As a result, he won the press Sour Apple Celebrity award for three years running. During this time Columbia Pictures offered Robertson the lead in their film version of Robertson began his acting career by chance when he was in the United States Army.

Maybe that horse isn’t ready for movies yet!’ (Laughs) Now Dale’s horse was Jubilee, but he was a picture horse.” Ging went on to work on hundreds of TV episodes as well as films like “Mosby’s Marauders”, “Play Misty For Me”, “High Plains Drifter”, “Where the Red Fern Grows”, TV’s “Winds of War” and dozens more. Occasionally, Robertson had a change of pace, as in the period musical The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953) in which he sang (not badly) We're in Business, with Grable.Robertson's favourite among his own movies was The Gambler from Natchez (1954), in which he played the title role of a man on the track of three men who had killed his father.

Photograph: NBC/GettyDale Robertson as Jim Hardie in the TV series Tales of Wells Fargo, which ran for four years from 1957. In Hollywood, in the days when men were men, Dale Robertson, who has died aged 89, was considered the epitome of masculinity. (Actually, Robertson already had a daughter by his first wife. He claimed that, had it not been for this injury, he would have pursued a professional boxing career.When Robertson was stationed in California, he had his photograph taken to send to his mother.

In 1960, Robertson guest-starred as himself in NBC's Robertson guest-starred on the Nov. 17, 1969 episode of In 1981, Robertson was in the original starring cast of Robertson played a central part in two episodes of In 1999, Robertson won the award for film and television from the In the last few years before his death, Robertson hosted a radio program called "Little Known Facts", which was broadcast on 400 radio stations.

It was seen by talent agents, who contacted Robertson.Without ever having acted, or taken a lesson, Robertson made for Hollywood in 1946, but it took two years before he was given a few small roles at various studios, one as a lifeguard in The Girl from Jones Beach (1949).

Dale Robertson obituary Taciturn hero of film and television westerns ... His other long-running series was Iron Horse (1966-68), in which he was a gambler turned railway baron. The stories revolved around Robertson as troubleshooter for the pioneering transport company.

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He was a buckskin quarter horse and appeared with Dale in many of her films and throughout her television series. Many sites on the internet list Dale's horse as Buttercup. Not always the most animated of actors, Robertson was effective as a stolid, taciturn type, often letting his left-handed gun speak for him. However, most of his later appearances were on TV, in series such as Death Valley Days, and as a guest on Love Boat, Murder She Wrote, Dallas and Dynasty, while he lived in semi-retirement at his ranch in Oklahoma.There, he and his fourth wife, Susan, and his two daughters, Rochelle and Rebel, who survive him, bred polo ponies and racehorses.• Dale Robertson (Dayle Lymoine Robertson), actor, born 14 July 1923; died 27 February 2013Dale Robertson as Jim Hardie in the TV series Tales of Wells Fargo, which ran for four years from 1957. In his later years, Robertson and his wife, the former Susan Robbins, whom he married in 1980, had lived on his ranch in

)Robertson, who always professed his love of God and country, was never very co-operative with the press, even once shunning the powerful columnist Louella Parsons. hello, my name is Rebel tuinukuafe and i was named by Dale Robertson when my mom was working for them as are nanny . DALE EVANS' HORSE, BUTTERMILK. The romance on and off screen was provided by Mary Murphy, who had just played Marlon Brando's girlfriend in The Wild One.

He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the television series Tales of Wells Fargo and Ben Calhoun, the owner of an incomplete railroad line in Iron She and Robertson were married the same year; however, the marriage was annulled six months later because Murphy claimed her husband did not want children. The photographer liked the picture so much that he enlarged it and put in his window.

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