Roger Mobley | |
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Born |
Roger Lance Mobley January 16, 1949 Evansville Vanderburgh County Indiana, USA |
Residence | Little Rock, Arkansas (2016) |
Alma mater | Whittier Christian High School in La Habra, California |
Occupation | Child actor (1958-1967) Green Beret (1968-1970) Police officer |
Spouse(s) | Sharie Barclay Mobley (m. 1968) |
Children |
Matthew Jason Mobley |
Parent(s) | Arthur Lance and Charlene V. Mobley |
Website |
Matthew Jason Mobley
Rebekah M. Justice
Roger Lance Mobley (born January 16, 1949, in Evansville, Indiana) was a busy child actor in the 1950s and 1960s who made more than one hundred television appearances and co-starred in nine feature films in a nine-year career. He joined the Green Berets (46th Special Forces Company) during the Vietnam War and was subsequently a police officer in Beaumont, Texas.
Mobley is one of eight children of Arthur Lance Mobley (April 1, 1922 – August 24, 2002) and Charlene V. Mobley (July 23, 1924 – November 23, 2012). Lance Mobley, as the father was known, was born in Centralia in southern Illinois, and a retired pipefitter at the time of his death in a hospital in Beaumont, Texas. He and Charlene married in 1939, when he was seventeen, and she was fifteen. The couple moved from Indiana in the early 1950s to Pecos in Reeves County in West Texas before they headed in 1957 to Whittier, near Los Angeles, California.
Charlene Mobley was born in rural Oil City north of Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana. For many years she was a real estate agent in Beaumont and then Vidor, Texas. For most of her life, she was a lay preacher in various churches in the communities in which the Mobleys resided. The senior Mobleys are interred in Vidor at Restlawn Cemetery.