"Robert Redford died this week at the age of 89. But his performances are indelible. We'll still see him as the Sundance Kid alongside Paul Newman's Butch Cassidy, leaping off a cliff into rocky rapids. Roy Hobbs in "The Natural," shattering the stadium lights with a home run. Bob Woodward in "All the President's Men," teamed with Dustin Hoffman's Carl Bernstein: reporters in scuffed shoes and dangling neckties, digging out the squalid details of a presidential scandal."
"Robert Redford was, well, Robert Redford: handsome, famous and charismatic. But he didn't always embrace the golden smile life had bestowed on him, telling The New York Times in 1974, "This glamour image can be a real handicap. Image is crap." As the critic Peter Debruge suggested in Variety this week, "Sundance was his wayto put it in eco-conscious terms of recycling the good fortune he'd enjoyed into po"
Robert Redford died at 89, leaving memorable performances in films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Natural, and All the President's Men. He directed acclaimed films including Ordinary People, Quiz Show, and A River Runs Through It. He founded the Sundance Institute and Film Festival, which propelled the careers of independent filmmakers and premiered influential debut films such as Blood Simple, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and Reservoir Dogs. Sundance also supported later successes like Clerks, Fruitvale Station, and CODA. Redford expressed ambivalence about glamorous image while recycling his fortune to support others.
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