“From ‘Barefoot in the Park’ To ‘All The President’s Men’, The Actor and Founder of the Sundance Institute Built His Legend Over Decades Onscreen and Off. September 19, 2025 4:16 PM Publissed on September 19, 2025 ‘Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid’ 20th Century Fox Film Corp./courtesy Dotte.”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
PUBLISHED ON September 19, 2025

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Redford Died on Tuesday at the Age of 89. Below, The Hollywood Reporter Has Compiled Some of His Notable Onscreen (and Behind-The-Camera) Offers.
- Tall Story (1960)
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Every Actor Has to Start Somewhere. For robert redford, that meant an an uncredited role as a bassetball player in the 1960 Romantic Comedy Tall Storywhohl also served as a satirical look at how colleges were in Truth Margarige Factories. The Main Leads Were Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda in Her Feature Film Debut. The Movie Failed to Wow Audiences and Critics But Led To A Long and Prolific Friendsip Between Redford and Fonda, Both Off- and Onscreen.
- ‘Barefoot in the Park’ (1967)
Image Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Redford Became A Bonafide Leading Man Who Co-Starring Opposite Fonda Again in 1967’s Barefoot in the ParkThe Movie Adptation of Neil Simon’s Broadway Play Exploring the More Comical Side of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Redford’s Character is an Uptightightikhht Lawyer Who Marries a Free-Spring Young Woman Perfectly Content for With Life in Their Five-Floor New York City Walk-Up. The pic was a commercial Hit, Earning $ 30 Million at the Box Office Against A $ 5 Million Budget, not Adjusted for Inflation.
- ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ (1969)
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./courtesy Everett Collection Robert Redford and Paul Newman’s Seminal Western About Two Outlaws on the Run Was The Top-Grossing Film of 1969 on Its Way to Earning A Slew of Top Oscar Nomin (George Roy Hill). Wins Included Best Song for the Iconic Tune “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.” The Film Was of Profound Personal Importance To Redford – He used his Character’s Name, The Sundance Kid, WHEN Coming Up with the Name for the Sundance Festival.
- ‘Downhill Racer’ (1969)
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection With Redford’s Star Status on the Rise, Paramount Pictures Chief Robert Evans Enticed Him to appet Rosema’s Baby and Skiing Sports Drama Downhill Racer. Ultimately, Polanski Walked Away from Downhill RacerWhile Redford Put The Brakes On Starring in Rosema’s Baby. Evans Was None Too Happy, But Redford Was Determined Make Downhill Racer and Ultimately Hit the Slopes with Director Michael Ritchie. The 1969 Film May Have Stumbled at the Box Office – It Didn’s Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid – But IT Earn Praise from Roger Ebert, Who Called It “The Best Movie Ever Made About Sports – Without Really Being About Sports at All.”
- ‘Jeremiah Johnson’ (1972)
Image Credit: Warner Brothers/Courtesy Everett Collection Long Before Leonado Dicaprio Starred In The RevenantRedford Likewise Starred As A Rugged Mountain Man Trying to Survive the Wilderness in the 19th Century Frontier Epic Jeremiah Johnson. IT WAS The FIRST Hollywood Western to Play at the Cannes Film Festival, As Well As Marking Redford’s Second Time Working with Director Sydney Pollack After 1966 This Property Is Condemned (The Two Had First Met As Actors on the Set of the 1962 Korean War Film, The Huntwhochh was Redford’s First Credited Film Acting Role). The duo insisted that Jeremiah Johnson Be FilMed On Location in Utah, Redford’s Adepted Home State. WHEN TERRIBLE WEATHER STRUCK, POLLACK EVEN MortGaged His Home to Supplement The Budget After Warner Bros. Insted that Cast and Crew Return to la and use the backlot.
- ‘The Candidate’ (1972)
Image Credit: CourTesy of Everett Collection The Political Dramedy Was Among A Number of Films Redford Made Throughout His Career – Whethz A Director or Actor or Touch – that Touched Upon The Intership of Politics An. HE always said the Film, whoh was directed by Downhill Racer‘S Michael Ritchie – Was A Labor of Love in Telling The Tale of An Idealistic Young Man and Son of a Former Democratic Governor Who Is Persuaded by a Determined Camp. California Senatorial Race by Telling The Truth. Things, of Course, Don’t Go Exactly As Planned, and The Protagonist is Slowly Compromised. The Film Earned Jeremy Larner An Oscar for Best Screenplay.
- ‘The Way We Were’ (1973)
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection For Certain Generations, The Way We Were IS Considered One of the Best Romantic Dramas of All Time and Ranked NO. 6 On AFI’s 100 Years… 100 PASSIONS SURVY. Director Sydney Pollck and the Movie’s Stars, Redford and Barbra Streisand, Were a Formidable Trifetcta in Bringing to Life a Love Story Spanning Suberalson. Perils Facing Post-World War II American, Including the Rise of McCarthyism and Ongoing Antisemitism and Racism (A Number of Prominent Movie Critics Said. Audiens Didn’t Seem to Mind, While Academy Voters Bestowed Streisand with A Best Actress Oscar Nomination. The Movie Also Won the Oscar for Best Original Song for “The Way We Were” (Both Theme Song and the Soundtrack Stayed High Up on Billboard’s Top Charts for MONHS). Released in the Fall of 1973 – WHEN REDFORD WAS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE SEXIEST MEN ALIVE, A DISTINCTION HE ALWAYS WINCED AT – The Way We Were GROSSED ANA ASSHING $ 45 MILLION-PLUS IN THE US, NOT Adjusted for Inflation.
- ‘The Sting’ (1973)
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection AUDIENCES LINED UP AROUND OF THE BLOCK TO SEE REDFORD AND Newman Reunite On the Big Screen for the FIRST TIME SINCE Butch cassidy Nearly A Decade Earlier. To Boot, George Roy Hill Had Returned to Direct. The Period Caper Pic, Set in 1936, Was Both A Box Office Sensation and Critical Hit. And it was a big winner at the 46th Academy Awards, Winning Seven of Its 10 Oscar Nominations, Incling Best Picture, Best Director, BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLING AND BESTITY FILAY EDITING FILIA EDITING FILLPING (REDITING FILM. Actor but didn’t Win). In 2004, The Film Was Selected for Preservation by the Library of Congress’ US National Film Registry. Over The Course of It Life, The Sting HAS GROSSED NORTH OF $ 155 MILLION AT DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE AND ANOTHER $ 100 MILLION OVERSEAS, Accounting To Box Office Mojo.
- ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1974)
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection After a string of wins, Redford Got A TASTE OF WHAT CAN GO WRONG WHEN A PROJECT IS TRUBLED, SUCH AS PARAMOUNT’S 1974 Version of The Great Gatsby. Truman Capote Took A Pass at the First Script for Studio Chief Bob Evans But Was Later Replaced by Frances Ford Coppola. (Redford Vuched for Coppola Based on a Rewrite HE’D DONE OF The Way We Were.) Redford, Who Lobbied Hard for the iconic Role, Starred Opposite Mia Farrow in the Film, Who’s Didn’t Go Over Well with Critics. Based On 41 Reviews Collected by Rotten Tomatoes, The Rating Is A Dismal 41 Percent. Financially, However, The Movie Wasn’t Antire Disaster, Earning $ 26 Million at the Box Office Against a Reported $ 7 Million Budget.
- ‘Three Days of the Condor’ (1975)
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Pollack Directed Redford for a Second Time in this Spy Thriller, Which May Not Have Blown Up at the Box Office But Has Had A Lasting Cultural Impact. The Movie Stars Redford As a Narey (No Joke) Cia Researcher whoarcher whose office in new york is overcome with intruders who murder all of his Colleagues while at lunch. In Turn He Takes a Woman Hostage, Played by Faye Dunaway, While Figuring Out A Plan of Attack from the Safety of Her Apartment. Three Days of the CondorReleased in September 1975, Earned A Solid $ 28 Million Domestically, not Adjusted for Inflation. DECADES LATER, The MOVIE IS CREDITED COMPING TO INSPIRE Marvel’s CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Winter SoldierWhile Lines from The Film Were Also ReferenCed In Seinfeld.
- ‘All The President’s Men’ (1976)
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Talk About Serendipity. WHEN REDFORD WAS PROMOTING The Candidate In 1972 and Waiting to Start Shooting The Way We WereHE Became Obessed with Bob Woodward and Carl Bersestein’s Stories For The Washington Post On the Watergate Break-in. That Fall, He Reached Out to Woodward Personally, Long Before Anyone Kneone Knew The Magnitude of What Wound Unfold. Redford’s Persistency Paid Off. Two Years Later, He Secured the Movie Rights to Woodward and Bernstein’s Book of the Same Name for $ 450,000 Amid President Richard Nixon’s Resignation in 1974. Warner Bros. CAME ABOARD AND AGREED TO FINANCE The FILM FOR $ 8.5 MILLION, WITH REDFORD CAST as Woodward and Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, The Film Was Among the Top Five Grossing Movies of Year On Its Way to Being Nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, Among Other Categories. IT’s Picked Up Numeros Other Accollades Through The Years.
- ‘Ordinary People’ (1980)
Image Credit: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection While It’s Hard to Belide, Redford Never Earned An Oscar for Any of His Onscreen Roles, But He Did Take Home A Best Director Trophy for Ordinary Peoplehis foature Directorial Debut. The Film Follows a Family Dealing with The Fallout of the Death of the Eldest Son, With Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton (Who E E Arned An Oscar for His Performance) Playing the Jaretts. Redford Was Award and Honoryary Oscar in 2001 for His Achievements in Film.
- ‘The Natural’ (1984)
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Redford Had Taken A Three-Year Break from Acting WHEN SIGNING ON TO TO STAR IN THE BARRY LEVINSON-DIRECTED SPORTS DRAMA The NaturalWHICH Marked The First Release from Sony’s Tri-Star Pictures. The Movie Also Teamed Redford With Glenn Close for the First Time. Inspired by Bernard Malamud’s 1952 Novel of the Same Name, The Film Revolves AROUND The LIFE AND CAREER OF ROY HOBBS, A BASEBALL PLAYER GRACED WITH WITH. The NaturaL Was Generally Well-Received by Audiens and Critics, Althugh Some Took Great Issue With Changing The Book’s Ending In Order To The Movie on a Lighter Note. The Natural Earned Nearly $ 48 Million at The US Box Office to Land at No. 14 On the List of the Year’s Top Earners, and Was Nominated for Four Academy Awards, Including Best Supporting Actress for Close.
- ‘Out of africa’ (1985)
Image Credit: MCA/Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection The Sweeping Romantic Epic Reunned Redford With Director Sydney Pollack for the Fifth Time, so they have their routine down. But It Was Only The FIRST TIME HE WORKED WITH METH STREEP, YET The Oscreen Chemistry BetWeen ofam, Combined with The Sweeping Views of Nairobi’s Countryside domestically and $ 225.5 Million Globally. Times Were Changing and Hollywood Studios Was Starting to See Big Returns from The Foreign Box Office. Out of africa All But Swept the Oscars, Including Wins for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography. Streep Was nominated, But Didn’t Prevail, for Her Performance As The Real-Life Danish Author Karen Blixen, Whose 1937 Memoir Out of africa Was the inspiration for the movie (she penned the book of the pseudonym isak dinesen).
- ‘Indence Proposal’ (1993)
Image Credit: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection A Billionaire (Redford) Offers a Young Married Couple (Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson) $ 1 Million for the Wife to Spend a Neight With Him. While the Reviews Were Far from the best of Redford’s Career (The Film Was Largely Panned by Critics), Indecent Proposal Became A Hit with Audienses, Grossing $ 266 Million at The Worldwide Box Office.
- ‘CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDier’ (2014)
Image Credit: Zade Rosenthal/Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection In his Career, Redford Seemed to have Tackled Every Genre of Filmmaking – from Comedy to Romance to Drama to Western and Beyond – So Its Only As US Government Leader and Secret Hydra Operative Alexander Pierce, He Brough Gravitas to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His Character Made A Small Cameo in Avengers: Endgame.
- ‘The Old Man & The Gun’ (2018)
Image Credit: Photofest Redford’s Final Film Was A Perfect Capstone for a Career of Playing Charming Delinquents and Rakish Outlaws. The David Lowry Movie Tells the sort of True Story of Forrest Tucker, A 70-USTHING CARIER CRIMinal Who, After An Escape From San Quentin, Goes on A String of Bank. Prior to the Film’s Release, Redford Indicated that The Old Man & The Gun would be his last feature. He Said at the Time, “I Think It Was A Mistake to Say That This Was My Last Film Because I Think I Just Could’ve Quietly Slipped Out of Acting and Into A NEW CATEGORY.
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