Chuck Roberson

Chuck Roberson was an American actor and stuntman. Roberson, who grew up on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, 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 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*. Prior to 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*.

Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Roberson)