Chuck Roberson

Charles Hugh Roberson (10 Mei 1919 – 8 Juni 1988) adalah seorang aktor dan stuntman Amerika. Roberson lahir di dekat Shannon, Texas, putra petani Ollie W. Roberson dan Jannie Hamm Roberson. Dibesarkan di peternakan sapi di Shannon, Texas, dan Roswell, New Mexico, dia meninggalkan sekolah pada usia 13 tahun untuk menjadi pekerja kasar dan pekerja kasar di ladang minyak. Dia menikah dan membawa istri dan putrinya ke California, di mana dia bergabung dengan Departemen Kepolisian Kota Culver dan menjaga gerbang di MGM Studios. Setelah dinas militer dalam Perang Dunia II, ia kembali ke kepolisian. Selama bertugas di studio Warner Bros. selama pemogokan buruh, dia bertemu pemeran pengganti Guy Teague, yang mengingatkannya akan pekerjaan pemeran pengganti di Republic Pictures. Teague telah menjadi pemeran pengganti John Wayne selama bertahun-tahun dan mampu menunjukkan kepadanya bagaimana caranya. Chuck juga mirip John Carrol yang digandakan Roberson di film pertamanya, Wyoming (1947). Dia memainkan peran kecil dan terhambat dalam peran lain dalam film yang sama. Dia lulus untuk peran pendukung yang lebih besar di Western untuk Wayne dan John Ford, dan karir paralel sebagai direktur unit kedua. Penampilan televisinya termasuk The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Kit Carson, Lawman, Death Valley Days, Have Gun – Will Travel, Laramie, Gunsmoke, The Virginian, Laredo, Bonanza, Daniel Boone, dan The Big Valley. Roberson juga muncul di televisi Disney Western The Swamp Fox dan Texas John Slaughter. Mereka adalah bagian dari The Wonderful World of Color. Sebelumnya, dia memerankan Kapten Penjara Konfederasi di The Great Locomotive Chase. Pada tahun 1980 ia menerbitkan otobiografi, The Fall Guy: 30 Years as the Duke's Double. Roberson meninggal karena kanker pada tanggal 8 Juni 1988, di Bakersfield, California, dan dimakamkan di Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, di samping saudaranya, aktor Lou Roberson. Bob Dylan menggambarnya sebagai Long Tom dalam serial Beaten Path miliknya, gambar tersebut diberi judul "Untitled 1" dan didasarkan pada bingkai dari film Winchester '73 (1950). Roberson dan Wayne Burson, stuntman lainnya, adalah mitra dalam pembiakan dan pelatihan kuda pacu, dengan Roberson melengkapi kuda-kuda dari peternakannya di Bakersfield, California, dan Burson melatih mereka.

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.