Robert Redford
- Acting
- August 18, 1936 · Santa Monica, California, USA
- September 16, 2025
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream · (archive footage)
- Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky · Self
- Soccer's American Dream · Self
- The Madison · In Memory Of
- Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon · Self
- Henry Fonda for President · Self
- All Illusions Must Be Broken · Executive producer
- Superpowered: The DC Story · Self
- Paul Newman: The Restless · Self
- White House Plumbers · Bob Woodward (voice) (uncredited)
- A Journey to Sundance · Self
- Dark Winds · Robert (uncredited), Executive producer
- Betty White: A Celebration · Self
- The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses · Narrator (Voice), Executive producer
- Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age · Self
- Public Trust · Executive producer
- Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia · Lokia the Dolphin Monster (Voice)
- Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound · Self
- Alan Pakula: Going for Truth · Self
- Robert Redford: The Golden Look · Self
- Avengers: Endgame · Alexander Pierce
- The Mustang · Executive producer
- Words from a Bear · Self
- Buttons · Narrator (Voice)
- Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché · Executive producer
- The Old Man & the Gun · Forrest Tucker, Producer
- Momentum Generation · Executive producer
- Jane Fonda in Five Acts · Self
- The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee · Self
- Walden · Narrator
- Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution · Self
- Our Souls at Night · Louis Waters, Producer
- Earth: One Amazing Day · Narrator (Voice)
- The Words That Built America · Self
- American Epic · Narrator (Voice), Executive producer
- The Discovery · Dr. Thomas Harbor
- Pete's Dragon · Mr. Meacham
- The American West · Executive producer
- The Adderall Diaries · Executive producer
- Borsalino City · Self
- Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry · Executive producer
- National Parks Adventure · Narrator
- Truth · Dan Rather
- A Walk in the Woods · Bill Bryson, Producer
- Nature Is Speaking · The Redwood
- Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman · Self
- Cathedrals of Culture · Director, Writer
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier · Alexander Pierce
- Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe · Self
- Drunktown's Finest · Executive producer
- Making a Scene | 11 Performances
- All Is Lost · Our Man
- All the President's Men Revisited · Self
- A Fierce Green Fire · Narrator (Voice)
- Talking Pictures · Self
- The Company You Keep · Jim Grant, Director
- Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor » · Self
- Casting By · Self
- Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West · Narrator (Voice)
- Buck · Self
- Stories from the Gulf: Living with the Oil Disaster · Presenter
- The Conspirator · Producer, Director
- Smash His Camera · Self
- Saving the Bay · Narrator
- The Cove · Thanks
- Ted Williams · Self
- You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story · Self
- Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk · Narrator
- Lions for Lambs · Dr. Stephen Malley, Director
- The Unforeseen · Self, Executive producer
- Charlotte's Web · Ike the Horse (Voice)
- An Inconvenient Truth · Thanks
- Cosmic Collisions · Narrator (Voice)
- Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire · Self
- Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" · Self
- All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' · Self
- Iconoclasts · Self, Producer
- An Unfinished Life · Einar Gilkyson
- The Art of 'The Sting' · Self
- Trudell · Self