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Oscar winning actor Cliff Robertson passes away

Oscar winning actor Cliff Robertson passes away

THE film actor Cliff Robertson has passed away. He was 88.

Mr. Robertson had enjoyed a career lasting 50 years with success not only in movies but also on TV and the stage. However, he was blacklisted in Hollywood for several years after blowing the whistle on a financial scandal in 1977.

He was heir to a ranching fortune but it was acting that he wanted to pursue and got his first big break in films in 1955 when he appeared in Picnic with William Holden. 

Ruggedly handsome, Mr. Robertson played the young John F. Kennedy in P.T. 109 (1963), which dramatised the President’s wartime experiences.

Mr. Robertson won an Oscar in 1968 for the film Charly in which he played a man who was mentally disabled.

Among his TV credits was 1977 mini series Washington: Behind Closed Doors, in which he co-starred with Jason Robards and Stephanie Powers. 

Among his final work in films was as the kindly uncle Ben in the Spider-Man series of the early 2000s.

Mr. Robertson was married three times. First to the actress Cynthia Stone, then to Dina Merrill and finally to Marjorie Merriweather Post.  All three marriages ended in divorce.

To view an interview with Cliff Robertson click here.

 

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