Robert Redford

Known for ActingBorn 1936-08-18Died 2025-09-16Santa Monica, California, USA

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.Read more

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Public Trust

Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor »

Tanner on Tanner

Sundance 20

Following the Tundra Wolf

Bus Stop

Spécial cinéma

Walden

Nature Is Speaking

The Mystery of Chaco Canyon

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Cosmic Collisions

Avengers: Endgame

The Madison

Forever Hollywood

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Betty White: A Celebration

aspekte

The Twilight Zone

The Cove

Something About Sydney Pollack

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time

The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson

Earth: One Amazing Day

Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

The Sting

Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman

Dark Winds

Borsalino City

Superpowered: The DC Story

Play of the Week

Inside the Actors Studio

Iconoclasts

Sacred Planet

The Untouchables

La Classe américaine

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

All the President's Men

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Buck

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

V.I.P. Schaukel

American Epic

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Jane Fonda in Five Acts