Dayle Lymoine Robertson net worth is
$5 Million
Dayle Lymoine Robertson Wiki Biography
Dayle Lymoine Robertson was born on 14th July 1923, in Harrah, Oklahoma and was an actor whose career included over 60 roles in productions for film and television. He became famous in the 1950s, mainly in western films including “Return of the Texan” (1952), “Sitting Bull” (1954) and “Dakota Incident” (1956), and “Tales of Wells Fargo” for five years in the late ‘50s. Robertson was active in the entertainment industry from 1948 to 1994. He passed away in 2013.
How much was the net worth of Dale Robertson? It has been reported by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $5 million, converted to the present day. Film and television were the major sources of Robertson’s modest fortune.
Dale Robertson Net Worth $5 Million
To begin with, the boy was raised in Harrah, and was educated at the military academy. In order to be able to pay for the college and his education there, he did odd jobs and temporarily fought as a boxer. Then, he enlisted in the army in September 1942, and served as a tank commander during the war, being twice wounded in campaigns in North Africa and Europe. During his hospital stay in San Louis Obispo, California, he created a portrait for the Amos Carr studio and hung it up for advertising purposes in the shop window. There, Robertson was recommended to try a theatre career and followed this advice. After his discharge from the army in 1945, Will Rogers Jr. advised him to rather avoid formal training as an actor, and instead rely entirely on the charisma and naturalness of his own personality.
In 1948, Robertson made his film debut in the role of a cop in Joseph Losey’s film comedy “The Boy with Green Hair”. In 1949, he was already playing minor parts in Randolph Scott’s Western films including “Fighting Man of the Plains” and “The Cariboo Trail”. In 1951, he co-starred with Jean Negulesco in the drama film “Take Care of My Little Girl” alongside Jeanne Crain, and partnered with Mitzi Gaynor in Lloyd Bacon’s musical film “Golden Girl”, which is considered as his breakthrough as a male lead actor. In the following years, he mainly made a career as a western hero in films such as “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” (1952), “Devil’s Canyon” (1953) and “Dakota Incident” (1956). In the middle of the 1950s, he expanded his repertoire as an intrepid protagonist in adventure and war films, starring in Ted Tetzlaff’s films including “Son of Sinbad” (1955) and in Lewis R. Foster “Top of the World” (1955). From 1956 onwards, Dale Robertson was seen parallel on television, becoming more widely known and popular as Jim Hardie in “Tales of Wells Fargo” from 1957-61, which also significantly increased his net worth.
In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, he made numerous guest star appearances in popular American series such as “Iron Horse”, “The Wild West”, “Fantasy Island” as well as “Love Boat Dallas”, and in the mid’70s starred as Melvin Purvis, a legendary FBI agent, in “Melvin Purvis: G-Man” and “The Kansas City Massacre” – made-for-television movies,. He also appeared in the first series of “Dynasty’, and in 1994 he was seen in the series “Go West”.
Among a variety of awards, in 1985 Dale Robertson received a Golden Boot Award, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and is in the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and Hall of Great Western Performers in Oklahoma City, and won the award from the American Cowboy Culture Association in Lubbock, Texas in 1999.
Finally, in the personal life of the actor, he was married four times, firstly to Frederica Jacqueline Wilson (1951-56) – they have a daughter. In 1956 he married Mary Murphy, but they divorced a year later. He was also married to Lula Mae (1959 -77), and had two daughters in this marriage. In 1980, he married Susan Robbins with whom he lived until his death. Dale Robertson died from lung cancer at the age of 89 in San Diego, California on 27th February 2013, having lived his later years on his ranch in Oklahoma.
Full Name | Dale Robertson |
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Date Of Birth | July 14, 1923, Harrah, Oklahoma, United States |
Died | February 27, 2013, (aged 89), La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States |
Place Of Birth | Harrah |
Height | 1.83 m |
Profession | Actor, Professional Boxer, Soldier |
Education | Oklahoma Military Academy in Claremore, Officer Candidate School, |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Susan Dee Robbins (m. 1980–2013), Lula Mae Maxey (1959-1977), Mary Murphy (1956-1957), Frederica Jacqueline Wilson (1951-1956) |
Children | Rochelle Robertson, Rebel Lee |
Parents | Melvin Robertson, Varval Robertson |
Siblings | Chet Robertson |
Nicknames | Dayle Lymoine Robertson , Dayle Lymoine "Dale" Robertson , Dale |
IMDB | http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731783 |
Allmusic | www.allmusic.com/artist/dale-robertson-mn0002674633 |
Awards | Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star Medal (United States military's highest personal decoration for valor in combat), Golden Boot Award (1985), Golden Apple Awards - Sour Apple (1953), Western Heritage Awards - Trustees Award (1973) |
Nominations | Star on the Walk of Fame (1960) |
Movies | “Fighting Man of the Plains” (1949), “Return of the Texan” (1952), “Sitting Bull” (1954), “Dakota Incident” (1956), “The Silver Whip” (1953), “Golden Girl” (1951) |
TV Shows | “The Dean Martin Show”, “Tales of Wells Fargo” (1957-1962), “Death Valley Days” (1952-1970), “Dynasty” (1981-1989), “Iron Horse” (1966-1968), “J.J. Starbuck” (1987-1988) |
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1 | [on the failure of his series Iron Horse (1966)] I liked the show after it got started but I grew to dislike it. The network didn't seem to take an interest in it. It would have been a great series; as it was, it was just a mediocre show. They all had to get their fingers in the pie. |
2 | [on why his character was killed off in Dynasty (1981)] They got me to do 15 episodes . . . but that was enough. They kept putting all of this sex and stuff into it and I didn't do it the way they wanted. I never had the ability to keep my big mouth shut. |
3 | An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way. |
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1 | He was a staunch conservative Republican. |
2 | Now retired and currently living in Oklahoma [October 2008] |
3 | He and his first wife had daughter Rochelle. |
4 | Started military service in Fort Sill in Oklahoma before being sent to the horse cavalry at Fort Riley, Kansas, and then to officers' school at Fort Knox, Kentucky where he was commissioned a Second Lieutuenant in the Armed Forces. From there he was sent to the Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. |
5 | During his first year of college, he and some of his friends signed up for military duty after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. |
6 | Attended Classen High School in Oklahoma City. Into his junior year he was declared "ineligible" to play sports because of two professional boxing matches he had previously fought in. As such, he decided to enroll in the Oklahoma Military Academy in the city of Claremore wherein he could participate in sports. Dale went on to be nominated "All Around Athlete" while attending the Academy. |
7 | Parents: Melvin and Varval Robertson. |
8 | Was a horse rider by age ten and was training polo ponies in his teens. |
9 | Wounded twice during WWII while serving in the Army in North Africa and Europe, he was awarded the Bronze and Silver stars and a Purple Heart for his courage. |
10 | His resemblance to Clark Gable helped him get into the movies. |
11 | Retired after he finished his role as Zeke in the TV series Harts of the West (1993) in order to spend more time at his Yukon, Oklahoma ranch and raise horses. Ill health forced him in recent months to move to the San Diego California area just months before his death of emphysema and pneumonia and he died at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. |
12 | The old-fashioned Robertson claims to have been "killed off" by the powers-that-be on Dynasty (1981) because he balked at the sexual situations demanded of his character. |
13 | Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1983. |
14 | At the age of 17 he was attending Oklahoma Military College, and boxing in professional prize fights to earn money. Harry Cohn approached him after a fight in Wichita, Kansas and asked him to come out to Hollywood to play the role of Joe Bonaparte in a boxing picture called "Golden Boy." Robertson refused, saying he was in the middle of training 17 polo ponies, and could not leave his family at his age. William Holden eventually was cast in the Golden Boy (1939) role. |
15 | Robertson entered the U.S. Army during World War II. After stateside training he served as a tank commander in the 777th Tank Battalion in the North African campaign. He was standing in the hatch when his tank was hit by enemy fire. His tank crew were killed, but he was blown out of the hatch and survived with shrapnel wounds to his lower legs, the scars of which he still bears. Fully recovered, he went on to serve with the 322nd Combat Engineer Battalion during the European campaign. He was wounded a second time, this one in the right knee during a mortar attack. Again he made a complete recovery. |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Harts of the West | 1993-1994 | TV Series | Zeke |
Wind in the Wire | 1993 | TV Movie | |
Murder, She Wrote | 1988-1989 | TV Series | Lee Goddard |
J.J. Starbuck | 1987-1988 | TV Series | Jerome Jeremiah 'J.J.' Starbuck |
Dallas | 1982 | TV Series | Frank Crutcher |
Matt Houston | 1982 | TV Series | Wildcat Callahan |
Dynasty | 1981 | TV Series | Walter Lankershim |
The Love Boat | 1980 | TV Series | Mason Fleers |
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang | 1979 | TV Movie | Judge Isaac Parker |
Fantasy Island | 1979 | TV Series | Peter Rawlings |
The Kansas City Massacre | 1975 | TV Movie | Melvin Purvis |
Melvin Purvis G-MAN | 1974 | TV Movie | Melvin Purvis |
Aru heishi no kake | 1970 | Major Clark J. Allen | |
East Connection | 1970 | ||
Death Valley Days | 1969-1970 | TV Series | Himself - Host / Jack Reardon / Harry Roebuck / ... |
The Red Skelton Hour | 1968 | TV Series | Robinson Crusoe |
Iron Horse | 1966-1968 | TV Series | Ben Calhoun |
The One Eyed Soldiers | 1966 | Richard Owen | |
Scalplock | 1966 | TV Movie | Benjamin Calhoun |
Coast of Skeletons | 1965 | A. J. Magnus | |
The Man from Button Willow | 1965 | Justin Eagle (voice) | |
Diamond Jim: Skulduggery in Samantha | 1965 | TV Movie | Diamond Jim Brady |
Blood on the Arrow | 1964 | Wade Cooper | |
Law of the Lawless | 1964 | Judge Clem Rogers | |
Tales of Wells Fargo | 1957-1962 | TV Series | Jim Hardie |
Fast and Sexy | 1958 | Raffaele | |
Hell Canyon Outlaws | 1957 | Sheriff Caleb Wells | |
Undercurrent | 1957 | TV Series | Daniel Weaver |
The 20th Century-Fox Hour | 1957 | TV Series | Lt. Clay Tucker |
Climax! | 1957 | TV Series | Nicky Jordan |
Schlitz Playhouse | 1956 | TV Series | Jim Hardie |
Studio 57 | 1956 | TV Series | |
High Terrace | 1956 | Bill Lang | |
Dakota Incident | 1956 | John Banner | |
A Day of Fury | 1956 | Jagade | |
The Ford Television Theatre | 1956 | TV Series | Donny |
Son of Sinbad | 1955 | Sinbad | |
Top of the World | 1955 | Maj. Lee Gannon | |
Sitting Bull | 1954 | Major Robert 'Bob' Parrish | |
The Gambler from Natchez | 1954 | Capt. Vance Colby | |
City of Bad Men | 1953 | Brett Stanton | |
Devil's Canyon | 1953 | Billy Reynolds | |
The Farmer Takes a Wife | 1953 | Dan Harrow | |
The Silver Whip | 1953 | Race Crim | |
O. Henry's Full House | 1952 | Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call") | |
Lure of the Wilderness | 1952 | Opening off-screen Narrator (voice, uncredited) | |
Lydia Bailey | 1952 | Albion Hamlin | |
The Outcasts of Poker Flat | 1952 | John Oakhurst | |
Return of the Texan | 1952 | Sam Crockett | |
Golden Girl | 1951 | Tom Richmond | |
The Secret of Convict Lake | 1951 | Narrator (voice, uncredited) | |
Take Care of My Little Girl | 1951 | Joe Blake | |
Call Me Mister | 1951 | Capt. Johnny Comstock | |
Two Flags West | 1950 | Lem | |
The Cariboo Trail | 1950 | Will Gray | |
Fighting Man of the Plains | 1949 | Jesse James | |
The Girl from Jones Beach | 1949 | Lifeguard (uncredited) | |
Flamingo Road | 1949 | Tunis Simms (uncredited) | |
The Boy with Green Hair | 1948 | Cop (uncredited) |
Soundtrack
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Dean Martin Show | 1969 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Johnny Cash Show | 1969 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show | 1962 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show | 1960 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
Tales of Wells Fargo | 1957 | TV Series performer - 2 episodes | |
The Farmer Takes a Wife | 1953 | performer: "On the Erie Canal" 1953, "Somethin' Real Special" 1953, "With the Sun Warm Upon Me" 1953, "We're in Business" 1953, "I Could Cook" 1953 - uncredited | |
O. Henry's Full House | 1952 | performer: "Gwine to Rune All Night De Camptown Races" 1850 - uncredited |
Miscellaneous
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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The Man from Button Willow | 1965 | presenter |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Someone Cry for the Children: The Girl Scout Murders | 1993 | Video documentary | Narrator |
The 7th Annual Golden Boot Awards | 1989 | TV Special | Himself |
Oklahoma Passage | 1989 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
The New Hollywood Squares | 1987 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1964-1987 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan | 1985 | TV Special | Himself |
Hour Magazine | 1984 | TV Series | Himself |
Family Feud | 1984 | TV Series | Himself |
The Mike Douglas Show | 1971-1979 | TV Series | Himself - Co-Host / Himself - Actor |
The Six Million Dollar Man | 1974 | TV Series | Himself |
American Horse and Horseman | 1973 | TV Series | Host (1973) |
Hee Haw | 1971 | TV Series | Himself - Special Gust / Himself - Guest Star |
Death Valley Days | 1969-1970 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
The Dean Martin Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
The Johnny Cash Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Singer |
The Joey Bishop Show | 1967-1969 | TV Series | Himself |
Operation: Entertainment | 1969 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
First Annual All-Star Celebrity Baseball Game | 1967 | TV Special | Himself - Celebrity |
The Bob Hope Show | 1967 | TV Series | Himself |
The Hollywood Palace | 1964-1966 | TV Series | Himself - Host |
The Hollywood Squares | 1966 | TV Series | Himself - Panelist |
The Celebrity Game | 1965 | TV Series | Himself |
That Regis Philbin Show | 1965 | TV Series | Himself |
The Match Game | 1964 | TV Series | Himself - Team Captain |
The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show | 1962 | TV Series | Himself |
Here's Hollywood | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
This Is Your Life | 1961 | TV Series | Himself |
About Faces | 1960 | TV Series | Himself |
The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show | 1960 | TV Series | Himself - Actor / Singer |
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show | 1960 | TV Series | Himself |
Celebrity Golf | 1960 | TV Series | |
The George Burns Show | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Himself - Guest / Himself - Tales of Wells Fargo / Himself |
The Living Swamp | 1955 | Short documentary | Narrator |
The 27th Annual Academy Awards | 1955 | TV Special | Himself - Audience Member |
Archive Footage
Won Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
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1985 | Golden Boot | Golden Boot Awards | ||
1973 | Trustees Award | Western Heritage Awards | For outstanding contribution to western film. | |
1960 | Star on the Walk of Fame | Walk of Fame | Television | On 8 February 1960. At 6500 Hollywood Blvd. |
1953 | Sour Apple | Golden Apple Awards | Least Cooperative Actor |
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