings of Eagles

    The Wings of Eagles

  • The War Wagon

    The War Wagon

  • Black Spurs

    Black Spurs

  • Cow Country

    Cow Country

  • Albuquerque

    Albuquerque

  • The Fighting Kentuckian

    The Fighting Kentuckian

  • Blackbeard, the Pirate

    Blackbeard, the Pirate

  • Timberjack

    Timberjack

  • California Firebrand

    California Firebrand

  • The Blazing Forest

    The Blazing Forest

  • The Lone Gun

    The Lone Gun

  • Advance to the Rear

    Advance to the Rear

  • Cheyenne Autumn

    Cheyenne Autumn

  • Outcasts of Black Mesa

    Outcasts of Black Mesa

  • The Flame

    The Flame

  • Lady Godiva of Coventry

    Lady Godiva of Coventry

  • Forty Guns

    Forty Guns

  • Atom Man vs. Superman

    Atom Man vs. Superman

  • John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

    John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

  • Calendar Girl

    Calendar Girl

  • Way of a Gaucho

    Way of a Gaucho

  • Trail of the Rustlers

    Trail of the Rustlers

  • The Plainsman and the Lady

    The Plainsman and the Lady

  • Mail Order Bride

    Mail Order Bride

  • Hi-Jacked

    Hi-Jacked

  • The Western: A Lost TV Special

    The Western: A Lost TV Special

  • The Second Greatest Sex

    The Second Greatest Sex

  • Last of the Wild Horses

    Last of the Wild Horses

  • Homicide for Three

    Homicide for Three

  • Hills of Oklahoma

    Hills of Oklahoma

  • Law of the Golden West

    Law of the Golden West