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