Cliff Robertson
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1923-09-09
Day of Death
2011-09-10 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Cliff Robertson
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.
Known For
Acting
(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
(2004)
Riding the Bullet
as Farmer
(2004)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as President in Escape From L.A. (archive footage)
(2002)
Spider-Man
as Ben Parker
(2002)
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
as Self - Actor
(2002)
(2002)
13th Child
as Mr. Shroud
(2001)
'Obsession' Revisited
as Self
(2001)
Falcon Down
as Buzz Thomas
(2001)
Mach 2
as Vice President Pike
(1999)
Family Tree
as Larry
(1998)
Race
as Jack Durmann
(1998)
Lusitania
as Narrator
(1998)
Assignment Berlin
as Colonel Cliff Garret
(1996)
Escape from L.A.
as President
(1996)
(1995)
Dazzle
as Mike Kilkullen
(1995)
The Sunset Boys
as Ted Roth
(1995)
Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice
as Narrator
(1995)
American Cinema
as Narrator
(1994)
Renaissance Man
as Colonel James
(1992)
Wind
as Morgan Weld
(1992)
Lincoln
as Noah Brooks (voice)
(1991)
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
as Dr. W.F. Carver
(1990)
Dead Reckoning
as Daniel Barnard
(1989)
(1987)
Malone
as Charles Delaney
(1987)
Ford: The Man and the Machine
as Henry Ford
(1986)
Galapagos: My Fragile World
as Narrator
(1986)
Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
as Mel Fisher
(1985)
The Key to Rebecca
as Maj. William Vandam
(1985)
Shaker Run
as Judd Pierson
(1983)
Class
as Mr. Burroughs
(1983)
Star 80
as Hugh Hefner
(1983)
Brainstorm
as Alex Terson
(1983)
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
as Narrator
(1982)
Night of 100 Stars
as Self
(1982)
Two of a Kind
as Frank Minor
(1980)
The Pilot
as Mike Hagan
(1980)
Dominique
as David Ballard
(1979)
The Little Prince
as Narrator / Pilot
(1978)
Overboard
as Mitch Garrison
(1977)
Fraternity Row
as Narrator (voice)
(1977)
The American Indian's Sacred Ground
as Self - Host
(1976)
Midway
as Cmdr. Jessop
(1976)
Obsession
as Michael Courtland
(1976)
Shoot
as Rex
(1976)
Return to Earth
as Col. Edwin A. 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr.
(1975)
Three Days of the Condor
as J. Higgins
(1975)
My Father's House
as Tom Lindholm Jr.
(1975)
Out of Season
as Joe Tanner
(1974)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Johnny Nolan
(1974)
J.W. Coop
as J.W. Coop
(1974)
Man on a Swing
as Lee Tucker
(1973)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Narrator (voice)
(1973)
(1973)
The Man Without a Country
as Philip Nolan
(1973)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh
as Narrator
(1973)
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
as Ace Eli Walford
(1972)
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
as Cole Younger
(1970)
Too Late the Hero
as Lt. Sam Lawson
(1968)
The Sunshine Patriot
as Christopher Ross / Arthur Selby
(1968)
The Devil's Brigade
as Major Alan Crown
(1968)
Charly
as Charlie Gordon
(1967)
The Honey Pot
as William McFly
(1965)
Masquerade
as David Frazer
(1965)
Love Has Many Faces
as Pete Jordon
(1965)
Up from the Beach
as Sgt. Edward Baxter
(1964)
633 Squadron
as Wing Commander Roy Grant
(1964)
The Best Man
as Joe Cantwell
(1963)
My Six Loves
as Rev. Jim Larkin
(1963)
PT 109
as Lt. John F, Kennedy
(1963)
Sunday in New York
as Adam Tyler
(1962)
The Interns
as Dr. John Paul Otis
(1961)
The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
as Charlie Gordon
(1961)
The Big Show
as Josef Everard
(1961)
All in a Night's Work
as Warren Kingsley, Jr.
(1961)
Underworld U.S.A.
as Tolly Devlin
(1959)
Battle of the Coral Sea
as Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Conway
(1959)
As the Sea Rages
as Clements
(1959)
Gidget
as The Big Kahuna
(1958)
Natchez
as Danny Carson
(1958)
The Girl Most Likely
as Pete
(1958)
Days of Wine and Roses
as Joe Clay
(1958)
The Naked and the Dead
as Robert Hearn
(1956)
Autumn Leaves
as Burt Hanson
(1955)
Picnic
as Alan Benson
(1943)
Corvette K-225
as Lookout
(1943)
We've Never Been Licked
as Adams (uncredited)
Crew
(2002)
13th Child
Writer
(1980)
The Pilot
Director
(1974)
J.W. Coop
Director, Producer, Writer