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<nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">Dale Robertson, a Horse-Savvy Actor in Westerns, Is Dead at 89</nyt_headline>
<nyt_byline style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;">By DOUGLAS MARTIN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/douglas_martin/index.html)
</nyt_byline>Published: February 27, 2013
<nyt_text>Dale Robertson, who parlayed his Oklahoma drawl and a way with horses into a long career as a popular, strong-minded star of westerns on television and in the movies, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 89.
</nyt_text>
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Dale Robertson in "Tales of Wells Fargo," which ran on NBC from 1957 to 1962.
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Mr. Robertson in "J.J. Starbuck."
The cause was complications of lung cancer and pneumonia, his wife, Susan, said. He had been hospitalized near his home in San Diego.
Mr. Robertson was a skilled rider at 10 and training polo ponies by the time he was a teenager. He often said that the only reason he acted professionally was to save money to start his own horse farm in Oklahoma, which he eventually did.
In between, he appeared in more than 60 films and 430 television episodes (http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1130820/Dale-Robertson/filmography). In the movies he was a ruggedly handsome counterpart to leading ladies like Betty Grable, Mitzi Gaynor and Jeanne Crain. On television he had starring roles in popular westerns like “Tales of Wells Fargo,” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aruUx5VWw9M) which appeared from 1957 to 1961; “Iron Horse,” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npvb6dL-JHM)from 1966 to 1968; and “Death Valley Days,” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tse81S6ekY0) which he hosted from 1968 to 1972.
In 1981 he played an oil wildcatter in early episodes of “Dynasty.” The next year he had a recurring role in another glitzy nighttime soap opera, “Dallas,” and later in the decade he starred in the short-lived “J. J. Starbuck.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdNeJOGV8kQ)
Mr. Robertson refused to call himself an actor. Rather, he said, he was a personality with a distinctive style, not unlike that of the actor he most admired, John Wayne.
<nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">Dale Robertson, a Horse-Savvy Actor in Westerns, Is Dead at 89</nyt_headline>
<nyt_byline style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;">By DOUGLAS MARTIN (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/douglas_martin/index.html)
</nyt_byline>Published: February 27, 2013
<nyt_text>Dale Robertson, who parlayed his Oklahoma drawl and a way with horses into a long career as a popular, strong-minded star of westerns on television and in the movies, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 89.
</nyt_text>
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Dale Robertson in "Tales of Wells Fargo," which ran on NBC from 1957 to 1962.
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Mr. Robertson in "J.J. Starbuck."
The cause was complications of lung cancer and pneumonia, his wife, Susan, said. He had been hospitalized near his home in San Diego.
Mr. Robertson was a skilled rider at 10 and training polo ponies by the time he was a teenager. He often said that the only reason he acted professionally was to save money to start his own horse farm in Oklahoma, which he eventually did.
In between, he appeared in more than 60 films and 430 television episodes (http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1130820/Dale-Robertson/filmography). In the movies he was a ruggedly handsome counterpart to leading ladies like Betty Grable, Mitzi Gaynor and Jeanne Crain. On television he had starring roles in popular westerns like “Tales of Wells Fargo,” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aruUx5VWw9M) which appeared from 1957 to 1961; “Iron Horse,” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npvb6dL-JHM)from 1966 to 1968; and “Death Valley Days,” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tse81S6ekY0) which he hosted from 1968 to 1972.
In 1981 he played an oil wildcatter in early episodes of “Dynasty.” The next year he had a recurring role in another glitzy nighttime soap opera, “Dallas,” and later in the decade he starred in the short-lived “J. J. Starbuck.” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdNeJOGV8kQ)
Mr. Robertson refused to call himself an actor. Rather, he said, he was a personality with a distinctive style, not unlike that of the actor he most admired, John Wayne.