caption resting_place death_date death_place birth_name birth_place |imagesize children parents birth_date alma_mater spouse image article_title name occupation death_cause
robertson as jim hardie , 1957 cremation 27 february 2013 la jolla , san diego california dayle lymoine robertson harrah , oklahoma county oklahoma , usa 200px daughter rochelle robertson -lrb- born 1952 -rrb- melvin and vervel robertson 14 july 1923 oklahoma military academy susan -rrb- robbins robertson -lrb- married 1980-2013 , his death dale robertson tales of wells fargo 1957.jpg dale robertson
 dale robertson actor cancer , pneumonia
dale robertson

dayle lymoine robertson -lrb- july 14 , 1923february 27 , 2013 -rrb- was an american actor best known for his starring roles on television .
he played the roving investigator jim hardie in the nbc/abc television series `` tales of wells fargo '' , and ben calhoun , the owner of an incomplete railroad line in abc 's `` 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 .
