Dec 30, 2022
9 min read
Here’s To You, Cliff Robertson
Cliff Robertson won the 1968 Best Actor Oscar for his role as a mentally disabled man in the film Charly. His triumph led to offers to star in films like Straw Dogs and Dirty Harry. He turned these down and instead wrote, directed and starred in an awful film called J.W. Coop (1972). Reflecting on this decision years later, Robertson said, “Nobody made more mediocre movies than I did. Nobody ever did such a wide variety of mediocrity.”
