Cliff Robertson
Birthday: 1923-09-09
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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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Spider-Man 3
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains—including the shape-...
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Spider-Man 2
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides ...
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Spider-Man
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school studen...
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Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph is a 1983 American short documentary film narrated by Cliff...
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Escape from L.A.
Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined la...
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Masquerade
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince....
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Obsession
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife....
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Love Has Many Faces
A woman lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband who married her for her money....
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Class
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the sma...
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Star 80
Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes...
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Midway
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a tu...
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Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling ...
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Renaissance Man
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up...
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Three Days of the Condor
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he h...
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Too Late the Hero
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island...
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The Devil's Brigade
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called ...
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Riding the Bullet
In 1969, while studying at the University of Maine, artist Alan Parker becomes obsessed with death. ...
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Malone
Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific North...
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, ...
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PT 109
Dramatization of President John F. Kennedy's war time experiences during which he captained a PT boa...
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Underworld U.S.A.
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father....
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Charly
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he...
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Falcon Down
U.S. Air force officer Hank Thomas attempts to expose a military cover-up after a civiian airliner c...
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13th Child
People are being killed by someone or something using superhuman strength. A clever DA Assistant is ...
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The Best Man
The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a ma...
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Gidget
Due to an accident while swimming in the sea, Francis meets the surfer Moondoggie. She's fascinated ...
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The Naked and the Dead
Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their li...
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Brainstorm
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back senso...
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The Honey Pot
In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying...
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The Sunshine Patriot
An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfil...
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633 Squadron
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket...
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Sunday in New York
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce....
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Picnic
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight ...
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Battle of the Coral Sea
A US submarine and its crew are captured by the Japanese on the eve of a major WWII battle....
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Race
An East L.A working stiff is bullied by his wife to run for a City Council position against a well-o...
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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Shaker Run
With the accidental discovery of a lethal bio-agent at her research facility, Dr. Christine Ruben de...
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Shoot
When boredom, pride and a mad second of misjudgement leaves a hunter shot dead by one of five combat...
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The Pilot
Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nob...
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh
In 1972 and '73, film critic Richard Schickel made an 8-part series for American public television: ...
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Ford: The Man and the Machine
Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public l...
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All in a Night's Work
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine a...
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J.W. Coop
After losing eight years to prison, cowboy J. W. Coop is released to return to life as a professiona...
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Natchez
A Civil War veteran returns home to find his father has become a social pariah....
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Man on a Swing
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief...
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The Girl Most Likely
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however...
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
A look at Alfred Hitchcock's films. The Master of Suspense himself, who is interviewed extensively h...
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The Key to Rebecca
From master storyteller and best-selling author, Ken Follett, comes the exotic spy-thriller based on...
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Out of Season
Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British ...
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Dominique
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death....
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Fraternity Row
Zac is an idealistic student who, after arriving at college, decides to pledge the Gamma Nu Pi frate...
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My Six Loves
A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property....
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The Interns
During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo bot...
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Dead Reckoning
A doctor, his wife and her lover make a voyage on the yacht of the doctor. But when the weather turn...
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The Man Without a Country
At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is order...
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Two of a Kind
Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to...
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Assignment Berlin
Tracy Garret's a cop and after an incident that left one person dead, she's invited by her father to...
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Wind
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defe...
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The Little Prince
The Little Prince questions the universe in this story of innocence and wonder....
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Dazzle
Beautiful successful photographer battles evil half-sisters and evil land developers to keep the fam...
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The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
Teleplay adaptation of Daniel Keyes' noted short story “Flowers for Algernon,” about a gentle, disab...
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Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his elev...
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The Sunset Boys
Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they...
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Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great...
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winni...
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William Holden: The Golden Boy
It was said of him that in more than 70 films, he never once gave a bad performance....
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Mach 2
A Presidential candidate running against the Vice-President plans a trip to the Balkans to negotiate...
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As the Sea Rages
After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in pea...
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Up from the Beach
After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from Germ...
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The American Indian's Sacred Ground
For generations the American Indians have drawn their legendary strength from their sacred ancestral...
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'Obsession' Revisited
A documentary about the making of 1976's "Obsession" featuring interviews with director Brian De Pal...
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Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
The true story of treasure hunter Mel Fisher, who spent much of his life--and his fortune--hunting f...
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Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
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Family Tree
A lonely young boy, overshadowed by his older brother, picked on by other boys at school and ignored...
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My Father's House
Recovering from a heart attack, a workaholic editor recalls the simple days of his youth. Robertson ...
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We've Never Been Licked
Young Brad Craig enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which upperclassmen quickly ...
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Days of Wine and Roses
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman whom he systematically addicts to ...
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Return to Earth
The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after hi...
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Overboard
Attractive, affluent married couple Mitch and Lindy Garrison sail their yacht to Tahiti to recharge ...
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic fathe...
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Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
Documentary on the making of 'Spider-Man.'...
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Lincoln
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civ...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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Lusitania
A documentary on the tragedy of the sinking of the Lusitania, and how it led indirectly to the Unite...
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Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice
Narrated by Cliff Robertson The daughter of a fur wholesaler, Sonja Henie received her first pair of...
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Lincoln: Trial by Fire
Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of p...
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Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
The life of Kathy Kohner Zuckerman, the real 'Gidget,' and her account of surfing Malibu in the mid-...
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