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