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Born August 18, 1936 · Santa Monica, California, USA
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.

Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon
2025

Henry Fonda for President
2025

A Journey to Sundance
2023

Betty White: A Celebration
2022

The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
2021

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021

Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2020

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019

Robert Redford: The Golden Look
2019

Avengers: Endgame
2019

Words from a Bear
2019

Buttons
2018

The Old Man & the Gun
2018

Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018

The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
2017

Walden
2017

Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
2017

Our Souls at Night
2017

Earth: One Amazing Day
2017

The Words That Built America
2017

The Discovery
2017

Pete's Dragon
2016

Borsalino City
2016

National Parks Adventure
2016

Truth
2015

A Walk in the Woods
2015