Wells Fargo agent Jim Hardie (Dale Robertson) singing?!!

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I just watched a show the other day were he shot and killed "the Rifleman" chuck Norris as a bad guy trying to rob the stage.
(sorry, Connors )

Lots of good actors seen in those films.
 
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Nevada Ed said:
I just watched a show the other day were he shot and killed "the Rifleman" chuck Norris as a bad guy trying to rob the stage.

Lots of good actors seen in those films.
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Don’t think Dale ever shot Chuck Norris. Dale did have the best hair of the 50 s cowboys. Never could get mine to look like that.
 
Nevada Ed said:
I just watched a show the other day were he shot and killed "the Rifleman" chuck Norris as a bad guy trying to rob the stage.

Lots of good actors seen in those films.
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I saw that one recently. The last half anyway. Apparently “Hardie” had mentioned to Chuck that he only carried five rounds in his Colt. Spoiler Alert Ahead!
He threw five rocks in the air for Hardie to shoot. then, assuming his gun was empty Chuck went to kill him but got shot instead. Hardie had anticipated this and loaded six.
 
I started watching Tales of Wells Fargo when it came on here along with the usual Gunsmoke every night. I always like to look up the history of the actors, I know nothing about.

Dale Robertson lost athletic scholarship from college for boxing professionally. WWII Lt. Tank Commander wounded twice, Bronze Star and Silver Star. Trained polo ponies and other horses before being discovered.
OR Chester Good aka Dennis Weaver, another MO then OK native, horse guy, college athlete. Navy fighter pilot in WWII. After the war was 6th in the decathlon as the US Olympic trials ( Bob Mathias won). Starred in alot more than GS. Many episodes of early Dragnet and even Touch of Evil with Charlton Heston. Married for over 60 years..conservationist before it was popular and donated land for a park (175 acres) in Co.

I always find it interesting to see that just about all the male actors of that time period were WAY more John Wayne than John Wayne...
Don't get me wrong I enjoy John Wayne's movies. Just in awe of some of these other actors stories. Imagine Chester a decathlete and fighter pilot. He obviously was a way better actor than I thought to be such a whining bumbler in Gunsmoke.

Right now some western is on with some short guy named Murphy, wonder if he did any service time.
 
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He's one of the few actors that I actually admire. He was a professional boxer, a US Army officer in WW2, was blown out of the hatch of his tank in WW2, he survived but his tank crew died, he was wounded twice and got bronze and silver stars. He was humble and never bragged about his Army career. He never took acting lessons, was an excellent horseman and owned and operated a substantial horse ranch in Oklahoma where he was born.
 
Yep. Robertson was the real thing. Something else...that beautiful chestnut horse that he rode in Tales of Wells Fargo was his own personal horse, Jubilee. When you see the way that big horse walks out, you can tell that Dale Robertson was really "horseback." I don't think your run-of-the-mill "cowboy" straight out of central casting could've handled that horse.:) At one time, Robertson had 235 horses on his ranch.
 
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Yep. Robertson was the real thing. Something else...that beautiful chestnut horse that he rode in Tales of Wells Fargo was his own personal horse, Jubilee. When you see the way that big horse walks out, you can tell that Dale Robertson was really "horseback." I don't think your run-of-the-mill "cowboy" straight out of central casting could've handled that horse.:) At one time, Robertson had 235 horses on his ranch.
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I notice that when mounting his horse in a hurry he always jumps into the saddle with his boot always hitting the stirrup perfectly. And he always does it with such natural ease.
In 1958 when I was only one my mom took my then eight year old big brother to the opening of the Wells Fargo bank three blocks from our house in Hayward, CA. Robertson was there wearing his gun and with a stagecoach. My mom told me a few years later that my brother got to shake his hand. Lucky punk! I found pics online of that appearance but can’t now.
 
Dale Robertson was my stepdad's Lieutenant in Europe during WW2.
My half sister has a picture of the platoon before leaving for Europe.
Dale is sitting in a chair in the front row.
He was commissioned after completing Officer Candidate School, those officers are known as 90 Day Wonders, that's what my stepdad called him.
My stepdad said that Dale was one of the kindest people that he had met.
They exchanged letters up until the 1970's.

Dale Robertson - Wikipedia
 
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