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Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director, and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards, including a Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994. He also earned vari…
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Born 18 August 1936 · Died 16 September 2025 · Q59215
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I've always appreciated diversity. I believe that American culture is founded on diversity and for this reason it is still alive and inspiring. I grew up in what you might call an unfortunate part of Los Angeles, where there wasn't much to do but experience the differences, go to different places, and hear different stories.
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Awarded Honorary César (2019).
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2026· 5 entries
AOL: 1975 Robert Redford Thriller About American Espionage Was So Realistic, It Inspired the KGB
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AOL: Robert Redford Almost Quit 'Indecent Proposal' Over Concerns About His Role
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The Guardian: ‘I have more to say’: Jane Fonda questions why Barbra Streisand fronted Oscars tribute to Robert Redford
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The Guardian: Barbra Streisand pays tribute to Robert Redford at the Oscars: ‘He blazed his own trail’
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2025· 9 entries
The Guardian: ‘Extra challenging during a difficult time’: Robert Redford’s daughter criticises AI tributes to the late actor
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Forbes: Robert Redford: Leadership Lessons On Making A Positive Difference
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The Guardian: A worrying obsession with Robert Redford’s looks | Letters
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Authentic video shows Amy Redford explaining why Trump is not allowed to attend her father's funeral.” Fake Audio.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Actor Robert Redford once said, "President Donald Trump didn't create all of our divisions as Americans. But he has found every fault line in America and wrenched them wide open."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Robert Redford once said of U.S. President Donald Trump: "It is painfully clear we have a president who degrades everything he touches, a person who does not understand (or care?) that his duty is to defend our democracy."” Correct Attribution.
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Died 2025-09-16.
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Redford died in his sleep at his home in Sundance, Utah, at the age of 89
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“I've always appreciated diversity. I believe that American culture is founded on diversity and for this reason it is still alive and inspiring. I grew up in what you might call an unfortunate part of Los Angeles, where there wasn't much to do but experience the differences, go to different places, and hear different stories.”
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2023· 1 entry
Redford made an uncredited voice-only cameo in the HBO miniseries White House Plumbers as Bob Woodward, reprising his role from All the President's Men
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2019· 4 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A viral meme of a man nodding features Oscar-winning actor Robert Redford.” True.
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Awarded Honorary César (2019).
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Redford received the Honorary César at the 44th César Awards in Paris
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Redford penned an op-ed in which he referred to Trump's administration as a "monarchy in disguise" and stated "[i]t's time for Trump to go"
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2017· 3 entries
Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2017).
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Was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice Film Festival
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Before the completion of the former film
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2016· 5 entries
President Barack Obama honored Redford with a Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Snopes rated the claim “Actors Robert Redford and Meryl Streep are married to each other (or planning to be).” False.
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2016).
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The Salt Lake Tribune called Redford's Sundance Film Festival a "catalyst for an explosion of independent films"
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Then-president Barack Obama called Redford "one of the foremost conservationists of our generation"
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2015· 1 entry
Played news anchor Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt's Truth alongside Cate Blanchett
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2014· 1 entry
Redford was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world
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2013· 2 entries
Was identified by its CEO Russ Girling as leading the anti-pipeline protest movement
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Redford starred in All Is Lost, directed by J
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2012· 1 entry
Redford directed The Company You Keep, in which he starred as a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run after a journalist discovers his identity
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2010· 2 entries
Redford was appointed chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by President Nicolas Sarkozy
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Redford released The Conspirator, a period drama revolving around the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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2009· 1 entry
Redford and his longtime girlfriend, Sibylle Szaggars, married at the Louis C
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2008· 4 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin (2008).
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Awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2008).
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Redford received The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment
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Sundance exhibited 125 feature-length films from 34 countries, with more than 50,000 attendees in Salt Lake City and Park City, Utah
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2002).
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1996· 3 entries
Won National Medal of Arts (1996).
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Was awarded the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton
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The Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019
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1995· 3 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (1995).
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Received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College
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Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable television channel devoted to airing independent films
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1994· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1994).
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Directed the exposé Quiz Show about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s
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1993· 1 entry
Redford starred in Indecent Proposal as a billionaire businessman who tests a couple's morals; the film became one of the year's biggest hits
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1992· 1 entry
Released his third film as a director, the period drama A River Runs Through It, based on Norman Maclean's novella, starring Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt and Tom Skerritt
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1991· 1 entry
Parade magazine said, "it is unclear whether the divorce has been finalized
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1989· 2 entries
Won Audubon Medal (1989).
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The National Audubon Society awarded Redford its highest honor, the Audubon Medal
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1982· 1 entry
Entertainment columnist Shirley Eder reported that the pair "have been very much apart for a number of years
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Ordinary People (1981).
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Redford was deeply involved with independent film
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1978· 1 entry
Helping to foster a new generation of filmmakers
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1977· 1 entry
Redford appeared in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977)
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1976· 3 entries
Redford published The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time
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Co-starred with Dustin Hoffman in the 2nd-highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed All the President's Men
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“The Outlaw Trail. It was a name that fascinated me—a geographical anchor in Western folklore. Whether real or imagined, it was a name that, for me, held a kind of magic, a freedom, a mystery. I wanted to see it in much the same way as the outlaws did, by horse and by foot and document the adventure with text and photographs.”
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1975· 2 entries
Redford's hit movies included a 1920s aviation drama, The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) and the spy thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), alongside Faye Dunaway, which finished 16th and 17th in box-office grosses for 197
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Would have placed it as the 2nd-highest-grossing film of 1973
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1974· 1 entry
Redford became the first performer since Bing Crosby in 1946 to have three films in a year's top-ten-grossing titles
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1973· 1 entry
Redford experienced a four-year run of box-office successes
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1963· 1 entry
On Breaking Point, an ABC medical drama about psychiatry
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1962· 2 entries
Awarded Theatre World Award (1962).
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Redford received his second film role in War Hunt, and was cast soon after alongside screen legend Alec Guinness in the war comedy Situation Hopeless
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1960· 2 entries
Redford was cast as Danny Tilford, a mentally disturbed young man trapped in the wreckage of his family garage, in "Breakdown", one of the last episodes of the syndicated adventure series Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and
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Redford appeared as a guest star on numerous television drama programs, including Naked City, Maverick, The Untouchables, The Americans, Whispering Smith, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 66, Dr
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1959· 2 entries
Studied at American Academy of Dramatic Arts (1959).
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Cuba during the Revolution, as well as Sneakers (1992), in which he co-starred with River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier
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1958· 1 entry
Redford married Lola Van Wagenen in Las Vegas
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1954· 1 entry
Redford attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year and a half, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity
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1936· 2 entries
Born 1936-08-18.
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In Santa Monica, California, to Martha Woodruff Redford (née Hart; 1914–1955), who was from Austin, Texas, and Charles Robert Redford Sr
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1849· 1 entry
Immediately settling next in Stonington, Connecticut
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