Robert Redford American Actor and Director (1936–2025)

Robert Redford was an American actor and director born on 18 August 1936 in Santa Monica. He died on 16 September 2025, aged 89. Audiences know him from Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and All the President's Men (1976).

Early life

Robert Redford was educated at American Academy of Dramatic Arts, finishing in 1959; University of Colorado Boulder; and Pratt Institute.

Career

The earliest credit on record for Robert Redford is Tall Story (1960). During the 1960s, he worked on Barefoot in the Park (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, as Sundance Kid). Work from the 1970s includes The Sting (1973) and Three Days of the Condor (1975, as Joseph Turner). Brubaker (1980) and Out of Africa (1985) are among his 1980s credits. In the 2010s, he appeared in Pete's Dragon (2016, as Mr. Meacham) and Avengers: Endgame (2019, as Alexander Pierce).

His filmography here covers 64 films and 2 TV series from 1960 to 2022. Drama is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (13), followed by action (6) and adventure (4). His last credit during his lifetime is Betty White: A Celebration (2022). Of his three titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Avengers: Endgame (2019) has the highest, at $2.8 billion. His off-screen credits include director on 10 titles, including Ordinary People.

Jane Fonda appears in five of his listed titles, including The Chase (1966) and The Electric Horseman (1979). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are Scarlett Johansson (three titles) and Paul Newman (three titles). Sydney Pollack directed three of his titles on record, among them This Property Is Condemned (1966) and The Way We Were (1973). Anthony Russo is credited as director on two of them.

Recognition

In 1981, he won the Academy Award for Best Director for Ordinary People. He also won an Academy Honorary Award (2002) and a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1994). Robert Redford also earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1974 for The Sting. Awards come to 18 wins and 4 nominations in total.

Personal life

Marriages on record are to Lola Van Wagenen (1958 to 1985, divorced) and Sibylle Szaggars (2009 to 2025, widowed). He was the father of Amy Redford and James Redford, and has 4 children in total.