Dale Robinson, Tales Of Wells Fargo TV Western Star, Dies At 89

Mike Barnes at the Hollywood Reporter reports on the death of TV Western star Dale Robinson.

Dale Robertson, a veteran of movies and TV Westerns of the 1950s and ’60s who played “the left-handed gun” on NBC’s Tales of Wells Fargo, died Wednesday of lung cancer and pneumonia in a San Diego hospital. He was 89.

An Oklahoma native and member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame, Robertson also starred as gambler-turned-railroad tycoon Ben Calhoun in Iron Horse, which ran on ABC from 1966-68, and as the Texas billionaire title character in NBC’s 1987-88 adventure series J.J. Starbuck, from Stephen J. Cannell Productions.

 

You can read the rest of the story via the below link:

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dale-robertson-westerns-wells-fargo-425019

 

I grew up watching Dale Robinson as Jim Hardy, a Wells Fargo detective in the Tales of Wells Fargo. I loved the show. You can now watch the old episodes on Cozi TV.

 

And thanks to youtube.com you can watch some episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo online.

Below are links to one of the shows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbE40lPpOwk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrvYIf7qnIk  

 

 

Not mentioned in the Hollywood Reporter story is Dale Robinson's fine performance with Richard Widmark in The Clarion Call, one of the five short stories dramatized in the 1952 film O.Henry's Full House.

 

Robinson portrayed a New York detective who is indebted to a crook portrayed by Richard Widmark. This was a great short story with two fine actors.

You can watch author John Steinbeck introduce the story via the below link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68pI8Jx8pM

I purchased the DVD for my daughter this past Christmas and I also purchased a copy for myself. 

Elmore Leonard On John Steinbeck's Influence

Elmore Leonard recently spoke about John Steinbeck's influence on him.

You can read Leonard's remark's via the below link

http://www.elmoreleonard.com/index.php?/weblog/more/elmore_leonard_on_john_steinbeck/