Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker Robert Redford has died on the age of 89.
The Hollywood star and campaigner, most well-known for roles in movies together with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child, The Sting and All of the President’s Males, died early on Tuesday at his residence in Utah.
The New York Occasions was the primary to report the information, introduced in a press release by Cindi Berger, chief govt of the publicity agency Rogers & Cowan PMK.
She stated: ‘Robert Redford handed away on September 16, 2025, at his residence at Sundance within the mountains of Utah – the place he beloved, surrounded by these he beloved.
‘He shall be missed tremendously. The household requests privateness.’
No particular reason for dying was given.
Redford was a pressure within the movie business for many years, as each a performer and director.
He additionally based the influential Sundance Movie Pageant through his Sundance Institute in 1978, and received one aggressive Academy Award out of 4 nominations as a director for Strange Individuals.
He acquired a nomination too for his efficiency in The Sting in addition to nods for appearing and directing Quiz Present earlier than being awarded with an honorary Oscar in 2002.
Earlier this 12 months he made a return to appearing after a six-year hiatus with an onscreen cameo in psychological thriller TV present Darkish Winds, which he additionally govt produced.
Previous to that he had final been seen because the unscrupulous Alexander Pierce, his Marvel Cinematic Universe function, in Avengers: Endgame in 2019.
Born in August 1936 in California, he attended the College of Colorado earlier than he was kicked out for ingesting, later travelling throughout Europe and learning portray earlier than taking lessons on the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
He rapidly began working in theatre and made his Broadway debut in Tall Story in 1959.
Redford’s first breakout theatrical success was within the authentic solid of Barefoot within the Park in 1963 whereas he was additionally busy filming TV roles within the likes of Perry Mason, Dr Kildare, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone.
His first film function noticed him reprise his half from Tall Story within the movie model in 1960, earlier than he appeared in Warfare Hunt after which warfare comedy State of affairs Hopeless… However Not Critical with Alec Guinness, and 1965’s Inside Daisy Clover, which earned him a particular Golden Globe for greatest new star.
The Prime 10 Robert Redford movies to look at
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child
- The Sting
- All of the President’s Males
- Out of Africa
- Indecent Proposal
- A Bridge Too Far
- The Means We Had been
- Inside Daisy Clover
- Lions for Lambs
- Avengers: Endgame
Taking part in the Sundance Child a number of years later perpetually cemented Redford’s onscreen persona because the amiable, sensible and generally sarcastic good man.
The Sting noticed him pair up as soon as extra with co-star Paul Newman to repeat their earlier field workplace success, whereas the 70s additionally introduced him high-profile roles in The Means We Had been reverse Barbara Streisand and The Nice Gatsby with Mia Farrow and Sam Waterston.
After being one of the bankable stars of the last decade, he made his directorial debut very efficiently with Strange Individuals however picked and selected rigorously which later movies he would helm.
He received over Meryl Streep in Out of Africa in 1982 earlier than boosting a younger Brad Pitt’s profession in A River Runs By way of It in 1992 and having fun with considered one of his biggest-ever successes as suave billionaire John Gage in 1996’s Indecent Proposal, who provided Demi Moore’s Diana and Woody Harrelson’s David $1million for an evening in her firm.
‘I fell hook, line and sinker’
By Tori Brazier, Senior Movie Reporter
Robert Redford was one of many final true Hollywood greats nonetheless with us.
An enthralling onscreen presence and a magnanimous buddy to many, Redford was additionally a serious presence in Hollywood as a filmmaker and founder, passionately championing unbiased cinema through Sundance Movie Pageant.
And it was this function which completely received me over as a teen watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child for the primary time – I fell hook, line and sinker for Redford’s laidback, sardonic however ultimately-good-guy Child.
This half went on to outline Redford’s profession however he by no means rested on his laurels, transferring into directing and taking up completely different challenges – together with the Marvel Cinematic Universe – late into his life.
‘That is the form of movie I might like to have seen as a child,’ he informed the LA Occasions in 2013, merely, of his new and moderately stunning path in the direction of the largest blockbuster franchise of the second.
Redford moved via life and Hollywood by his personal guidelines, later shunning the limelight and residing (largely) in retirement.
In tribute to him, I’ll be re-watching Butch Cassidy and a few of my different favourites of his this week.
Streep was among the many first to pay tribute to her collaborator and buddy, saying in s assertion: ‘One of many lions has handed. Relaxation in peace my beautiful buddy.’
Jane Fonda, a longtime buddy and collaborator stated she will’t cease crying on the information. They first labored collectively in 1960’s Tall Story and had been associates for many years.
In her tribute, Jane stated: ‘It hit me arduous this morning once I learn that Bob was gone. I can’t cease crying. He meant so much to me and was an attractive individual in each manner. He stood for an America we’ve to maintain preventing for.’
Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wooden wrote: ‘Along with his iconic work as an actor, Robert Redford modified the face of unbiased cinema perpetually by founding the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Movie Pageant. Really a legend.’
Leonardo Di Caprio additionally shared his disappointment on the information, because the pair performed the identical function of Jay Gatsby of their respective variations of The Nice Gatsby.
He informed Metro and different press at tonight’s One Battle After One other premiere in Lonon’s Leicester Sq.: ‘I believe it’s a large loss. He was a hero to me, not solely as a director and an actor however as an environmentalist.
‘He was a member of the NRDC [Natural Resources Defense Council] which I used to be, he’s an inspiration to me.
‘We’re doing a political thriller tonight [like] All of the President’s Males, Three Days of the Condor, [he was] an unbelievable director – Quiz Present is considered one of my absolute favourites. So it’s an enormous loss for our group.’
Barbara Streisand stated: ‘Daily on the set of ‘The Means We Had been’ was thrilling, intense and pure pleasure. We had been such opposites: he was from the world of horses; I used to be allergic to them! But, we saved looking for out extra about one another, similar to the characters within the film.
She added in an Instagram tribute: ‘Bob was charismatic, clever, intense, at all times attention-grabbing— and one of many best actors ever. The final time I noticed him, when he got here to lunch, we mentioned artwork and determined to ship one another our first drawings. He was considered one of a sort and I’m so grateful to have had the chance to work with him.’
Morgan Freeman wrote on social media: ‘There are specific individuals you already know that you just’re going to click on with. After working with Robert Redford on Brubaker in 1980, we immediately turned associates. Working with him once more in An Unfinished Life was a dream come true. Relaxation peacefully, my buddy.’
Stephen Fry additionally talked about him on tonight’s The One Present, saying: ‘I used to be [a big fan] from the very starting. I bear in mind an early movie of his, Barefoot within the Park with Jane Fonda, among the best sport motion pictures ever made – a pure.
‘And naturally, the good pairing with Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy. The extraordinary factor he mainly kickstarted the unbiased film once more with the founding of the Sundance Pageant. Unimaginable achievement to at the present time.’
Donald Trump additionally paid a weird tribute on discovering out about Redford’s dying whereas on air.
‘That’s a great way to go, I assume. Robert Redford was nice, he had a collection of years the place there was no person higher.’
He continued: ‘He made seven or eight nice movies, there was a time period when he was the most popular. I assumed he was nice.’
Later notable initiatives for Redford included the titular half in 1998’s The Horse Whisperer, based mostly on Nicholas Evans’ novel, for which he additionally directed a younger Scarlett Johansson and 2007’s Lions for Lambs with Streep as soon as extra and Tom Cruise.
Redford joined the MCU for 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier and performed his final main half in 2018’s The previous Man & the Gun.
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford’s friendship
Jane Fonda and Robert Redford first labored collectively on 1960’s Tall Story, earlier than collaborating once more on 1966’s The Chase, 1967’s Barefoot within the Park and 1979’s The Electrical Horseman.
In 2008, Fonda mirrored that she grew fonder of Redford with every movie.
‘He’s so good-looking and simply such an exquisite human being,’ she informed Individuals. She added: ‘Each film I made with him, I developed a crush on him.’
Redford as soon as stated of his on-screen rapport with Fonda: ‘It’s simple. We’ve achieved many movies over time so it simply labored out that manner, that there was not loads of dialogue, we didn’t have to speak about so much. Issues simply form of fell into place between us, and there wasn’t rather more to consider.’
Followers had been overjoyed when Redford and Fonda reunited in 2017 ffor Netflix’s Our Souls at Night time.
Their on-screen chemistry has been a function of Hollywood movies for many years, and outdoors of labor their friendship remained robust till his dying.
The star was first married to Lola Van Wagenen in 1958, with whom he had 4 youngsters: Scott, Shauna, David and Amy. Scott died of sudden toddler dying syndrome at two and a half months previous in November 1959.
Redford and Van Wagenen had been reported to have been residing aside for various years in 1982 however no divorce was ever publicly introduced.
In 2009, Redford married his longtime girlfriend, Sibylle Szaggars, in Hamburg, Germany.
She is a high quality artist, whose official Instagram web page was final up to date with a chunk on the market simply yesterday afternoon.
He was a longtime activist for environmentalism, Native American and LGBTQ+ rights and the humanities, and led the anti-pipeline protest motion in opposition to TransCanada Company’s Keystone Pipeline.
In 2014, Redford and Pitzer Faculty President Laura Skandera Trombley introduced the faculty’s intention to divest fossil gas shares from its endowment, which made it the upper schooling establishment with the biggest endowment to make the pledge, having beforehand launched a sustainability Conservancy in Redford’s identify.
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