From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Dayle Lymoine Robertson July 14 1923 February 27 2013 was an American actor best known for his starring roles on television He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the longrunning NBCABC hit television series Tales of Wells Fargo and Ben Calhoun the owner of an incomplete railroad line in ABCs The Iron Horse He was often presented as a deceptively thoughtful but modest Western hero From 1968 to 1970 Robertson was the fourth and final host of the syndicated Death Valley Days anthology series For most of his career Robertson played in western films and television showswell over sixty titles in all His bestremembered series Tales of Wells Fargo aired on NBC from 1957 to 1961 when it moved to ABC and expanded to an hourlong program for its final season in 19611962 The show was originally produced by Nat Holt whom Robertson felt he owed his career to for giving him his first leading roles10 Robertson also did the narration for Tales of Wells Fargo through which he often presented his own commentary on matters of law morality and common sense He was unique among his television contemporaries stating that he hated the gun he was forced to carry but saw it as a necessary evil a tool of the trade and kept practicingcitation needed In its March 30 1959 cover story on television westerns Time reported Robertson was 6 feet tall weighed 180 pounds and measured 423434 He sometimes made use of his physique in beefcake scenes such as one in 1952s Return of the Texan where he is seen barechested and sweaty repairing a fence In 1960 Robertson gueststarred as himself in NBCs The Ford Show starring Tennessee Ernie Ford12 In 1962 he similarly appeared on a shortlived western comedy and variety series ABCs The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show In 1963 after Tales of Wells Fargo ended its fiveyear run he played the lead role in the first of AC Lyles second feature westerns Law of the Lawless
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