Cliff Robertson
Born: 1923-09-09 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: 2011-09-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2023
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as Uncle Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
- Spider-Man 3 as Ben Parker
2004
- Spider-Man 2 as Ben Parker
- Riding the Bullet as Farmer
2002
- Spider-Man as Ben Parker
- 13th Child as Mr. Shroud
- Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man' as Self
- Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star as Self - Actor
2001
- Falcon Down as Buzz Thomas
- Mach 2 as Vice President Pike
- 'Obsession' Revisited as Self
1999
- Family Tree as Larry
1998
- Race as Jack Durmann
- Lusitania as Narrator
- Assignment Berlin as Colonel Cliff Garret
1996
- Escape from L.A. as President
- With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self
1995
- The Outer Limits as Theodore Harris
- Dazzle as Mike Kilkullen
- The Sunset Boys as Ted Roth
- Dazzle as Mike Kilkullen
- Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice as Narrator
1994
- American Cinema as Self
- Renaissance Man as Colonel James
- The American Revolution as George Washington
1991
- Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken as Dr. W.F. Carver
1990
- Dead Reckoning as Daniel Barnard
1989
- William Holden: The Golden Boy as Self
1987
- Malone as Charles Delaney
- Ford: The Man and the Machine as Henry Ford
1986
- Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story as Mel Fisher
- Galapagos: My Fragile World as Narrator
1985
- The Key to Rebecca as Maj. William Vandam
- Shaker Run as Judd Pierson
1983
- Brainstorm as Alex Terson
- Class as Mr. Burroughs
- Star 80 as Hugh Hefner
- Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph as Narrator
1982
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
- Two of a Kind as Frank Minor
1981
- Falcon Crest as Michael Ranson
1979
- The Little Prince as Narrator / Pilot
1978
- Overboard as Mitch Garrison
1977
- Washington: Behind Closed Doors as William Martin
- Fraternity Row as Narrator (voice)
- The American Indian's Sacred Ground as Self - Host
1976
- Midway as Cmdr. Jessop
- Obsession as Michael Courtland
- Shoot as Rex
- Return to Earth as Col. Edwin A. 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr.
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self (uncredited)
- Three Days of the Condor as J. Higgins
- Out of Season as Joe Tanner
- My Father's House as Tom Lindholm Jr.
- Kennedys Don't Cry as Self - Narrator
1974
- Man on a Swing as Lee Tucker
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as Johnny Nolan
- Lincoln: Trial by Fire as Narrator(voice)
1973
- The Men Who Made the Movies as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli as Narrator (voice)
- The Man Without a Country as Philip Nolan
- Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies as Ace Eli Walford
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh as Narrator
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock as Narrator
1972
- The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid as Cole Younger
- J.W. Coop as J.W. Coop
1971
- Film '72 as Self
1970
- Too Late the Hero as Lt. Sam Lawson
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self (uncredited)
- The Devil's Brigade as Major Alan Crown
- Charly as Charlie Gordon
- The Sunshine Patriot as Christopher Ross / Arthur Selby
1967
- The Honey Pot as William McFly
1966
- Batman as Shame
1965
- Love Has Many Faces as Pete Jordon
- Up from the Beach as Sgt. Edward Baxter
- Masquerade as David Frazer
1964
- 633 Squadron as Wing Commander Roy Grant
- The Best Man as Joe Cantwell
1963
- The Outer Limits as Alan Maxwell
- PT 109 as Lt. John F, Kennedy
- Sunday in New York as Adam Tyler
- My Six Loves as Rev. Jim Larkin
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- The Interns as Dr. John Paul Otis
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Underworld U.S.A. as Tolly Devlin
- All in a Night's Work as Warren Kingsley, Jr.
- The Big Show as Josef Everard
- The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon as Charlie Gordon
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Christian Horn
- Gidget as The Big Kahuna
- Battle of the Coral Sea as Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Conway
- As the Sea Rages as Clements
1958
- The Naked and the Dead as Robert Hearn
- Days of Wine and Roses as Joe Clay
- The Girl Most Likely as Pete
- Natchez as Danny Carson
1956
- Playhouse 90
- Autumn Leaves as Burt Hanson
1955
- Picnic as Alan Benson
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1943
- Corvette K-225 as Lookout
- We've Never Been Licked as Adams (uncredited)