1936-08-18 Santa Monica, California, USA
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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Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon | Self (archive footage) | 2025-09-18 |
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A Journey to Sundance | Self | 2023-01-01 |
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Betty White: A Celebration | Self | 2022-01-17 |
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021-08-14 |
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The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses | Narrator (voice) | 2021-10-15 |
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Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia | Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice) | 2020-01-26 |
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Words from a Bear | Self | 2019-01-29 |
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Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | 2019-10-12 |
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Avengers: Endgame | Alexander Pierce | 2019-04-24 |
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound | Self | 2019-10-25 |
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The Old Man & the Gun | Forrest Tucker | 2018-09-27 |
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Jane Fonda in Five Acts | Self - (archive footage) | 2018-01-21 |
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Buttons | Narrator (voice) | 2018-12-08 |
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The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Self | 2017-12-04 |
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The Discovery | Dr. Thomas Harbor | 2017-03-31 |
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Our Souls at Night | Louis Waters | 2017-09-29 |
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Walden | Narrator | 2017-11-08 |
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Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution | Self | 2017-10-07 |
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Earth: One Amazing Day | Narrator (voice) | 2017-08-04 |
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The Words That Built America | Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence | 2017-07-04 |
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Borsalino City | Self | 2016-04-13 |
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Pete's Dragon | Mr. Meacham | 2016-08-10 |
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National Parks Adventure | Narrator | 2016-02-12 |
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Truth | Dan Rather | 2015-10-16 |
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A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | 2015-09-02 |
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Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman | Self | 2015-05-08 |
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Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe | Self | 2014-03-18 |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Alexander Pierce | 2014-03-20 |
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All Is Lost | Our Man | 2013-08-23 |
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All the President's Men Revisited | Self - Narrator | 2013-04-21 |
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A Fierce Green Fire | Narrator (voice) | 2013-03-01 |
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Making a Scene | 2013-11-25 | |
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Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor » | Self | 2012-12-09 |
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Casting By | Self | 2012-11-01 |
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Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West | Narrator (voice) | 2012-03-24 |
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The Company You Keep | Jim Grant | 2012-12-20 |
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Buck | Self | 2011-06-17 |
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Smash His Camera | Self | 2010-07-30 |
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Ted Williams | Self | 2009-07-15 |
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Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk | Narrator | 2008-03-12 |
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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story | Self | 2008-05-15 |
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Lions for Lambs | Dr. Stephen Malley | 2007-10-22 |
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The Unforeseen | Self | 2007-01-01 |
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All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' | Self | 2006-01-01 |
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Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire | Self | 2006-02-28 |
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Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" | Self | 2006-02-28 |
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Charlotte's Web | Ike the Horse (voice) | 2006-12-07 |
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Cosmic Collisions | Narrator (voice) | 2006-03-18 |
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An Unfinished Life | Einar Gilkyson | 2005-09-09 |
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Trudell | Self - Filmmaker, Activist | 2005-01-20 |
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Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists | Narrator | 2005-01-01 |
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The Art of 'The Sting' | Self | 2005-09-06 |
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Sacred Planet | Narrator (voice) | 2004-04-12 |
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The Clearing | Wayne Hayes | 2004-07-02 |
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Something About Sydney Pollack | Self | 2004-06-20 |
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On the Set: Loews Theater | Self | 2004-11-23 |
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The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Self | 2003-06-03 |
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More About the Condor | Self | 2003-01-01 |
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Sundance 20 | Himself | 2002-01-02 |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time | Self | 2002-07-02 |
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New York in the Fifties | Self | 2001-10-16 |
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Spy Game | Nathan Muir | 2001-11-18 |
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The Last Castle | Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin | 2001-10-19 |
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Forever Hollywood | Self | 1999-01-01 |
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The Mystery of Chaco Canyon | Narrator (voice) | 1999-01-01 |
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Enredando sombras | Self | 1998-06-02 |
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The Horse Whisperer | Tom Booker | 1998-02-01 |
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The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson | Self / Jeremiah Johnson | 1997-10-28 |
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Anthem | Self | 1997-07-25 |
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Up Close & Personal | Warren Justice | 1996-03-01 |
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At Sundance | Self | 1995-01-01 |
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Indecent Proposal | John Gage | 1993-04-07 |
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Made in the USA | Self | 1993-09-25 |
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La Classe américaine | Steven (archive footage) | 1993-12-31 |
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Sneakers | Bishop | 1992-09-09 |
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Incident at Oglala | Narrator (voice) | 1992-05-08 |
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A River Runs Through It | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1992-10-09 |
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Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. | Self | 1991-09-14 |
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Havana | Jack Weil | 1990-12-11 |
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Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies | Self | 1990-12-09 |
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Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey | Self | 1990-01-19 |
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Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven | Narrator (voice) | 1989-01-01 |
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Legal Eagles | Tom Logan | 1986-06-18 |
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Out of Africa | Denys George Finch Hatton | 1985-12-20 |
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The Natural | Roy Hobbs | 1984-05-11 |
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The Sun Dagger | Narrator (voice) | 1983-01-20 |
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Brubaker | Henry Brubaker | 1980-06-20 |
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The Electric Horseman | Sonny | 1979-12-21 |
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Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome | Narrator | 1978-08-16 |
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The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford | 1978-12-24 | |
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A Bridge Too Far | Maj. Julian Cook | 1977-06-15 |
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Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' | Self | 1976-01-01 |
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All the President's Men | Bob Woodward | 1976-04-09 |
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Three Days of the Condor | Joseph Turner | 1975-09-24 |
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The Great Waldo Pepper | Waldo Pepper | 1975-03-13 |
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Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain | Self / Narrator (voice) | 1974-09-18 |
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Frank Sinatra: The Main Event | Self - Audience Member (uncredited) | 1974-10-13 |
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The Great Gatsby | Jay Gatsby | 1974-03-27 |
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The Sting | Johnny Hooker | 1973-12-25 |
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The Way We Were | Hubbell Gardner | 1973-10-17 |
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The Hot Rock | John Dortmunder | 1972-01-26 |
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Jeremiah Johnson | Jeremiah Johnson | 1972-09-10 |
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The Candidate | Bill McKay | 1972-06-29 |
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The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' | Self | 1970-01-01 |
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Little Fauss and Big Halsy | Big Halsy | 1970-10-21 |
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Downhill Racer | David Chappellet | 1969-11-06 |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Sundance Kid | 1969-09-23 |
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Cooper | 1969-10-31 |
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Barefoot in the Park | Paul Bratter | 1967-05-25 |
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Inside Daisy Clover | Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade | 1966-02-10 |
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The Chase | Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves | 1966-02-18 |
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This Property Is Condemned | Owen Legate | 1966-08-03 |
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Situation Hopeless — But Not Serious | Captain Hank Wilson | 1965-10-13 |
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War Hunt | Pvt. Roy Loomis | 1962-05-01 |
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Tall Story | Basketball Player (uncredited) | 1960-04-06 |
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies | Sergeant Lott | 1960-05-18 |
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The Iceman Cometh | Don Parritt | 1960-11-14 |
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Captain Brassbound's Conversion | Blue Jacket | 1960-03-02 |
