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Cliff Robertson
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Clifford Parker Robertson III, commonly known as Cliff Robertson (born September 9, 1925), is an American Academy Award-winning actor with a film and television career that spans half of a century. In addition to his Oscar and Emmy and several lifetime achievement awards from various film festivals, Robertson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. He was once married to actress Dina Merrill.
Contents
- 1 Film
- 2 Television
- 3 Hollywood check forgery scandal
- 4 References
- 5 External links
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Film
He is notable for his performances in PT 109 (chosen personally by John F. Kennedy to portray the then-Lt. Kennedy), The Best Man, Charly (an adaptation of Flowers for Algernon for which he won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor), Picnic, Autumn Leaves, Too Late the Hero, Three Days of the Condor, Obsession, J. W. Coop, Star 80 and Malone.
More recently, Robertson appeared as
Uncle Ben Parker in the
first movie adaptation of Spider-Man, as well as in the sequels
Spider-Man 2 and
Spider-Man 3. He was also in the
2004 horror film Riding the Bullet.
Television
Robertson's television appearances include recurring roles on
Hallmark Hall of Fame,
Alcoa theatre, and
Playhouse 90 (in the
1950s),
Outlaws,
The Twilight Zone, and
Batman as the villainous gunfighter Shame (in the
1960s),
Falcon Crest (in the
1980s), and most recently,
The Lyon's Den. He had starring roles in both the 1960s and
1990s versions of
The Outer Limits.
He was awarded an Emmy for his leading role in an 1965 episode from Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre entitled "The Game."
Hollywood check forgery scandal
In 1977, Robertson learned that his name had been forged on a $10,000 check that had been due to him. He discovered that the forgery had been carried out by
Columbia studio head
David Begelman, and on reporting it, the result was one of the biggest Hollywood scandals of the 1970s. Robertson was subsequently
blacklisted for several years before finally getting back into film in
Brainstorm (1983).
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References
- ^ David McClintick, Indecent Exposure: A True story of Hollywood and Wall Street, William Morrow and Company, 1982.
