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Robert Redford(I)

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Legendary movie star Robert Redford was born during the depression on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, a Rhode Island native, who was a milkman-turned-accountant for Standard Oil, and his Texan wife, Martha W. (Hart). He was naturally gifted at athletics and competitive sport from the age of eight, particularly tennis. His mother died in 1955, the year he graduated 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. After high school, he drifted across America, landing in prison for speeding and fighting, and working at odd jobs to earn money to get to Europe and fulfill his ambition to be a painter. He saved enough to spend 13 months painting and studying in Paris, then returned home broke and enrolled as an art student in New York. After time at the Pratt Institute of Art, he was taught acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

By the end of 1960, he was on Broadway in a series of plays including Barefoot in the Park, which launched him to fame. TV and stage experience coupled with all-American good looks led to movies and a breakthrough role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), when the actor was 33. The Way We Were (1973) and The Sting (1973), both in 1973, made Redford No. 1 at the box office for the next three years. Redford used his clout to advance environmental causes and his riches to acquire Utah property, which he transformed into a ranch and the Sundance ski resort. In 1980, he established the Sundance Institute for aspiring filmmakers. Its annual film festival has become one of the world's most influential. Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People (1980), won him the Academy Award for Best Director in 1981. He waited eight years before getting behind the camera again, this time for the screen version of John Nichols' acclaimed novel of the Southwest, The Milagro Beanfield War (1988). He scored with critics and fans in 1992 with the Brad Pitt film A River Runs Through It (1992), and again, in 1994, with Quiz Show (1994), which earned him yet another Best Director nomination.

Lola Van Wagenen (consumer activist) dropped out of college to marry Redford on August 9, 1958; they divorced in 1985 after having four children, one of which died of sudden infant death syndrome. Daughter Shauna Redford, born November 15, 1960, is a painter who married Eric Schlosser on October 5, 1985, in Provo, Utah; her first child, born in January 1991, made Redford a grandfather. Son James Redford, a screenwriter, was born May 5, 1962. Daughter Amy Redford, an actress, was born October 22, 1970. Redford has a brother named William, who worked in medical research.
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Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and George Roy Hill in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
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Ralph Fiennes, Robert Redford, Rob Morrow, John Turturro, and Richard N. Goodwin in Quiz Show (1994)
Robert Redford in This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Robert Redford and Kate Reid in This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Robert Redford in This Property Is Condemned (1966)
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Robert Redford in This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Robert Redford in This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Robert Redford in This Property Is Condemned (1966)

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Robert Redford in The Natural (1984)
The Natural
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Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, and Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People (1980)
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  • 1980
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Katharine Ross in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
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  • 1969
Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in All the President's Men (1976)
All the President's Men
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  • Bob Woodward
  • 1976

Credits

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Producer

  • Disbeliever (2022)
    Disbeliever
  • Dark Winds (2022)
    Dark Winds
  • The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses (2021)
    The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
  • Death Row Stories (2014)
    Death Row Stories
  • Public Trust (2020)
    Public Trust
  • Matthias Schoenaerts in The Mustang (2019)
    The Mustang
  • Robert Redford in The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
    The Old Man & the Gun
    • (produced by)
  • Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
    Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
  • Momentum Generation (2018)
    Momentum Generation
  • American Epic (2017)
    American Epic
  • Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in Our Souls at Night (2017)
    Our Souls at Night
    • (p.g.a.)
  • Arena (1975)
    Arena
  • Robert Lockwood in The Big Bang (2017)
    The Big Bang
  • American Epic (2015)
    American Epic
  • Ocean Warriors (2016)
    Ocean Warriors

Actor

  • Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia (2020)
    Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
    • (voice)
  • Don Cheadle, Robert Downey Jr., Josh Brolin, Bradley Cooper, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Brie Larson, Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Danai Gurira, and Karen Gillan in Avengers: Endgame (2019)
    Avengers: Endgame
  • Angela Lansbury and Dick Van Dyke in Buttons, A New Musical Film (2018)
    Buttons, A New Musical Film
    • (voice)
  • Robert Redford in The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
    The Old Man & the Gun
  • Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in Our Souls at Night (2017)
    Our Souls at Night
  • Arena (1975)
    Arena
    • (voice)
  • Jason Segel in The Discovery (2017)
    The Discovery
  • John Kassir and Oakes Fegley in Pete's Dragon (2016)
    Pete's Dragon
  • One More Chance
  • Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in Truth (2015)
    Truth
  • Nick Nolte and Robert Redford in A Walk in the Woods (2015)
    A Walk in the Woods
  • Nature Is Speaking (2014)
    Nature Is Speaking
    • (voice)
  • The Glove (2014)
    The Glove
  • Chris Evans in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
    Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Making a Scene (2013)
    Making a Scene

Director

  • Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
    Cathedrals of Culture
    • (segment The Salk Institute)
  • Robert Redford and Shia LaBeouf in The Company You Keep (2012)
    The Company You Keep
  • The Conspirator (2010)
    The Conspirator
  • Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, and Meryl Streep in Lions for Lambs (2007)
    Lions for Lambs
  • The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
    The Legend of Bagger Vance
  • The Horse Whisperer (1998)
    The Horse Whisperer
  • Ralph Fiennes in Quiz Show (1994)
    Quiz Show
  • Craig Sheffer in A River Runs Through It (1992)
    A River Runs Through It
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  • The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
    The Milagro Beanfield War
  • Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, and Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People (1980)
    Ordinary People
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    • Sundance Institute
    • The Redford Center
    • August 18, 1936
    • Santa Monica, California, USA
    • Bylle Szaggars-RedfordJuly 11, 2009 - present
    • (Sibling)
  • Other works
    (1959- ). Active on Broadway in the following productions:
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    • 7 Print Biographies
    • 2 Portrayals
    • 15 Interviews
    • 29 Articles
    • 7 Pictorials
    • 201 Magazine Cover Photos

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  • Trivia
    He is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, which he named after his character from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
  • Quotes
    [on his appearance in Havana (1990)] All everyone talked about was aging. It took me by surprise because I have not thought of myself that way. I assumed I would age naturally, as time went on.
    • Films often reflect his liberal political views
    • The Last Castle
      (2001)
      $11,000,000

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