Dale Robertson

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Dale Robertson (born July 14, 1923 in Harrah , Oklahoma as Dayle Lymoine Robertson , † February 27, 2013 in San Diego , California ) was an American actor . His acting career included over 60 roles in productions for film and television. He was best known in the 1950s as a western actor in films such as Black Drums , Hell of the Prisoners , The Vultures of Carson City or The Last Stand .

life and career

Dayle Lymoine Robertson, born in Harrah, Oklahoma, in 1923, was sent to the military academy by his parents for a higher education . In order to be able to pay for the college and the education there, he first earned his living as a trainer for polo ponies and at times as a boxer in price wars before he was drafted in September 1942. He served as a tank commander during the war and was wounded twice in campaigns in North Africa and Europe. During his hospital stay in San Louis Obispo, California, a portrait was made of him for the Amos Carr studio and hung in the shop window for advertising purposes. As a result, Hollywood film agents became aware of the man with the attractive appearance. There Robertson was recommended to try an acting career and he followed this advice.

After his discharge from the army in June 1945, Will Rogers Jr. , whose father Will Rogers was a celebrity in Oklahoma, advised him to avoid formal training as an actor and instead rely entirely on the charisma and the naturalness of his own personality.

In 1948, Robertson finally made his film debut as a cop in Joseph Losey's comedy The Boy with the Green Hair . In 1949 he already played smaller parts in westerns by Randolph Scott such as The City of Rough Men or The Death Gorge of Arizona . In 1951 he celebrated his breakthrough as a male leading actor with roles in Jean Negulesco's film drama Take Care of My Little Girl alongside Jeanne Crain and as a partner of Mitzi Gaynor in Lloyd Bacon's musical film Golden Girl . In the following years he made a career mainly as a western hero in films such as Black Drums , The Silver Whip or River of Vengeance . In the mid-1950s, he expanded his repertoire as an intrepid protagonist to include adventure and war films in films by Ted Tetzlaff such as Sindbad's son or Lewis R. Foster Fluggeschwader LB 17 intervenes .

From 1956, Dale Robertson was seen in roles in television productions parallel to his career in the cinema, such as in The Ford Television Theater , Studio 57 , Schlitz Playhouse of Stars , Climax! or Tales of Wells Fargo . In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s there were numerous guest star appearances in popular US series such as Iron Horse , In the Wild West , Fantasy Island , Love Boat Dallas , and Mord ist her hobby . He spent an evening with the Beatles in a bar in San Francisco after curfew at 2 a.m. In 1981 he appeared in The Denver Clan as Walter Lankershim . He was last seen in 1994 in the Go West series .

Robertson died on February 27, 2013 at the age of 89 in San Diego, California.

Dale Robertson has also worked as a producer and company manager. He was married five times, including to actress Mary Murphy . He was the father of three daughters.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1948: The Boy with Green Hair
  • 1949: The Road of the Successful (Flamingo Road)
  • 1949: Venus on the Beach (The Girl from Jones Beach)
  • 1949: Fighting Man of the Plains
  • 1950: The Death Canyon of Arizona (The Cariboo Trail)
  • 1950: Outpost in Wild West (Two Flags West)
  • 1951: Retaliation at Teufelssee (The Secret of Convict Lake)
  • 1951: Golden Girl
  • 1952: The Outcasts of Poker Flat
  • 1952: Five Pearls (O. Henry's Full House)
  • 1952: Black Drums (Lydia Bailey)
  • 1953: The Vultures of Carson City (City of bad men)
  • 1953: The Silver Whip
  • 1953: Hell of the Prisoners (Devil's Canyon)
  • 1954: The Last Stand (Sitting Bull)
  • 1954: River of Vengeance (A Gambler from Natchez)
  • 1955: Fluggeschwader LB 17 intervenes (Top of the world)
  • 1955: Sindbad's son (Son of Sindbad)
  • 1956: Laramie's Death Gorge (Dakota Incident)
  • 1956: A Day of Fury
  • 1957: Anna of Brooklyn (Anna di Brooklyn)
  • 1957: The Black Gang (Hell Canyon Outlaws)
  • 1963: Law of the Lawless
  • 1964: Goldfieber (Blood on the arrow)
  • 1964: Sanders and the Ship of Death (Coast of skeletons)
  • 1965: The Man from Button Willow
  • 1974: The Story of Gun Kelly (Melvin Purvis G-Man)
  • 1975: The Kansas City Massacre
  • 1979: The last Ride of the Dalton Gang

literature

  • Gregor Hauser: Muzzle flashes: The 50 best B-Westerns of the 50s and their stars . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke 2015, ISBN 978-3-932053-85-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biographical data of Dale Robertson in: Barris Cars of the Stars , by George Barris, David Fetherston, Motorbooks, 2008, p. 125
  2. ^ Biographical data by Dale Robertson in: I Saw Stars in the 40's and 50's , by Eddie Garrett, Trafford Publishing, 2005, p. 198
  3. ^ Dale Robertson in: You Live Where ?: Interesting and Unusual Facts About Where We Live , by George E. Thompson, iUniverse, 2009, p. 91
  4. ^ Brian Roylance, Nicky Page, Derek Taylor : The Beatles Anthology. (Chronicle Books, San Francisco 2000). German translation: Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 150.
  5. Douglas Martin: Dale Robertson, a Horse-Savvy Actor in Westerns, Is Dead at 89. In: The New York Times , February 27, 2013 (English).