Robert Redford
Acting
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.
Born: August 18, 1936
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Robert (uncredited)
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
as Self
as Alexander Pierce
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Forrest Tucker
as Self - Actor
as Narrator
as Louis Waters
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
as Narrator (voice)
as Dr. Thomas Harbor
as Mr. Meacham
as Self
as Narrator
as Dan Rather
as Bill Bryson
as The Redwood
as Alexander Pierce
as Our Man
as Self - Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Self (archive footage)
as Jim Grant
as Self
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Self
as Narrator
as Dr. Stephen Malley
as Self
as Ike the Horse (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Einar Gilkyson
as Self
as Self - Filmmaker, Activist
as Wayne Hayes
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Nathan Muir
as Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self
as Tom Booker
as Self
as Warren Justice
as Self
as Self
as Steven (archive footage)
as Self
as John Gage
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
as Bishop
as Narrator (voice)
as Jack Weil
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Tom Logan
as Denys George Finch Hatton
as Roy Hobbs
as Narrator (voice)
as Henry Brubaker
as Sonny
as Self
as Self
as Narrator
as Maj. Julian Cook
as Bob Woodward
as Joseph Turner
as Waldo Pepper
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
as Self
as Jay Gatsby
as Johnny Hooker
as Hubbell Gardner
as Jeremiah Johnson
as Bill McKay
as John Dortmunder
as Self
as Big Halsy
as David Chappellet
as Cooper
as Sundance Kid
as Paul Bratter
as Owen Legate
as Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
as Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
as Captain Hank Wilson
as Roger Morton
as Chuck Marsden
as David Chesterman
as Matthew Cordell
as Pvt. Roy Loomis
as Arthur Honniger - Hitchhiker
as Art Ellison
as Mark Hadley
as Gary Degan
as George Harrod
as Don Parritt
as Janosh
as Torsett
as Tad Dundee
as Sergeant Lott
as Basketball Player (uncredited)
as Jackson Emmit Parker
as Don Parritt
as Harold Beldon
as Baldwin Larne
as Jimmy Coleman
as Dick Hart
as Charlie Marx
as Self
as Blue Jacket
as Self (uncredited)
as Self / Jeremiah Johnson
as Himself