Chuck Roberson
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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.
Known for
Credits
Spartacus (1960)
as Slave (uncredited)
The Searchers (1956)
as Ranger at Wedding (uncredited)
The Undefeated (1969)
as Yankee Sergeant at River (uncredited)
How the West Was Won (1962)
as Officer (uncredited)
El Dorado (1966)
as Jason's Gunman
Rio Bravo (1959)
as Gunman (uncredited)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
as Henchman (uncredited)
The Big Country (1958)
as Terrill Cowboy
The Alamo (1960)
as Tennesseean
McLintock! (1963)
as Sheriff Jeff Lord
Chisum (1970)
as Trail Herder (uncredited)
Calamity Jane (1953)
as Barfly (uncredited)
Cat Ballou (1965)
as Armed Guard (uncredited)
Rio Lobo (1970)
as Corporal in Baggage Car (uncredited)
The Green Berets (1968)
as Sgt. Griffin
Rio Grande (1950)
as Officer / Indian Fires Arrow Into Col. York's Chest (uncredited)
The War Wagon (1967)
as Brown / Mustachioed guard at blown bridge
Big Jake (1971)
as Texas Ranger (uncredited)
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)
as Townsman (uncredited)
Hondo (1953)
as Kloori / Cavalry Sergeant Killed in Indian Attack (uncredited)
Hellfighters (1968)
as Firefighter in Plane (uncredited)
Winchester '73 (1950)
as Long Tom (uncredited)
Nevada Smith (1966)
as Deputy (uncredited)
Donovan's Reef (1963)
as Festus
Shock Corridor (1963)
as Wilkes
Man of the West (1958)
as Rifleman-Guard on Train (uncredited)
The Far Country (1954)
as Latigo (uncredited)
McQ (1974)
as Santiago's Bodyguard (uncredited)
Shenandoah (1965)
as Rebel Commander with Mustache
The Tall Men (1955)
as Alva Jenkin (uncredited)
7 Men from Now (1956)
as Mason
The Rounders (1965)
as Brawler (uncredited)
Forty Guns (1957)
as Howard Swain
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
as Jessie (uncredited)
Cahill: United States Marshal (1973)
as Leader of Bunch
The Prodigal (1955)
as Chieftain
The Stone Killer (1973)
as Council Member (uncredited)
The Lusty Men (1952)
as Cowboy
Ten Wanted Men (1955)
as Gunfighter (uncredited)
Two Rode Together (1961)
as Comanche
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
as Mounted Soldier
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)
as Cook (uncredited)
Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955)
as Soldier
The Flame (1947)
as Policeman (uncredited)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
as Officer (uncredited)
Gun Belt (1953)
as Oliver
Night Passage (1957)
as Roan
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
as Pirate (uncredited)
The Scalphunters (1968)
as Scalphunter
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
as Court-Martial Board Member (uncredited)
The King and Four Queens (1956)
as Posseman
Mail Order Bride (1964)
as Saloon Brawler (uncredited)
The Wonderful Country (1959)
as Barton
The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
as Confederate Prison Captain (uncredited)
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
as Miner Fighting Bert (uncredited)
Hi-Jacked (1950)
as Police Officer (uncredited)
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949)
as Militiaman (uncredited)
Indian Uprising (1952)
as Taggart Man
Sign of the Pagan (1954)
as Mirrai
Merrill's Marauders (1962)
as Officer
Way of a Gaucho (1952)
as Gaucho
The Capture (1950)
as Employee (uncredited)
The Lone Gun (1954)
as Luke (uncredited)
Timberjack (1955)
as Lumberjack (uncredited)
The Rawhide Years (1956)
as Johnny (uncredited)
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
as Seaman
Blindfold (1966)
as Fitzpatrick's Henchman
Cattle Town (1952)
as Rider
Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
as Spanish Officer (uncredited)
The Gallant Legion (1948)
as Ranger
Advance to the Rear (1964)
as Monk (uncredited)
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953)
as Cowboy
Smoky (1966)
as Manuel
Black Spurs (1965)
as Norton - Prisoner
Run of the Arrow (1957)
as Sergeant
Hellfire (1949)
as Groper (uncredited)
Atom Man vs. Superman (1950)
as Policeman on Road
Jubilee Trail (1954)
as Man at Bar (uncredited)
Red Sundown (1956)
as Henshaw's Man
John Wayne's 'The Alamo' (1992)
as Tennessean
Cow Country (1953)
as Stubby (as Brett Houston)
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
as Gunman
Albuquerque (1948)
as Man at Gambling Table (uncredited)
The Second Greatest Sex (1955)
as Brawler (uncredited)
Song of Scheherazade (1947)
as Midshipman (uncredited)
Stampede (1949)
as Sandy (uncredited)
Roughshod (1949)
as Deputy (uncredited)
The Hired Gun (1957)
as Frank Cooper - Conroy Ranch Wrangler
Western Renegades (1949)
as Jones (uncredited)
The James Brothers of Missouri (1949)
as Townsman (uncredited)
Last of the Wild Horses (1948)
as Deputy Chuck (uncredited)
Law of the Golden West (1949)
as Wagon Driver (uncredited)
The Plainsman and the Lady (1946)
as Deputy (uncredited)
Kentucky Rifle (1956)
as Indian (uncredited)
The Western: A Lost TV Special (1958)
as Self
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952)
as Trooper (uncredited)
Jesse James Rides Again (1947)
as Lafe
Cow Town (1950)
as Mike Grady - Henchman (as Charles Roberson)
Homicide for Three (1948)
as Joe - Policeman
The Blazing Forest (1952)
as Lumberjack (uncredited)
Haunted Trails (1949)
as Ed - Ranch Hand (uncredited)
Trail of the Rustlers (1950)
as Bob - Henchman (uncredited)
California Firebrand (1948)
as Gunman
Calendar Girl (1947)
as Swedish Tug of War Man
The Arizona Ranger (1948)
as Henchman (uncredited)
Outcasts of Black Mesa (1950)
as Kramer - Henchman (as Charles 'Chuck' Roberson)
Hills of Oklahoma (1950)
as Cowhand (uncredited)