Robert Redford

1936-

Biography: life and films

Robert Redford is an American actor, film director and producer whose birth name is Charles Robert Redford Jr.. He was born in Santa Monica, California, USA on 18th August 1936.

His best films as an actor include George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Michael Ritchie's Downhill Racer (1969), Peter Yates's comedy The Hot Rock (1972), The Sting (1973) and Rod Lurie's thriller The Last Castle (2001), and whose best work as a film director include Ordinary People (1980), Quiz Show (1994) and Lions for Lambs (2007).

Robert Redford has so far appeared in 45 films, directed 9 films and scripted 1 film.

He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Sydney Pollack (7 films), George Roy Hill (3), Michael Ritchie (2) and Joel L. Freedman (2).

His most frequent genres include: drama (33 films), romance (10), Thriller (8), Documentary (8), comedy (7), comedy-romance (4), Western (4), crime-thriller (3), War (3), Biography (3), history (2), comedy-thriller (2), comedy-drama (2) and Fantasy (2).

Our average rating for Robert Redford over all films is: 3.0

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer

War Hunt (1962) [a]

Inside Daisy Clover (1965) [a]

Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965) [a]

The Chase (1966) [a]

This Property Is Condemned (1966) [a]

Barefoot in the Park (1967) [a]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) [a]

Downhill Racer (1969) [a]

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969) [a]

Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970) [a]

The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970) [a]

Jeremiah Johnson (1972) [a]

The Candidate (1972) [a]

The Hot Rock (1972) [a]

The Sting (1973) [a]

The Way We Were (1973) [a]

The Great Gatsby (1974) [a]

Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain (1975) [a]

The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) [a]

Three Days of the Condor (1975) [a]

All the President's Men (1976) [a]

The Electric Horseman (1979) [a]

Brubaker (1980) [a]

Ordinary People (1980) [d]

The Natural (1984) [a]

Out of Africa (1985) [a]

Legal Eagles (1986) [a]

The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) [d]

Changing Steps (1989) [a]

To Protect Mother Earth (1989) [a]

Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven (1989) [a]

Havana (1990) [a]

A River Runs Through It (1992) [d]

Sneakers (1992) [a]

Indecent Proposal (1993) [a]

Quiz Show (1994) [d]

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1995) [a]

Up Close and Personal (1996) [a]

Anthem (1997) [a]

The Horse Whisperer (1998) [a,d]

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) [d]

Spy Game (2001) [a]

The Last Castle (2001) [a]

The Clearing (2004) [a]

An Unfinished Life (2005) [a]

Charlotte's Web (2006) [a]

Lions for Lambs (2007) [a,d,w]

The Conspirator (2010) [d]

The Company You Keep (2012) [a,d]

A Walk in the Woods (2015) [a]

Truth (2015) [a]

Pete's Dragon (2016) [a]



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