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

  • Wagon Train

    Wagon Train

  • 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

  • The Big Valley

    The Big Valley

  • Lost in Space

    Lost in Space

  • Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

    Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

  • The Lone Ranger

    The Lone Ranger

  • Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

  • Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

  • Gunsmoke

    Gunsmoke

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Daniel Boone

    Daniel Boone

  • Rawhide

    Rawhide

  • The Lucy Show

    The Lucy Show

  • Bat Masterson

    Bat Masterson

  • How the West Was Won

    How the West Was Won

  • Laredo

    Laredo

  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

  • El Dorado

    El Dorado

  • Alias Smith and Jones

    Alias Smith and Jones

  • The Mod Squad

    The Mod Squad

  • Spartacus

    Spartacus

  • Rio Bravo

    Rio Bravo

  • Haunted Trails

    Haunted Trails

  • Night Passage

    Night Passage

  • McLintock!

    McLintock!

  • Western Renegades

    Western Renegades

  • Cat Ballou

    Cat Ballou

  • Shenandoah

    Shenandoah

  • Indian Uprising

    Indian Uprising

  • Rio Grande

    Rio Grande

  • Chisum

    Chisum

  • Winchester '73

    Winchester '73

  • California Firebrand

    California Firebrand

  • Sergeant Rutledge

    Sergeant Rutledge

  • Hellfire

    Hellfire

  • McQ

    McQ

  • Stampede

    Stampede

  • Roughshod

    Roughshod

  • The Capture

    The Capture

  • Rio Lobo

    Rio Lobo

  • Big Jake

    Big Jake

  • Cow Country

    Cow Country

  • The Searchers

    The Searchers

  • Black Spurs

    Black Spurs

  • The Sons of Katie Elder

    The Sons of Katie Elder

  • Red Sundown

    Red Sundown

  • The Big Country

    The Big Country

  • Cattle Town

    Cattle Town

  • The Prodigal

    The Prodigal

  • Mr. Terrific

    Mr. Terrific

  • Cheyenne Autumn

    Cheyenne Autumn

  • Jubilee Trail

    Jubilee Trail

  • The Green Berets

    The Green Berets

  • Hondo

    Hondo

  • Cow Town

    Cow Town

  • Calamity Jane

    Calamity Jane

  • Smoky

    Smoky

  • Smoky

    Smoky

  • Hellfighters

    Hellfighters

  • Blindfold

    Blindfold

  • Nevada Smith

    Nevada Smith

  • Two Rode Together

    Two Rode Together

  • Two Rode Together

    Two Rode Together

  • The Flame

    The Flame

  • Timberjack

    Timberjack

  • Donovan's Reef

    Donovan's Reef

  • The King and Four Queens

    The King and Four Queens

  • Albuquerque

    Albuquerque

  • The Tall Men

    The Tall Men

  • Cahill: United States Marshal

    Cahill: United States Marshal

  • The War Wagon

    The War Wagon

  • Panic!

    Panic!

  • The Alamo

    The Alamo

  • The Wonderful World of Disney

    The Wonderful World of Disney

  • The Wonderful Country

    The Wonderful Country

  • Man of the West

    Man of the West

  • Song of Scheherazade

    Song of Scheherazade

  • Song of Scheherazade

    Song of Scheherazade

  • The Far Country

    The Far Country

  • The Great Locomotive Chase

    The Great Locomotive Chase

  • Wake of the Red Witch

    Wake of the Red Witch

  • The Lusty Men

    The Lusty Men

  • Ten Wanted Men

    Ten Wanted Men

  • The Fighting Kentuckian

    The Fighting Kentuckian

  • Merrill's Marauders

    Merrill's Marauders

  • The Lone Gun

    The Lone Gun

  • The Stone Killer

    The Stone Killer

  • Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

    Hannah Lee: An American Primitive

  • Run of the Arrow

    Run of the Arrow

  • The Scalphunters

    The Scalphunters

  • The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

    The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

  • The Hired Gun

    The Hired Gun

  • Welcome to Hard Times

    Welcome to Hard Times

  • Calendar Girl

    Calendar Girl

  • The Undefeated

    The Undefeated

  • The Gallant Legion

    The Gallant Legion

  • Sign of the Pagan

    Sign of the Pagan

  • Blackbeard, the Pirate

    Blackbeard, the Pirate

  • Raiders of the Seven Seas

    Raiders of the Seven Seas

  • Jesse James Rides Again

    Jesse James Rides Again

  • The James Brothers of Missouri

    The James Brothers of Missouri

  • Atom Man vs. Superman

    Atom Man vs. Superman

  • Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

    Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

  • 99 and 44/100% Dead

    99 and 44/100% Dead

  • Way of a Gaucho

    Way of a Gaucho

  • Lady Godiva of Coventry

    Lady Godiva of Coventry

  • The Blazing Forest

    The Blazing Forest

  • Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

    Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory

  • The Rawhide Years

    The Rawhide Years

  • Outcasts of Black Mesa

    Outcasts of Black Mesa

  • Seven Men from Now

    Seven Men from Now

  • The Arizona Ranger

    The Arizona Ranger

  • The Plainsman and the Lady

    The Plainsman and the Lady

  • John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

    John Wayne's 'The Alamo'

  • Mail Order Bride

    Mail Order Bride

  • Trail of the Rustlers

    Trail of the Rustlers

  • The Rounders

    The Rounders

  • Hi-Jacked

    Hi-Jacked

  • Law of the Golden West

    Law of the Golden West

  • Shock Corridor

    Shock Corridor

  • Last of the Wild Horses

    Last of the Wild Horses

  • Gun Belt

    Gun Belt

  • Advance to the Rear

    Advance to the Rear

  • Forty Guns

    Forty Guns

  • The Western: A Lost TV Special

    The Western: A Lost TV Special

  • The Wings of Eagles

    The Wings of Eagles

  • The Second Greatest Sex

    The Second Greatest Sex

  • Homicide for Three

    Homicide for Three

  • Kentucky Rifle

    Kentucky Rifle

  • Hills of Oklahoma

    Hills of Oklahoma