Robert Redford
Acting
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.
Known for
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tvSoccer's American Dream
2026
Self (archive footage)
movieRobert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon
2025
Self (archive footage)
movieHenry Fonda for President
2025
Self (archive footage)
tvSuperpowered: The DC Story
2023
Self (archive footage)
tvWhite House Plumbers
2023
Bob Woodward (voice) (uncredited)
tvDark Winds
2022
Robert (uncredited)
movieThe Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
2021
Narrator (voice)
movieOmniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2020
Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
movieRobert Redford: The Golden Look
2019
Self (archive footage)
movieAvengers: Endgame
2019
Alexander Pierce
movieButtons
2018
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Old Man & the Gun
2018
Forrest Tucker
movieJane Fonda in Five Acts
2018
Self - (archive footage)
movieWalden
2017
Narrator
movieOur Souls at Night
2017
Louis Waters
movieEarth: One Amazing Day
2017
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Words That Built America
2017
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
tvAmerican Epic
2017
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Discovery
2017
Dr. Thomas Harbor
moviePete's Dragon
2016
Mr. Meacham
movieTruth
2015
Dan Rather
movieA Walk in the Woods
2015
Bill Bryson
tvNature Is Speaking
2015
The Redwood
movieCaptain America: The Winter Soldier
2014
Alexander Pierce
movieAll Is Lost
2013
Our Man
movieAll the President's Men Revisited
2013
Self - Narrator
movieA Fierce Green Fire
2013
Narrator (voice)
tvTalking Pictures
2013
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Company You Keep
2012
Jim Grant
movieWatershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
2012
Narrator (voice)
movieBuck
2011
Self
movieLions for Lambs
2007
Dr. Stephen Malley
movieCharlotte's Web
2006
Ike the Horse (voice)
movieCosmic Collisions
2006
Narrator (voice)
movieAn Unfinished Life
2005
Einar Gilkyson
movieTrudell
2005
Self - Filmmaker, Activist
Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists
2005
Narrator
movieThe Clearing
2004
Wayne Hayes
movieSacred Planet
2004
Narrator (voice)
movieSundance 20
2002
Himself
movieSpy Game
2001
Nathan Muir
movieThe Last Castle
2001
Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
movieThe Mystery of Chaco Canyon
1999
Narrator (voice)
movieThe Horse Whisperer
1998
Tom Booker
movieThe Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997
Self / Jeremiah Johnson
movieAnthem
1997
Self
movieUp Close & Personal
1996
Warren Justice
movieLa Classe américaine
1993
Steven (archive footage)
movieIndecent Proposal
1993
John Gage
movieA River Runs Through It
1992
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
movieSneakers
1992
Bishop
movieIncident at Oglala
1992
Narrator (voice)
movieHavana
1990
Jack Weil
movieYosemite: The Fate of Heaven
1989
Narrator (voice)
tvAmerican Experience
1988
Self - Narrator (voice)
movieLegal Eagles
1986
Tom Logan
movieOut of Africa
1985
Denys George Finch Hatton
movieThe Natural
1984
Roy Hobbs
movieThe Sun Dagger
1983
Narrator (voice)
movieBrubaker
1980
Brubaker
movieA Bridge Too Far
1977
Maj. Julian Cook
movieAll the President's Men
1976
Bob Woodward
movieThree Days of the Condor
1975
Joseph Turner
movieThe Great Waldo Pepper
1975
Waldo Pepper
movieFrank Sinatra: The Main Event
1974
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
1974
Self / Narrator (voice)
movieThe Great Gatsby
1974
Jay Gatsby
movieThe Sting
1973
Johnny Hooker
movieThe Way We Were
1973
Hubbell Gardner
movieJeremiah Johnson
1972
Jeremiah Johnson
movieThe Candidate
1972
Bill McKay
movieThe Hot Rock
1972
John Dortmunder
movieLittle Fauss and Big Halsy
1970
Big Halsy
movieDownhill Racer
1969
David Chappellet
movieButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
Sundance Kid
movieBarefoot in the Park
1967
Paul Bratter
movieThis Property Is Condemned
1966
Owen Legate
movieThe Chase
1966
Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
movieInside Daisy Clover
1966
Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
movieSituation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1965
Captain Hank Wilson
tvBreaking Point
1963
Roger Morton
tvThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
Chuck Marsden / David Chesterman
tvThe Virginian
1962
Matthew Cordell
movieWar Hunt
1962
Pvt. Roy Loomis
tvThe New Breed
1961
Arthur Honniger - Hitchhiker
tvBus Stop
1961
Art Ellison
tvDr. Kildare
1961
Mark Hadley
tvThe Defenders
1961
Gary Degan
tvThe Americans
1961
George Harrod
movieThe Iceman Cometh
1960
Don Parritt
tvThe Iceman Cometh
1960
Don Parritt
tvRoute 66
1960
Janosh
tvTate
1960
Torsett / Tad Dundee
movieIn the Presence of Mine Enemies
1960
Sergeant Lott
movieTall Story
1960
Basketball Player (uncredited)
tvThe Untouchables
1959
Jackson Emmit Parker
tvPlay of the Week
1959
Don Parritt
tvThe Twilight Zone
1959
Harold Beldon
tvNaked City
1958
Baldwin Larne
tvMaverick
1957
Jimmy Coleman
tvPerry Mason
1957
Dick Hart
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Charlie Marx
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Blue Jacket
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self (uncredited)
Production40
movieAll Illusions Must Be Broken
2024
Executive Producer
tvDark Winds
2022
Executive Producer
movieThe Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
2021
Executive Producer
moviePublic Trust
2020
Executive Producer
movieThe Mustang
2019
Executive Producer
movieBe Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
2018
Executive Producer
movieThe Old Man & the Gun
2018
Producer
movieMomentum Generation
2018
Executive Producer
movieOur Souls at Night
2017
Producer
tvAmerican Epic
2017
Executive Producer
tvThe American West
2016
Executive Producer
movieThe Adderall Diaries
2016
Executive Producer
movieLook & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
2016
Executive Producer
movieA Walk in the Woods
2015
Producer
movieDrunktown's Finest
2014
Executive Producer
movieThe Company You Keep
2012
Producer
movieThe Conspirator
2011
Producer
movieLions for Lambs
2007
Producer
movieThe Unforeseen
2007
Executive Producer
tvIconoclasts
2005
Producer
movieA Thief Of Time
2004
Executive Producer
movieCoyote Waits
2003
Executive Producer
movieSkinwalkers
2002
Executive Producer
movieLove in the Time of Money
2002
Executive Producer
movieHow to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
2002
Executive Producer
movieA Civil Action
1998
Producer
movieSlums of Beverly Hills
1998
Executive Producer
movieNo Looking Back
1998
Executive Producer
movieThe Horse Whisperer
1998
Producer
movieShe's the One
1996
Executive Producer
movieQuiz Show
1994
Producer
movieA River Runs Through It
1992
Producer
movieThe Dark Wind
1992
Executive Producer
movieIncident at Oglala
1992
Executive Producer
movieYosemite: The Fate of Heaven
1989
Executive Producer
movieSome Girls
1988
Executive Producer
movieThe Solar Film
1980
Executive Producer
movieThe Candidate
1972
Executive Producer
Directing10
movieCathedrals of Culture
2014
Director
movieThe Company You Keep
2012
Director
movieThe Conspirator
2011
Director
movieLions for Lambs
2007
Director
movieThe Horse Whisperer
1998
Director
movieQuiz Show
1994
Director
movieA River Runs Through It
1992
Director
movieOrdinary People
1980
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