Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, producer, and director. He received numerous accolades including an Academy Award; a BAFTA Award; and five Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994. He made his uncredited film debut in Joshua Logan’s Tall Story (1960), with Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston, Anne Jackson, and Murray Hamilton. He made his credited debut in Denis Sanders’s War Hunt (1962), with John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Gavin MacLeod, and Tom Skerritt.

Other films of the 1960s include Robert Mulligan’s Inside Daisy Clover (1965), with Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon, Katharine Bard, and Peter Helm; Gottfried Reinhardt’s Situation Hopeless… But Not Serious (1965), with Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, and Paul Dahlke; This Property Is Condemned (1966), with Wood, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson, Robert Blake, and Mary Badham; Arthur Penn’s The Chase (1966), with Marlon Brando, Fonda, E.G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule, Miriam Hopkins, Martha Hyer, Robert Duvall, and James Fox; Gene Saks’s Barefoot in the Park (1967), with Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick, Herbert Edelman, and Mabel Albertson; George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with Paul Newman, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey, and Henry Jones; Abraham Polonsky’s Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), Ross, Blake, and Susan Clark; and Michael Ritchie’s Downhill Racer (1969), with Gene Hackman and Camilla Sparv.

He received his first Academy Award nomination (in the Best Actor category) for The Sting (1973), with Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Walston, Eileen Brennan, and Harold Gould. Other films in the early 1970s include Sidney J. Furie’s Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970), with Michael J. Pollard, Lauren Hutton, Noah Beery, Jr., and Lucille Benson; Jeremiah Johnson (1972), with Will Geer, Allyn Ann McLerie, Stefan Gierasch, Charles Tyner, and Delle Bolton; Michael Ritchie’s The Candidate (1972), with Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter, Allen Garfield, Karen Carlson, and Michael Lerner; Peter Yates’s The Hot Rock (1972), with George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Moses Gunn, and Zero Mostel; The Way We Were (1973), with Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Viveca Lindfors, Herb Edelman, Hamilton, Patrick O’Neal, and Lois Chiles; and The Great Gatsby (1974), with Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Scott Wilson, and Karen Black.

Films in the mid to late 1970s include Three Days of the Condor (1975), with Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow; The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), with Margot Kidder, Bo Svenson, Edward Herrmann, Geoffrey Lewis, and Susan Sarandon; Alan J. Pakula’s All the President’s Men (1976), with Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, and Jason Robards; Richard Attenborough’s A Bridge Too Far (1977), with Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann; and The Electric Horseman (1979), Fonda, Valerie Perrine, and Willie Nelson.

He won the Academy Award for Best Director on his directorial debut, Ordinary People (1980), with Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern, and M. Emmett Walsh. He was nominated a second time for Best Director (as well as Best Picture) for Quiz Show (1994), with John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, Martin Scorsese, Mira Sorvino, and Christopher McDonald.

Films in the 1980s include Stuart Rosenberg’s Brubaker (1980), with Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Hamilton, David Keith, Tim McIntire, Matt Clark, M. Emmet Walsh, Everett McGill, and Morgan Freeman; Barry Levinson’s The Natural (1984), with Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, Robert Prosky and Richard Farnsworth; Out of Africa (1985), with Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, and Michael Gough; and Ivan Reitman’s Legal Eagles (1986), with Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp, and Steven Hill.

Films in the 1990s include Havana (1990), with Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Tomás Milián, Daniel Davis, and an uncredited Raul Julia; Phil Alden Robinson’s Sneakers (1992), with Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and David Strathairn; Adrian Lyne’s Indecent Proposal (1993), with Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Oliver Platt, Seymour Cassel, and Billy Bob Thornton; and John Avnet’s Up Close & Personal (1996), with Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan, Glenn Plummer, and James Rebhorn.

Films in the early 2000 include Rod Lurie’s The Last Castle (2001), with James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Clifton Collins Jr., and Delroy Lindo; Tony Scott’s Spy Game (2002), with Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, and Larry Bryggman; The Clearing (2004), with Helen Mirren, Willam Dafoe, and Alessandro Nivola; Lasse Hallström’s An Unfinished Life (2005), with Jennifer Lopez, Freeman, Josh Lucas, Camryn Manheim, Damian Lewis, and Becca Gardner; and a voice role in Charlotte’s Web (2006), with Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, and Beau Bridges, with voices of Dominic Scott Kay, Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Thomas Haden Church, André Benjamin, Cedric the Entertainer, Kathy Bates, Reba McEntire, and Sam Shepard.

Films in the mid to late 2010s include Anthony & Joe Russo’s entry in the MCU Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), with Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Jenny Agutter, and Samuel L. Jackson; James Vanderbilt’s Truth (2015), with Cate Blanchett, Topher Grace, Elisabeth Moss, Bruce Greenwood, Stacy Keach, and Dennis Quaid; David Lowery’s Pete’s Dragon (2016), with Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, and Oona Laurence; Charlie McDowell’s The Discovery (2017), with Rooney Mara, Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons, Riley Keough, and Ron Canad; Ritesh Batra’s Our Souls at Night (2017), with Fonda, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Judy Greer; and The Old Man & the Gun (2018), with Casey Affleck, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits, and Sissy Spacek.

His other directorial efforts (some of which he acted in) include The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), with Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sônia Braga, Julie Carmen, James Gammon, Melanie Griffith, John Heard, Carlos Riquelme, Daniel Stern, Chick Vennera, and Christopher Walken; A River Runs Through It (1992), with Craig Sheffer, Pitt, Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; The Horse Whisperer (1998), with Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Johansson, and Chris Cooper; The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), with Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Lane Smith, Harve Presnell, and Jack Lemmon; Lions for Lambs (2007), with Streep, Tom Cruise, Michael Peña, Andrew Garfield, Peter Berg, and Derek Luke; The Conspirator (2010), with Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Justin Long, Evan Rachel Wood, Jonathan Groff, Tom Wilkinson, Alexis Bledel, Kevin Kline, John Cullum, Toby Kebbell, and James Badge Dale; and The Company You Keep (2012), with Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Sarandon, Brendan Gleeson, Anna Kendrick, Richard Jenkins, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, Stephen Root, and Stanley Tucci.

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

Tall Story (1960) – directed by Joshua Logan – uncredited
War Hunt (1962) – directed by Denis Sanders
Inside Daisy Clover (1965) – directed by Robert Mulligan
Situation Hopeless… But Not Serious (1965) – directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
This Property Is Condemned (1966) – directed by Sydney Pollack
The Chase (1966) – directed by Arthur Penn
Barefoot in the Park (1967) – directed by Gene Saks
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) – directed by George Roy Hill
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) – directed by Abraham Polonsky
Downhill Racer (1969) – directed by Michael Ritchie
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) – directed by Sidney J. Furie
Jeremiah Johnson (1972) – directed by Sydney Pollack
The Candidate (1972) – directed by Michael Ritchie
The Hot Rock (1972) – directed by Peter Yates
The Sting (1973) – directed by George Roy Hill
The Way We Were (1973) – directed by Sydney Pollack
The Great Gatsby (1974) – directed by Jack Clayton
Three Days of the Condor (1975) – directed by Sydney Pollack
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) – directed by George Roy Hill
All the President’s Men (1976) – directed by Alan J. Pakula
A Bridge Too Far (1977) – directed by Richard Attenborough
The Electric Horseman (1979) – directed by Sydney Pollack
Brubaker (1980) – directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Ordinary People (1980) – director only
The Natural (1984) – directed by Barry Levinson
Out of Africa (1985) – directed by Sydney Pollack
Legal Eagles (1986) – directed by Ivan Reitman
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) – director, producer only
Havana (1990) – directed by Sydney Pollack
Incident at Oglala (1992) – directed by Michael Apted – narrator – documentary
Sneakers (1992) – directed by Phil Alden Robinson
A River Runs Through Ir (1992) – director, producer only
1993 Indecent Proposal (1993) – directed by Adrian Lyne
La Classe américaine (1993) – directed by Michel Hazanavicius & Dominique Mézerette
Quiz Show (1994) – director, producer only
Up Close & Personal (1996) – directed by Jon Avnet
The Horse Whisperer (1998) – also director, producer
A Civil Action (1998) – directed by Steven Zaillian – producer only
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) – director, producer only
The Last Castle (2001) – directed by Rod Lurie
Spy Game (2001) – directed by Tony Scott
The Clearing (2004) – directed by Pieter Jan Brugge
An Unfinished Life (2005) – directed by Lasse Hallström
Charlotte’s Web (2006) – directed by Gary Winick
Lions for Lambs (2007) – also director, producer
The Conspirator (2010) – director, producer only
The Company You Keep (2012) – also director, producer
All Is Lost (2013) – directed by J.C. Chandon
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)* – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo
A Walk in the Woods (2015) – directed by Ken Kwapis – also producer
Truth Dan (2015) – directed by James Vanderbilt
Pete’s Dragon (2016) – directed by David Lowery
The Discovery (2017) – directed by Charlie McDowell
Our Souls at Night (2017) – directed by Ritesh Batra – also producer
The Old Man & the Gun (2018) – directed by David Lowery
Buttons: A Christmas (2018) directed by Tim Janis
Avengers: Endgame (2019)* – directed by Anthony & Joe Russo – cameo
Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia (2020) – directed by Daniels, Hannah Fidell, Alexa Lim Haas, Lucas Leyva, Olivia Lloyd, Phil Lord, Jillian Mayer, The Meza Brothers, Terence Nance, Brett Potter, Dylan Redford, Xander Robin, Julian Yuri Rodriguez, & Celia Rowlson-Hall

Executive Producer

Promised Land (1987) – directed by Michael Hoffman
Some Girls (1988) – directed by Michael Hoffman
The Dark Wind (1991) – directed by Errol Morris
She’s the One (1996) – directed by Edward Burns
No Looking Back (1998) – directed by Edward Burns
Slums of Beverly Hills (1998) – directed by Tamara Jenkins
How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog (2002) – directed by Michael Kalesniko
Love in the Time of Money (2002) – directed by Peter Mattei
People I Know (2002) – directed by Daniel Algrant
Skinwalkers (2002) – directed by Chris Eyre – TV movie
The Motorcycle Diaries (2002) – directed by Walter Salles
The March (2013) – directed by John Akomfrah – documentary
Drunktown’s Finest (2014) – directed by Sydney Freeland
The Adderall Diaries (2015) – directed by Pamela Romanowsky
American Epic (2017) – directed by Bernard MacMahon – documentary series
The American Epic Sessions (2017) – directed by Bernard MacMahon – documentary
The Mustang (2019) – directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

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