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RIP Cliff Robertson

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UPDATED: The "Charly" and "Spider-Man" actor died Saturday, one day after his birthday.

Cliff Robertson, who won a Best Actor Oscar for Charly (1968), and who blew the lid off a check-forging scandal at Columbia Pictures in 1977, has died.

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He died of natural causes Saturday, one day after his 88th birthday, at Stony Brook University Medical Center on Long Island, says Evelyn Christel, his personal secretary of 53 years, according to the Associated Press.

Although he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as the mentally-impaired Charly, Robertson’s best-know role was, perhaps, in real-life. He was touted as a “profile in courage” for reporting that Columbia studio head David Begelman had forged his name on a $10,000 check in the late ‘70s. Begelman, who misappropriated more than $60,000 in studio funds, was later convicted in what the press deemed “Hollywoodgate.” Robertson was considered a hero by many for, essentially, putting his career on the line by taking on a powerful studio head.

He was also Uncle Ben in the Spider-Man movie, but I first encountered him onscreen in Batman

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I love in this video how he gives the patented sneaky look that you must do before being extra weaselly and launching his sneak attack.

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