Acting · Santa Monica, California, USA · Born August 18, 1936
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
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2026
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MovieRobert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon
2025
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MovieHenry Fonda for President
2025
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TVSuperpowered: The DC Story
2023
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MoviePaul Newman: The Restless
2023
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TVWhite House Plumbers
2023
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MovieA Journey to Sundance
2023
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TVDark Winds
2022
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MovieBetty White: A Celebration
2022
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MovieThe Mustangs: America's Wild Horses
2021
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MovieBroadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
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MovieOmniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia
2020
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MovieMaking Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
2019
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MovieAlan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
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MovieRobert Redford: The Golden Look
2019
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MovieAvengers: Endgame
2019
as Alexander Pierce
MovieWords from a Bear
2019
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MovieButtons
2018
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MovieThe Old Man & the Gun
2018
as Forrest Tucker
MovieJane Fonda in Five Acts
2018
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MovieThe Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee
2017
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MovieWalden
2017
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MovieHappening: A Clean Energy Revolution
2017
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MovieOur Souls at Night
2017
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MovieEarth: One Amazing Day
2017
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MovieThe Words That Built America
2017
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TVAmerican Epic
2017
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MovieThe Discovery
2017
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MoviePete's Dragon
2016
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MovieBorsalino City
2016
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MovieNational Parks Adventure
2016
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MovieTruth
2015
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MovieA Walk in the Woods
2015
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TVNature Is Speaking
2015
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MovieWinning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
2015
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MovieCaptain America: The Winter Soldier
2014
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MovieMarvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014
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MovieMaking a Scene | 11 Performances
2013
MovieAll Is Lost
2013
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MovieAll the President's Men Revisited
2013
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MovieA Fierce Green Fire
2013
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TVTalking Pictures
2013
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MovieThe Company You Keep
2012
as Jim Grant
MovieIl était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor »
2012
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MovieCasting By
2012
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MovieWatershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
2012
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MovieBuck
2011
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MovieSmash His Camera
2010
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Saving the Bay
2009
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MovieTed Williams
2009
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MovieYou Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
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MovieGrand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk
2008
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MovieLions for Lambs
2007
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MovieThe Unforeseen
2007
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MovieCharlotte's Web
2006
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MovieCosmic Collisions
2006
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MovieWoodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire
2006
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MovieTelling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
2006
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2006
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TVIconoclasts
2005
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2005
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2005
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2005
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Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists
2005
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On the Set: Loews Theater
2004
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2004
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2004
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2004
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2004
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2004
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2003
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More About the Condor
2003
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2002
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2002
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2001
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MovieThe Last Castle
2001
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New York in the Fifties
2001
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MovieThe Mystery of Chaco Canyon
1999
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MovieForever Hollywood
1999
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MovieEntangling Shadows
1998
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MovieThe Horse Whisperer
1998
as Tom Booker
MovieThe Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997
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MovieAnthem
1997
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MovieUp Close & Personal
1996
as Warren Justice
MovieAt Sundance
1995
as Self
TVInside the Actors Studio
1994
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MovieLa Classe américaine
1993
as Steven (archive footage)
MovieMade in the USA
1993
as Self
MovieIndecent Proposal
1993
as John Gage
MovieA River Runs Through It
1992
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
MovieSneakers
1992
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MovieIncident at Oglala
1992
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MovieHere's Looking At You, Warner Bros.
1991
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MovieHavana
1990
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MovieRobert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
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MovieWaldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
1990
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MovieYosemite: The Fate of Heaven
1989
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TVAmerican Experience
1988
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MovieLegal Eagles
1986
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1985
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1984
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MovieThe Sun Dagger
1983
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MovieNatalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
MovieBrubaker
1980
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1979
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TVCBS News Sunday Morning
1979
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TVThe Kennedy Center Honors
1978
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MovieThe Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford
1978
MovieFree Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome
1978
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MovieA Bridge Too Far
1977
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MovieAll the President's Men
1976
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MoviePressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men'
1976
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Following the Tundra Wolf
1975
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1975
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1975
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1974
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TVSpécial cinéma
1974
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Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
1974
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1974
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1973
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1973
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1972
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1972
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1972
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1971
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V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
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1970
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1970
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1969
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1969
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1969
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1967
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1966
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1966
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1966
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aspekte
1965
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MovieSituation Hopeless — But Not Serious
1965
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TVBreaking Point
1963
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TVThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
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1962
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1962
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1961
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1961
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1961
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1961
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1961
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MovieThe Iceman Cometh
1960
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1960
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TVRoute 66
1960
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Moment of Fear
1960
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TVTate
1960
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1960
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MovieTall Story
1960
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Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960
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1959
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TVPlay of the Week
1959
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1959
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1958
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TVMaverick
1957
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1957
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TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Charlie Marx
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Blue Jacket
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self (uncredited)
