Cast & creator
Cliff Robertson
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, The Mike Douglas Show
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.
Also known as: Clifford Parker "Cliff" Robertson, III, Clifford Parker Robertson III, Clifford Robertson
97
film credits
27
television credits
119
1943–2023 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (124)
Showing 124 of 124 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961The Mike Douglas Show
Self - Co-Host
1961
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
1975
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Outer Limits
Theodore Harris
1995
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Presenter
1944
Falcon Crest
Michael Ranson
1981
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Batman
Shame
1966Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
District Attorney Benjamin Reynolds
1963
The Twilight Zone
Christian Horn
1959The Twilight Zone
Jerry Etherson
1959
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Uncle Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)
2023
Spider-Man
Ben Parker
2002Film '72
Self
1971
Spider-Man 3
Ben Parker
2007
The Outer Limits
Alan Maxwell
1963
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self (uncredited)
1968
The United States Steel Hour
1953
Playhouse 90
1956Playhouse 90
Danny Carson
1956Playhouse 90
Lieutenant
1956
Hollywood Squares
Self
1966
Spider-Man 2
Ben Parker
2004
Escape from L.A.
President
1996
Midway
Cmdr. Jessop
1976
Three Days of the Condor
J. Higgins
1975
Renaissance Man
Colonel James
1994
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
William Martin
1977
Underworld U.S.A.
Tolly Devlin
1961
American Cinema
Self
1994
The American Revolution
George Washington
1994
Brainstorm
Alex Terson
1983
Dazzle
Mike Kilkullen
1995
Riding the Bullet
Farmer
2004
The Devil's Brigade
Major Alan Crown
1968
Class
Mr. Burroughs
1983
The Men Who Made the Movies
Self - Narrator (voice)
1973
Obsession
Michael Courtland
1976
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies
Ace Eli Walford
1973
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
Dr. W.F. Carver
1991
All in a Night's Work
Warren Kingsley Jr.
1961
Too Late the Hero
Lt. Sam Lawson
1970
Sunday in New York
Adam Tyler
1963
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
The Naked and the Dead
Robert Hearn
1958
The Best Man
Joe Cantwell
1964
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Cole Younger
1972
Star 80
Hugh Hefner
1983
13th Child
Mr. Shroud
200213th Child
Writer
2002
Picnic
Alan Benson
1955
Gidget
The Big Kahuna
1959
Love Has Many Faces
Pete Jordon
1965
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Narrator (voice)
1973
633 Squadron
Wing Commander Roy Grant
1964
Wind
Morgan Weld
1992
Two of a Kind
Frank Minor
1982
Man on a Swing
Lee Tucker
1974
The Honey Pot
William McFly
1967
My Father's House
Tom Lindholm Jr.
1975
Ford: The Man and the Machine
Henry Ford
1987
Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story
Mel Fisher
1986
Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
Self - Actor
2002
Malone
Charles Delaney
1987
Up from the Beach
Sgt. Edward Baxter
1965
Corvette K-225
Lookout
1943
With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America
Self - Narrator (voice)
1996
Autumn Leaves
Burt Hanson
1956
The Girl Most Likely
Pete
1958
Days of Wine and Roses
Joe Clay
1958
PT 109
Lt. John F, Kennedy
1963
Return to Earth
Col. Edwin A. 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr.
1976
The Sunset Boys
Ted Roth
1995
Battle of the Coral Sea
Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Conway
1959Kennedys Don't Cry
Self - Narrator
1975
Charly
Charlie Gordon
1968
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Johnny Nolan
1974
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
Self
2002
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
Narrator(voice)
1974
Dazzle
Mike Kilkullen
1995
William Holden: The Golden Boy
Self
1989
My Six Loves
Jim Larkin
1963
The Key to Rebecca
Maj. William Vandam
1985
Mach 2
Vice President Pike
2001
Race
Jack Durmann
1998
Masquerade
David Frazer
1965
We've Never Been Licked
Adams (uncredited)
1943
The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh
Narrator
1973
Falcon Down
Buzz Thomas
2001
Shoot
Rex
1976
The Man Without a Country
Philip Nolan
1973
Dominique
David Ballard
1980
The Men Who Made the Movies: Alfred Hitchcock
Narrator
1973
The Big Show
Josef Everard
1961
Lusitania
Narrator
1998
The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
Charlie Gordon
1961
The Sunshine Patriot
Christopher Ross / Arthur Selby
1968
The Interns
Dr. John Paul Otis
1962
J.W. Coop
J.W. Coop
1972J.W. Coop
Director
1972J.W. Coop
Producer
1972J.W. Coop
Writer
1972Lincoln
Noah Brooks (voice)
1992
As the Sea Rages
Clements
1959
Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Self
1996
Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story
2010
The Pilot
Mike Hagan
1980The Pilot
Director
1980
Family Tree
Larry
1999
Out of Season
Joe Tanner
1975
Shaker Run
Judd Pierson
1985
'Obsession' Revisited
Self
2001
Assignment Berlin
Colonel Cliff Garret
1998Sonja Henie: Queen of the Ice
Narrator
1995
Dead Reckoning
Daniel Barnard
1990Galapagos: My Fragile World
Narrator
1986
Natchez
Danny Carson
1958
Overboard
Mitch Garrison
1978
Fraternity Row
Narrator (voice)
1977
The Little Prince
Narrator / Pilot
1979
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Narrator
1983
The American Indian's Sacred Ground
Self - Host
1977