Cliff Robertson Biography
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.
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Choices and Consequences in a Dystopian World
President:
What's it to be, Plissken? Us or them?
Snake:
Shut down the Third World; they lose, you win. Shut down America; you lose, they win. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
President:
So what are you going to do?
Snake: [Types "666" on the remote]
Disappear.
Brazen: [looks at Sword of Damocles system display; to the President]
He's entered the world code...no target code. Sir, that'll shut down the entire planet.
Snake:
I told you, you'd better hope I didn't make it back.
Malloy: [takes one step closer and pleads]
You push that button, everything we've accomplished for the past 500 years will be finished. Our technology, our way of life, our entire history. We'll have to start all over again. For God's sakes, don't do it, Snake!
Snake: [pushes the button; the Sword of Damocles EMP satellites fire off, disabling all electrical systems - including Utopia's electric chair just before she is to be executed]
The name's Plissken.
Utopia: [as the light fades out]
He did it! He shut down the Earth!
Snake:
Welcome to the human race.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
