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In 1981 Redford cofounded the Sundance Resort and Film Institute. His later film roles include All Is Lost (2013), Truth (2015), Our Souls at Night (2017), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018). Redford portrayed Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).
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- Charles Robert Redford Jr., August 18, 1936 (age 87), Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Robert Redford. Actor: The Natural. Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, 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.
- January 1, 1
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- Santa Monica, California, USA
Oct 20, 2020 · Hollywood star Robert Redford is "in mourning" following the death of his son James at the age of 58. Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after being diagnosed with liver...
- Who Is Robert Redford?
- Early Life
- Artist's Life Abroad
- Career Beginnings
- 'Sundance Kid' and 'Way We Were'
- Oscar For 'Ordinary People'
- Playing Dan Rather in 'Truth'
- Personal Life
- Retirement
Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, Robert Redford has proved to be one of the great talents in American film, starring in classics such as The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Candidate and The Way We Were. Redford also helped start the Sundance Film Festival, which has grown into one of the movie industry's most pr...
Born Charles Robert Redford Jr. on August 18, 1936, in a multicultural neighborhood in Santa Monica, California, actor and director Robert Redford has proven to be one of the great talents in American film. He is equally at home behind the scenes as he is in front of the cameras. In addition to his own career, Redford has helped advance others in h...
Redford won a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, but he did not distinguish himself as an athlete there. Instead, "I became the campus drunk and blew out before I could ever get going," he told Peoplemagazine in a 1998 interview. Some reports say he dropped out, while others say that Redford was expelled from the university. In eit...
After returning to the United States, Redford met Lola Van Wagenan in Los Angeles. The couple married in 1958 and lived in New York City, soon welcoming their first child. Redford studied first at the Pratt Institute and then the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, switching from design to acting. Then in 1959, he and his wife experienced a terrible...
Redford did a good amount of TV work for a time and made his big-screen debut in 1962's War Hunt. Still, the actor's film career didn't really take off until 1967 when he reprised his stage role as Paul in the film adaptation of Barefoot in the Park, opposite Jane Fonda. Redford then gave an iconic, star-making turn in the 1969 western Butch Cassid...
With 1980's Ordinary People, Redford showed that he was more than a movie idol, providing a heartbreaking look at a family torn apart by loss and grief. The film served as his directorial debut and starred Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherlandand Timothy Hutton. The drama brought Redford his first Academy Award—one for best director. Around this time...
In more recent years, Redford has been selective about his film work. After 2000's The Legend of Bagger Vance, he directed and starred in 2007's political drama Lions for Lambs with Tom Cruise and Streep, which proved to be a commercial and critical disappointment. His next directorial effort, The Conspirator, was released in 2011 and looks at the ...
Redford is currently married to Sibylle Szaggars, a German painter. The couple wed in 2009 in Hamburg after being together since the mid-1990s. His first marriage to wife Lola ended in 1985, and they had four children together—daughters Shauna and Amy and sons Scott and Jamie.
On August 6, 2018, Redford announced that his starring role in the upcoming crime comedyThe Old Man & the Gun would bring his long and distinguished acting career to a close. "Never say never, but I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting, and [I'll] move towards retirement after this 'cause I've been doing it since I ...
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Actor: The Natural. Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, and Martha Redford, 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.
- August 18, 1936
This is the filmography of the American actor, director, producer and activist Robert Redford . Redford gained prominence for his leading roles in the romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park (1967) opposite Jane Fonda and the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) alongside Paul Newman.
Feb 16, 2024 · Robert Redford is 87 years old as of 2024. He was born on August 18, 1936 in Santa Monica, California. His parents were Martha Woodruff Redford (née Hart) and Charles Robert Redford Sr. His mother died when he was 18 years old. His father was a milkman-turned-accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and he died in 1991.
