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
Sneakers (1992)
as Bishop
Indecent Proposal (1993)
as John Gage
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
as Alexander Pierce
The Sting (1973)
as Johnny Hooker
Charlotte's Web (2006)
as Ike the Horse (voice)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
as Sundance Kid
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
as Tom Booker
Spy Game (2001)
as Nathan Muir
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Maj. Julian Cook
Out of Africa (1985)
as Denys George Finch Hatton
The Last Castle (2001)
as Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
A River Runs Through It (1992)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Natural (1984)
as Roy Hobbs
Pete's Dragon (2016)
as Mr. Meacham
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
as Joseph Turner
Lions for Lambs (2007)
as Dr. Stephen Malley
All the President's Men (1976)
as Bob Woodward
Brubaker (1980)
as Brubaker
The Chase (1966)
as Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
An Unfinished Life (2005)
as Einar Gilkyson
The Great Gatsby (1974)
as Jay Gatsby
Legal Eagles (1986)
as Tom Logan
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
as Jeremiah Johnson
The Discovery (2017)
as Dr. Thomas Harbor
The Way We Were (1973)
as Hubbell Gardner
All Is Lost (2013)
as Our Man
Truth (2015)
as Dan Rather
Downhill Racer (1969)
as David Chappellet
The Company You Keep (2012)
as Jim Grant
The Clearing (2004)
as Wayne Hayes
Our Souls at Night (2017)
as Louis Waters
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
as Paul Bratter
Up Close & Personal (1996)
as Warren Justice
Casting By (2012)
as Self
The Hot Rock (1972)
as John Dortmunder
The Candidate (1972)
as Bill McKay
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
as Self
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
as Forrest Tucker
A Walk in the Woods (2015)
as Bill Bryson
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
as Owen Legate
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
All the President's Men Revisited (2013)
as Self - Narrator
Forever Hollywood (1999)
as Self
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe (2014)
as Self
Havana (1990)
as Jack Weil
A Journey to Sundance (2023)
as Self
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
as Waldo Pepper
Earth: One Amazing Day (2017)
as Narrator (voice)
At Sundance (1995)
as Self
The Electric Horseman (1979)
as Sonny
Tall Story (1960)
as Basketball Player (uncredited)
Incident at Oglala (1992)
as Narrator (voice)
Buttons (2018)
as Narrator (voice)
La Classe américaine (1993)
as Steven (archive footage)
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
as Cooper
War Hunt (1962)
as Pvt. Roy Loomis
Inside Daisy Clover (1966)
as Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
The Words That Built America (2017)
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Trudell (2005)
as Self - Filmmaker, Activist
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019)
as Self
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
as Big Halsy
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman (2015)
as Self
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
as Self - (archive footage)
National Parks Adventure (2016)
as Narrator
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008)
as Narrator
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. (1991)
as Self
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia (2020)
as Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
Making a Scene | 11 Performances (2013)
Actor
Sacred Planet (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
Actor
Words from a Bear (2019)
as Self
Smash His Camera (2010)
as Self
Made in the USA (1993)
as Self
The Making of ‘Sneakers’ (2003)
as Self
The Iceman Cometh (1960)
as Don Parritt
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
as Self
The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970)
as Self
Borsalino City (2016)
as Self
Ted Williams (2009)
as Self
The Art of 'The Sting' (2005)
as Self
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990)
as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
as Self
Paul Newman: The Restless (2023)
as Self
Betty White: A Celebration (2022)
as Self
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire (2006)
as Self
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006)
as Self
Buck (2011)
as Self
Henry Fonda for President (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious (1965)
as Captain Hank Wilson
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (1976)
as Self
The Unforeseen (2007)
as Self
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1960)
as Sergeant Lott
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution (2017)
as Self
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" (2006)
as Self
Walden (2017)
as Narrator
Sundance 20 (2002)
as Himself
New York in the Fifties (2001)
as Self
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event (1974)
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Following the Tundra Wolf (1975)
as Narrator
The Sun Dagger (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960)
as Blue Jacket
A Fierce Green Fire (2013)
as Narrator (voice)
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (2017)
as Self
Entangling Shadows (1998)
as Self
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time (2002)
as Self
The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses (2021)
as Narrator (voice)
The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford (1978)
Actor
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies (1990)
as Self
Anthem (1997)
as Self
Cosmic Collisions (2006)
as Narrator (voice)
Robert Redford: The Golden Look (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
On the Set: Loews Theater (2004)
as Self
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West (2012)
as Narrator (voice)
Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor » (2012)
as Self
More About the Condor (2003)
as Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson (1997)
as Self / Jeremiah Johnson
Something About Sydney Pollack (2004)
as Self
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven (1989)
as Narrator (voice)
Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain (1974)
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome (1978)
as Narrator
Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists (2005)
as Narrator