Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Hart. His mother died in 1955, the year after he graduated from high school. Charles Robert Redford Jr. was a scrappy kid who stole hubcaps in high school and lost his college baseball scholarship at the University of Colorado because of drunkenness...See full bio »
(April 2, 2013) Appearing with Shia LaBeouf in live online chat session "Collaborators on Film" streamed by The New York Times re
The Company You Keep.
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[on working with Dustin Hoffman on
All the President's Men] One of the joys of the movie was working with Dustin; he has one of the most wonderful acting minds I've ever worked with.
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Trivia:
In the early 1970s Paramount had plans to remake
Double Indemnity with Redford in the Fred MacMurray role. The project never got off the ground.
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Trademark:
Films often reflect his liberal political views
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