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
The Sting (1973)
as Johnny Hooker
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
as Alexander Pierce
All the President's Men (1976)
as Bob Woodward
Out of Africa (1985)
as Denys Finch Hatton
Indecent Proposal (1993)
as John Gage
Sneakers (1992)
as Bishop
A River Runs Through It (1992)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Spy Game (2001)
as Nathan Muir
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
as The Sundance Kid
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
as Tom Booker
Brubaker (1980)
as Brubaker
Charlotte's Web (2006)
as Ike the Horse (voice)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
as Joseph Turner
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
as Maj. Julian Cook
The Last Castle (2001)
as Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
Pete's Dragon (2016)
as Mr. Meacham
Forever Hollywood (1999)
as Self
The Way We Were (1973)
as Hubbell Gardner
The Natural (1984)
as Roy Hobbs
The Company You Keep (2012)
as Jim Grant
The Great Gatsby (1974)
as Jay Gatsby
Buttons (2018)
as Narrator (voice)
Trudell (2005)
as Self - Filmmaker, Activist
Sacred Planet (2004)
as Narrator (voice)
Borsalino City (2016)
as Self
Sundance 20 (2002)
as Self
Lions for Lambs (2007)
as Dr. Stephen Malley
The Hot Rock (1972)
as John Dortmunder
Earth: One Amazing Day (2017)
as Narrator (voice)
An Unfinished Life (2005)
as Einar Gilkyson
All Is Lost (2013)
as Our Man
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
as Self
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
as Jeremiah Johnson
The Chase (1966)
as Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
as Forrest Tucker
The Discovery (2017)
as Dr. Thomas Harbor
The Electric Horseman (1979)
as Sonny
Ted Williams (2009)
as Self
A Walk in the Woods (2015)
as Bill Bryson
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
as Self
Truth (2015)
as Dan Rather
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
as Paul Bratter
Buck (2011)
as Self
Our Souls at Night (2017)
as Louis Waters
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe (2014)
as Self
Cosmic Collisions (2006)
as Narrator (voice)
Walden (2017)
as Narrator
Downhill Racer (1969)
as David Chappellet
Legal Eagles (1986)
as Tom Logan
Havana (1990)
as Jack Weil
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
as Owen Legate
Making a Scene | 11 Performances (2013)
Actor
Up Close & Personal (1996)
as Warren Justice
The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream (2026)
as (archive footage)
War Hunt (1962)
as Pvt. Roy Loomis
The Making of ‘Sneakers’ (2003)
as Self
Paul Newman: The Restless (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
as Cooper
The Clearing (2004)
as Wayne Hayes
The Candidate (1972)
as Bill McKay
The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses (2021)
as Narrator (voice)
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event (1974)
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky (2026)
as Self
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
as Waldo Pepper
Smash His Camera (2010)
as Self
The Art of 'The Sting' (2005)
as Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)
as Self
Tall Story (1960)
as Basketball Player (uncredited)
In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1960)
as Sergeant Lott
The Words That Built America (2017)
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Inside Daisy Clover (1966)
as Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven (1989)
as Narrator (voice)
Made in the USA (1993)
as Self
La Classe américaine (1993)
as Steven (archive footage)
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
as Big Halsy
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome (1978)
as Narrator
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies (1990)
as Self
Betty White: A Celebration (2022)
as Self
Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
as Self - (archive footage)
Casting By (2012)
as Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson (1997)
as Self / Jeremiah Johnson
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia (2020)
as Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
On the Set: Loews Theater (2004)
as Self
Following the Tundra Wolf (1975)
as Narrator
At Sundance (1995)
as Self
National Parks Adventure (2016)
as Narrator
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019)
as Self
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee (2017)
as Self
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
as Captain Hank Wilson
New York in the Fifties (2001)
as Self
More About the Condor (2003)
as Self
Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda for President (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk (2008)
as Narrator
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
as Self
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain (1974)
as Self / Narrator (voice)
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman (2015)
as Self
A Journey to Sundance (2023)
as Self
A Fierce Green Fire (2013)
as Narrator (voice)
Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists (2005)
as Narrator
The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford (1978)
Actor
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" (2006)
as Self
All the President's Men Revisited (2013)
as Self - Narrator
Words from a Bear (2019)
as Self
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (2006)
as Self
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990)
as Self
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1960)
as Blue Jacket
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' (1976)
as Self
The Sun Dagger (1983)
as Narrator (voice)
The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970)
as Self
Something About Sydney Pollack (2004)
as Self
Robert Redford: The Golden Look (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor » (2012)
as Self
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution (2017)
as Self
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. (1991)
as Self
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire (2006)
as Self
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time (2002)
as Self
Incident at Oglala (1992)
as Narrator (voice)
Entangling Shadows (1998)
as Self
Anthem (1997)
as Self
The Unforeseen (2007)
as Self
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West (2012)
as Narrator (voice)