Creator / Robert Redford

"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."

Charles Robert Redford, Jr. (born August 18, 1936 in Santa Monica, California) is an American film actor and director.

He's known for starring in several seminal genre films - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Western), Three Days of the Condor and All the President's Men (political thriller), The Way We Were and Out of Africa (romance), and the list goes on. He made his directorial debut with Ordinary People in 1980. Redford continued to work as both an actor and director until August 2018, where he announced his retirement from acting after the release of The Old Man & the Gun (he subsequently appeared in a cameo in Avengers: Endgame, though).

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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Filmography

Works he has starred in with pages on this wiki include:

• The Twilight Zone, episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962)
• Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
• This Property Is Condemned (1966)
• Barefoot in the Park (1967)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Downhill Racer (1969)
• Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
• The Candidate (1972)
• The Hot Rock (1972)
• The Sting (1973)
• The Way We Were (1973)
• The Great Gatsby (1974)
• The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• All the President's Men (1976)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• The Electric Horseman (1979)
• Brubaker (1980)
• The Natural (1984)
• Out of Africa (1985)
• Sneakers (1992)
• Indecent Proposal (1993)
• The Last Castle (2001)
• Spy Game (2001)
• An Unfinished Life (2005)
• Charlotte's Web (2006)
• All Is Lost (2013)
• Marvel Cinematic Universe
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
  • Avengers: Endgame (2019)
• Truth (2015)
• Pete's Dragon (2016)
• The Old Man & the Gun (2018)

Works he has directed with pages on this wiki include:

• Ordinary People (1980) (for which he won the Best Director Academy Award)
• The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
• A River Runs Through It (1992) (also narrated)
• Quiz Show (1994)
• The Horse Whisperer (1998) (also starred in)
• Lions for Lambs (2007) (also starred in)
• The Conspirator (2010)

Tropes & Trivia about him and his roles:

• Cool Old Guy: Many of his later roles have him play such roles, usually acting as mentors to younger characters.
• Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: In Watchmen, the man himself is the President of the United States.
• Production Posse: Redford was a favorite leading man of Sydney Pollack, who directed him a whopping seven times.
• Silver Fox: He's aged very well and is still quite handsome and just as charismatic well into his later years, to the point that many who watched Indecent Proposal were incredulous at the idea of his character having to rely largely on his wealth to seduce women.
• Those Two Actors:
  • He has played alongside Natalie Wood three times — Inside Daisy Clover, This Property Is Condemned and The Candidate. While the first two pictures were not darlings with critics and Wood only had a cameo As Herself 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 Darkhorse Casting in the first two). Redford was also the best man of Richard Gregson at his wedding with Wood in 1969.
  • He and Jane Fonda have played love interests four times: The Chase, Barefoot in the Park, The Electric Horseman, and Our Souls At Night.

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