Robert Redford, the legendary actor and movie star, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, passed on Sep. 16, at the age of 89.
Redford gained prominence for his lead roles in the romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park (1967) opposite Jane Fonda and the free-spirited western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) alongside Paul Newman.
He reunited with Newman in the 1973 caper film The Sting receiving his only nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
He continued his leading man status starring in the western film Jeremiah Johnson, the political drama The Candidate (both 1972), the romantic dramas The Way We Were (1973), and The Great Gatsby (1974), and the dramas Three Days of the Condor, and The Great Waldo Pepper (both 1975).
The following year he starred as Bob Woodward in the Alan J. Pakula political drama All the President’s Men (1976).
He later appeared in the Richard Attenborough war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Sydney Pollack western comedy The Electric Horseman (1979).
He established himself as major star in Barry Levinson sports drama The Natural (1984) and the Sydney Pollack epic romance Out of Africa (1985).
He continued appearing in films such as Sneakers (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Horse Whisperer (1998), An Unfinished Life (2005), All Is Lost (2013), A Walk in the Woods (2015), Pete’s Dragon (2016), and The Discovery (2017). In 2014, he entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe appearing as Alexander Pierce in Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), a role he would reprise in Avengers: Endgame (2019).
In 2015, he portrayed Dan Rather in the drama Truth (2015).
He reunited with Jane Fonda in the Netflix romance Our Souls at Night (2017), and had his final starring role in The Old Man & the Gun (2018).
In 1980 he made his directorial film debut with Ordinary People, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Redford receiving the Academy Award for Best Director. He continued directing films including The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Horse Whisperer (1998), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), Lions for Lambs (2007), The Conspirator (2010), and The Company You Keep (2012). In 2002 he received the Academy Honorary Award as an “Actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere.”
Film
Acting roles
Year Title Role Director Notes
1960
Tall Story, Basketball Player, Joshua Logan (Uncredited)
1962
War Hunt, Private Roy Loomis, Denis Sanders
1965
Inside Daisy Clover Wade Lewis Robert Mulligan
Situation Hopeless..But Not Serious Capt. Hank Wilson, Gottfried Reinhardt
1966
This Property Is Condemned, Owen Legate, Sydney Pollack
The Chase Charlie ‘Bubber’ Reeves, Arthur Penn
1967
Barefoot in the Park, Paul Bratter, Gene Saks
1969
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Sundance Kid George Roy Hill
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, Dept. Sheriff Christopher ‘Coop’ Cooper, Abraham Polonsky
Downhill Racer, David Chappellet, Michael Ritchie
1970
Little Fauss and Big Halsy Halsy Knox Sidney J. Furie
1972
Jeremiah, Johnson Jeremiah Johnson, Sydney Pollack
The Candidate, Bill McKay Michael Ritchie
The Hot Rock, John Archibald Dortmunder, Peter Yates
1973
The Sting Johnny Hooker, George Roy Hill
The Way We Were Hubbell Gardiner, Sydney Pollack
1974
The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, Jack Clayton
1975
Three Days of the Condor, Joseph Turner / The Condor, Sydney Pollack
The Great Waldo Pepper Waldo Pepper, George Roy Hill
1976
All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward, Alan J. Pakula
1977
A Bridge Too Far Major Julian Cook, Richard Attenborough
1979
The Electric Horseman, Norman ‘Sonny’ Steele, Sydney Pollack
1980
Brubaker, Henry Brubaker, Stuart Rosenberg
1984
The Natural, Roy Hobbs, Barry Levinson
1985
Out of Africa,m Denys Finch Hatton, Sydney Pollack
1986
Legal Eagles, Tom Logan, Ivan Reitman
1990
Havanam Jack Weil , Sydney Pollack
1992
Sneakers Marty Bishop / Martin Brice, Phil Alden Robinson
1993
Indecent Proposal, John Gage, Adrian Lyne
1996
Up Close & Personal Warren Justice, Jon Avnet
1998
The Horse Whisperer, Tom Booker, Himself, Also producer
2001
The Last Castle. Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin, Rod Lurie
Spy Game CIA Case Officer Nathan D. Muir, Tony Scott
2004
The Clearing Wayne Hayes Pieter Jan Brugge
2005
An Unfinished Life Einar Gilkyson Lasse Hallström
2006
Charlotte’s Web Ike, Gary Winick, Voice
2007
Lions for Lambs Professor Stephen Malley, Himself, Also producer
2012
The Company You Keep Jim Grant / Nick Sloan
2013
All Is Lost Our Man J. C. Chandor
2014
Captain America: Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce, Anthony & Joe Russo
2015
A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson, Ken Kwapis, Also producer
Truth, Dan Rather, James Vanderbilt
2016
Pete’s Dragon Conrad Meacham David Lowery
2017
The Discovery Thomas Harbor Charlie McDowell
Our Souls at Night Louis Waters Ritesh Batra Also producer
2018
The Old Man & the Gun Forrest Tucker David Lowery
2019
Avengers: Endgame Alexander Pierce Anthony and Joe Russo, Cameo
2020
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia Lokia The Dolphin Monster Various Voice
Directing
Year Title Director Producer Notes
1980 Ordinary People Yes No
1988 The Milagro Beanfield War Yes Yes
1992 A River Runs Through It Yes Yes
1994 Quiz Show Yes Yes
1998 The Horse Whisperer Yes Yes
A Civil Action No Yes
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance Yes Yes
2007 Lions for Lambs Yes Yes
2010 The Conspirator Yes Yes
2012 The Company You Keep Yes Yes
2014 Cathedrals of Culture Yes No Documentary
Segment: “The Salk Institute”
Executive producer
Promised Land (1987)
Some Girls (1988)
The Dark Wind (1991)
She’s the One (1996)
No Looking Back (1998)
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog (2002)
Love in the Time of Money (2002)
People I Know (2002)
The Motorcycle Diaries (2002)
The March (2013) (Documentary)
Drunktown’s Finest (2014)
The Adderall Diaries (2015)
The American West (2016)
American Epic (2017) (Documentary)
The American Epic Sessions (2017) (Documentary)
The Mustang (2019)
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1960 Maverick Jimmy Coleman Episode 76: “Iron Hand”
Rescue 8 Danny Tilford Episode 67: “Breakdown”
The Deputy Burt Johnson Episode 31: “The Last Gunfight”
Playhouse 90 Lieutenant Lott Episode 134: “In the Presence of Mine Enemies”
Tate John Torsett Episode 3: “The Bounty Hunter”
Tad Dundee Episode 8: “Comanche Scalps”
Moment of Fear Stranger Episode 1: “The Golden Deed”
Perry Mason Dick Hart Episode 96: “The Case of the Treacherous Toupee”
The Play of the Week Don Parritt Episodes 8 & 9: “The Iceman Cometh”
1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Charlie Pugh Season 7 Episode 11: “The Right Kind of Medicine”
Route 66 Janosh Episode 35: “First-Class Mouliak”
Whispering Smith Johnny Episode 2: “The Grudge”
Naked City Baldwin Larne Episode 60: “Tombstone for a Derelict”
1962–63 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Chuck Marsden / David Chesterman 2 episodes
1963 Dr. Kildare Medical Student Episode 35: “The Burning Sky”
The Twilight Zone Harold Beldon / Death Episode 81: “Nothing in the Dark”
The Untouchables Jack Parker Episode 103: “Snowball”
The Virginian Matthew Cordell Episode 35: “The Evil That Men Do”
1993 La Classe américaine Steven Television film
2002 Skinwalkers — Television film
Executive producer
2004 Tanner on Tanner Himself Episode 1: “Dinner at Elaine’s”; Episode 4: “The Awful Truth”
2023 White House Plumbers Bob Woodward Voice
Episode 4: “The Writer’s Wife”, uncredited cameo
2025 Dark Winds Chess Player Episode: “Ye’iitsoh (Big Monster)”, uncredited cameo
Also executive producer[1]
Narrator
Year Title Notes
1970 The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Documentary
1971 The Language And The Music Of The Wolves Project of The Natural History Magazine
1974 Following the Tundra Wolf Documentary
1975 Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
1977 The Predators
1983 The Sun Dagger
1986 Audubon Video: Grizzly and Man – Uneasy Truce
1988 Audubon Video: California Condor
1989 Changing Steps
To Protect Mother Earth
1990 American Experience: Yosemite – The Fate of Heaven
1992 A River Runs Through It Also director and producer
Incident at Oglala Documentary
1997 Mountain Climbing: Free Climb
1998 Wallace Stegner: A Writer’s Life
1999 The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
2004 Sacred Planet
2006 Cosmic Collisions Documentary
Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures Narrated two episodes
2008 Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars Documentary
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk Documentary on the Colorado River
2009 Saving The Bay Documentary on the San Francisco Bay
2010 Stories From The Gulf Documentary project of NRDC
2012 The Movement: One Man Joins An Uprising Project of the Make A Hero organization
2016 National Parks Adventure Project of MacGillivray Freeman Films
2017 American Epic Documentary film series
Earth: One Amazing Day BBC documentary
2018 The New Environmentalists PBS documentary
Buttons: A Christmas Tale
References
“Robert Redford Made His Final Screen Appearance on This TV Series 6 Months Before His Death”. People.com. Retrieved September 16, 2025.
External links
Robert Redford filmography at IMDb
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FilmographyAwards and nominations
Films directed
Ordinary People (1980)The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)A River Runs Through It (1992)Quiz Show (1994)The Horse Whisperer (1998)The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)Lions for Lambs (2007)The Conspirator (2010)The Company You Keep (2012)
Sundance
Sundance Film FestivalSundance TVSundance InstituteWildwood Enterprises, Inc
Family
Lola Van Wagenen (first wife)Amy Redford (daughter)
