Dayle Lymoine Robertson was an American actor best known for his starring roles on television.
35 Facts About Dale Robertson
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Dale Robertson played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the television series Tales of Wells Fargo and railroad owner Ben Calhoun in Iron Horse.
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Dale Robertson often was presented as a deceptively thoughtful but modest Western hero.
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From 1968 to 1970, Dale Robertson was the fourth and final host of the anthology series Death Valley Days.
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Dale Robertson didn't want to leave the ponies he was training, nor his home, and the role went to William Holden.
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Dale Robertson was wounded twice and was awarded the Bronze and Silver Star medals.
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Dale Robertson began his acting career by chance when he was in the United States Army.
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When he was stationed at San Luis Obispo, California, Dale Robertson's mother asked him 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.
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Dale Robertson found himself receiving letters from film agents who wished to represent him.
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Dale Robertson stayed in California to try his hand at acting.
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Dale Robertson made his film debut in an uncredited role as a policeman in The Boy with Green Hair.
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Dale Robertson's first role for Fox was a support part in a Western, Two Flags West.
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Dale Robertson had a support part in the musical Call Me Mister.
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Fox gave Dale Robertson top billing in Return of the Texan.
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Dale Robertson appeared opposite Anne Baxter in The Outcasts of Poker Flat, and starred in the historical adventure Lydia Bailey.
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Dale Robertson was never very cooperative with the press, even shunning the powerful columnist Louella Parsons.
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Dale Robertson was one of several Fox names in O Henry's Full House and was Betty Grable's love interest in The Farmer Takes a Wife.
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Dale Robertson returned to Fox for City of Bad Men with Crain; The Silver Whip with Rory Calhoun and Robert Wagner; and The Gambler from Natchez with Debra Paget.
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Dale Robertson went over to United Artists to star in Sitting Bull, and Top of the World, an adventure film.
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Dale Robertson did A Day of Fury for Universal and Dakota Incident for Republic, then travelled to Britain for High Terrace.
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Dale Robertson used his own horse, Jubilee, throughout the run of the series.
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Dale Robertson did the narration for Tales of Wells Fargo through which he often presented his own commentary on matters of law, morality, and common sense.
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Dale Robertson was unique among his television contemporaries, stating that he hated the gun he was forced to carry, but saw it as a necessary evil, a "tool of the trade", and kept practicing.
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Dale Robertson sometimes made use of 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.
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In 1960, Dale Robertson guest-starred as himself in NBC's The Ford Show, starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.
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Dale Robertson created United Screen Arts in 1965 which released two of his films, The Man from Button Willow and The One Eyed Soldiers.
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Dale Robertson filmed a television pilot about Diamond Jim Brady that was not picked up as a series.
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Dale Robertson guest-starred on the November 17,1969, episode of The Dean Martin Show.
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Dale Robertson guest-starred as himself in the episode "Little Orphan Airplane" of The Six Million Dollar Man in 1974.
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Dale Robertson portrayed legendary FBI agent Melvin Purvis in two made-for-television movies Melvin Purvis: G-Man and The Kansas City Massacre.
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In 1981, Dale Robertson was in the original starring cast of Dynasty, playing Walter Lankershim, a character who disappeared after the first season.
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In 1983, Dale Robertson made Big John, another television pilot, where he played a Georgia sheriff who becomes a New York Police Department detective.
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In December 1993 and January 1994, Dale Robertson appeared in two episodes of Harts of the West in the role of Zeke Terrell.
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Dale Robertson played a central part in two episodes of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury but he was not credited in either appearance.
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In 1999, Dale Robertson won the award for film and television from the American Cowboy Culture Association in Lubbock, Texas.