Legendary actor Robert Redford is no more
Oscar-winning Hollywood actor and director Robert Redford has died. The legend, who has left a unique talent in acting and directing for six decades in the film industry, died early Tuesday at his home in Utah. He was 89 years old.
AFP news agency reported this from Los Angeles.
Cindy Berger, CEO of publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK, said in a statement that Redford died in his sleep and no specific cause of death was known.
Oscar-winning actor and director Robert Redford has died
Berger said that Robert Redford died today, September 16, at his beloved home in Sundance, located in the mountains of Utah. The place he loved very much. His loved ones were present there.
Robert Redford rose to fame in 1969, starring opposite Paul Newman in the hippie western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
After 20 years of acting, he moved behind the camera and became an Oscar-winning director. He is also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the United States.
Robert Redford, Hollywood’s ‘Sundance Kid’, rides into the sunset at 89
A nature lover and environmentalist, Redford has also fought to preserve Utah’s natural environment and resources.
Robert Charles Redford Jr. was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California. He was the son of an accountant. He had four children with his first wife, Lola Van Wagenen. One of them died in infancy. In 2009, he married German artist and longtime girlfriend Sibley Jaggers.
Redford, a household name in English-language film worldwide, won the Academy Award for Best Director for Ordinary People (1980) and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 2002.
In 2002, American actress Barbra Streisand said, “Robert Redford’s work as an actor, director and producer has always been a reflection of himself; he is the intellectual, the artist, the cowboy.”
One of Redford’s most beloved roles was in the 1976 classic American political thriller All the President’s Men, which followed two journalists as they uncovered the Watergate scandal.
He received his only Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of a 1930s conman in The Sting (1973).
One of Redford’s most notable achievements was the founding of the independent film festival, the Sundance Film Festival, in 1985.
It was started for filmmakers frustrated by the commercialism and lack of diversity in Hollywood, and it developed major independent directors such as Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, and Steven Soderbergh.
This is the filmography of the late American actor, director, producer and activist Robert Redford.
Redford gained prominence for his leading roles in the romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park (1967) opposite Jane Fonda and the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) alongside Paul Newman. He reunited with Newman in the 1973 caper film The Sting receiving his only nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
He continued his leading man status starring in the western film Jeremiah Johnson, the political drama The Candidate (both 1972), the romantic dramas The Way We Were (1973), and The Great Gatsby (1974), and the dramas Three Days of the Condor, and The Great Waldo Pepper (both 1975).
The following year he starred as Bob Woodward in the Alan J. Pakula political drama All the President’s Men (1976). He later appeared in the Richard Attenborough war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Sydney Pollack western comedy The Electric Horseman (1979).
He further established himself as a star in the Barry Levinson sports drama The Natural (1984) and the Sydney Pollack epic romance Out of Africa (1985). He continued appearing in films such as Sneakers (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Horse Whisperer (1998), An Unfinished Life (2005), All Is Lost (2013),
A Walk in the Woods (2015), Pete’s Dragon (2016), and The Discovery (2017). In 2014, he entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe appearing as Alexander Pierce in Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), a role he would reprise in Avengers: Endgame (2019). In 2015, portrayed Dan Rather in the drama Truth (2015). He reunited with Jane Fonda in the Netflix romance Our Souls at Night (2017), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018).
In 1980 he made his directorial film debut with Ordinary People, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Redford receiving the Academy Award for Best Director. He continued directing films such as A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Legend of Bagger Vance (1998), Lions for Lambs (2007), The Conspirator (2010), and The Company You Keep (2012). In 2002 he received the Academy Honorary Award as an “Actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere.”
