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Cliff Robertson: Academy Award
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Cliff Robertson’s investment in Charly paid off, and won him the Academy Award as Best Actor for his performance. The movie’s success ... helped book sales for Flowers for Algernon, which had been expanded into a novel and was used as an educational tool in schools across America. Bantam Books, the publisher, launched a joint project with the film where it sponsored a series of screenings for educators in major cities at which Cliff Robertson would often make personal appearances.
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Cliff Robertson netted an Academy Award for his role as a retarded bakery worker who is transformed into a genius by experimental brain surgery. Scripted by Sterling Silliphant from the book "Flowers for Algernon"; with Claire Bloom, Leon Janney and Dick Van Patten. 104 min. Standard and Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.
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Clifford Parker Robertson III (born September 9, 1925) is an American actor with a film and television career that spans half of 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. In 1968, he won an Academy Award for his role in Charly.
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Robertson is notable for his performances in PT 109 (chosen personally by John F. Kennedy to portray the then-Lt. Kennedy), The Best Man, Charly (an adaptation of Flowers for Algernon for which he won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor), Picnic, Autumn Leaves, Too Late the Hero, Three Days of the Condor, Obsession, J. W. Coop, Star 80 and Malone. More recently, Robertson appeared as Uncle Ben Parker in the first movie adaptation of Spider-Man, as well as in the sequels Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. He was ... in the 2004 horror film Riding the Bullet.
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[I]n 1978, when a famine hit Ethiopia, Robertson organized flights of supplies to this ravaged country. Four years later, he received the L.P. Sharples Award from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association for his many contributions to aviation. He's been honored by the U.S. Air Force, the National Soaring Museum and the National Aviation Club. He often speaks at aviation programs.
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The Antioch Alumni Association Board is honoring Cliff Robertson with the Rebecca Rice Award. Cliff Robertson—one of America’s foremost dramatic actors—is the only actor to have won the Academy Award (Oscar), the Emmy Award (Best Actor, T.V.), and the Theater World Award (Stage), as well as the Advertising Age Award (Best T.V. Commercial). A true renaissance man, Cliff’s acting, writing, and directing skills have been applauded on T.V., stage, and in over seventy motion pictures.
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