
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.

Spider-Man
2002 · as Ben Parker

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023 · as Uncle Ben (archive footage) (uncredited)

Spider-Man 3
2007 · as Ben Parker

Spider-Man 2
2004 · as Ben Parker

Midway
1976 · as Cmdr. Jessop

Obsession
1976 · as Michael Courtland

Escape from L.A.
1996 · as President

Three Days of the Condor
1975 · as J. Higgins

Gidget
1959 · as The Big Kahuna

Renaissance Man
1994 · as Colonel James

Brainstorm
1983 · as Alex Terson

Class
1983 · as Mr. Burroughs

The Devil's Brigade
1968 · as Major Alan Crown

Picnic
1955 · as Alan Benson

Too Late the Hero
1970 · as Lt. Sam Lawson

Star 80
1983 · as Hugh Hefner

The Honey Pot
1967 · as William McFly

Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
1991 · as Dr. W.F. Carver