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.
Acting (110 movies)
All the President's Men
1976
The Horse Whisperer
1998
Out of Africa
1985
The Last Castle
2001
Spy Game
2001
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
Brubaker
1980
The Way We Were
1973
Sneakers
1992
An Unfinished Life
2005
The Clearing
2004
Indecent Proposal
1993
Lions for Lambs
2007
The Electric Horseman
1979
The Great Gatsby
1974
A Bridge Too Far
1977
The Natural
1984
Havana
1990
The Candidate
1972
The Chase
1966
Jeremiah Johnson
1972
Three Days of the Condor
1975
War Hunt
1962
Downhill Racer
1969
The Sting
1973
Up Close & Personal
1996
Legal Eagles
1986
Charlotte's Web
2006
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
2008
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
1970
La Classe américaine
1993
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
1991
The Hot Rock
1972
This Property Is Condemned
1966
Sacred Planet
2004
Barefoot in the Park
1967
Betty White: A Celebration
2022
Buck
2011
Inside Daisy Clover
1966
Casting By
2012
Cosmic Collisions
2006
The Great Waldo Pepper
1975
A Fierce Green Fire
2013
Smash His Camera
2010
The Company You Keep
2012
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
1976
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
2006
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
2006
All Is Lost
2013
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1965
Tall Story
1960
The Sun Dagger
1983
All the President's Men Revisited
2013
A Walk in the Woods
2015
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
2017
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event
1974
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
2015
Incident at Oglala
1992
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
Truth
2015
Pete's Dragon
2016
Words from a Bear
2019
A River Runs Through It
1992
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003
The Art of 'The Sting'
2005
Trudell
2005
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
1989
Made in the USA
1993
National Parks Adventure
2016
The Discovery
2017
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
2012
Borsalino City
2016
Entangling Shadows
1998
Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor »
2012
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
2006
Something About Sydney Pollack
2004
The Old Man & the Gun
2018
Our Souls at Night
2017
Ted Williams
2009
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
The Words That Built America
2017
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
1999
At Sundance
1995
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
2017
Earth: One Amazing Day
2017
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018
The Unforeseen
2007
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990
Buttons
2018
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
Forever Hollywood
1999
The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford
1978
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2020
Avengers: Endgame
2019
Anthem
1997
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
The Iceman Cometh
1960
Directing (10 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Candidate | 1972 | Executive Producer |
| The Solar Film | 1980 | Executive Producer |
| The Milagro Beanfield War | 1988 | Producer |
| Some Girls | 1988 | Executive Producer |
| Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven | 1989 | Executive Producer |
| Incident at Oglala | 1992 | Executive Producer |
| The Dark Wind | 1992 | Executive Producer |
| A River Runs Through It | 1992 | Producer |
| Quiz Show | 1994 | Producer |
| She's the One | 1996 | Executive Producer |
| The Horse Whisperer | 1998 | Producer |
| No Looking Back | 1998 | Executive Producer |
| Slums of Beverly Hills | 1998 | Executive Producer |
| A Civil Action | 1998 | Producer |
| The Legend of Bagger Vance | 2000 | Producer |
| How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Love in the Time of Money | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Skinwalkers | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Coyote Waits | 2003 | Executive Producer |
| A Thief Of Time | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| The Unforeseen | 2007 | Executive Producer |
| Lions for Lambs | 2007 | Producer |
| The Conspirator | 2011 | Producer |
| The Company You Keep | 2012 | Producer |
| Drunktown's Finest | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Cathedrals of Culture | 2014 | Writer |
| A Walk in the Woods | 2015 | Producer |
| Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| The Adderall Diaries | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Our Souls at Night | 2017 | Producer |
| Momentum Generation | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| The Old Man & the Gun | 2018 | Producer |
| Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| The Mustang | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| Public Trust | 2020 | Executive Producer |
| The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| All Illusions Must Be Broken | 2024 | Executive Producer |