Robert Redford
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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-08-18
Place of birth
Santa Monica, California, USA
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Cast
All the President's Men
1976
7.66
The Horse Whisperer
1998
6.90
Out of Africa
1985
7.16
The Last Castle
2001
7.17
Spy Game
2001
6.92
Brubaker
1980
7.08
The Way We Were
1973
6.98
Sneakers
1992
6.91
An Unfinished Life
2005
6.80
The Clearing
2004
5.77
Indecent Proposal
1993
6.39
Lions for Lambs
2007
6.00
The Electric Horseman
1979
6.10
The Great Gatsby
1974
6.30
A Bridge Too Far
1977
7.21
The Natural
1984
6.90
Havana
1990
5.78
The Candidate
1972
6.50
The Chase
1966
7.09
Jeremiah Johnson
1972
7.29
Three Days of the Condor
1975
7.28
War Hunt
1962
6.50
Downhill Racer
1969
5.90
The Sting
1973
8.02
Up Close & Personal
1996
6.28
Legal Eagles
1986
6.00
Charlotte's Web
2006
6.23
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969
5.80
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
1970
5.91
La Classe américaine
1993
7.58
The Hot Rock
1972
6.50
This Property Is Condemned
1966
6.42
Sacred Planet
2004
7.10
Barefoot in the Park
1967
7.13
Betty White: A Celebration
2022
8.00
Buck
2011
7.30
Inside Daisy Clover
1966
5.60
Casting By
2012
6.90
Cosmic Collisions
2006
8.50
The Great Waldo Pepper
1975
6.50
A Fierce Green Fire
2013
5.80
Smash His Camera
2010
6.90
The Company You Keep
2012
6.17
All Is Lost
2013
6.64
Tall Story
1960
5.40
The Sun Dagger
1983
0.00
A Walk in the Woods
2015
6.12
New York in the Fifties
2001
0.00
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event
1974
6.70
Incident at Oglala
1992
7.00
Truth
2015
6.53
Pete's Dragon
2016
6.38
Words from a Bear
2019
0.00
A River Runs Through It
1992
7.03
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
5.00
The Art of 'The Sting'
2005
6.00
Trudell
2005
5.40
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
1989
0.00
Made in the USA
1993
2.00
National Parks Adventure
2016
6.90
The Discovery
2017
6.26
Borsalino City
2016
7.50
Entangling Shadows
1998
5.30
Something About Sydney Pollack
2004
0.00
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
6.45
Our Souls at Night
2017
6.65
Ted Williams
2009
0.00
The Words That Built America
2017
6.00
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
1999
8.00
At Sundance
1995
5.50
Earth: One Amazing Day
2017
7.80
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018
7.30
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960
0.00
The Unforeseen
2007
6.00
Buttons
2018
6.60
Forever Hollywood
1999
8.00
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2020
5.00
Avengers: Endgame
2019
8.20
Anthem
1997
5.00
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
6.50
The Iceman Cometh
1960
7.10
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
0.00
On the Set: Loews Theater
2004
0.00
Walden
2017
9.00
More About the Condor
2003
0.00
A Journey to Sundance
2023
0.00
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1960
0.00
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997
0.00
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
2013
0.00
Sundance 20
2002
0.00
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
1974
0.00
Following the Tundra Wolf
1975
0.00
Henry Fonda for President
2025
7.00
Robert Redford: The Golden Look
2019
6.70