
Robert Redford
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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
Credits

Avengers: Endgame (2019)
as Alexander Pierce

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
as Alexander Pierce

Indecent Proposal (1993)
as John Gage

The Sting (1973)
as Johnny Hooker

Sneakers (1992)
as Bishop

All the President's Men (1976)
as Bob Woodward

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
as Sundance Kid

Spy Game (2001)
as Nathan Muir

Three Days of the Condor (1975)
as Joseph Turner

Pete's Dragon (2016)
as Mr. Meacham

A River Runs Through It (1992)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Charlotte's Web (2006)
as Ike the Horse (voice)

A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Maj. Julian Cook

The Last Castle (2001)
as Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

All Is Lost (2013)
as Our Man

Out of Africa (1985)
as Denys George Finch Hatton

An Unfinished Life (2005)
as Einar Gilkyson

The Natural (1984)
as Roy Hobbs

The Way We Were (1973)
as Hubbell Gardner

The Great Gatsby (1974)
as Jay Gatsby

Earth: One Amazing Day (2017)
as Narrator (voice)

The Company You Keep (2012)
as Jim Grant

The Chase (1966)
as Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves

The Horse Whisperer (1998)
as Tom Booker

Lions for Lambs (2007)
as Dr. Stephen Malley

The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
as Forrest Tucker

Brubaker (1980)
as Brubaker

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
as Jeremiah Johnson

A Walk in the Woods (2015)
as Bill Bryson

The Discovery (2017)
as Dr. Thomas Harbor

Legal Eagles (1986)
as Tom Logan

Up Close & Personal (1996)
as Warren Justice

Truth (2015)
as Dan Rather

The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
as Waldo Pepper

The Electric Horseman (1979)
as Sonny

Our Souls at Night (2017)
as Louis Waters

Barefoot in the Park (1967)
as Paul Bratter

Sacred Planet (2004)
as Narrator (voice)

The Clearing (2004)
as Wayne Hayes

Borsalino City (2016)
as Self

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
as Self

Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe (2014)
as Self

Havana (1990)
as Jack Weil

Ted Williams (2009)
as Self

The Hot Rock (1972)
as John Dortmunder

Downhill Racer (1969)
as David Chappellet

This Property Is Condemned (1966)
as Owen Legate

Forever Hollywood (1999)
as Self

The Candidate (1972)
as Bill McKay

Buttons (2018)
as Narrator (voice)

Buck (2011)
as Self

Inside Daisy Clover (1966)
as Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade

La Classe américaine (1993)
as Steven (archive footage)

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
as Self

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
as Self

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
as Cooper

The Words That Built America (2017)
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence

Betty White: A Celebration (2022)
as Self

Tall Story (1960)
as Basketball Player (uncredited)

Casting By (2012)
as Self

War Hunt (1962)
as Pvt. Roy Loomis

Trudell (2005)
as Self - Filmmaker, Activist

Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman (2015)
as Self

Sundance 20 (2002)
as Himself

A Journey to Sundance (2023)
as Self

Incident at Oglala (1992)
as Narrator (voice)

The Making of ‘Sneakers’ (2003)
as Self

Smash His Camera (2010)
as Self

Making a Scene | 11 Performances (2013)
Actor

Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990)
as Self

Paul Newman: The Restless (2023)
as Self

The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970)
as Self

Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky (2026)
as self

Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia (2020)
as Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)

Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire (2006)
as Self

Henry Fonda for President (2025)
as Self (archive footage)

At Sundance (1995)
as Self

Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
as Self - (archive footage)

Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
as Big Halsy

Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
Actor

Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. (1991)
as Self

Frank Sinatra: The Main Event (1974)
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

The Art of 'The Sting' (2005)
as Self

Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious (1965)
as Captain Hank Wilson

All the President's Men Revisited (2013)
as Self - Narrator

Walden (2017)
as Narrator

National Parks Adventure (2016)
as Narrator

Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome (1978)
as Narrator

Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven (1989)
as Narrator (voice)

The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses (2021)
as Narrator (voice)

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019)
as Self

Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" (2006)
as Self

Made in the USA (1993)
as Self

The Unforeseen (2007)
as Self

The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (2017)
as Self

Words from a Bear (2019)
as Self
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960)
as Blue Jacket

Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008)
as Narrator

Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor » (2012)
as Self

Cosmic Collisions (2006)
as Narrator (voice)

All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006)
as Self

Something About Sydney Pollack (2004)
as Self

Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies (1990)
as Self

A Fierce Green Fire (2013)
as Narrator (voice)

Robert Redford: The Golden Look (2019)
as Self (archive footage)

In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1960)
as Sergeant Lott

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time (2002)
as Self
Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists (2005)
as Narrator

Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West (2012)
as Narrator (voice)

Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (1976)
as Self

Anthem (1997)
as Self
More About the Condor (2003)
as Self
New York in the Fifties (2001)
as Self

Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution (2017)
as Self

The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson (1997)
as Self / Jeremiah Johnson

Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon (2025)
as Self (archive footage)

Entangling Shadows (1998)
as Self

The Mystery of Chaco Canyon (1999)
as Narrator (voice)

The Sun Dagger (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
On the Set: Loews Theater (2004)
as Self
Following the Tundra Wolf (1975)
as Narrator

The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford (1978)
Actor
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain (1974)
as Self / Narrator (voice)





