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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The Big Valley
as Stage Driver
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
Daniel Boone
as Dutch
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 24, 1964
Mr. Terrific
as Dawson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1967
The Lucy Show
as Fireman #1
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
Lost in Space
as Alien Fighter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1965
Gunsmoke
as Sgt. Keller
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Rawhide
as Baxter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1959
Daniel Boone
as Dark Panther
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1964
Bat Masterson
as Henchman about to be Sawn in Half
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 08, 1958
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Brenner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 05, 1956
The Lone Ranger
as Todd Gunder
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1949
Wagon Train
as Junior
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 18, 1957
Gunsmoke
as Driver
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Gunsmoke
as Joe
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1955
Daniel Boone
as Shawnee Leader
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1964
Daniel Boone
as Lige Henry
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1964
Have Gun, Will Travel
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Sep 14, 1957
Alias Smith and Jones
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 05, 1971
The Mod Squad
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1968
Laredo
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 16, 1965
Panic!
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 05, 1957
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