Post by Arethusa on Sept 11, 2011 6:56:38 GMT -8
I have always admired Cliff Robertson as an actor and as a man.
Because a weak eye prevented his acceptance into the U.S. Armed Services in WW II, he served in the Merchant Marine instead.
He exposed the Begelman scandal in Hollywood and got no work there for four years for demonstrating his integrity.
Robertson also won an Oscar for his portrayal of a mentally challenged bakery worker who received surgery that elevated his mind to genius caliber but, when the results were found to be only temporary, tragically, regressed to his former state.
[Wasn't sure where to post this thread, Grizz, so if I'm wrong in making the choice to put it here, I hope you will move it to the appropriate forum. Thx, Muffin.]
Oscar winner Cliff Robertson dies in NY at 88
MSN Entertainment News
Sept. 10, 2011, 8:11 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in "PT-109," won an Oscar for "Charly" and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, died Saturday. He was 88.
His secretary of 53 years, Evelyn Christel, said he died in Stony Brook of natural causes a day after his 88th birthday.
Robertson never elevated into the top ranks of leading men, but he remained a popular actor from the mid-1950s into the following century. His later roles included kindly Uncle Ben in the "Spider-Man" movies.
He also gained attention for his second marriage to actress and heiress Dina Merrill, daughter of financier E.F. Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune and one of the world's richest women.
His triumph came in 1968 with his Academy Award performance in "Charly," as a mentally disabled man who undergoes medical treatment that makes him a genius — until a poignant regression to his former state. . .
Link for the rest: movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=668903>1=28102
RIP Cliff Robertson
Arethusa
Because a weak eye prevented his acceptance into the U.S. Armed Services in WW II, he served in the Merchant Marine instead.
He exposed the Begelman scandal in Hollywood and got no work there for four years for demonstrating his integrity.
Robertson also won an Oscar for his portrayal of a mentally challenged bakery worker who received surgery that elevated his mind to genius caliber but, when the results were found to be only temporary, tragically, regressed to his former state.
[Wasn't sure where to post this thread, Grizz, so if I'm wrong in making the choice to put it here, I hope you will move it to the appropriate forum. Thx, Muffin.]
Oscar winner Cliff Robertson dies in NY at 88
MSN Entertainment News
Sept. 10, 2011, 8:11 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in "PT-109," won an Oscar for "Charly" and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, died Saturday. He was 88.
His secretary of 53 years, Evelyn Christel, said he died in Stony Brook of natural causes a day after his 88th birthday.
Robertson never elevated into the top ranks of leading men, but he remained a popular actor from the mid-1950s into the following century. His later roles included kindly Uncle Ben in the "Spider-Man" movies.
He also gained attention for his second marriage to actress and heiress Dina Merrill, daughter of financier E.F. Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune and one of the world's richest women.
His triumph came in 1968 with his Academy Award performance in "Charly," as a mentally disabled man who undergoes medical treatment that makes him a genius — until a poignant regression to his former state. . .
Link for the rest: movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=668903>1=28102
RIP Cliff Robertson
Arethusa
