Cliff Robertson - Actor Profile

Cliff Robertson

20Movies
8.0 Best Rating

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.

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Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
1998 Race Jack Durmann ★ 8.0 HIT
1965 Up from the Beach Sgt. Edward Baxter ★ 8.0 HIT
1999 Family Tree Larry ★ 8.0 HIT
2004 Los Angeles Plays Itself President in Escape From L.A. (archive footage) ★ 7.6 HIT
1996 Joan Crawford: Always the Star Self ★ 7.5 HIT
1991 Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken Dr. W.F. Carver ★ 7.4 HIT
2004 Spider-Man 2 Ben Parker ★ 7.3 HIT
2002 Spider-Man Ben Parker ★ 7.3 HIT
1975 Three Days of the Condor J. Higgins ★ 7.3 HIT
1964 The Best Man Joe Cantwell ★ 7.2 HIT
1956 Autumn Leaves Burt Hanson ★ 7.0 HIT
1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh Narrator ★ 7.0 HIT
1958 Days of Wine and Roses Joe Clay ★ 7.0 HIT
1961 Underworld U.S.A. Tolly Devlin ★ 6.9 HIT
1992 Lincoln Noah Brooks (voice) ★ 6.8 HIT
1963 Sunday in New York Adam Tyler ★ 6.7 HIT
1980 The Pilot Mike Hagan ★ 6.7 HIT
2002 Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star Self - Actor ★ 6.7 HIT
1986 Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story Mel Fisher ★ 6.7 HIT
1982 Night of 100 Stars Self ★ 6.7 HIT