Robert Redford
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 18, 1936
- Died
- Sep 16, 2025 (aged 89)
- Place of birth
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Credits
- 167
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
Avengers: Endgame
2019Movie
Alexander Pierce
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014Movie
Alexander Pierce
The Sting
1973Movie
Johnny Hooker
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969Movie
The Sundance Kid
Spy Game
2001Movie
Nathan Muir
Pete's Dragon
2016Movie
Mr. Meacham
Filmography
The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream
2026Movie
(archive footage)
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
2026Movie
Self
Soccer's American Dream
2026TV
Self (archive footage)
Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon
2025Movie
Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda for President
2025Movie
Self (archive footage)
Superpowered: The DC Story
2023TV
Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023Movie
Self (archive footage)
White House Plumbers
2023TV
Bob Woodward (voice) (uncredited)
A Journey to Sundance
2023Movie
Self
Dark Winds
2022TV
Robert (uncredited)
Betty White: A Celebration
2022Movie
Self
The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
2021Movie
Narrator (voice)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021Movie
Self
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2020Movie
Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019Movie
Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019Movie
Self
Robert Redford: The Golden Look
2019Movie
Self (archive footage)
Avengers: Endgame
2019Movie
Alexander Pierce
Words from a Bear
2019Movie
Self
Buttons
2018Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Old Man & the Gun
2018Movie
Forrest Tucker
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
2018Movie
Self - (archive footage)
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
2017Movie
Self
Walden
2017Movie
Narrator
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
2017Movie
Self
Our Souls at Night
2017Movie
Louis Waters
Earth: One Amazing Day
2017Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Words That Built America
2017Movie
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
American Epic
2017TV
Narrator (voice)
The Discovery
2017Movie
Dr. Thomas Harbor
Pete's Dragon
2016Movie
Mr. Meacham
Borsalino City
2016Movie
Self
National Parks Adventure
2016Movie
Narrator
Truth
2015Movie
Dan Rather
A Walk in the Woods
2015Movie
Bill Bryson
Nature Is Speaking
2015TV
The Redwood
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
2015Movie
Self
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014Movie
Alexander Pierce
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014Movie
Self
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
2013Movie
All Is Lost
2013Movie
Our Man
All the President's Men Revisited
2013Movie
Self - Narrator
A Fierce Green Fire
2013Movie
Narrator (voice)
Talking Pictures
2013TV
Self (archive footage)
The Company You Keep
2012Movie
Jim Grant
Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor »
2012Movie
Self
Casting By
2012Movie
Self
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
2012Movie
Narrator (voice)
Buck
2011Movie
Self
Smash His Camera
2010Movie
Self
Saving the Bay
2009TV
Narrator
Ted Williams
2009Movie
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008Movie
Self
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
2008Movie
Narrator
Lions for Lambs
2007Movie
Dr. Stephen Malley
The Unforeseen
2007Movie
Self
Charlotte's Web
2006Movie
Ike the Horse (voice)
Cosmic Collisions
2006Movie
Narrator (voice)
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
2006Movie
Self
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
2006Movie
Self
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
2006Movie
Self
Iconoclasts
2005TV
Self
An Unfinished Life
2005Movie
Einar Gilkyson
The Art of 'The Sting'
2005Movie
Self
Trudell
2005Movie
Self - Filmmaker, Activist
Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists
2005Movie
Narrator
On the Set: Loews Theater
2004Movie
Self
Tanner on Tanner
2004TV
Self
Parkinson
2004TV
Self - Guest (archive footage)
The Clearing
2004Movie
Wayne Hayes
Something About Sydney Pollack
2004Movie
Self
Sacred Planet
2004Movie
Narrator (voice)
Leçon de Cinéma
2004TV
Self
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
2003Movie
Self
More About the Condor
2003Movie
Self
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
2002Movie
Self
Sundance 20
2002Movie
Self
Spy Game
2001Movie
Nathan Muir
The Last Castle
2001Movie
Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
New York in the Fifties
2001Movie
Self
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
1999Movie
Narrator (voice)
Forever Hollywood
1999Movie
Self
Entangling Shadows
1998Movie
Self
The Horse Whisperer
1998Movie
Tom Booker
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997Movie
Self / Jeremiah Johnson
Anthem
1997Movie
Self
Up Close & Personal
1996Movie
Warren Justice
At Sundance
1995Movie
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994TV
Self
La Classe américaine
1993Movie
Steven (archive footage)
Made in the USA
1993Movie
Self
Indecent Proposal
1993Movie
John Gage
A River Runs Through It
1992Movie
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Sneakers
1992Movie
Bishop
Incident at Oglala
1992Movie
Narrator (voice)
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
1991Movie
Self
Havana
1990Movie
Jack Weil
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990Movie
Self
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990Movie
Self
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
1989Movie
Narrator (voice)
American Experience
1988TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Legal Eagles
1986Movie
Tom Logan
Out of Africa
1985Movie
Denys Finch Hatton
The Natural
1984Movie
Roy Hobbs
The Sun Dagger
1983Movie
Narrator (voice)
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982Movie
Self
Brubaker
1980Movie
Brubaker
The Electric Horseman
1979Movie
Sonny
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979TV
Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978TV
Self
The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford
1978Movie
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome
1978Movie
Narrator
The South Bank Show
1978TV
A Bridge Too Far
1977Movie
Maj. Julian Cook
All the President's Men
1976Movie
Bob Woodward
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
1976Movie
Self
Following the Tundra Wolf
1975Movie
Narrator
Three Days of the Condor
1975Movie
Joseph Turner
The Great Waldo Pepper
1975Movie
Waldo Pepper
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event
1974Movie
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Spécial cinéma
1974TV
Self
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
1974Movie
Self / Narrator (voice)
The Great Gatsby
1974Movie
Jay Gatsby
The Sting
1973Movie
Johnny Hooker
The Way We Were
1973Movie
Hubbell Gardner
Jeremiah Johnson
1972Movie
Jeremiah Johnson
The Candidate
1972Movie
Bill McKay
The Hot Rock
1972Movie
John Dortmunder
Film '72
1971TV
Self
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971TV
Self
The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
1970Movie
Self
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
1970Movie
Big Halsy
Downhill Racer
1969Movie
David Chappellet
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969Movie
Cooper
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969Movie
The Sundance Kid
Barefoot in the Park
1967Movie
Paul Bratter
This Property Is Condemned
1966Movie
Owen Legate
The Chase
1966Movie
Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
Inside Daisy Clover
1966Movie
Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
aspekte
1965TV
Self
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
1965Movie
Captain Hank Wilson
Breaking Point
1963TV
Roger Morton
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962TV
Chuck Marsden, David Chesterman
The Virginian
1962TV
Matthew Cordell
War Hunt
1962Movie
Pvt. Roy Loomis
The New Breed
1961TV
Arthur Honniger - Hitchhiker
Bus Stop
1961TV
Art Ellison
Dr. Kildare
1961TV
Mark Hadley
The Defenders
1961TV
Gary Degan
The Americans
1961TV
George Harrod
The Iceman Cometh
1960TV
Don Parritt
Route 66
1960TV
Janosh
Moment of Fear
1960TV
Stranger
Tate
1960TV
Torsett, Tad Dundee
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
1960Movie
Sergeant Lott
Tall Story
1960Movie
Basketball Player (uncredited)
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960Movie
Blue Jacket
The Untouchables
1959TV
Jackson Emmit Parker
Play of the Week
1959TV
Don Parritt
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Harold Beldon
Naked City
1958TV
Baldwin Larne
Maverick
1957TV
Jimmy Coleman
Perry Mason
1957TV
Dick Hart
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955TV
Charlie Marx
The Oscars
1953TV
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951TV
Blue Jacket
Golden Globe Awards
1944TV
Self (uncredited)