# Robert Redford filmography

This is the filmography of the American actor, director, producer and activist Robert Redford.
Redford gained prominence for his leading roles in the romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park (1967) opposite Jane Fonda and the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) alongside Paul Newman. He reunited with Newman in the 1973 caper film The Sting receiving his only nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He continued his leading man status starring in the western film Jeremiah Johnson, the political drama The Candidate (both 1972), the romantic dramas The Way We Were (1973), and The Great Gatsby (1974), and the dramas Three Days of the Condor, and The Great Waldo Pepper (both 1975). The following year he starred as Bob Woodward in the Alan J. Pakula political drama All the President's Men (1976). He later appeared in the Richard Attenborough war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Sydney Pollack western comedy The Electric Horseman (1979).
He further established himself as a star in the Barry Levinson sports drama The Natural (1984) and the Sydney Pollack epic romance Out of Africa (1985). He continued appearing in films such as Sneakers (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Horse Whisperer (1998), An Unfinished Life (2005), All Is Lost (2013), A Walk in the Woods (2015), Pete's Dragon (2016), and The Discovery (2017). In 2014, he entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe appearing as Alexander Pierce in Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), a role he would reprise in Avengers: Endgame (2019). In 2015, portrayed Dan Rather in the drama Truth (2015). He reunited with Jane Fonda in the Netflix romance Our Souls at Night (2017), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018).
In 1980 he made his directorial film debut with Ordinary People for which it won the Academy Award for Best Picture with Redford receiving the Academy Award for Best Director. He continued directing films such as A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Legend of Bagger Vance (1998), Lions for Lambs (2007), The Conspirator (2010), and The Company You Keep (2012). In 2002 he received the Academy Honorary Award as an "Actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere."

## Acting roles

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 1960 | Tall Story | Basketball Player | Joshua Logan | Uncredited |
| 1962 | War Hunt | Private Roy Loomis | Denis Sanders | |
| 1965 | Inside Daisy Clover | Wade Lewis | Robert Mulligan | |
| 1965 | Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious | Capt. Hank Wilson | Gottfried Reinhardt | |
| 1966 | This Property Is Condemned | Owen Legate | Sydney Pollack | |
| 1966 | The Chase | Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves | Arthur Penn | |
| 1967 | Barefoot in the Park | Paul Bratter | Gene Saks | |
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Sundance Kid | George Roy Hill | |
| 1969 | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Dept. Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' Cooper | Abraham Polonsky | |
| 1969 | Downhill Racer | David Chappellet | Michael Ritchie | |
| 1970 | Little Fauss and Big Halsy | Halsy Knox | Sidney J. Furie | |
| 1972 | Jeremiah Johnson | Jeremiah Johnson | Sydney Pollack | |
| 1972 | The Candidate | Bill McKay | Michael Ritchie | |
| 1972 | The Hot Rock | John Archibald Dortmunder | Peter Yates | |
| 1973 | The Sting | Johnny Hooker | George Roy Hill | |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | Hubbell Gardiner | Sydney Pollack | |
| 1974 | The Great Gatsby | Jay Gatsby | Jack Clayton | |
| 1975 | Three Days of the Condor | Joseph Turner / The Condor | Sydney Pollack | |
| 1975 | The Great Waldo Pepper | Waldo Pepper | George Roy Hill | |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Bob Woodward | Alan J. Pakula | |
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Major Julian Cook | Richard Attenborough | |
| 1979 | The Electric Horseman | Norman 'Sonny' Steele | Sydney Pollack | |
| 1980 | Brubaker | Henry Brubaker | Stuart Rosenberg | |
| 1984 | The Natural | Roy Hobbs | Barry Levinson | |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Denys Finch Hatton | Sydney Pollack | |
| 1986 | Legal Eagles | Tom Logan | Ivan Reitman | |
| 1990 | Havana | Jack Weil | Sydney Pollack | |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Marty Bishop / Martin Brice | Phil Alden Robinson | |
| 1992 | Incident at Oglala | Narrator | Michael Apted | |
| 1993 | Indecent Proposal | John Gage | Adrian Lyne | |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | Steven | Michel Hazanavicius Dominique Mézerette | |
| 1996 | Up Close & Personal | Warren Justice | Jon Avnet | |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Tom Booker | Himself | Also producer |
| 2001 | The Last Castle | Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin | Rod Lurie | |
| 2001 | Spy Game | CIA Case Officer Nathan D. Muir | Tony Scott | |
| 2004 | The Clearing | Wayne Hayes | Pieter Jan Brugge | |
| 2005 | An Unfinished Life | Einar Gilkyson | Lasse Hallström | |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web | Ike (voice) | Gary Winick | |
| 2007 | Lions for Lambs | Professor Stephen Malley | Himself | Also producer |
| 2012 | The Company You Keep | Jim Grant / Nick Sloan | Himself | Also producer |
| 2013 | All Is Lost | Our Man | J. C. Chandor | |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Alexander Pierce | Anthony and Joe Russo | |
| 2015 | A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | Ken Kwapis | Also producer |
| 2015 | Truth | Dan Rather | James Vanderbilt | |
| 2016 | Pete's Dragon | Conrad Meacham | David Lowery | |
| 2017 | The Discovery | Thomas Harbor | Charlie McDowell | |
| 2017 | Our Souls at Night | Louis Waters | Ritesh Batra | Also producer |
| 2018 | The Old Man & the Gun | Forrest Tucker | David Lowery | Also producer |
| 2018 | Buttons: A Christmas Tale | Narrator (voice) | Tim Janis | |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Alexander Pierce | Anthony and Joe Russo | Cameo |
| 2020 | Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia | Lokia The Dolphin Monster (voice) | Various | |

## Producer and director

| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Notes |
| 1980 | Ordinary People | Yes | No | Directorial debut |
| 1987 | Promised Land | No | Executive | |
| 1988 | The Milagro Beanfield War | Yes | Yes | |
| 1988 | Some Girls | No | Executive | |
| 1991 | The Dark Wind | No | Executive | |
| 1992 | A River Runs Through It | Yes | Yes | |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Yes | Yes | |
| 1996 | She's the One | No | Executive | |
| 1998 | No Looking Back | No | Executive | |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Yes | Yes | |
| 1998 | Slums of Beverly Hills | No | Executive | |
| 1998 | A Civil Action | No | Yes | |
| 2000 | The Legend of Bagger Vance | Yes | Yes | |
| 2002 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | No | Executive | |
| 2002 | Love in the Time of Money | No | Executive | |
| 2002 | People I Know | No | Executive | |
| 2002 | Skinwalkers | No | Executive | TV movie |
| 2004 | The Motorcycle Diaries | No | Executive | |
| 2007 | Lions for Lambs | Yes | Yes | |
| 2010 | The Conspirator | Yes | Yes | |
| 2012 | The Company You Keep | Yes | Yes | |
| 2013 | The March | No | Executive | Documentary |
| 2014 | Drunktown's Finest | No | Executive | |
| 2014 | Cathedrals of Culture | Yes | No | Documentary, segment: "The Salk Institute" |
| 2015 | The Adderall Diaries | No | Executive | |
| 2017 | American Epic | No | Executive | |
| 2017 | The American Epic Sessions | No | Executive | |
| 2019 | The Mustang | No | Executive | |
| 2022-present | Dark Winds | No | Executive | Television series |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1960 | Maverick | Jimmy Coleman | Episode 76: "Iron Hand" |
| 1960 | Rescue 8 | Danny Tilford | Episode 67: "Breakdown" |
| 1960 | The Deputy | Burt Johnson | Episode 31: "The Last Gunfight" |
| 1960 | Playhouse 90 | Lieutenant Lott | Episode 134: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" |
| 1960 | Tate | John Torsett | Episode 3: "The Bounty Hunter" |
| 1960 | Tate | Tad Dundee | Episode 8: "Comanche Scalps" |
| 1960 | Moment of Fear | Stranger | Episode 1: "The Golden Deed" |
| 1960 | Perry Mason | Dick Hart | Episode 96: "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee" |
| 1960 | The Play of the Week | Don Parritt | Episodes 8 & 9: "The Iceman Cometh" |
| 1961 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Charlie Pugh | Season 7 Episode 11: "The Right Kind of Medicine" |
| 1961 | Route 66 | Janosh | Episode 35: "First-Class Mouliak" |
| 1961 | Whispering Smith | Johnny | Episode 2: "The Grudge" |
| 1961 | Naked City | Baldwin Larne | Episode 60: "Tombstone for a Derelict" |
| 1962 |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Chuck Marsden | Season 1 Episode 1: "A Piece of the Action" |
| 1962 | Dr. Kildare | Medical Student | Episode 35: "The Burning Sky" |
| 1962 | The Twilight Zone | Harold Beldon | Episode 81: "Nothing in the Dark" |
| 1963 | The Untouchables | Jack Parker | e 103: "Snowball" |
| 1963 | The Virginian | Matthew Cordell | Episode 35: "The Evil That Men Do" |
| 1963 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | David Chesterman | Season 1 Episode 18: "A Tangled Web" |
| 2023 | White House Plumbers | Bob Woodward (voice; uncredited cameo) | Episode 4: "The Writer's Wife" |

## Narrator

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1970 | The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Documentary |
| 1971 | The Language And The Music Of The Wolves | Project of The Natural History Magazine |
| 1974 | Following the Tundra Wolf | Documentary |
| 1975 | Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain | Documentary |
| 1977 | The Predators | Documentary |
| 1983 | The Sun Dagger | Documentary |
| 1986 | Audubon Video: Grizzly and Man - Uneasy Truce | Documentary |
| 1988 | Audubon Video: California Condor | Documentary |
| 1989 | Changing Steps | Documentary |
| 1989 | To Protect Mother Earth | Documentary |
| 1990 | American Experience: Yosemite - The Fate of Heaven | Documentary |
| 1992 | A River Runs Through It | Also director and producer |
| 1992 | Incident at Oglala | Documentary |
| 1997 | Mountain Climbing: Free Climb | Documentary |
| 1998 | Wallace Stegner: A Writer's Life | Documentary |
| 1999 | The Mystery of Chaco Canyon | Documentary |
| 2004 | Sacred Planet | |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web | Voice of Ike the horse |
| 2006 | Cosmic Collisions | Documentary |
| 2006 | Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures | Narrated two episodes |
| 2008 | Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars | Documentary |
| 2008 | Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk | Documentary on the Colorado River |
| 2009 | Saving The Bay | Documentary on the San Francisco Bay |
| 2010 | Stories From The Gulf | Documentary project of NRDC |
| 2012 | The Movement: One Man Joins An Uprising | Project of the Make A Hero organization |
| 2016 | National Parks Adventure | Project of MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| 2017 | American Epic | Documentary film series |
| 2017 | Earth: One Amazing Day | BBC documentary |
| 2018 | The New Environmentalists | PBS documentary |