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