Cliff Robertson Gone

September 10, 2011 10:30 PM

Good bye Cliff :-(
posted by nj_subgenius (17 comments total)

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posted by furiousxgeorge at 10:31 PM on September 10, 2011

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posted by furiousxgeorge at 10:32 PM on September 10, 2011

Well, this is sad.

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And thanks!
posted by Ron Thanagar at 10:47 PM on September 10, 2011

No, no... I just saw him a few minutes ago. He was taking some of our medicine just over the rim here, and... huh. That's odd.

Hey, where'd this old rifle come from?
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 10:51 PM on September 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

I had no idea about the embezzlement / blackball scandal (which the obituary seemed oddly focused on) but I definitely have fond memories of Cliff performing on The Twilight Zone and in the film "Charly."

What is is what is not is not is that it it is
posted by ShutterBun at 10:52 PM on September 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

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posted by paulsc at 10:53 PM on September 10, 2011

For a moment I thought John Ratzenberger had passed.
posted by The Hamms Bear at 10:59 PM on September 10, 2011 [4 favorites]

Hey, where'd this old rifle come from?

You are too cool for school for knowing and referencing that.
posted by timsteil at 11:13 PM on September 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

Netflix has a bunch of his stuff on instant watch. Not Charly, but others worth seeing. (At least I liked 'em.)

He was also the Voice of AT&T for a while.
posted by merelyglib at 11:18 PM on September 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

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Cliff Robertson - Archive Interview Part 1 of 5

Cliff Robertson - Archive Interview Part 2 of 5

Cliff Robertson - Archive Interview Part 3 of 5

Cliff Robertson - Archive Interview Part 4 of 5

Cliff Robertson - Archive Interview Part 5 of 5
posted by Vibrissae at 11:21 PM on September 10, 2011

Thought this was gonna be a Metallica post.
posted by afx114 at 11:23 PM on September 10, 2011

There were many great film roles (he's a perennial TCM favorite), especially his part in "The Best Man," but he got his big break in TV, and his two performances in "The Twilight Zone" are indelibly stamped in my memory -- his role as the ventriloquist with the sinister murderous dummy, and his role as the 19th-century pioneer who gets stuck in a time warp and ends up in some 1961 desert truck stop. Terrific stuff.
posted by blucevalo at 12:08 AM on September 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

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posted by HermanoBluth at 12:18 AM on September 11, 2011

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posted by brundlefly at 12:58 AM on September 11, 2011

The New York Times obituary
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posted by gudrun at 1:10 AM on September 11, 2011

Thought this was going to be a Dorset post.
posted by chronkite at 1:48 AM on September 11, 2011

Never go full retard.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 2:52 AM on September 11, 2011