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