FrameThrower · Actors · Cliff Robertson
Cliff Robertson
3 films · 187 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1975–2002
Born 9 September 1923 · Los Angeles, California, USA · died 10 September 2011
Clifford Parker Robertson III 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.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 187 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1975–2002
- Academy Award for Best Actor1969
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1966
- National Aviation Hall of Fame2006
- Theatre World Award1957
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 187 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cliff takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 59% of their frames are night, 52% low key — the look of the work Cliff takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 187 frames from Cliff Robertson's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.