Born
10 May 1919 (106)
Place of Birth
Shannon, Texas, USA
Also known as
Charles Hugh "Chuck" Roberson, Charles Hugh Roberson
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 ...
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'
1992
99 and 44/100% Dead
1974
McQ
1974
The Stone Killer
1973
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
Big Jake
1971
Chisum
1970
Rio Lobo
1970
The Undefeated
1969
Hellfighters
1968
The Green Berets
1968
The Scalphunters
1968
The War Wagon
1967
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967
El Dorado
1966
Smoky
1966
Nevada Smith
1966
Blindfold
1966
Cat Ballou
1965
The Sons of Katie Elder
1965
Shenandoah
1965
Black Spurs
1965
The Rounders
1965
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
Advance to the Rear
1964
Mail Order Bride
1964
McLintock!
1963
Shock Corridor
1963
Donovan's Reef
1963
How the West Was Won
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
Merrill's Marauders
1962
Two Rode Together
1961
The Alamo
1960
Spartacus
1960
Sergeant Rutledge
1960
The Wonderful Country
1959
Rio Bravo
1959
Man of the West
1958