Cliff Robertson
Born: 1923-09-09
• Los Angeles, California, USA
Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Charly. On television, he portrayed retired astronaut Buzz Aldrin in the 1976 adaptation of Aldrin's autobiographic Return to Earth, played a fictional character based on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 miniseries Washington: Behind Closed Doors, and portrayed Henry Ford in Ford: The Man and the Machine (1987). His last well-known film appearances were as Uncle Ben in the 2002–2007 Spider-Man film trilogy.
Filmography
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
Spider-Man 3
Riding the Bullet
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Spider-Man 2
13th Child
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Spider-Man
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
'Obsession' Revisited
Falcon Down
Mach 2
Family Tree
Assignment Berlin
Race
Lusitania
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Escape from L.A.
Dazzle
No Image
Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice
The Sunset Boys
Renaissance Man
No Image
Lincoln
Wind
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Dead Reckoning
William Holden: The Golden Boy
Ford: The Man and the Machine
Malone
Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
No Image
Galapagos: My Fragile World
Shaker Run
The Key to Rebecca
Star 80
Brainstorm
Class
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Two of a Kind
Night of 100 Stars
The Pilot
Dominique
The Little Prince
Overboard
Fraternity Row
The American Indian's Sacred Ground
Obsession
Midway
Shoot
Return to Earth
No Image
Kennedys Don't Cry
Three Days of the Condor
My Father's House
Out of Season
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Man on a Swing
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
The Man Without a Country
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
J.W. Coop
Too Late the Hero
The Sunshine Patriot
Charly
The Devil's Brigade
The Honey Pot
Up from the Beach
Masquerade
Love Has Many Faces
633 Squadron
The Best Man
Sunday in New York
PT 109
My Six Loves
The Interns
The Big Show
All in a Night's Work
Underworld U.S.A.
The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
As the Sea Rages
Battle of the Coral Sea
Gidget
Days of Wine and Roses
The Naked and the Dead
Natchez
The Girl Most Likely
Autumn Leaves
Picnic
Corvette K-225
We've Never Been Licked