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- Set in the 1870s and 1880s, the series starred Oklahoma native Dale Robertson as Wells Fargo special agent Jim Hardie, noted at the time as "the left-handed gun".
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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 television series Tales of Wells Fargo and railroad owner Ben Calhoun in Iron Horse. He often was presented as a deceptively thoughtful but modest Western hero.
Robertson starred in the TV Western series “Tales of Wells Fargo” from 1957 through 1962, riding a horse named Jubilee. During the last hours of his life, as he lay in a hospital bed, his wife...
Feb 27, 2013 · 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...
Tales of Wells Fargo: Created by Frank Gruber, James Brooks, Gene Reynolds. With Dale Robertson, Art Felix, Kit Carson, William Demarest. Agent Jim Hardie splits his life between being an agent helping Wells Fargo cope with bad guys, and owning a ranch near San Francisco, California.
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Feb 28, 2013 · Dale Robertson in "Tales of Wells Fargo," which ran on NBC from 1957 to 1962. NBC, via Photofest. Mr. Robertson refused to call himself an actor. Rather, he said, he was a personality...
Robertson was typecast in Western movies and TV shows when the genre was still America's favorite. He headlined two TV series, Tales of Wells Fargo (1957) , in which he played the roving trouble-shooter Jim Hardie, and Iron Horse (1966) , in which he won a railway in a poker game.
Set in the 1870s and 1880s, the series starred Oklahoma native Dale Robertson as Wells Fargo special agent Jim Hardie, noted at the time as "the left-handed gun". The character was fictional, but the series' development was influenced by the biography of Wells Fargo detective Fred J. Dodge.
