Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (b. 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is a film director, actor, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. Redford starred in Barefoot in the Park (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), All the President's Men (1976) and Out of Africa (1985). He received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.
==References==
* Kermit the Frog confesses to Julie Andrews that he sometimes wishes he could be Robert Redford, in the 1975 special Julie: My Favorite Things. As she sings "Song for Kermit" to him, Kermit remarks to the camera, "Robert Redford, eat your heart out."
* One of the announced guests on Cookie Monster's "Nighty-Night Show" in Out to Lunch is "Robert Redface."
* On The Muppet Show, guest star Juliet Prowse tells Kermit in episode 101 that she finds him very attractive. She refers to him as "the Robert Redford of frogs."
* In The Muppets Go Hollywood, Scooter interrupts Rita Moreno's interview with Miss Piggy, asking for more change to call Paul Newman and Robert Redford on the phone.
* Miss Piggy rejects having to co-star with anyone in the February 2, 1982 Muppets comic strip, until she finds out that Robert Redford has been waiting at her dressing room door.
* A vision-impaired woman excuses herself for bumping into Miss Piggy in the June 6, 1982 Muppets comic strip, mistaking her for Farrah Fawcett. Piggy is flattered until she hears the woman refer to a structural column as Mr. Redford.
* Maria is seen fixing toasters in Sesame Street Episode 2934 that belong to "Redford, Nicholson, and Marlon."
==Notes==
* When Jim Henson was putting together ideas for The Great Muppet Caper, he considered Redford for the role that would eventually become Nicky Holiday. "Some very good looking dashing leading man type to be Kermit's rival - Robt Redford? Chris Reeve? he's totally in love with Piggy - she treats him like dirt."Jim Henson's Red Book, 7/7/1980 – ‘Tom and Jay in town working on MM2.’
==Sources==
==External links==
* IMDb
* Internet Broadway Database
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