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Chuck Roberson

AKA: Charles Hugh "Chuck" Roberson
Birthday: 1919-05-10
Died: 1988-06-08
Birthplace: 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.

Filmography

Shock Corridor
Character: Wilkes
The Stone Killer
Character: Council Member (uncredited)
Hondo
Character: Kloori / Cavalry Sergeant Killed in Indian Attack (uncredited)

The Flame
Character: Policeman (uncredited)
Law of the Golden West
Character: Wagon Driver (uncredited)
Song of Scheherazade
Character: Midshipman (uncredited)

The Plainsman and the Lady
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
The Fighting Kentuckian
Character: Militiaman (uncredited)
Jesse James Rides Again
Character: Lafe

Homicide for Three
Character: Joe - Policeman
Calendar Girl
Character: Swedish Tug of War Man
Roughshod
Character: Deputy (uncredited)

California Firebrand
Character: Gunman
The Arizona Ranger
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Atom Man vs. Superman
Character: Policeman on Road (uncredited)

The Capture
Character: Employee (uncredited)
Hi-Jacked
Character: Police Officer (uncredited)
The James Brothers of Missouri
Character: Townsman (uncredited)

Hills of Oklahoma
Character: Cowhand (uncredited)
Stampede
Character: Sandy (uncredited)
Trail of the Rustlers
Character: Bob - Henchman (uncredited)

Haunted Trails
Character: Ed - Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Western Renegades
Character: Jones (uncredited)
Cow Town
Character: Mike Grady - Henchman (as Charles Roberson)

The Scalphunters
Character: Scalphunter
Night Passage
Character: Roan
Seven Men from Now
Character: Mason

Merrill's Marauders
Character: Officer
Rio Lobo
Character: Corporal in Baggage Car (uncredited)
The Sons of Katie Elder
Character: Townsman (uncredited)

Forty Guns
Character: Howard Swain
Smoky
Character: Manuel
Hellfire
Character: Groper (uncredited)

Black Spurs
Character: Norton - Prisoner
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Character: Trooper (uncredited)
The Big Country
Character: Terrill Cowboy

Ten Wanted Men
Character: Gunfighter (uncredited)
The Searchers
Character: Ranger at Wedding (uncredited)
Way of a Gaucho
Character: Gaucho

Sign of the Pagan
Character: Mirrai
Man of the West
Character: Rifleman-Guard on Train (uncredited)
Sergeant Rutledge
Character: Court-Martial Board Member (uncredited)

The Wings of Eagles
Character: Officer
The Lusty Men
Character: Cowboy
Cat Ballou
Character: Armed Guard (uncredited)

The Green Berets
Character: Sgt. Griffin
Donovan's Reef
Character: Festus
The Far Country
Character: Latigo (uncredited)

How the West Was Won
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Cheyenne Autumn
Character: Jessie (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
Character: Comanche

The Prodigal
Character: Chieftain
McQ
Character: Santiago's Bodyguard (uncredited)
McQ
The Undefeated
Character: Yankee Sergeant at River (uncredited)

Hellfighters
Character: Firefighter in Plane (uncredited)
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
Character: Cook (uncredited)
Welcome to Hard Times
Character: Miner Fighting Bert (uncredited)

Nevada Smith
Character: Deputy (uncredited)
Big Jake
Character: Texas Ranger (uncredited)
Chisum
Character: Trail Herder (uncredited)

Shenandoah
Character: Rebel Commander with Mustache
Smoky
Character: Chuck - a Ranch Hand
Lady Godiva of Coventry
Character: Soldier

Blindfold
Character: Fitzpatrick's Henchman
The Rawhide Years
Character: Johnny (uncredited)
The Great Locomotive Chase
Character: Confederate Prison Captain (uncredited)

The Hired Gun
Character: Frank Cooper - Conroy Ranch Wrangler
The Lone Gun
Character: Luke (uncredited)
Kentucky Rifle
Character: Indian (uncredited)

Red Sundown
Character: Henshaw's Man
Cattle Town
Character: Rider
Indian Uprising
Character: Taggart Man

Jubilee Trail
Character: Man at Bar (uncredited)
The Second Greatest Sex
Character: Brawler (uncredited)
The Rounders
Character: Brawler (uncredited)

Gun Belt
Character: Oliver
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Character: Pirate (uncredited)
Timberjack
Character: Lumberjack (uncredited)

The Blazing Forest
Character: Lumberjack (uncredited)
Advance to the Rear
Character: Monk (uncredited)
Mail Order Bride
Character: Saloon Brawler (uncredited)

Calamity Jane
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Raiders of the Seven Seas
Character: Spanish Officer (uncredited)
Blackbeard, the Pirate
Character: Mounted Soldier

McLintock!
Character: Sheriff Jeff Lord
Spartacus
Character: Slave (uncredited)
Winchester '73
Character: Long Tom (uncredited)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Character: Henchman (uncredited)
Rio Bravo
Character: Gunman (uncredited)
Last of the Wild Horses
Character: Deputy Chuck (uncredited)

Rio Grande
Character: Officer/Indian Fires Arrow Into Col. York's Chest (uncredited)
Two Rode Together
Character: Comanche (uncredited)
Wake of the Red Witch
Character: Seaman

The Gallant Legion
Character: Ranger
99 and 44/100% Dead
Character: Gunman
Outcasts of Black Mesa
Character: Kramer - Henchman (as Charles 'Chuck' Roberson)

The War Wagon
Character: Brown / Mustachioed guard at blown bridge
Cow Country
Character: Stubby (as Brett Houston)
The King and Four Queens
Character: Posseman

Cahill: United States Marshal
Character: Leader of Bunch
Run of the Arrow
Character: Sergeant

The Alamo
Character: Tennesseean
El Dorado
Character: Jason's Gunman
The Tall Men
Character: Alva Jenkin (uncredited)

Albuquerque
Character: Man at Gambling Table (uncredited)
The Wonderful Country
Character: Barton
John Wayne's 'The Alamo'
Character: Tennessean

Song of Scheherazade
Character: Midshipman