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Robert Redford
Actor

Robert Redford

18 Aug 1936Born
16 Sep 2025Died
89Age at death
103Credits

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.

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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.

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Filmography

The 80 most recent of 103 credits.

  1. 2026The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American DreamFilm: (archive footage)
  2. 2023White House PlumbersSeries: Bob Woodward (voice) (uncredited) (1 episode)
  3. 2022Dark WindsSeries: Robert (uncredited) (1 episode)
  4. 2021The Mustangs: America's Wild HorsesFilm: Narrator (voice)
  5. 2020Omniboat: A Fast Boat FantasiaFilm: Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
  6. 2019Avengers: EndgameFilm: Alexander Pierce
  7. 2018ButtonsFilm: Narrator (voice)
  8. 2018The Old Man & the GunFilm: Forrest Tucker
  9. 2017WaldenFilm: Narrator
  10. 2017Our Souls at NightFilm: Louis Waters
  11. 2017Earth: One Amazing DayFilm: Narrator (voice)
  12. 2017American EpicSeries: Narrator (voice) (4 episodes)
  13. 2017The DiscoveryFilm: Dr. Thomas Harbor
  14. 2016Pete's DragonFilm: Mr. Meacham
  15. 2016National Parks AdventureFilm: Narrator
  16. 2015TruthFilm: Dan Rather
  17. 2015A Walk in the WoodsFilm: Bill Bryson
  18. 2015Nature Is SpeakingSeries: The Redwood (1 episode)
  19. 2014Cathedrals of CultureFilm: Director, Writer
  20. 2014Captain America: The Winter SoldierFilm: Alexander Pierce
  21. 2013Making a Scene | 11 PerformancesFilm
  22. 2013All Is LostFilm: Our Man
  23. 2013A Fierce Green FireFilm: Narrator (voice)
  24. 2012The Company You KeepFilm: Jim Grant, Director
  25. 2012Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New WestFilm: Narrator (voice)
  26. 2011The ConspiratorFilm: Director
  27. 2009Saving the BaySeries: Narrator (4 episodes)
  28. 2008Grand Canyon Adventure: River at RiskFilm: Narrator
  29. 2007Lions for LambsFilm: Dr. Stephen Malley, Director
  30. 2006Charlotte's WebFilm: Ike the Horse (voice)
  31. 2006Cosmic CollisionsFilm: Narrator (voice)
  32. 2005An Unfinished LifeFilm: Einar Gilkyson
  33. 2005Global Focus II: The New EnvironmentalistsFilm: Narrator
  34. 2004The ClearingFilm: Wayne Hayes
  35. 2004Sacred PlanetFilm: Narrator (voice)
  36. 2001Spy GameFilm: Nathan Muir
  37. 2001The Last CastleFilm: Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
  38. 2000The Legend of Bagger VanceFilm: Director
  39. 1999The Mystery of Chaco CanyonFilm: Narrator (voice)
  40. 1998The Horse WhispererFilm: Tom Booker, Director
  41. 1996Up Close & PersonalFilm: Warren Justice
  42. 1994Quiz ShowFilm: Director
  43. 1993La Classe américaineFilm: Steven (archive footage)
  44. 1993Indecent ProposalFilm: John Gage
  45. 1992A River Runs Through ItFilm: Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director
  46. 1992SneakersFilm: Bishop
  47. 1992Incident at OglalaFilm: Narrator (voice)
  48. 1990HavanaFilm: Jack Weil
  49. 1989Yosemite: The Fate of HeavenFilm: Narrator (voice)
  50. 1988The Milagro Beanfield WarFilm: Director
  51. 1986Legal EaglesFilm: Tom Logan
  52. 1985Out of AfricaFilm: Denys Finch Hatton
  53. 1984The NaturalFilm: Roy Hobbs
  54. 1983The Sun DaggerFilm: Narrator (voice)
  55. 1980Ordinary PeopleFilm: Director
  56. 1980BrubakerFilm: Brubaker
  57. 1979The Electric HorsemanFilm: Sonny
  58. 1978The Outlaw Trail with Robert RedfordFilm
  59. 1978Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half DomeFilm: Narrator
  60. 1977A Bridge Too FarFilm: Maj. Julian Cook
  61. 1976All the President's MenFilm: Bob Woodward
  62. 1975Following the Tundra WolfFilm: Narrator
  63. 1975Three Days of the CondorFilm: Joseph Turner
  64. 1975The Great Waldo PepperFilm: Waldo Pepper
  65. 1974The Great GatsbyFilm: Jay Gatsby
  66. 1973The StingFilm: Johnny Hooker
  67. 1973The Way We WereFilm: Hubbell Gardner
  68. 1972Jeremiah JohnsonFilm: Jeremiah Johnson
  69. 1972The CandidateFilm: Bill McKay
  70. 1972The Hot RockFilm: John Dortmunder
  71. 1970Little Fauss and Big HalsyFilm: Big Halsy
  72. 1969Downhill RacerFilm: David Chappellet
  73. 1969Tell Them Willie Boy Is HereFilm: Cooper
  74. 1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidFilm: Sundance Kid
  75. 1967Barefoot in the ParkFilm: Paul Bratter
  76. 1966This Property Is CondemnedFilm: Owen Legate
  77. 1966The ChaseFilm: Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
  78. 1966Inside Daisy CloverFilm: Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
  79. 1965Situation Hopeless... But Not SeriousFilm: Captain Hank Wilson
  80. 1963Breaking PointSeries: Roger Morton (30 episodes)

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