Cliff Robertson
As a child growing up in an idyllic California coastal town in the years before the Great Depression, Cliff Robertson was raised to value hard work and perseverance. He saw action in the South Pacific during World War II and worked as a newspaperman before heading to New York City to make a name for himself as an actor. Classes with the Actor's Studio led to his Broadway debut and a busy schedule of work on stage, on television and in such feature films as "PT 109" (1962) and "The Best Man" (1963). An Academy Award winner for playing the title role in "Charly" (1969), Robertson segued smoothly from star roles to character parts in the mid-Seventies but his career was derailed by the 1977 "Hollywoodgate" scandal. After exposing the embezzlement of more than half a million dollars by the head of Columbia Pictures, the actor found himself blacklisted in the industry. Robertson reemerged in a run of high profile films in the early Eighties, reestablishing himself as a venerable American actor, among the last of a dying breed, and a true survivor.
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Cliff Robertson
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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63% |
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Spider-Man 3 | Ben Parker (Character) | $336.5M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | From Two Men and a War | Ernie Pyle (Voice) | - | 2005 |
23% |
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Riding the Bullet | Farmer (Character) | $101.1K | 2004 |
93% |
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Spider-Man 2 | Ben Parker (Character) | $373.4M | 2004 |
40% |
|
The 13th Child, Legend of the Jersey Devil |
Mr. Shroud (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 2002 |
90% |
|
Spider-Man | Ben Parker (Character) | $403.7M | 2002 |
No Score Yet |
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Falcon Down | Buzz Thomas (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Mach 2 | Vice President Pike (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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Family Tree | Larry (Character) | $12.5K | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Assignment Berlin | Cliff Garret (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Melting Pot | Jack Durmann (Character) | - | 1998 |
54% |
|
John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. | President (Character) | $25.5M | 1996 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Waiting for Sunset | Ted Roth (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet |
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Dazzle | Mike Kilkullen (Character) | - | 1995 |
12% |
|
Renaissance Man | Colonel James (Character) | $24.2M | 1994 |
46% |
|
Wind | Morgan Weld (Character) | $4.9M | 1992 |
73% |
|
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | Doctor W.F. Carver (Character) | $7.3M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dead Reckoning | Daniel Barnard (Character) | - | 1990 |
29% |
|
Malone | Charles Delaney (Character) | $2.5M | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story | Mel Fisher (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Shaker Run | Judd Pierson (Character) | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Key to Rebecca | Maj. William Vandam (Character) | - | 1985 |
57% |
|
Brainstorm | Alex Terson (Character) | - | 1983 |
81% |
|
Star 80 | Hugh Hefner (Character) | - | 1983 |
29% |
|
Class | Mr. Burroughs (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kennedys Don't Cry | Narrator | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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Two of a Kind | Frank Minor (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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The Pilot |
Mike Hagan (Character), Director |
- | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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Dominique | David Ballard (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Overboard | Mitch Garrison (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet |
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Avenging Spirit | David Ballard (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fraternity Row | The Narrator (Character) | - | 1977 |
41% |
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Midway | Commander Carl Jessop (Character) | - | 1976 |
75% |
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Obsession | Michael Courtland (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Return to Earth | Col. Edwin A. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Shoot | Rex (Character) | - | 1976 |
87% |
|
Three Days of the Condor | J. Higgins (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Out of Season | Joe Tanner (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Father's House | Tom Lindholm Jr. (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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Man on a Swing | Lee Tucker (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Johnny Nolan (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man Without a Country | Philip Nolan (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies | Ace Eli Walford (Character) | - | 1973 |
73% |
|
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid | Cole Younger (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet |
|
J.W. Coop |
J.W. Coop (Character), Director, Producer |
- | 1971 |
57% |
|
Too Late the Hero | Lt. Sam Lawson (Character) | - | 1970 |
57% |
|
The Devil's Brigade | Maj. Alan Crown (Character) | - | 1968 |
55% |
|
Charly | Charly Gordon (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sunshine Patriot |
Christopher Ross/ |
- | 1968 |
57% |
|
The Honey Pot | William McFly (Character) | - | 1967 |
40% |
|
Masquerade | David Frazer (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet |
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Love Has Many Faces | Pete Jordon (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Up From the Beach | Sgt. Edward Baxter (Character) | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | And Baby Makes Five | Will Nye (Character) | - | 1965 |
100% |
|
The Best Man | Joe Cantwell (Character) | - | 1964 |
29% |
|
633 Squadron | Wing Cmdr. Roy Grant (Character) | - | 1964 |
64% |
|
PT 109 | Lt. John F. Kennedy (Character) | - | 1963 |
100% |
|
Sunday in New York | Adam Tyler (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet |
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My Six Loves | Reverend Jim Larkin (Character) | - | 1963 |
40% |
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The Interns | Dr. John Paul Otis (Character) | - | 1962 |
100% |
|
Underworld U.S.A. | Tolly Devlin (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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All in a Night's Work | Warren Kingsley, Jr. (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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The Big Show | Josef Everard (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Revolt of the Tartars | Higgins (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | As the Sea Rages | Clements (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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Battle of the Coral Sea | Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Conway (Character) | - | 1959 |
55% |
|
Gidget | Burt Vail (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Days of Wine and Roses | Joe Clay (Character) | - | 1958 |
83% |
|
The Naked and the Dead | Lt. Robert Hearn (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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The Girl Most Likely | Pete (Character) | - | 1957 |
91% |
|
Autumn Leaves | Burt Hanson (Character) | - | 1956 |
50% |
|
Picnic | Alan Benson (Character) | $24.0K | 1955 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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64% | No Score Yet | The Lyon's Den | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Theodore Harris (Character) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Falcon Crest | Dr. Michael Ranson (Character) | 1981-1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Washington: Behind Closed Doors | Unknown (Character) | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1968 |
72% | 79% | Batman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Red Skelton Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1963 1967 |
92% | 92% | The Outer Limits | Alan Maxwell (Character) | 1963 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Jerry Etherson (Character) | 1961-1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey |
Lt. Col. Stanley Wensby/ |
1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bus Stop | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Charlie Gordon (Character) | 1956 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Liam Fitzmorgan (Guest Star) | 1958 |