| 1 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robert_redford.jpg]] |
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| 3 | ->''"All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies."'' |
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| 5 | Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actor and director. |
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| 7 | One of the biggest movie stars of TheSeventies, Redford is also known for appearing in a number of seminal genre films – ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' (Western), ''Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor'' and ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'' (political thriller), ''Film/TheWayWeWere'' and ''Film/OutOfAfrica'' (romance), and the list goes on. He made his directorial debut with ''Film/OrdinaryPeople'' in 1980. Redford continued to work as both an actor and director until August 2018, when he announced his retirement from acting after the release of ''Film/TheOldManAndTheGun'' (although he had a cameo appearance in 2019's ''Film/AvengersEndgame''). |
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| 9 | Other than the works he has been directly involved in, one of his biggest contributions has been the founding of the Sundance Film Festival, the biggest independent film festival in the USA, at his ranch in Utah. |
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| 11 | ---- |
| 12 | !!Filmography |
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| 14 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 15 | |
| 16 | [[folder:Works he has starred in with pages on this wiki include:]] |
| 17 | * ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'', episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E16NothingInTheDark Nothing in the Dark]]" (1962) |
| 18 | * ''Theatre/TheIcemanCometh'' (1960) |
| 19 | * ''Film/WarHunt'' (1962) |
| 20 | * ''Film/InsideDaisyClover'' (1965) |
| 21 | * ''Film/ThisPropertyIsCondemned'' (1966) |
| 22 | * ''Film/BarefootInThePark'' (1967) |
| 23 | * ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' (1969) |
| 24 | * ''Film/DownhillRacer'' (1969) |
| 25 | * ''Film/JeremiahJohnson'' (1972) |
| 26 | * ''Film/TheCandidate'' (1972) |
| 27 | * ''Film/TheHotRock'' (1972) |
| 28 | * ''Film/TheSting'' (1973) |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheWayWeWere'' (1973) |
| 30 | * ''Film/{{The Great Gatsby|1974}}'' (1974) |
| 31 | * ''Film/TheGreatWaldoPepper'' (1975) |
| 32 | * ''Film/ThreeDaysOfTheCondor'' (1975) |
| 33 | * ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'' (1976) |
| 34 | * ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'' (1977) |
| 35 | * ''Film/TheElectricHorseman'' (1979) |
| 36 | * ''Film/{{Brubaker}}'' (1980) |
| 37 | * ''Film/TheNatural'' (1984) |
| 38 | * ''Film/OutOfAfrica'' (1985) |
| 39 | * ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'' (1992) |
| 40 | * ''Film/IndecentProposal'' (1993) |
| 41 | * ''Film/TheLastCastle'' (2001) |
| 42 | * ''Film/SpyGame'' (2001) |
| 43 | * ''Film/AnUnfinishedLife'' (2005) |
| 44 | * ''Film/CharlottesWeb'' (2006) |
| 45 | * ''Film/AllIsLost'' (2013) |
| 46 | * Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse |
| 47 | ** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' (2014) |
| 48 | ** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (2019) |
| 49 | * ''Film/{{Truth|2015}}'' (2015) |
| 50 | * ''[[Film/PetesDragon2016 Pete's Dragon]]'' (2016) |
| 51 | * ''Film/TheOldManAndTheGun'' (2018) |
| 52 | [[/folder]] |
| 53 | |
| 54 | [[folder:Works he has directed with pages on this wiki include:]] |
| 55 | * ''Film/OrdinaryPeople'' (1980) (for which he won the Best Director UsefulNotes/AcademyAward) |
| 56 | * ''Film/TheMilagroBeanfieldWar'' (1988) |
| 57 | * ''Film/ARiverRunsThroughIt'' (1992) (also narrated) |
| 58 | * ''Film/QuizShow'' (1994) |
| 59 | * ''Film/TheHorseWhisperer'' (1998) (also starred in) |
| 60 | * ''Film/LionsForLambs'' (2007) (also starred in) |
| 61 | * ''Film/TheConspirator'' (2010) |
| 62 | * ''Film/TheCompanyYouKeep'' (2012) (also starred in) |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | !!Tropes & Trivia about his roles: |
| 66 | |
| 67 | * CoolOldGuy: Many of his later roles have him play such roles, usually acting as mentors to younger characters. |
| 68 | * RichardNixonTheUsedCarSalesman: In ''Series/{{Watchmen|2019}}'', the man himself is the President of the United States. |
| 69 | * ProductionPosse: Redford was a favorite leading man of Creator/SydneyPollack, who directed him a whopping seven times. |
| 70 | * ThoseTwoActors: |
| 71 | ** He has played alongside Creator/NatalieWood three times -- ''Film/InsideDaisyClover'', ''Film/ThisPropertyIsCondemned'' and ''Film/TheCandidate''. While the first two pictures were not darlings with critics and Wood only had a [[TheCameo cameo]] AsHerself in the third, Wood and Redford were good friends and knew each other since high school (and he credited Wood with making his name bigger in Hollywood when he was a DarkhorseCasting in the first two). Redford was also the best man of Richard Gregson at his wedding with Wood in 1969. |
| 72 | ** He and Creator/JaneFonda have played love interests four times: ''Film/{{The Chase|1966}}'', ''Film/BarefootInThePark'', ''Film/TheElectricHorseman'', and ''Film/OurSoulsAtNight''. |
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