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