Robert Redford
Acting
- Born:
- 1936-08-18
- Died:
- 2025-09-16
- Place of birth:
- Santa Monica, California, USA
Biography
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
Known For
Filmography
The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
Soccer's American Dream
Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon
Henry Fonda for President
Superpowered: The DC Story
Paul Newman: The Restless
White House Plumbers
A Journey to Sundance
Dark Winds
Betty White: A Celebration
The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Robert Redford: The Golden Look
Avengers: Endgame
Words from a Bear
Buttons
The Old Man & the Gun
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Walden
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
Our Souls at Night
Earth: One Amazing Day
The Words That Built America
American Epic
The Discovery
Pete's Dragon
Borsalino City
National Parks Adventure
Truth
A Walk in the Woods
Nature Is Speaking
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
All Is Lost
All the President's Men Revisited
A Fierce Green Fire
Talking Pictures
The Company You Keep
Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor »
Casting By
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
Buck
Smash His Camera
Saving the Bay
Ted Williams
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
Lions for Lambs
The Unforeseen
Charlotte's Web
Cosmic Collisions
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
Iconoclasts
An Unfinished Life
The Art of 'The Sting'
Trudell
Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists
On the Set: Loews Theater
Tanner on Tanner
Parkinson
The Clearing
Something About Sydney Pollack
Sacred Planet
Leçon de Cinéma
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
More About the Condor
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
Sundance 20
Spy Game
The Last Castle
New York in the Fifties
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
Forever Hollywood
Entangling Shadows
The Horse Whisperer
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
Anthem
Up Close & Personal
At Sundance
Inside the Actors Studio
La Classe américaine
Made in the USA
Indecent Proposal
A River Runs Through It
Sneakers
Incident at Oglala
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
Havana
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
American Experience
Legal Eagles
Out of Africa
The Natural
The Sun Dagger
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Brubaker
The Electric Horseman
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome
The South Bank Show
A Bridge Too Far
All the President's Men
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Following the Tundra Wolf
Three Days of the Condor
The Great Waldo Pepper
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event
Spécial cinéma
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
The Great Gatsby
The Sting
The Way We Were
Jeremiah Johnson
The Candidate
The Hot Rock
Film '72
V.I.P. Schaukel
The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
Downhill Racer
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Barefoot in the Park
This Property Is Condemned
The Chase
Inside Daisy Clover
aspekte
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
Breaking Point
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
War Hunt
The New Breed
Bus Stop
Dr. Kildare
The Defenders
The Americans
The Iceman Cometh
Route 66
Moment of Fear
Tate
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Tall Story
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
The Untouchables
Play of the Week
The Twilight Zone
Naked City
Maverick
Perry Mason
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Oscars
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Golden Globe Awards