Robert Redford
Acting • Born 1936-08-18 – Died 2025-09-16
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.
Filmography
160 credits
All the President's Men
Movie • 1976
Bob Woodward
The Horse Whisperer
Movie • 1998
Tom Booker
Out of Africa
Movie • 1985
Denys George Finch Hatton
The Last Castle
Movie • 2001
Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
Spy Game
Movie • 2001
Nathan Muir
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Movie • 1969
Sundance Kid
Brubaker
Movie • 1980
Brubaker
The Way We Were
Movie • 1973
Hubbell Gardner
Sneakers
Movie • 1992
Bishop
An Unfinished Life
Movie • 2005
Einar Gilkyson
The Clearing
Movie • 2004
Wayne Hayes
Indecent Proposal
Movie • 1993
John Gage
Lions for Lambs
Movie • 2007
Dr. Stephen Malley
The Electric Horseman
Movie • 1979
Sonny
The Great Gatsby
Movie • 1974
Jay Gatsby
A Bridge Too Far
Movie • 1977
Maj. Julian Cook
The Natural
Movie • 1984
Roy Hobbs
Havana
Movie • 1990
Jack Weil
The Candidate
Movie • 1972
Bill McKay
The Chase
Movie • 1966
Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
Jeremiah Johnson
Movie • 1972
Jeremiah Johnson
Three Days of the Condor
Movie • 1975
Joseph Turner
War Hunt
Movie • 1962
Pvt. Roy Loomis
Downhill Racer
Movie • 1969
David Chappellet
The Sting
Movie • 1973
Johnny Hooker
Up Close & Personal
Movie • 1996
Warren Justice
Legal Eagles
Movie • 1986
Tom Logan
Charlotte's Web
Movie • 2006
Ike the Horse (voice)
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Movie • 1969
Cooper
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
Movie • 2008
Narrator
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
Movie • 1970
Big Halsy
La Classe américaine
Movie • 1993
Steven (archive footage)
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
Movie • 1991
Self
The Hot Rock
Movie • 1972
John Dortmunder
This Property Is Condemned
Movie • 1966
Owen Legate
Sacred Planet
Movie • 2004
Narrator (voice)
Barefoot in the Park
Movie • 1967
Paul Bratter
Betty White: A Celebration
Movie • 2022
Self
Buck
Movie • 2011
Self
Inside Daisy Clover
Movie • 1966
Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
Casting By
Movie • 2012
Self
Cosmic Collisions
Movie • 2006
Narrator (voice)
The Great Waldo Pepper
Movie • 1975
Waldo Pepper
A Fierce Green Fire
Movie • 2013
Narrator (voice)
Smash His Camera
Movie • 2010
Self
The Company You Keep
Movie • 2012
Jim Grant
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Movie • 2014
Alexander Pierce
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
Movie • 1976
Self
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
Movie • 2006
Self
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
Movie • 2006
Self
All Is Lost
Movie • 2013
Our Man
Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious
Movie • 1965
Captain Hank Wilson
Tall Story
Movie • 1960
Basketball Player (uncredited)
The Sun Dagger
Movie • 1983
Narrator (voice)
All the President's Men Revisited
Movie • 2013
Self - Narrator
A Walk in the Woods
Movie • 2015
Bill Bryson
New York in the Fifties
Movie • 2001
Self
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
Movie • 2017
Self
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event
Movie • 1974
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
Movie • 2015
Self
Incident at Oglala
Movie • 1992
Narrator (voice)
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Movie • 1990
Self
Truth
Movie • 2015
Dan Rather
Pete's Dragon
Movie • 2016
Mr. Meacham
Words from a Bear
Movie • 2019
Self
A River Runs Through It
Movie • 1992
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
Movie • 2014
Self
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Movie • 2003
Self
The Art of 'The Sting'
Movie • 2005
Self
Trudell
Movie • 2005
Self - Filmmaker, Activist
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
Movie • 1989
Narrator (voice)
Made in the USA
Movie • 1993
Self
National Parks Adventure
Movie • 2016
Narrator
The Discovery
Movie • 2017
Dr. Thomas Harbor
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
Movie • 2012
Narrator (voice)
Borsalino City
Movie • 2016
Self
Entangling Shadows
Movie • 1998
Self
Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor »
Movie • 2012
Self
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
Movie • 2006
Self
Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Something About Sydney Pollack
Movie • 2004
Self
The Old Man & the Gun
Movie • 2018
Forrest Tucker
Our Souls at Night
Movie • 2017
Louis Waters
Ted Williams
Movie • 2009
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Movie • 2008
Self
The Words That Built America
Movie • 2017
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
At Sundance
Movie • 1995
Self
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
Movie • 2017
Self
Earth: One Amazing Day
Movie • 2017
Narrator (voice)
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
Movie • 2018
Self - (archive footage)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Movie • 1960
Blue Jacket
The Unforeseen
Movie • 2007
Self
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Movie • 1990
Self
Buttons
Movie • 2018
Narrator (voice)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Movie • 2019
Self
Forever Hollywood
Movie • 1999
Self
The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford
Movie • 1978
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
Movie • 2020
Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
Avengers: Endgame
Movie • 2019
Alexander Pierce
Anthem
Movie • 1997
Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Movie • 2019
Self
The Iceman Cometh
Movie • 1960
Don Parritt
The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
Movie • 1970
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie • 2021
Self
On the Set: Loews Theater
Movie • 2004
Self
Walden
Movie • 2017
Narrator
More About the Condor
Movie • 2003
Self
A Journey to Sundance
Movie • 2023
Self
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome
Movie • 1978
Narrator
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
Movie • 2002
Self
The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
Movie • 2021
Narrator (voice)
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Movie • 1960
Sergeant Lott
Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
Movie • 1997
Self / Jeremiah Johnson
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
Movie • 2013
Sundance 20
Movie • 2002
Himself
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
Movie • 1974
Self / Narrator (voice)
Following the Tundra Wolf
Movie • 1975
Narrator
Henry Fonda for President
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Robert Redford: The Golden Look
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
Route 66
TV • 1960
Janosh
Naked City
TV • 1958
Baldwin Larne
CBS News Sunday Morning
TV • 1979
Self
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Dick Hart
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Blue Jacket
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Harold Beldon
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Charlie Marx
Bus Stop
TV • 1961
Art Ellison
Play of the Week
TV • 1959
Don Parritt
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Matthew Cordell
Iconoclasts
TV • 2005
Self
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Arthur Honniger - Hitchhiker
Tate
TV • 1960
Torsett
Breaking Point
TV • 1963
Roger Morton
Dr. Kildare
TV • 1961
Mark Hadley
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Gary Degan
Moment of Fear
TV • 1960
Stranger
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
TV • 1978
Self
The Americans
TV • 1961
George Harrod
Talking Pictures
TV • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Maverick
TV • 1957
Jimmy Coleman
American Epic
TV • 2017
Narrator (voice)
American Experience
TV • 1988
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Untouchables
TV • 1959
Jackson Emmit Parker
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
Leçon de Cinéma
TV • 2004
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Tate
TV • 1960
Tad Dundee
Nature Is Speaking
TV • 2015
The Redwood
aspekte
TV • 1965
Self
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
Chuck Marsden
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV • 1962
David Chesterman
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self (uncredited)
Dark Winds
TV • 2022
Robert (uncredited)
Saving the Bay
TV • 2009
Narrator
Superpowered: The DC Story
TV • 2023
Self (archive footage)
White House Plumbers
TV • 2023
Bob Woodward (voice) (uncredited)