
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 |





