Dale Robertson
Dale Robertson was born in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States on July 14th, 1923 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 89, Dale Robertson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Dayle Lymoine Robertson (July 14, 1923 – February 27, 2013) was an American actor best known for his television appearances.
In the television series Tales of Wells Fargo and Ben Calhoun, the owner of a partially completed railroad line in The Iron Horse, Jim Hardie played roving detective Jim Hardie.
He was often depicted as a frankly intelligent but modest Western hero.
Robertson was the fourth and final host of the anthology series Death Valley Days from 1968 to 1970.
Early life
Robertson, who was born in 1923 in Melvin and Vervel Robertson in Harrah, Oklahoma, served as a professional boxer while enrolled in the Oklahoma Military Academy in Claremore.
At this time, Columbia Pictures wanted to put Robertson on the lead in their film version of Golden Boy, but Robertson turned down the trip to Hollywood for a screen test. He didn't want to leave the ponies he was training for nor his home, nor did he care for them, and William Holden took over the role.
He was first recruited through Officer Candidate School and served in the 97th Infantry Division of Europe during World War II. He was wounded twice and was given the Bronze and Silver Star medals.
Career
Robertson started his acting career by chance when he was in the United States Army. When Robertson's mother was stationed in San Luis Obispo, California, he begged her to have a portrait taken for her because she didn't have one; so he and several other soldiers went to Hollywood to find a photographer. In his mother's living room window, he had a large print of his photo. He found himself receiving letters from film agents who wanted to represent him. Robertson's war wounds barred him from returning to work, preventing him from returning to his boxing career. He stayed in California to try his hand at acting. Will Rogers Jr., a Hollywood actor, gave him this advice: "Don't ever take a dramatic lesson." They'll attempt to have your voice in a dinner jacket, and people like their hominy and grits in everyday clothing." Robertson did not take formal acting lessons until later.
In The Boy with Green Hair (1948), Robertson made his film debut as an uncredited policeman. Two other uncredited appearances culminated in featured appearances in two Randolph Scott Westerns: Combat Man of the Plains (1949), where he played Jesse James (1950) and The Cariboo Trail (1950). Robertson's brief appearances led him to his signing to a seven-year deal with 20th Century Fox. Robertson's first appearance in Fox was as a support man in a Western, Two Flags West (1951). Call Me Mister (1951), he had a support group. He went on to play leading roles in films like Take Care of My Little Girl (1951), where he starred Jeanne Crain's love affair, and Golden Girl (1951), where he supported Mitzi Gaynor.
In Return of the Texan (1952), Fox gave Robertson top billing. He appeared in The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952), and in Lydia Bailey's historical drama (1952).
Robertson was never particularly helpful with the press, even shunning Louella Parsons, a powerful columnist. As a result, he received the Sour Apple Award for three years in the press. "Dang Sinatra had to punch some photographer in the nose and prevent me from getting my fourth," Robertson wrote.
He was one of many Fox names in O. Henry's Full House (1952) and was Betty Grable's love interest in The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953).
RKO borrowed him for Devil's Canyon (1953) with Virginia Mayo and Son of Sinbad, but he wasn't released for two years.
He returned to Fox for City of Bad Men (1953) with Crain; The Silver Whip (1954) with Rory Calhoun and Robert Wagner; and The Gambler from Natchez (1954) with Debra Paget.
Robertson went beyond United Artists to appear in Sitting Bull (1954), and Top of the World (1955), an adventure film.
Robertson lived A Day of Fury (1956) for the Republic, then travelled to High Terrace (1956).
Tales of Wells Fargo, his best-remembered series, aired on NBC from 1957 to 1961, when it was moved to ABC and expanded to an hour-long version for its final season in 1961-1992. Nat Holt, who Robertson owed his career to for giving him his first leading roles.
Robertson also did the narration for Tales of Wells Fargo, in which he often offered his own commentary on matters of law, morality, and common sense. He was unusual among his television contemporaries', saying that he disliked the gun he was forced to carry but saw it as a "tool of the trade" and continued to exercise, but was convicted of it.
Robertson, who was 6 foot tall, weighed 180 pounds, and measured 42–34-34, 1959, Time's cover story on television westerns, released March 30, 1959. He used his physique in "beefcake" scenes, such as one in 1952's Return of the Texan, where he is seen bare-chested and sweaty, repairing a fence.
Robertson appeared in NBC's The Ford Show, starring Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1960. On the short-lived western comedy and variety show The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, he appeared and performed a flawless rendition of "High Noon" on the short-lived western comedy and variety series The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show in 1962. He was a leader in the first of A.C. Lyles' Law of the Lawless in 1963, five years after Tales of Wells Fargo came to an end.
In 1965, Robertson founded United Screen Arts, which also produced two of his films, The Man from Button Willow (1965, animated) and The One Eyed Soldiers (1966). Robertson produced a television pilot about Diamond Jim Brady but it wasn't intended as a series.
Robertson appeared in Scalplock, another television pilot, in which his character first wins an incomplete railroad line in a poker tournament and then decides to run the company. He succeeded Robert Taylor as the host of Death Valley Days in 1968, a position formerly held by Stanley Andrews and future US President Ronald W. Reagan. After 19 years on the air, the series will come to an end, with Robertson's 26 episodes as host. Ray Milland appeared in rebroadcasts, including one named Trails West at the time.
On the November 17, 1969, episode of The Dean Martin Show, Robertson appeared.
In the episode "Little Orphanage" of The Six Million Dollar Man, Robertson appeared as himself in 1974.
Melvin Purvis portrayed legendary FBI agent Melvin Purvis in two made-for-television films Melvin Purvis: G-Man (1974) and The Kansas City Massacre (1975).
Robertson appeared in the original starring cast of Dynasty in 1981, playing Walter Lankershim, a character who died after the first season.
Robertson created Big John, another television pilot, where he played a Georgia sheriff who becomes a New York Police Department detective. He appeared on J.J. Starbuck in 1987 as the title character. In five episodes of the TV series Dallas during the 1982-83 season, Robertson appeared as Frank Crutcher. Robertson appeared in two episodes of Harts of the West in the role of Zeke Terrell in December 1993 and January 1994. Robertson said he was of Cherokee origins during his appearance on The Tonight Show. "I am the tribe's West Coast distributor," he joked.
Robertson appeared in two episodes of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury, but he was not acknowledged in either episode.
He earned the Golden Boot Award in 1985, appears on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and is also in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Robertson received the American Cowboy Culture Association's award for film and television in Lubbock, Texas, in 1999.
Robertson hosted Little Known Facts, a radio show that was broadcast on 400 radio stations in the last few years.