Dale RobertsonFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: Prediction: Murder

Synopsis: This episode is a followup to the previous week's offering, in which Jessica (Angela Lansbury) had renewed her friendship with former Air Force pilot Lee Goddard (Dale Robertson). Invited to visit Lee's ranch in Arizona, Jessica attends a party where a psychic named Franchesco (David Birney) is Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

Synopsis: During the Korean War, Frank Fletcher, late husband of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), was forced to bail out of the "Dixie Damsel", a crippled C97 cargo plane. Now, 36 years later, the wreckage of the "Dixie Damsel" has been found--with the remains of a murdered man inside! An Read More

Walking Major

Summer Heat

Actors: Lori Singer, Anthony Edwards, Bruce Abbott, Kathy Bates, Clu Gulager

Synopsis: The lonely wife of a struggling tobacco farmer succumbs to temptation and sleeps with a transient harvester in this drama set in Depression-ravaged North Carolina. The drifter offers her more excitement than the bored young mother has felt in years and it is no surprise that she and he begin Read More

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

Actors: Cliff Potts, Larry Wilcox, Jack Palance, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Producer Dan Curtis also sat in the director's seat for The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang. Making no effort to whitewash its hooligan protagonists, the film recounts the wild-west exploits of the outlaw Dalton Brothers: Bob (Cliff Potts), Emmett (Larry Wilcox), Grat (Randy Quaid, who'd probably get Read More

The Kansas City Massacre

Actors: Dale Robertson

Synopsis: In this sequel to Melvin Purvis, G-Man, Dale Robertson returns as the crime fighter, who must battle such notorious gangsters as Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Melvin Purvis: G-Man

Actors: Dale Robertson, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: Melvin Purvis: G-Man was one of two TV pilot films intended to launch a series based on the life of famed FBI agent Purvis. Dale Robertson played the title role in both, emphasizing the heroics and downpedalling Purvis' shameless self-aggrandizement (he was so rabid a publicity hound that many Read More

Conexion Oriental

Synopsis: In this mystery, a reporter looks into an Asian crime syndicate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

One-Eyed Soldiers

Synopsis: An old soldier, lying on his deathbed, whispers a clue to the location of a fortune in a Swiss bank, and it sets off an international mad dash to recover the $15 million. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Scalplock

Actors: Dale Robertson, Robert Random, Diana Hyland

Synopsis: Dale Robertson stars as Ben Calhoun, a cagey professional gambler in the west of the 1870s. After an unusually successful card game in Kansas City, Calhoun finds that his opponent has no ready cash. Instead, the gambler wins ownership of the Buffalo Pass, Scalplock and Defiance Railroad. Calhoun Read More

The Man from Button Willow

Actors: Dale Robertson, Howard Keel, Barbara Jean Wong, Herschel Bernardi

Synopsis: An American rancher--who doubles as an undercover agent--is needed in the rescue of a kidnapped senator in this animated adventure. Helping him is his horse Rebel and a good friend named Sorry. The film is distributed by United Screen Arts, the company formed by starring voice Dale Robertson. Read More

Coast of Skeletons

Actors: Richard Todd, Heinz Drache, Marianne Koch, Derek Nimmo, Elga Andersen

Synopsis: In the mid-1960s, Richard Todd starred in two British films based on Edgar Wallace's Sanders of the River. Coast of Skeletons was the sequel to Todd's earlier Death Drums Along the River. Playing insurance investigator Harry Sanders, Todd comes upon an insidious scheme to steal the valuables from Read More

Law of the Lawless

Actors: Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Bruce Cabot, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: This is the first of numerous westerns produced by A.C. Lyles which became famous not for their stories but for who played in them--all the stars being veterans not often seen on the screen anymore. As far as plot line, essentially we have a badguy who has become a good guy (read that ex Read More

Blood on the Arrow

Synopsis: In this western, the sole survivor of an Apache ambush rides out to save a young boy who has been captured. The hero was a captured outlaw en route to his trial. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gunfight in Black Horse Canyon

Actors: Dale Robertson, Ellen Burstyn, George Kennedy

Synopsis: Bounty hunters hired by an ex-con focus on the Wells Fargo agent who placed the ex-con in prison. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 06

Actors: Dale Robertson

Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 05

Actors: Dale Robertson

Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 04

Actors: Dale Robertson

Anna di Brooklyn

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Dale Robertson, Vittorio De Sica, Carla Macelloni, Gabriella Pallotta

Synopsis: In this occasionally amusing frolic, Gina Lollobrigida plays a sexy widow who returns to Italy from New York following the death of her husband. Her wealth and good looks entice all the men in her small village except for the one she really wants, the town blacksmith (Dale Robertson). Giuseppe Rotunno Read More

Anna of Brooklyn

Synopsis: Anna may be from Brooklyn, but this medium-budget domestic drama was filmed and financed in Italy. The title character, played by Gina Lollobrigida, returns from Flatbush to her small village in Italy in search of a husband. Among her suitors are Dale Robertson and Vittorio DeSica, indicating that Read More

Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 03

Actors: Dale Robertson

Hell Canyon Outlaws

Synopsis: In this western, a sheriff attempts to exact his revenge against the desperadoes who cost him his job. The former lawman successfully gets rid of the bad hombres and clears his name. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The High Terrace

Actors: Dale Robertson, Lois Maxwell, Derek Bond, Eric Pohlmann, Mary Laura Wood

Synopsis: In this British mystery, set backstage at a theater, a beautiful actress is starring in a successful playwright's newest hit. Unbeknownst to her, the writer is in love with her. Because he is jealous of all those who might steal her away, he refuses to allow her to break her contract and work in Read More

Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 01

Actors: Dale Robertson

The Still Trumpet

Synopsis: This western is set during the Civil War and chronicles the efforts of a recently paroled Confederate soldier to keep the moving settlers safe from Native-American marauders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales of Wells Fargo: Season 02

Actors: Dale Robertson

Dakota Incident

Actors: Dale Robertson, Linda Darnell, John Lund, Ward Bond, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: Some good performances overcome the scripted cliches in Dakota Incident. In the tradition of Stagecoach, the film offers a disparate group of travellers whose lives are imperiled when their coach heads deep into Indian territory. Linda Darnell plays Amy Clarke, the requisite you-know-what with a Read More

A Day of Fury

Actors: Dale Robertson, Mara Corday, Jock Mahoney, Jan Merlin

Synopsis: A Day Of Fury stars Jock Mahoney as town marshal Alan Burnett, whose life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade (Dale Robertson), a gunslinger just returned after years away, who finds when he gets into town that he can't abide the peace that has been Read More

Son of Sinbad

Actors: Kim Novak, Dale Robertson, Sally Forrest, Vincent Price, Mari Blanchard

Synopsis: Dale Robertson stars as the Son of Sinbad in this tongue-in-cheek Arabian Nights romp. Hoping to rescue Bagdad from the forces of the dreaded Tamerlaine, Sinbad Jr. enlists the aid of the Khalif (Leon Askin) by promising to deliver the secret of "Greek Fire". To expedite this, he enlists the aid Read More

Top of the World

Actors: Dale Robertson, Evelyn Keyes, Frank Lovejoy, Nancy Gates, Paul Fix

Synopsis: The title refers not to James Cagney's curtain line in White Heat but to Northern Alaska, where this film is set. Dale Robertson plays an Air Force jet pilot who resents the fact that he's been transferred from Hawaii to the frozen north. He changes his mind when he meets his ex-wife (Evelyn Read More

The Gambler from Natchez

Actors: Dale Robertson, Debra Paget, Thomas Gomez, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: Gambler From Natchez is one of a group on non-Cinemascope films released by 20th Century-Fox's Panorama Pictures subsidiary. Dale Robertson stars as a 19th century adventurer who returns to his home town of New Orleans, only to find that his father has been killed for allegedly cheating at cards. Read More

Sitting Bull

Actors: Dale Robertson, Mary Murphy, J. Carrol Naish, Iron Eyes Cody, John Litel

Synopsis: This western offers one of Hollywood's more historically accurate accounts of the Battle of Little Big Horn. The story centers on a major in the cavalry who believes the Indians have the same rights as other Americans. Despite his efforts to stop Custer from embarking on his ill-fated mission, the Read More

The Farmer Takes a Wife

Actors: Betty Grable, Dale Robertson, Thelma Ritter, John Carroll, Eddie Foy, Jr.

Synopsis: The Farmer Takes a Wife is a musicalized remake of the 1935 film of the same name. Betty Grable and Dale Robertson star in the roles originally essayed by Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda. Set in the early 19th century, the plot details the trials and tribulations of those hardy souls who settled Read More

The Silver Whip

Actors: Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun, Robert Wagner, Kathleen Crowley, James Millican

Synopsis: The Silver Whip stars Dale Robertson as Race Crim, the guard on a stage coach driven by his best friend, young Jess Harker (Robert Wagner). Wounded during a holdup, Crim vows to get even with bandit Slater (John Kellogg). Meanwhile, Harker, fired from his job as driver, manages to become the Read More

Devil's Canyon

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt, Robert Keith

Synopsis: RKO Radio's second 3D production, Devil's Canyon is a combination western and jail-break picture. The scene is Arizona Territorial Prison, wherein 500 desperate men are incarcerated. The inmates become even more desperate when female outlaw Abby Nixon (Virginia Mayo) is likewise locked up. As the Read More

City of Bad Men

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson, Richard Boone, Lloyd Bridges, Carole Mathews

Synopsis: Unlike many westerns, City of Bad Men is placed within a specific historical time frame. The scene is Carson City, Nevada, in the year 1897. As the city prepares itself for the much-ballyhooed prizefight between Gentleman Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons, soldier-of-fortune Brett Stanton (Dale Robertson Read More

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Actors: Anne Baxter, Dale Robertson, Miriam Hopkins, Cameron Mitchell, Craig Hill

Synopsis: This last of several movie adaptations of Bret Harte's The Outcasts of Poker Flat stars Cameron Mitchell as a murderous western outlaw, Anne Baxter as his wife, Dale Robertson as a disgraced gambler and Miriam Hopkins as a faded dance hall floozie. All these characters (with a few other socially Read More

O. Henry's Full House

Actors: Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Richard Widmark, Dale Robertson, Anne Baxter, Fred Allen

Synopsis: This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp named Soapy (Charles Laughton) tries to get arrested so that he can spend the winter in jail Read More

Return of the Texan

Actors: Dale Robertson, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Richard Boone, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Dale Robertson stars as Sam Crockett, a widowed rancher trying to make a go of his small spread with his father (Walter Brennan) and his two small sons. Financially strapped, Crockett is forced to go to work for nasty neighboring rancher Rod (Richard Boone). When Rod's sister-in-law Ann (Joanne Dru Read More

Lydia Bailey

Actors: Dale Robertson, Anne Francis, Charles Korvin, William Marshall, Luis Van Rooten

Synopsis: Twenty-one-year-old Anne Francis carries off the title-character duties in 20th Century-Fox's Lydia Bailey with class and finesse. Set in Haiti during the Napoleonic era, the film concerns aristocratic landholder Lydia Bailey and her more-than-professional relationship with American attorney Read More

Call Me Mister

Actors: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Danny Thomas, Dale Robertson, Benay Venuta, Richard Boone

Synopsis: The original Broadway musical Call Me Mister was a plotless revue. By the time the property made it to the screen, however, a storyline was grafted on and much of the revue's funnier (and dirtier) material was weeded out. Betty Grable stars as an American USO entertainer Kay Hudson, touring the Read More

Golden Girl

Actors: Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day, James Barton, Una Merkel

Synopsis: Golden Girl is the life story (sort of) of legendary 19th-century American entertainer Lotta Crabtree. The daughter of a luckless gambler (James Barton), young Lotta (Mitzi Gaynor) supports herself and her dad by singing and dancing in mining camps during the California Gold Rush of 1849. She Read More

Take Care of My Little Girl

Actors: Jeanne Crain, Dale Robertson, Mitzi Gaynor, Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter

Synopsis: Take Care of My Little Girl is a genteel "expose" of college-sorority snobbery. Jeanne Crain stars as Liz Erickson a perky coed who is pledged to an old, established sorority. At first amused by such rituals as "rushing" and "Hell week," Liz eventually feels threatened by the tyranny of the Read More

The Cariboo Trail

Actors: Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Karin [Katharine] Booth, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Set in British Columbia but filmed in Colorado, Cariboo Trail stars Randolph Scott as a cattle-drive boss from Montana. Crooked Victor Jory and his minions stampede the cattle, causing Scott's partner Bill Williams to lose an arm. Out of a job, Scott gives gold mining a try, but even here he is Read More

Two Flags West

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde, Dale Robertson

Synopsis: Two Flags West is set in the waning days of the Civil War. Colonel Clay Tucker (Joseph Cotten) is one of several Confederate prisoners who agree to fight alongside Union soldiers against the Indians in New Mexico. Tucker's Union commander Kenniston (Jeff Chandler) despises all "Johnny Rebs," Read More

The Girl From Jones Beach

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken, Dona Drake, Henry Travers

Synopsis: Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of several models. While relaxing at the beach, Reagan meets a lovely young schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who is the living image of his imaginary girl. Sensing a terrific Read More

Flamingo Road

Actors: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian, Gertrude Michael, Gladys George

Synopsis: The fourth of Joan Crawford's Warner Bros. vehicles, Flamingo Road doesn't hold up as well as her earlier Mildred Pierce or Humoresque, but there's plenty to please the eye and ear. Sideshow kootch-dancer Lane Bellamy (Crawford), stranded in a backwater town, gets a job as a waitress. Lane begins Read More

Fighting Man of the Plains

Actors: Randolph Scott, Bill Williams, Victor Jory, Jane Nigh, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Randolph Scott plays one of the members of Quantrill's Raiders, staging attacks on Kansas on behalf of the fallen Confederacy in the years following the Civil War. During one raid, Scott kills the man he holds responsible for the death of his brother. The dead man was innocent, and Scott becomes a Read More