Cliff Robertson Net Worth

Cliff Robertson's Quotes

• 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. It's like trying to stand up in a canoe with your pants down.
• The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, "Who won the Oscar last year?".
• [on director Frank Perry] I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing. That's why I respect and admire Frank Perry so much. He's a rare man and I've worked with enough stiffs to know the difference, pal, but he knows the problems of actors and I know the problems of a director. Frank is as far away from Otto Preminger as you can get.
• Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door.

Interesting Facts about Cliff Robertson

1. Was a well-known sailplane pilot, and was also the voice in the "Running On Empty" documentary video about the Barron Hilton Cup, a prestigious soaring competition.
2. Personally chosen by John F. Kennedy to portray a World War II US Navy Lieutenant Kennedy in Pt 109 op nachtpatrouille 14 (1963).
3. Alfred Hitchcock considered him for the role of Sam Loomis in Psycho (1960), but the role went to John Gavin. Robert Wise considered him for the lead role in The Sand Pebbles (1966), but that role went to Steve McQueen.
4. He owned a number of vintage aircraft, including an original German Messerschmitt ME-108, which was on display at the Parker-O'Malley Air Museum (closed in 2009) in Ghent, New York.
5. Special guest at Roger Ebert's 4th annual Overlooked Film Festival in Champaign, Illinois. [March 2002]
6. Was a member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1989.
7. 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.
8. Was responsible for unraveling a major studio fraud in the 1970s, 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. The full story is told in David McClintick's 1982 bestseller, "Indecent Exposure".
9. He personally campaigned for Congressman Mo Udall in the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential primary in 1976.
10. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 18-year-old Cliff - then serving on a merchant ship in the Pacific Ocean - was reported dead to his family in California.
11. Along with Leonard Nimoy, David McCallum, Barbara Rush and Peter Breck, he is one of only five actors to appear in both The Outer Limits (1963) and The Outer Limits (1995). He played Alan Maxwell in The Outer Limits: The Galaxy Being (1963) and Theodore Harris in The Outer Limits: Joyride (1999).
12. Inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2006 in the Advocate category.
13. He has two roles in common with Martin Sheen: (1) Robertson played John F. Kennedy in Pt 109 op nachtpatrouille 14 (1963) while Sheen played him in Kennedy (1983) and (2) Robertson played Ben Parker in Spider-Man (2002), Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007) while Sheen played him in The Amazing Spider-Man 3D (2012) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).
14. Tried to raise money to make a sequel to Charly (1968) and even shot a 15-minute portion of it.
15. Passed up the chance to play the lead role in Dirty Harry (1971), which went to Clint Eastwood.
16. His parents are Clifford Parker Robertson Jr. and the former Audrey Olga Willingham. His father was described as "the idle heir to a tidy sum of ranching money". They have divorced when he was a year old, and his mother died of peritonitis a year later in El Paso, Texas. Robertson was raised by his maternal grandmother, Mary Eleanor "Eleanora" Willingham; an aunt and an uncle.
17. In 1972, he said that "Nobody made more mediocre films than I did", including In de greep van de angst (1970), which he described as "a bunch of junk".
18. After serving as a merchant marine, he studied at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He left the college without getting his degree. He moved to New York City where he studied at the Actors Studio.
19. He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on December 17, 1986.
20. Both he and his then wife Dina Merrill played "Special Guest Villains" in Batman (1966).