Chuck Roberson
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: May 10, 1919
Day of Death: June 8, 1988 (69 years old)
Place of Birth: 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.
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Actor Mason
7 Men from Now
Actor Ranger at Wedding (uncredited)
The Searchers
Actor Confederate Prison Captain (uncredited)
The Great Locomotive Chase
Actor Johnny (uncredited)
The Rawhide Years
Actor Indian (uncredited)
Kentucky Rifle
Actor Henshaw's Man
Red Sundown
Actor Posseman
The King and Four Queens
Stunts
The Searchers
Stunts
The King and Four Queens
1955
Actor Gunfighter (uncredited)
Ten Wanted Men
Actor Chieftain
The Prodigal
Actor Soldier
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Actor Brawler (uncredited)
The Second Greatest Sex
Actor Lumberjack (uncredited)
Timberjack
Actor Alva Jenkin (uncredited)
The Tall Men
Stunts
The Tall Men
Stunt Double
The Tall Men
Stunts
The Man from Laramie
1954
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1952
Actor Trooper (uncredited)
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Actor Gaucho
Way of a Gaucho
Actor Cowboy
The Lusty Men
Actor Taggart Man
Indian Uprising
Actor Pirate (uncredited)
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Actor Lumberjack (uncredited)
The Blazing Forest
Actor Mounted Soldier
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Actor Rider
Cattle Town
Stunts
The Lusty Men
1950
Actor Cowhand (uncredited)
Hills of Oklahoma
Actor Mike Grady - Henchman (as Charles Roberson)
Cow Town
Actor Police Officer (uncredited)
Hi-Jacked
Actor Employee (uncredited)
The Capture
Actor Policeman on Road (uncredited)
Atom Man vs. Superman
Actor Bob - Henchman (uncredited)
Trail of the Rustlers
Actor Long Tom (uncredited)
Winchester '73
Actor Officer/Indian Fires Arrow Into Col. York's Chest (uncredited)
Rio Grande
Actor Kramer - Henchman (as Charles 'Chuck' Roberson)
Outcasts of Black Mesa
Stunts
Atom Man vs. Superman
Stunts
Rio Grande
Stunts
Winchester '73
Stunts
The Baron of Arizona
1949
Actor Townsman (uncredited)
The James Brothers of Missouri
Actor Deputy (uncredited)
Roughshod
Actor Sandy (uncredited)
Stampede
Actor Ed - Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Haunted Trails
Actor Militiaman (uncredited)
The Fighting Kentuckian
Actor Wagon Driver (uncredited)
Law of the Golden West
Actor Jones (uncredited)
Western Renegades
Actor Groper (uncredited)
Hellfire
Stunts
Roughshod
1948
Actor Joe - Policeman
Homicide for Three
Actor Gunman
California Firebrand
Actor Henchman (uncredited)
The Arizona Ranger
Actor Deputy Chuck (uncredited)
Last of the Wild Horses
Actor Seaman
Wake of the Red Witch
Actor Ranger
The Gallant Legion
Actor Man at Gambling Table (uncredited)
Albuquerque
Stunts
Angel on the Amazon
Stunts
Red River
