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.
125 acting credits
Acting · 125
Wagon Train
1957
The Virginian
1962
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Daniel Boone
1964
The Big Valley
1965
Rawhide
1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Lost in Space
1965
The Lucy Show
1962
Bat Masterson
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
The Lone Ranger
1949
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Laredo
1965
The Mod Squad
1968
Spartacus
1960
The Searchers
1956
Panic!
1957
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Rio Bravo
1959
El Dorado
1966
Mr. Terrific
1967
The Alamo
1960
The Big Country
1958
The Green Berets
1968
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
How the West Was Won
1962
Hondo
1953
The Undefeated
1969
McLintock!
1963
Rio Lobo
1970
Rio Grande
1950
The War Wagon
1967
Chisum
1970
Big Jake
1971
Cat Ballou
1965
Shenandoah
1965
Nevada Smith
1966
Winchester '73
1950
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
Donovan's Reef
1963
The Far Country
1954
The Tall Men
1955
McQ
1974
Man of the West
1958
Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952
7 Men from Now
1956
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
Calamity Jane
1953
Two Rode Together
1961
Merrill's Marauders
1962
The Rounders
1965
The Stone Killer
1973
Night Passage
1957
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955
The Scalphunters
1968
Shock Corridor
1963
Forty Guns
1957
The Lusty Men
1952
Sign of the Pagan
1954
Hellfighters
1968
The Wings of Eagles
1957
The Wonderful Country
1959
The King and Four Queens
1956
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
Wake of the Red Witch
1948
Raiders of the Seven Seas
1953
The Great Locomotive Chase
1956
Blindfold
1966
Mail Order Bride
1964
The Capture
1950
Run of the Arrow
1957
Hellfire
1949
The Fighting Kentuckian
1949
The Flame
1947
The Prodigal
1955
Smoky
1966
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1953
Ten Wanted Men
1955
Albuquerque
1948
Advance to the Rear
1964
Red Sundown
1956
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
Black Spurs
1965
The Rawhide Years
1956
Jubilee Trail
1954
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
Indian Uprising
1952
The Lone Gun
1954
Way of a Gaucho
1952
Kentucky Rifle
1956
Atom Man vs. Superman
1950
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
1952
Gun Belt
1953
Cow Country
1953
The Second Greatest Sex
1955
The Gallant Legion
1948
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
1952
Haunted Trails
1949
Roughshod
1949
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950
Jesse James Rides Again
1947
Cattle Town
1952
The James Brothers of Missouri
1949
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
1992
Timberjack
1955
Hi-Jacked
1950
Western Renegades
1949
Hills of Oklahoma
1950
Last of the Wild Horses
1948
Stampede
1949
The Plainsman and the Lady
1946
California Firebrand
1948
Song of Scheherazade
1947
Trail of the Rustlers
1950
The Arizona Ranger
1948
Homicide for Three
1948
The Blazing Forest
1952
Law of the Golden West
1949
Calendar Girl
1947
The Hired Gun
1957
Cow Town
1950
The Western: A Lost TV Special
1958