Acting
Robert Redford
EN, DE, FR, IT cinema · 153 credits
Born
18 August 1936
Died
16 September 2025 (aged 89)
Birthplace
Santa Monica, California, USA
Also known as Charles Robert Redford, Jr · Charles Robert Redford Jr.
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
Filmography
The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream
as (archive footage)
Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
All Illusions Must Be Broken
Executive Producer
Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self (archive footage)
The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
as Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
as Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
Public Trust
Executive Producer
Avengers: Endgame
as Alexander Pierce
Robert Redford: The Golden Look
as Self (archive footage)
The Mustang
Executive Producer
The Old Man & the Gun
as Forrest Tucker, Producer
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Buttons
as Narrator (voice)
Momentum Generation
Executive Producer
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Executive Producer
The Discovery
as Dr. Thomas Harbor
Our Souls at Night
as Louis Waters, Producer
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
Earth: One Amazing Day
as Narrator (voice)
Walden
as Narrator
Pete's Dragon
as Mr. Meacham
National Parks Adventure
as Narrator
Borsalino City
as Self
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry
Executive Producer
The Adderall Diaries
Executive Producer
A Walk in the Woods
as Bill Bryson, Producer
Truth
as Dan Rather
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Alexander Pierce
Cathedrals of Culture
Director, Writer
Drunktown's Finest
Executive Producer
A Fierce Green Fire
as Narrator (voice)
All Is Lost
as Our Man
All the President's Men Revisited
as Self - Narrator
Casting By
as Self
The Company You Keep
as Jim Grant, Director, Producer
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
as Narrator (voice)
Buck
as Self
The Conspirator
Producer, Director
Smash His Camera
as Self
The Cove
Thanks
Lions for Lambs
as Dr. Stephen Malley, Director, Producer
The Unforeseen
as Self, Executive Producer
Charlotte's Web
as Ike the Horse (voice)
Cosmic Collisions
as Narrator (voice)
An Unfinished Life
as Einar Gilkyson
Trudell
as Self - Filmmaker, Activist
The Clearing
as Wayne Hayes
Sacred Planet
as Narrator (voice)
A Thief Of Time
Executive Producer
Coyote Waits
Executive Producer
Sundance 20
as Self
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Executive Producer
Skinwalkers
Executive Producer
Love in the Time of Money
Executive Producer
The Last Castle
as Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
Spy Game
as Nathan Muir
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Producer, Director
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
as Narrator (voice)
The Horse Whisperer
as Tom Booker, Producer, Director
A Civil Action
Producer
No Looking Back
Executive Producer
Slums of Beverly Hills
Executive Producer
Anthem
as Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
as Self / Jeremiah Johnson
Eye of God
Thanks
Up Close & Personal
as Warren Justice
She's the One
Executive Producer
At Sundance
as Self
Quiz Show
Director, Producer
Indecent Proposal
as John Gage
La Classe américaine
as Steven (archive footage)
Made in the USA
as Self
Sneakers
as Bishop
Incident at Oglala
as Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
A River Runs Through It
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Producer, Director
The Dark Wind
Executive Producer
Havana
as Jack Weil
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
as Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
Some Girls
Executive Producer
The Milagro Beanfield War
Director, Producer
Legal Eagles
as Tom Logan
Out of Africa
as Denys Finch Hatton
The Natural
as Roy Hobbs
The Sun Dagger
as Narrator (voice)
Brubaker
as Brubaker
Ordinary People
Director
The Solar Film
Executive Producer
A Bridge Too Far
as Maj. Julian Cook
All the President's Men
as Bob Woodward
Three Days of the Condor
as Joseph Turner
The Great Waldo Pepper
as Waldo Pepper
The Great Gatsby
as Jay Gatsby
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
1974
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
as Self / Narrator (voice)
The Way We Were
as Hubbell Gardner
The Sting
as Johnny Hooker
The Candidate
as Bill McKay, Executive Producer
Jeremiah Johnson
as Jeremiah Johnson
The Hot Rock
as John Dortmunder
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
as Big Halsy
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as The Sundance Kid
Downhill Racer
as David Chappellet
Barefoot in the Park
as Paul Bratter
The Chase
as Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
This Property Is Condemned
as Owen Legate
Inside Daisy Clover
as Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
as Captain Hank Wilson
War Hunt
as Pvt. Roy Loomis
Tall Story
as Basketball Player (uncredited)
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Sergeant Lott