1919-05-10 ( 105 years old ) in Shannon, Texas, USA
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.
Movies
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
1992-06-06
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974-08-29
McQ
1974-01-04
The Stone Killer
1973-08-08
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973-07-11
Big Jake
1971-05-26
Chisum
1970-07-23
Rio Lobo
1970-04-01
The Undefeated
1969-10-04
Hellfighters
1968-11-27
The Green Berets
1968-07-04
The Scalphunters
1968-02-29
The War Wagon
1967-05-26
Welcome to Hard Times
1967-04-30
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967-03-08
El Dorado
1966-12-17
Smoky
1966-08-03
Smoky
1966-08-03
Nevada Smith
1966-06-10
Blindfold
1966-05-23
Cat Ballou
1965-06-24
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965-06-23
Shenandoah
1965-06-03
Black Spurs
1965-05-28
The Rounders
1965-01-08
Cheyenne Autumn
1964-10-15
Advance to the Rear
1964-06-10
Mail Order Bride
1964-03-10
McLintock!
1963-11-12
Shock Corridor
1963-09-25
Donovan's Reef
1963-06-12
How the West Was Won
1962-11-02
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962-04-13
Merrill's Marauders
1962-03-16
Two Rode Together
1961-05-24
Two Rode Together
1961-05-24
The Alamo
1960-10-23
Spartacus
1960-10-13
Sergeant Rutledge
1960-05-25
The Wonderful Country
1959-10-21
Rio Bravo
1959-03-18
The Big Country
1958-09-30
Man of the West
1958-06-20
The Hired Gun
1957-09-20
Forty Guns
1957-09-10
Run of the Arrow
1957-09-05
Night Passage
1957-07-24
The Wings of Eagles
1957-01-31
The King and Four Queens
1956-12-21
Seven Men from Now
1956-07-24
The Rawhide Years
1956-07-01
Kentucky Rifle
1956-07-01
The Great Locomotive Chase
1956-06-08
The Searchers
1956-05-16
Red Sundown
1956-03-01
Lady Godiva of Coventry
1955-11-02
The Second Greatest Sex
1955-09-30
The Tall Men
1955-09-22
The Prodigal
1955-05-06
Timberjack
1955-02-18
Ten Wanted Men
1955-02-01
Sign of the Pagan
1954-11-24
Jubilee Trail
1954-05-15
The Lone Gun
1954-04-25
The Far Country
1954-02-12
Hondo
1953-11-26
Calamity Jane
1953-11-04
Gun Belt
1953-07-24
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
1953-07-13
Raiders of the Seven Seas
1953-05-27
Cow Country
1953-04-25
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
1952-12-27
Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952-12-24
The Blazing Forest
1952-12-01
The Lusty Men
1952-10-24
Way of a Gaucho
1952-10-16
Cattle Town
1952-09-06
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
1952-02-08
Indian Uprising
1952-01-02
Rio Grande
1950-11-15
Atom Man vs. Superman
1950-07-20
Winchester '73
1950-07-12
Hi-Jacked
1950-07-07
Hills of Oklahoma
1950-06-01
Cow Town
1950-05-19
Outcasts of Black Mesa
1950-04-13
The Capture
1950-04-08
Trail of the Rustlers
1950-02-02
Western Renegades
1949-10-08
The Fighting Kentuckian
1949-09-15
The James Brothers of Missouri
1949-08-31
Haunted Trails
1949-08-21
Hellfire
1949-05-29
Law of the Golden West
1949-05-23
Roughshod
1949-05-11
Stampede
1949-05-01
Wake of the Red Witch
1948-12-30
Last of the Wild Horses
1948-12-27
Homicide for Three
1948-12-08
The Gallant Legion
1948-05-24
The Arizona Ranger
1948-05-14
California Firebrand
1948-04-01
Albuquerque
1948-02-20
The Flame
1947-11-24
Jesse James Rides Again
1947-08-02
Song of Scheherazade
1947-02-26
Song of Scheherazade
1947-02-26
Calendar Girl
1947-01-31
The Plainsman and the Lady
1946-11-11
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