When was cliff robertson born

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Eddie Finneran. Ben Weldon. Edward Baxter. Roy Grant. Evan Ross. Willie Simple. Alan Maxwell. John F. Jeff Dillon. John Paul Otis. Jerry Etherson. Christian Horn. Hoby Dunlap. Eddie Smith. Rims O'Neil. But it was his role at the centre of a Hollywood scandal involving the misappropriation of funds by producer David Begelman at Columbia Studios that brought Robertson additional — and unwanted — celebrity, adversely affecting his subsequent career.

Knowing this to be untrue, Robertson took the matter further. His action led to an internal inquiry, followed by a police investigation and court proceedings that rocked not just the studio but Hollywood in general, as it uncovered wide-ranging corruption and lax accounting proceedings. Although Robertson's action was simply the springboard for the investigation, his refusal to back down earned him enemies among the Hollywood elite.

Born in La Jolla, California, Robertson came from a wealthy ranching family. His parents divorced when he was a child and he was adopted by his maternal grandmother, growing up within a strict Presbyterian environment that shaped his values. The inevitable round of jobs — including taxi-driving — followed, plus theatre work including Late Love , and television shows, notably a long period in a children's serial, Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers Logan, who had a keen eye for talent and handsome young men, made a sexy, though overblown, movie from William Inge's play.

Its popularity led to a Universal contract for Robertson and a good part as the young husband to a neurotic Joan Crawford in Autumn Leaves In the latter, a revenge movie, Robertson had one of his meatiest roles as Tolly Devlin, who hunts down his father's murderers. Even though PT was not a major hit, the endorsement from Kennedy to play him as a heroic navy lieutenant helped Robertson's career.

The best of the many roles that followed was as the overly ambitious rival to Henry Fonda in The Best Man , a political thriller written by Gore Vidal and tautly directed by Franklin Schaffner. Was a member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in He had a daughter, Stephanie Robertson , with his first wife, Cynthia Stone. He also had a daughter, Heather Robertson , with his second wife, Dina Merrill.

Was responsible for unraveling a major studio fraud in the s, which led to the downfall of powerful Columbia Pictures president David Begelman. The morality of Hollywood was such that it did more short-term harm to Robertson's career than to Begelman's, who soon after was hired to run MGM. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, year-old Cliff - then serving on a merchant ship in the Pacific Ocean - was reported dead to his family in California.

Tried to raise money to make a sequel to Charly and even shot a minute portion of it. Passed up the chance to play the lead role in Dirty Harry , which went to Clint Eastwood. His parents are Clifford Parker Robertson Jr. His father was described as "the idle heir to a tidy sum of ranching money". Robertson was raised by his maternal grandmother, Mary Eleanor "Eleanora" Willingham; an aunt and an uncle.

In , he said that "Nobody made more mediocre films than I did", including Too Late the Hero , which he described as "a bunch of junk". He left the college without getting his degree. He appeared in two different comic book company adaptations: Shame in Batman a DC comics adaption, and Uncle Ben in the Spider-man trilogy, a Marvel comics adaption. The reason that Cliff Robertson was not at the Oscars to receive his Best Actor award was because he was in the middle of filming the movie, Too Late the Hero in the Philippines.

The director Robert Aldridge would not allow him to leave owing to budget constraints. Ex-son-in-law of Marjorie Merriweather Post and E. Robertson was the director and an actor in the film "Morning, Winter and Night" which began filming in Massachusetts in but shut down after one week when the production ran out of money.

A featured actor was Brooke Shields. As long as I get phone calls from the Museum of Modern Art, that all the film buffs love it, that's a residual. It isn't a financial residual and it isn't an artistic residual, but it's an ego residual.

This isn't exactly a stable business.