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image:Cliff Robertson at the premiere of Spider-Man 2.jpg Clifford Parker Robertson III (born September 9, 1925) is an United States Academy Award-winning actor with a career in films and television that spans over half 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.
Film



He is notable for fine performances in
PT 109 (film) (chosen by John F. Kennedy to portray the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109), The Best Man , Charly (an adaptation of Flowers for Algernon for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor#1960s), Picnic (film) , Autumn Leaves (film) , Too Late the Hero , Three Days of the Condor , Obsession (film) , J. W. Coop and Star 80 . More recently, Robertson appeared as Uncle Ben in the Spider-Man (film), as well as in the sequels Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. He was also in the 2004 in film Riding the Bullet (film) .
Television

. He was awarded an Emmy Award for his leading role in an 1965 in television from Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre entitled "The Game."
Innocent player in a Hollywood 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 Pictures studio head David Begelman, and on reporting it, the result was one of the biggest Hollywood scandals of the 1970's. Robertson was subsequently blacklisted for several years before finally getting back into film in Brainstorm (1983 film) (1983). David McClintick, Indecent Exposure: A True story of Hollywood and Wall Street, William Morrow and Company, 1982.

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