Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an award-winning American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, and philanthropist.
The blonde haired, athletic actor is known for his roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Candidate (1972), The Sting (1973), The Way We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), All the President's Men (1976), Brubaker (1980), The Natural (1984), Out Of Africa (1985), and many others. Redford directed the films Ordinary People (1980), The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Horse Whisperer (1998) and The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). He was also a producer on all except Ordinary People.
==Biography==
Redford was born in Santa Monica, California to Charles Robert Redford, Sr., an accountant, and Texas-born Martha W. Hart. He has a half-brother, William, from his father's re-marriage.
Redford graduated from Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California in 1955 and received a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, where he was a pitcher on the baseball team, and a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He lost the scholarship due to adolescent drinking, fueled in part by the death of his mother, when Redford was eighteen. Redford was later a painting student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and took classes in theatrical set design at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
In 1980, Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, won him the Academy Award for Directing; his 1994 film, Quiz Show, was nominated for best director, but lost to Forrest Gump. Along with Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, Richard Attenborough, and Kevin Costner, Redford is one of the few major actors to win an Academy Award for "Best Director".
With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salary from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford purchased the ski resort just outside Park City, Utah called Timphaven. He renamed it the Sundance Resort, and not long after, portions of the movie Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, were shot in the area. He founded the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Sundance Catalog, and the Sundance Channel, all in and around Park City. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in the United States and has received some recognition from the industry as a place to option films. The name Sundance comes from his character, the "Sundance Kid". In addition, Redford owns a celebrated restaurant called Zoom, located on Main Street in the former mining town of Park City.
In 1995, Redford received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. In December 2005, he received honors at the Kennedy Center for his contributions to American culture. The Honors recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, movies or television.
Robert Redford is politically liberal. He has supported environmentalism and Native American rights. Supposedly, Barbara Bush told her husband George Bush that he should chose Dan Quayle as a running mate because he looked like Redford. Redford then began some speeches by saying, "Hello. I'm Dan Quayle." However, Redford resented the equation as he and the former Vice President are on the opposite sides of the political spectrum.
Redford married Lola Jean on September 12, 1958; the couple, who had four children, Scott (born 1959 and died shortly after), Shauna (born November 15, 1960), David James (born May 15, 1962), and Amy (born October 22, 1970), divorced in 1985. His companions since have included actress Sonia Braga (during the late 1980s), Kathy O'Rear (from the late 1980s to 1996) and Sibylle Szaggars (1998). Redford has three grandchildren.
==Filmography==
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	Captain 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 	Deputy 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 	Gary Winick 	Voice
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 	Mr. 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 	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 	
== Director ==
Year	Title 	Notes
1980	Ordinary People 	
1988	The Milagro Beanfield War 	Also producer
1992	A River Runs Through It 	Also producer
1994	Quiz Show 	Also producer
1998	The Horse Whisperer 	Also producer
2000	The Legend of Bagger Vance	Also producer
2007	Lions for Lambs 	Also producer
2010	The Conspirator 	Also producer
2012	The Company You Keep 	Also producer
2014	Cathedrals of Culture 	Documentary, segment: "The Salk Institute"
==Film quotes==
* "What do we do now?" - from The Candidate (1972)
* "Boy, what is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?" - as Joe Turner in Three Days of the Condor (1975).
==External links==
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* the Sundance Institute
* Sundance Resort
* Article about the Zoom Restaurant in the Guardian
* Classic Movies (1939 - 1969): Robert Redford (retrieved from the Internet Archive. October 18, 2013)
* Robert Redford at TriviaTribute.com
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