Dale Robertson Net Worth

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.

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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.

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Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
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
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
The Man from Button Willow	1965	presenter

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
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

Title	Year	Status	Character
20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards	2014	TV Special	Himself - In Memoriam
The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards	2013	TV Special	Himself - Actor (In Memoriam)
Legends of the West	1992	Documentary	Actor in 'Sitting Bull' (uncredited)
Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look At...	1965	TV Series documentary
Gunfight at Black Horse Canyon	1961	TV Movie	Jim Hardie

Won Awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie
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

Known for movies

Tales of Wells Fargo (1957-1962)
as Jim Hardie

Iron Horse (1966-1968)
as Ben Calhoun

Sitting Bull (1954)
as Major Robert 'Bob' Parrish

J.J. Starbuck (1987-1988)
as Jerome Jeremiah 'J.J.' Starbuck