a Georgia sheriff who becomes a New York Police Department detective. In 1987, he starred as the title character on J.J. Starbuck. Robertson also played Frank Crutcher in five episodes of the TV series Dallas during the 1982–83 season. In December 1993 and January 1994, Robertson appeared in two episodes of Harts of the West in the role of Zeke Terrell. During an appearance on The Tonight Show, Robertson said he was of Cherokee ancestry. He joked, "I am the tribe's West Coast distributor." Robertson played a central part in two episodes of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury but he was not credited in either appearance. He received the Golden Boot Award in 1985, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and is also in the Hall of Great Western Performers and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. In 1999, Robertson won the award for film and television from the American Cowboy Culture Association in Lubbock, Texas. In the last few years before his death, Robertson hosted a radio program called Little Known Facts, which was broadcast on 400 radio stations. Death In his later years, Robertson and his wife, the former Susan Robbins, whom he married in 1980, had lived on his ranch in Yukon, Oklahoma, where it was reported he owned 235 horses at one time, with five mares foaling grand champions. Due to his declining health, he relocated to the San Diego area in what would be his final months, passing away at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California, on February 27, 2013, from lung cancer and pneumonia. TV & Filmography The Boy with Green Hair (1948) – Cop (uncredited) Flamingo Road (1948) – Tunis Simms (uncredited) The Girl from Jones Beach (1949) – Lifeguard (uncredited) Fighting Man of the Plains (1950) – Jesse James The Cariboo Trail (1950) – Will Gray Two Flags West (1950) – Lem Call Me Mister (1951) – Capt. Johnny Comstock Take Care of My Little Girl (1951) – Joe Blake The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) – Narrator (voice, uncredited) Golden Girl (1951) – Tom Richmond Return of the Texan (1952) – Sam Crockett The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952) – John Oakhurst Lydia Bailey (1952) – Albion Hamlin Lure of the Wilderness (1952) – Opening off-screen Narrator (voice, uncredited) O. Henry's Full House (1952) – Barney Woods (segment "The Clarion Call") The