Cliff Robertson
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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.
Known for
Credits
Spider-Man (2002)
as Ben Parker
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
as Uncle Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
as Ben Parker
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
as Ben Parker
Midway (1976)
as Cmdr. Jessop
Escape from L.A. (1996)
as President
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
as J. Higgins
Obsession (1976)
as Michael Courtland
Gidget (1959)
as The Big Kahuna
Lincoln (1992)
as Noah Brooks (voice)
Brainstorm (1983)
as Alex Terson
Class (1983)
as Mr. Burroughs
Star 80 (1983)
as Hugh Hefner
Renaissance Man (1994)
as Colonel James
The Devil's Brigade (1968)
as Major Alan Crown
633 Squadron (1964)
as Wing Commander Roy Grant
Picnic (1955)
as Alan Benson
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
as Dr. W.F. Carver
PT 109 (1963)
as Lt. John F, Kennedy
Wind (1992)
as Morgan Weld
Riding the Bullet (2004)
as Farmer
Falcon Down (2001)
as Buzz Thomas
Too Late the Hero (1970)
as Lt. Sam Lawson
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
as Robert Hearn
The Best Man (1964)
as Joe Cantwell
The Honey Pot (1967)
as William McFly
Night of 100 Stars (1982)
as Self
Malone (1987)
as Charles Delaney
Sunday in New York (1963)
as Adam Tyler
Charly (1968)
as Charlie Gordon
Mach 2 (2001)
as Vice President Pike
Autumn Leaves (1956)
as Burt Hanson
13th Child (2002)
as Mr. Shroud
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
as Tolly Devlin
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
as Cole Younger
Man on a Swing (1974)
as Lee Tucker
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973)
as Narrator (voice)
All in a Night's Work (1961)
as Warren Kingsley, Jr.
J.W. Coop (1972)
as J.W. Coop
Shoot (1976)
as Rex
Masquerade (1965)
as David Frazer
Love Has Many Faces (1965)
as Pete Jordon
My Six Loves (1963)
as Rev. Jim Larkin
Family Tree (1999)
as Larry
The Interns (1962)
as Dr. John Paul Otis
Shaker Run (1985)
as Judd Pierson
Dead Reckoning (1990)
as Daniel Barnard
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man' (2002)
as Self
Battle of the Coral Sea (1959)
as Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Conway
Dazzle (1995)
as Mike Kilkullen
My Father's House (1975)
as Tom Lindholm Jr.
Return to Earth (1976)
as Col. Edwin A. 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr.
The Pilot (1980)
as Mike Hagan
The Key to Rebecca (1985)
as Maj. William Vandam
Dominique (1980)
as David Ballard
The Sunset Boys (1995)
as Ted Roth
Corvette K-225 (1943)
as Lookout
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1974)
as Johnny Nolan
Two of a Kind (1982)
as Frank Minor
Up from the Beach (1965)
as Sgt. Edward Baxter
William Holden: The Golden Boy (1989)
as Self
Out of Season (1975)
as Joe Tanner
Race (1998)
as Jack Durmann
Days of Wine and Roses (1958)
as Joe Clay
Lincoln: Trial by Fire (1974)
as Narrator(voice)
The Man Without a Country (1973)
as Philip Nolan
Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story (1986)
as Mel Fisher
The Girl Most Likely (1958)
as Pete
We've Never Been Licked (1943)
as Adams (uncredited)
The Sunshine Patriot (1968)
as Christopher Ross / Arthur Selby
'Obsession' Revisited (2001)
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh (1973)
as Narrator
As the Sea Rages (1959)
as Clements
Ford: The Man and the Machine (1987)
as Henry Ford
Fraternity Row (1977)
as Narrator (voice)
Overboard (1978)
as Mitch Garrison
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies (1973)
as Ace Eli Walford
The Big Show (1961)
as Josef Everard
Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice (1995)
as Narrator
Joan Crawford: Always the Star (1996)
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock (1973)
as Narrator
Lusitania (1998)
as Narrator
Assignment Berlin (1998)
as Colonel Cliff Garret
The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon (1961)
as Charlie Gordon
Galapagos: My Fragile World (1986)
as Narrator
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star (2002)
as Self - Actor
The Little Prince (1979)
as Narrator / Pilot
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story (2010)
Actor
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph (1983)
as Narrator
Natchez (1958)
as Danny Carson
The American Indian's Sacred Ground (1977)
as Self - Host
Kennedys Don't Cry (1975)
as Self - Narrator