Chuck Roberson
- Recitazione
- 10 maggio 1919 · Shannon, Texas, USA
- 8 giugno 1988
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- John Wayne's 'The Alamo' · Tennessean
- Soluzione finale · Stunts
- FM · Stunts
- Il pistolero · Stunts
- Torna El Grinta · Stunt Double
- Doc Savage, l'uomo di bronzo · Stunts
- Attento sicario: Crown è in caccia · Gunman, Stunts
- È una sporca faccenda, tenente Parker! · Santiago's Bodyguard (uncredited)
- L'assassino di pietra · Council Member (uncredited)
- La stella di latta · Leader of Bunch, Stunt Coordinator
- Quel maledetto colpo al Rio Grande Express · Stunts
- Il grande Jake · Texas Ranger (uncredited)
- Due onesti fuorilegge
- Chisum · Trail Herder (uncredited)
- L'altra faccia del pianeta delle scimmie · Second Unit Director
- Rio Lobo · Corporal in Baggage Car (uncredited), Stunts
- I due invincibili · Yankee Sergeant at River (uncredited), Stunt Double
- Uno sporco contratto · Stunts
- El Verdugo · Second Unit Director
- Uomini d'amianto contro l'inferno · Firefighter in Plane (uncredited)
- Mod Squad, i ragazzi di Greer
- Lancer · Paul O'Brien
- Berretti verdi · Sgt. Griffin
- Joe Bass l'implacabile · Scalphunter, Stunts
- Carovana di fuoco · Brown / Mustachioed guard at blown bridge, Stunt Double
- Tempo di terrore · Miner Fighting Bert (uncredited)
- Un maggiordomo nel Far West · Cook (uncredited)
- Mr. Terrific · Dawson
- El Dorado · Jason's Gunman, Stunts
- Smoky · Manuel, Chuck - a Ranch Hand
- Nevada Smith · Deputy (uncredited)
- L'affare Blindfold · Fitzpatrick's Henchman
- Il principe guerriero · Stunts
- Laredo
- Lost in Space · Alien Fighter
- La grande vallata · Stage Driver
- I 4 figli di Katie Elder · Townsman (uncredited), Stunts
- Cat Ballou · Armed Guard (uncredited)
- Shenandoah - La valle dell'onore · Rebel Commander with Mustache
- Black Spurs · Norton - Prisoner
- Gli indomabili dell'Arizona · Brawler (uncredited)
- Rio Conchos · Stunts
- Il grande sentiero · Jessie (uncredited), Stunts
- Daniel Boone · Dark Panther, Dutch
- Compagnia di codardi? · Monk (uncredited)
- Ad ovest del Montana · Saloon Brawler (uncredited), Stunts
- McLintock! · Sheriff Jeff Lord
- Il corridoio della paura · Wilkes
- I tre della croce del Sud · Festus
- La conquista del West · Officer (uncredited), Stunt Double
- The Lucy Show · Fireman #1
- Il virginiano · Wagon Driver
- Hatari! · Stunts
- L'uomo che uccise Liberty Valance · Henchman (uncredited)
- L'urlo della battaglia · Officer
- L'occhio caldo del cielo · Stunts
- Cavalcarono insieme · Comanche, Comanche (uncredited)
- Gli spostati · Stunts
- La battaglia di Alamo · Tennesseean, Stunts
- Spartacus · Slave (uncredited)
- I dannati e gli eroi · Court-Martial Board Member (uncredited), Stunts
- Il meraviglioso paese · Barton
- Un dollaro d'onore · Gunman (uncredited), Stunts
- Gli uomini della prateria · Baxter
- Bat Masterson · Henchman about to be Sawn in Half
- Lawman · Stage Driver (uncredited)
- Dove la terra scotta · Rifleman-Guard on Train (uncredited), Stunts
- Il grande paese · Terrill Cowboy, Stunts
- The Western: A Lost TV Special · In persona
- Impiccagione all'alba · Frank Cooper - Conroy Ranch Wrangler
- Carovane verso il west · Junior
- Have Gun, Will Travel · Pike, Rancher
- 40 pistole · Howard Swain, Stunts
- La tortura della freccia · Sergeant, Stunts
- Passaggio di notte · Roan
- Panico
- Le ali delle aquile · Officer (uncredited), Stunts
- Un re per quattro regine · Posseman, Stunts
- I racconti del West · Brenner
- I sette assassini · Mason