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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 …
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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.
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The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream
as (archive footage)
Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky
as Self
Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda for President
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self (archive footage)
A Journey to Sundance
as Self
Betty White: A Celebration
as Self
The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
as Narrator (voice)
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
as Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
as Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
Robert Redford: The Golden Look
as Self (archive footage)
Avengers: Endgame
as Alexander Pierce
Words from a Bear
as Self
Buttons
as Narrator (voice)
The Old Man & the Gun
as Forrest Tucker
Jane Fonda in Five Acts
as Self - (archive footage)
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
as Self
Walden
as Narrator
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution
as Self
Our Souls at Night
as Louis Waters
Earth: One Amazing Day
as Narrator (voice)
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
The Discovery
as Dr. Thomas Harbor
Pete's Dragon
as Mr. Meacham
Borsalino City
as Self
National Parks Adventure
as Narrator
Truth
as Dan Rather
A Walk in the Woods
as Bill Bryson
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
as Self
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
as Alexander Pierce
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
as Self
Making a Scene | 11 Performances
All Is Lost
as Our Man
All the President's Men Revisited
as Self - Narrator
A Fierce Green Fire
as Narrator (voice)
The Company You Keep
as Jim Grant
Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor »
as Self
Casting By
as Self
Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
as Narrator (voice)
Buck
as Self
Smash His Camera
as Self
Ted Williams
as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
as Narrator
Lions for Lambs
as Dr. Stephen Malley
The Unforeseen
as Self
Charlotte's Web
as Ike the Horse (voice)
Cosmic Collisions
as Narrator (voice)
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
as Self
Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
as Self
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
as Self
An Unfinished Life
as Einar Gilkyson
The Art of 'The Sting'
as Self
Trudell
as Self - Filmmaker, Activist
No Poster
Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists
as Narrator
No Poster
On the Set: Loews Theater
as Self
The Clearing
as Wayne Hayes
Something About Sydney Pollack
as Self
Sacred Planet
as Narrator (voice)
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
No Poster
More About the Condor
as Self
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
as Self
Sundance 20
as Self
Spy Game
as Nathan Muir
The Last Castle
as Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
No Poster
New York in the Fifties
as Self
Forever Hollywood
as Self
The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
as Narrator (voice)
Entangling Shadows
as Self
The Horse Whisperer
as Tom Booker
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
as Self / Jeremiah Johnson
Anthem
as Self
Up Close & Personal
as Warren Justice
At Sundance
as Self
La Classe américaine
as Steven (archive footage)
Made in the USA
as Self
Indecent Proposal
as John Gage
A River Runs Through It
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Sneakers
as Bishop
Incident at Oglala
as Narrator (voice)
Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
as Self
Havana
as Jack Weil
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
as Self
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
as Self
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
as Narrator (voice)
Legal Eagles
as Tom Logan
Out of Africa
as Denys Finch Hatton
The Natural
as Roy Hobbs
The Sun Dagger
as Narrator (voice)
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
as Self
Brubaker
as Brubaker
The Electric Horseman
as Sonny
The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford
Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome
as Narrator
A Bridge Too Far
as Maj. Julian Cook
All the President's Men
as Bob Woodward
Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
as Self
No Poster
Following the Tundra Wolf
as Narrator
Three Days of the Condor
as Joseph Turner
The Great Waldo Pepper
as Waldo Pepper
Frank Sinatra: The Main Event
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
No Poster
Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
as Self / Narrator (voice)
The Great Gatsby
as Jay Gatsby
The Sting
as Johnny Hooker
The Way We Were
as Hubbell Gardner
Jeremiah Johnson
as Jeremiah Johnson
The Candidate
as Bill McKay
The Hot Rock
as John Dortmunder
The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
as Self
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
as Big Halsy
Downhill Racer
as David Chappellet
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
as Cooper
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
as The Sundance Kid
Barefoot in the Park
as Paul Bratter
This Property Is Condemned
as Owen Legate
The Chase
as Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
Inside Daisy Clover
as Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
as Captain Hank Wilson
War Hunt
as Pvt. Roy Loomis
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
as Sergeant Lott
Tall Story
as Basketball Player (uncredited)
No Poster
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
as Blue Jacket