RIP: Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, producer and director. He received numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019. He was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014.
Redford started his career in television acting in Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone before making his Broadway debut playing a newlywed husband in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962) before reaching finding leading man stardom acting in films such as Barefoot in the Park (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Candidate (1972), and The Sting (1973), the later of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Redford's stardom continued with roles in films such as The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), All the President's Men (1976), The Electric Horseman (1979), Brubaker (1980), The Natural (1984), and Out of Africa (1985). He later acted in Sneakers (1992), All Is Lost (2013), Truth (2015), Our Souls at Night (2017), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). Redford portrayed Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Endgame (2019), the later of which served as Redford's final on-screen appearance.
Redford made his directorial film debut with the family drama Ordinary People (1980), which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. He went on to direct 8 feature films including the drama The Milagro Beanfield War (1984), the period drama A River Runs Through It (1992), the historical drama Quiz Show (1994), the neo-western The Horse Whisperer (1998), and the sports fantasy The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). Redford co-founded the Sundance Resort and Film Institute in 1981. He was also known for his extensive work as a political activist where he was a champion of environmentalism, Native American and indigenous people's rights, and LGBT rights.
[One of my ALL TIME favourite actors who starred in some of my ALL TIME favourite movies.]
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Surprisingly I don't think I've seen much with him. The only movie that comes to mind is The Great Gatsby, which was pretty good.
I can definitely recommend 'The Natural', 'Brubaker' and 'Sneakers'. To say nothing of 'Butch Cassidy'...! He was a very versatile all-round actor.
I've only seen him in The Natural, myself. Bit of trivia: in the Left Behind novels, the Antichrist is described as looking like a young Robert Redford.
I *really* liked 'The Natural'. The book is VERY good too. I might re-read it at some point & check out the authors other novels.
I have a book coming up (probably next year at this point) on the American obsession with the End of the World. That does seem to be at least one unique thing about your culture/country...
Hmmm, you liked The Natural? I remember being bored and falling asleep, maybe I should give it another go. I'm fond of Three Days of The Condor and my all time favorite? Barefoot in the Park.
'Three Days..' was very good. The book's not bad either. Not 100% sure why I liked 'The Natural' so much, especially as I'm not a great sport/baseball fan! I liked his role in 'Out of Africa' too... He's just such a versatile actor I think. I'm not sure if I've ever seen him act badly in anything... [muses]
I would think the End of the World stuff had lessened after the millennium went by, but maybe September 11 threw a spanner in the works. I read Left Behind just to see how bad it was, back in 2006-2007. The very last book in its prequel trilogy (which was as boring as you can imagine) was one of the first books ever mentioned back during my Myspace/This Week at the Library days.
One of the books I have on the subject (which I'll be 'coupling' with a book that arrived today) 'Have a Nice Doomsday' by Nicholas Guyatt, says that 50 MILLION Americans believe that the apocalypse will happen in their lifetimes..... Hopefully they'll be disappointed! [lol]
I believe I saw him play death in The Twilight Zone. I saw all his big movies, Gatsby, Sundance, I stopped here to go look at his filmography list and I’ve seen 17 of his films. I was surprised at that. I loved him in his recent film, The Old Man and The Gun with Sissie Spacek.
Yup, I've seen around the same number - with a few 'possible' or 'partials' added in. Definitely one of my favourite actors!
He was definitely one of the great ones. RIP
Totally.... I feel the need to re-watch ALL of his movies!
Good idea. I should at least go with some of the great ones (Gatsby which has never been made better), for example.
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