Robert Redford
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 18, 1936
- Died
- September 16, 2025 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Santa Monica, California, USA
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.
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Filmography
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
Movie · as Self
The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream
Movie · as (archive footage)
Soccer's American Dream
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda for President
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
A Journey to Sundance
Movie · as Self
Paul Newman: The Restless
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Superpowered: The DC Story
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
White House Plumbers
TV · as Bob Woodward (voice) (uncredited) · 1 ep
Betty White: A Celebration
Movie · as Self
Dark Winds
TV · as Robert (uncredited) · 1 ep
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie · as Self
The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Movie · as Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
Words from a Bear
Movie · as Self
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Movie · as Self
Avengers: Endgame
Movie · as Alexander Pierce
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Movie · as Self
Robert Redford: The Golden Look
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Old Man & the Gun
Movie · as Forrest Tucker
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Movie · as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Buttons
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Movie · as Self
The Discovery
Movie · as Dr. Thomas Harbor
Our Souls at Night
Movie · as Louis Waters
The Words That Built America
Movie · as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
Movie · as Self
Earth: One Amazing Day
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Walden
Movie · as Narrator
American Epic
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 4 eps
Pete's Dragon
Movie · as Mr. Meacham
National Parks Adventure
Movie · as Narrator
Borsalino City
Movie · as Self
A Walk in the Woods
Movie · as Bill Bryson
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
Movie · as Self
Truth
Movie · as Dan Rather
Nature Is Speaking
TV · as The Redwood · 1 ep
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Movie · as Alexander Pierce
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Movie · as Self
A Fierce Green Fire
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
All Is Lost
Movie · as Our Man
All the President's Men Revisited
Movie · as Self - Narrator
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
Movie
Talking Pictures
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Casting By
Movie · as Self
The Company You Keep
Movie · as Jim Grant
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor »
Movie · as Self
Buck
Movie · as Self
Smash His Camera
Movie · as Self
Ted Williams
Movie · as Self
Saving the Bay
TV · as Narrator · 4 eps
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
Movie · as Narrator
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Movie · as Self
Lions for Lambs
Movie · as Dr. Stephen Malley
The Unforeseen
Movie · as Self
Charlotte's Web
Movie · as Ike the Horse (voice)
Cosmic Collisions
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
Movie · as Self
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
Movie · as Self
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Movie · as Self
An Unfinished Life
Movie · as Einar Gilkyson
The Art of 'The Sting'
Movie · as Self
Trudell
Movie · as Self - Filmmaker, Activist
Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists
Movie · as Narrator
Iconoclasts
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Clearing
Movie · as Wayne Hayes
Sacred Planet
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Something About Sydney Pollack
Movie · as Self
On the Set: Loews Theater
Movie · as Self
Leçon de Cinéma
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Tanner on Tanner
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Parkinson
TV · as Self - Guest (archive footage) · 1 ep
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Movie · as Self
More About the Condor
Movie · as Self
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
Movie · as Self
Sundance 20
Movie · as Self
The Last Castle
Movie · as Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
Spy Game
Movie · as Nathan Muir
New York in the Fifties
Movie · as Self
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Forever Hollywood
Movie · as Self
The Horse Whisperer
Movie · as Tom Booker
Entangling Shadows
Movie · as Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
Movie · as Self / Jeremiah Johnson
Anthem
Movie · as Self
Up Close & Personal
Movie · as Warren Justice
At Sundance
Movie · as Self
Inside the Actors Studio
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Indecent Proposal
Movie · as John Gage
La Classe américaine
Movie · as Steven (archive footage)
Made in the USA
Movie · as Self
Sneakers
Movie · as Bishop
Incident at Oglala
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
A River Runs Through It
Movie · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
Movie · as Self
Havana
Movie · as Jack Weil
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Movie · as Self
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Movie · as Self
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
American Experience
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Legal Eagles
Movie · as Tom Logan
Out of Africa
Movie · as Denys Finch Hatton
The Natural
Movie · as Roy Hobbs
The Sun Dagger
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Movie · as Self
Brubaker
Movie · as Brubaker
The Electric Horseman
Movie · as Sonny
CBS News Sunday Morning
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford
Movie
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome
Movie · as Narrator
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The South Bank Show
TV · 2 eps
A Bridge Too Far
Movie · as Maj. Julian Cook
All the President's Men
Movie · as Bob Woodward
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Movie · as Self
Three Days of the Condor
Movie · as Joseph Turner
The Great Waldo Pepper
Movie · as Waldo Pepper
Following the Tundra Wolf
Movie · as Narrator
The Great Gatsby
Movie · as Jay Gatsby
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event
Movie · as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
Movie · as Self / Narrator (voice)
Spécial cinéma
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Way We Were
Movie · as Hubbell Gardner
The Sting
Movie · as Johnny Hooker
The Candidate
Movie · as Bill McKay
Jeremiah Johnson
Movie · as Jeremiah Johnson
The Hot Rock
Movie · as John Dortmunder
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Film '72
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
Movie · as Big Halsy
The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
Movie · as Self
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Movie · as The Sundance Kid
Downhill Racer
Movie · as David Chappellet
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Movie · as Cooper
Barefoot in the Park
Movie · as Paul Bratter
The Chase
Movie · as Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
This Property Is Condemned
Movie · as Owen Legate
Inside Daisy Clover
Movie · as Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
Movie · as Captain Hank Wilson
aspekte
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Breaking Point
TV · as Roger Morton · 30 eps
War Hunt
Movie · as Pvt. Roy Loomis
The Virginian
TV · as Matthew Cordell · 1 ep
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Chuck Marsden, David Chesterman · 1 ep
Bus Stop
TV · as Art Ellison · 1 ep
The New Breed
TV · as Arthur Honniger - Hitchhiker · 1 ep
Dr. Kildare
TV · as Mark Hadley · 1 ep
The Defenders
TV · as Gary Degan · 1 ep
The Americans
TV · as George Harrod · 1 ep
Tall Story
Movie · as Basketball Player (uncredited)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Movie · as Blue Jacket
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Movie · as Sergeant Lott
Route 66
TV · as Janosh · 1 ep
Tate
TV · as Torsett, Tad Dundee · 1 ep
Moment of Fear
TV · as Stranger · 8 eps
The Iceman Cometh
TV · as Don Parritt · 2 eps
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Harold Beldon · 1 ep
Play of the Week
TV · as Don Parritt · 1 ep
The Untouchables
TV · as Jackson Emmit Parker · 1 ep
Naked City
TV · as Baldwin Larne · 1 ep
Perry Mason
TV · as Dick Hart · 1 ep
Maverick
TV · as Jimmy Coleman · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Charlie Marx · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Blue Jacket · 1 ep
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self (uncredited) · 1 ep