Robert Redford died at the age of 89. Read further to learn about the Hollywood heartthrob’s legacy.
The iconic Hollywood actor who’s responsible for so many classic movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and Out of Africa (1985) has died at the age of 89. According to The New York Times, Redford died in his sleep at his home in the mountains outside Provo, Utah, on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 16. As of now, no cause of death has been given; Rogers & Cowan PMK chief executive Cindi Berger confirmed in a statement that he died peacefully in his sleep. Robert wasn’t just a man who acted; he was the leading man of the ’70s in every sense. He had the talent and the looks to elevate each other.
He earned a Best Actor Oscar nomination for The Sting (1973), won Best Director for Ordinary People (1980), and earned another Best Director nod for Quiz Show (1994). “I’ve spent most of my life just focused on the road ahead, not looking back,” Redford said in his 2002 honorary Oscar speech, and he continued with, “But now tonight, I’m seeing in the rearview mirror that there is something I’ve not thought about much, called history.”
He was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California. Redford trained at the American Academy of the Dramatic Arts; later on, he made his Broadway debut in Tall Story (1959). His early roles included TV shows like 8, Route 66, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, and The Untouchables.
Robert’s career-defining moment was back in 1969, with the role of Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring opposite Paul Newman. It was in 2018 that he announced he would retire from the industry with The Old Man & the Gun, starring alongside Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, and Tom Waits. “Never say never, but I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting, and [I’ll] move towards retirement after this ’cause I’ve been doing it since I was 21,” he said at the time.
A month later, in a conversation with PEOPLE, he shared that “I think it was a mistake to say that I was retiring because you never know. It did feel like it was time, maybe, to concentrate on another category.”
Robert Redford’s legacy is not limited to just movies; it’s vast. He’s the Hollywood heartthrob, an Oscar-winning director whose memory and presence will be felt throughout generations through his great contributions to Hollywood.
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