Hollywood Legend Robert Redford Is Dead

Actor, director, activist was 89
Posted Sep 16, 2025 7:18 AM CDT
Robert Redford Is Dead at 89
A 2012 photo of Robert Redford.   (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok, File)

Hollywood icon Robert Redford died Tuesday at his home in Utah at the age of 89, reports the New York Times. Redford died in his sleep, said Cindi Berger of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK. She did not specify a cause of death. Redford, of course, had a storied acting career that included classics such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), All the President's Men (1976), Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Sting (1973), The Way We Were (1973), and Out of Africa (1985). But he also became renowned as a director, as the founder of the Sundance Film Festival to push indie movies, and as an environmental activist.

As the Washington Post puts it, his "beach-god looks and subtle magnetism ... made him one of the biggest movie stars of all time." The Times quotes critic Pauline Kael with this line, a reference to The Way We Were: "Redford has never been so radiantly glamorous as when we saw him through Barbra Streisand's infatuated eyes." Redford received one Oscar nomination in his acting career, for The Sting, though he didn't win. He did, however, win best director for Ordinary People (1980), and he picked up an Honorary Oscar in 2002 for lifetime achievement.

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