The Robert Redford Handbook - Everything you need to know about Robert Redford

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Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival.

He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.

His popular films include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Candidate (1972), The Sting (1973), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), All the President's Men (1976), The Natural (1984), Out of Africa (1985), and Sneakers (1992).

As a filmmaker, his notable films include Ordinary People (1980), A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Horse Whisperer (1998), and The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000).

This book is your ultimate resource for Robert Redford. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away: Tall Story, War Hunt, Nothing in the Dark, Inside Daisy Clover, Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious, This Property Is Condemned, The Chase (1966 film), Barefoot in the Park (film), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, Downhill Racer, Little Fauss and Big Halsy, Jeremiah Johnson (film), The Candidate (1972 film), The Hot Rock (film), The Sting, The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby (1974 film), Three Days of the Condor, The Great Waldo Pepper, All the President's Men (film), A Bridge Too Far (film), The Electric Horseman, Brubaker, The Natural (film), Out of Africa (film), Legal Eagles, Havana (film), A River Runs Through It (film), Sneakers (film), Incident at Oglala, Indecent Proposal, La Classe américaine, Up Close & Personal, The Horse Whisperer, Spy Game, The Last Castle, The Clearing, Sacred Planet, An Unfinished Life, Charlotte's Web (2006 film), Lions for Lambs

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
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Contents

Articles Robert Redford Tall Story War Hunt Nothing in the Dark Inside Daisy Clover Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious This Property Is Condemned The Chase (1966 film) Barefoot in the Park (film) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Downhill Racer Little Fauss and Big Halsy Jeremiah Johnson (film) The Candidate (1972 film) The Hot Rock (film) The Sting The Way We Were The Great Gatsby (1974 film) Three Days of the Condor The Great Waldo Pepper All the President's Men (film) A Bridge Too Far (film) The Electric Horseman Brubaker The Natural (film) Out of Africa (film) Legal Eagles Havana (film) A River Runs Through It (film) Sneakers (film) Incident at Oglala Indecent Proposal La Classe américaine

1 9 12 14 16 19 21 25 28 31 37 39 41 42 45 50 53 60 65 68 73 75 80 91 94 97 103 110 112 115 118 122 124 127

Up Close & Personal The Horse Whisperer Spy Game The Last Castle The Clearing Sacred Planet An Unfinished Life Charlotte's Web (2006 film) Lions for Lambs

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

Article Licenses License

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Robert Redford

Robert Redford in 2006 Charles Robert Redford Jr.August 18, 1936Santa Monica, California, United States

Actor, film director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist

1959–present

Lola van Wagenen (1958–1985) Sibylle Szaggars [1] (2009–present)

Scott (deceased), Shauna, Jamie, Amy

[2] Charles Robert Redford Jr.(born August 18, 1936), better known asRobert Redford, is an American actor, film director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directingOrdinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. His popular films includeButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969),Jeremiah Johnson(1972),The Candidate(1972),The Sting(1973),The Way We Were(1973),Three Days of the Condor(1975),All the President's Men(1976),The Natural(1984),Out of Africa(1985), andSneakers(1992). As a filmmaker, his notable films includeOrdinary People(1980),A River Runs Through It(1992),Quiz Show(1994),The Horse Whisperer(1998), andThe Legend of Bagger Vance(2000).

Personal life Redford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Martha W. (n`e Hart) and Charles Robert Redford Sr. [3] [4] [5] [6] (November 19, 1914–a milkman-turned-accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island. April 2, 1991), He [7] [8] [9] has a half-brother, William, from his father's re-marriage. Redford is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. Redford attended Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California, where he was classmates with baseball player [10] Don Drysdale. He was a teammate on the Van Nuys High School baseball team with Drysdale. He graduated in 1954 and received a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, where he was a pitcher and a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. While there, he worked at the famous restaurant/bar The Sink. He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes in theatrical set design at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

On August 9, 1958, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Redford married Lola Van Wagenen, who dropped out of college to marry him. They had four children: David James "Jamie", Shauna, Amy Redford, and Scott Anthony Redford. Scott –their first child–was born September 1, 1959, and died of sudden infant death syndrome on November 17, 1959, at age 2a months. His remains have been buried at Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah. Lola and Redford divorced

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in 1985. He has five grandchildren: Dylan and Lena Redford (of son Jamie), Mica and Conor Schlosser (of daughter [11] Shauna) and Eden August (of daughter Amy). In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the luxurious Louis C. Jacob Hotel in [12] Hamburg, Germany. She had moved in with Redford in the 1990s and shares his Sundance, Utah, home.

Acting career

Television Redford's career–like that of almost all major stars who emerged in the 1950s–began in New York, where an actor could find work both in television and on stage. Starting in 1959, he appeared as a guest star on numerous programs, includingThe Untouchables,Whispering Smith,Perry Mason,Alfred Hitchcock Presents,Route 66,Dr. Kildare, Playhouse 90,TateandThe Twilight Zone, among others. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance inThe Voice of Charlie Pont(ABC, 1962). One of his last television appearances was on October 7, 1963, onBreaking Point,an ABC medical drama about psychiatry.

Theater Redford's Broadway debut was in a small role inTall Story(1959), followed by parts inThe Highest Tree(1959) and Sunday in New York(1961). His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil Simon'sBarefoot in the Park(1963).

Film

While still largely an unknown, Redford made his screen debut inWar Hunt(1962), co-starring with John Saxon in a film set during the last days of the Korean War. This film also marked the debuts of Sydney Pollack and Tom Skerritt. After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. InInside Daisy Clover(1965) he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her for Pollack'sThis Property Is Condemned(1966)—again as her lover. The same year saw his first teaming with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn'sThe Chase. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the big screen version ofBarefoot in the Park(1967) and were again co-stars in Pollack'sThe Electric Horseman(1979).

Redford inBarefoot in the Park, 1967

Redford became concerned about his blond male stereotype image and turned down roles inWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?andThe Graduate. Redford found the property he was looking for in George Roy Hill'sButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. The film was a huge success and made him a bankable star and cemented his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy.

Redford suffered through a few films that did not achieve box office success during this time, includingDownhill Racer(1969);Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here(1969);Little Fauss and Big Halsy(1970), andThe Hot Rock(1972). But his overall career was flourishing with the critical and box office hitJeremiah Johnson(1972); the political satireThe Candidate(1972);The Way We Were(1973); andThe Sting(1973), for which he was nominated for an Oscar. During the years 1974-76, exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office name. His hits includedThe Great Gatsby(1974),The Great Waldo Pepper(1975), andThree Days of the Condor(1975). The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men(1976), directed by Alan J. Pakula and scripted once again by Goldman, was a landmark film

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for Redford. Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious subject matter–the Watergate scandal–also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes. He also starred in the war filmA Bridge Too Far(1977), and the baseball filmThe Natural(1984). Redford has continued his involvement in mainstream Hollywood movies, though projects became fewer.Out of Africa(1985) was where he made it to the nominations to the Oscars. He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the political thrillerThe Last Castle(2001), directed by Rod Lurie, someone else with a strong interest in politics. Redford, a leading environmental activist, narrated the IMAX documentarySacred Planet(2004), a sweeping journey across the globe to some of its most exotic and endangered places. InThe Clearing(2004), a thriller co-starring Helen Mirren, Redford was a successful businessman whose kidnapping unearths the secrets and inadequacies that led to his achieving the American Dream. Redford stepped back into producing withThe Motorcycle Diaries(2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto 'Che' Guevera, and his friend Alberto Granado. It also explored political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. With five years spent in the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. Back in front of the camera, Redford received good notices for his role in director Lasse Hallstrom'sAn Unfinished Life(2005) as a cantankerous rancher who is forced to take in his estranged daughter-in-law (Jennifer Lopez)— whom he blames for his son's death—and the granddaughter he never knew he had when they fled an abusive relationship. The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichéd and overly sentimental. Meanwhile, Redford returned to familiar territory when he signed on to direct and star in an update ofThe Candidate.

Director

Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the lens. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for Downhill Racer. His first outing as director was in 1980'sOrdinary People, a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Redford did not direct again untilThe Milagro Beanfield War(1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols' acclaimed novel of the Southwest.The Milagro Beanfield Waris the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico (based on the real town of Truchas, in northern New Mexico) overcoming big developers who set about to ruin their community and force them out because of tax increases. Other directorial projects have Redford at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival included the period family dramaA River Runs Through It(1992), based on Norman Maclean's novella, and the exposéQuiz Show (1994), about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s. Redford worked from a screenplay by Paul Attanasio with noted cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and a strong cast that featured John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes. Redford handpicked Morrow for his part in the film (Morrow's only high-profile feature film role to date), because he liked his work onNorthern Exposure. Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith inThe Legend of Bagger Vance(2000).

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Beside his directing and producing duties, Redford continued acting. He played opposite Meryl Streep in Sydney Pollack's Oscar-winningOut of Africa, Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romanceUp Close & Personal, and Kristin Scott Thomas inThe Horse Whisperer, which he also directed. Redford also continued work in films with political context, such asHavana(1990),Sneakers(1992),Spy Game(2001), andLions for Lambs(2007).

Honors

He attended the University of Colorado in the 1950s and received an Honorary Degree in 1983.

In 1995, Redford received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards.

In 1996, he was awarded the National Medal [13] of Arts. In December 2005, he received honors at the Kennedy Center for his contributions to American culture. The Honors recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures or television.

U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush pose with the Kennedy Center honorees, from left to right, actress Julie Harris, actor Robert Redford, singer Tina Turner, ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell and singer Tony Bennett on December 4, 2005, during the reception in the Blue Room at the White House.

In 2008 he was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life."

The University of Southern California (USC) School of Theater announced the first annualRobert Redford Award for Engaged Artistsin 2009. According to the school's web site, the award was created "to honor those who have distinguished themselves not only in the exemplary quality, skill and innovation of their work, but also in their public commitment to social responsibility, to increasing awareness of global issues and events, and to inspiring and [14] empowering young people."

Robert Redford received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Brown University at the 240th Commencement [15] exercises on May 25, 2008. He also spoke during the ceremonies.

On 14 October 2010, he was appointedChevalierof the Légion d'honneur.

Sundance

With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries fromButch Cassidy and the Mount Timpanogos, panoramic view Sundance KidandDownhill Racer, Redford bought an entire ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah called "Timp Haven," which was renamed "Sundance".

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Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Portions of the movieJeremiah Johnson(1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, were shot near the ski area. He founded the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Sundance Cinemas, Sundance Catalog, and the Sundance Channel, all in and around Park City, Utah, 30 miles (48 km) north of the Sundance ski area. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in the United States and has received recognition from the industry as a place to open films. In 2008, Sundance exhibited 125 feature-length films from 34 countries, with more [16] than 50,000 attendees. The name Sundance comes from his character, theSundance Kid. In addition, Redford owns a celebrated restaurant called Zoom, located on Main Street in the former mining town of Park City.

Independent films Since founding the nonprofit Sundance Institute in Park City, in 1981, Redford has been deeply involved with independent film. Through its various workshop programs and popular film festival, Sundance has provided much-needed support for independent filmmakers. In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable TV channel devoted to airing independent films—the Sundance Channel premiered on February 29, 1996.

Political activity

Redford is politically liberal, and has supported environmentalism, Native American rights, and the arts. Most of his federal political contributions have been to Democrats (61%) or advocacy groups (34.6%), such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild [17] of America. Redford has on occasion also supported Republicans, including Brent Cornell Morris in his unsuccessful 1990 race for Utah's [17] [18] 3rd congressional district seat. Redford also supported Gary R. Herbert, another Republican and a friend, in Herbert's successful campaign to be elected Utah's Lieutenant Governor (he is currently the Governor of Utah). Redford is an avid environmentalist and is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Filmography

Actor

Year

1960

1962

1965

1966

Tall Story

War Hunt

Film

Nothing in the Dark

Inside Daisy Clover

Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious

This Property Is Condemned

The Chase

Role

Basketball Player

Private Roy Loomis

Harold Beldon

Wade Lewis

Captain Hank Wilson

Owen Legate

Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves

Redford with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson in 2009

Notes

The Twilight ZoneEpisode

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Little Fauss and Big Halsy

1970

1975

Halsy Knox

Three Days of the Condor

John Archibald Dortmunder

The Hot Rock

Johnny Hooker

Voice Only Uncredited Also Producer/Director

Tom Logan

Henry Brubaker

The Electric Horseman

Denys Finch Hatton

Warren Justice

Narrator

Martin "Marty" Bishop

Joseph Turner/The Condor

Waldo Pepper

A River Runs Through It

Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor

1992

1985

Out of Africa

1979

Norman 'Sonny' Steele

Major Julian Cook

Roy Hobbs

1993

Indecent Proposal

La Classe américaine

1996

Sneakers

Bob Woodward

Up Close & Personal

1977

A Bridge Too Far

1976

All the President's Men

Legal Eagles

1990

1986

The Natural

Brubaker

1984

1980

Incident at Oglala

Havana

Downhill Racer

The Great Waldo Pepper

The Sundance Kid

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

Paul Bratter

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role also forTell Them Willie Boy Is HereandButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role also forDownhill RacerandTell Them Willie Boy Is Here

David Chappellet

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1967

Barefoot in the Park

Bill McKay

Robert Redford

1969

The Sting

1974

Jeremiah Johnson

1973

Deputy Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' Cooper

Jack Weil

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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role also forDownhill RacerandButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

John Gage

Steven

Narrator

The Candidate

Hubbell Gardiner

The Great Gatsby

The Way We Were

1972

Jeremiah Johnson

Jay Gatsby

Lions for Lambs

Nominated—Academy Award for Best Director Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Film Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Director

Academy Award for Best Director Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing - Feature Film Golden Globe Award for Best Director

Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Director

2007

Wayne Hayes

Einar Gilkyson

Narrator

Nathan D. Muir

Voice Only

Spy Game

Robert Redford

Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

2001

Dr. Stephen Malley

Sacred Planet

2005

The Last Castle

An Unfinished Life

2004

The Clearing

1998

The Horse Whisperer

Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Director

Tom Booker

The Legend of Bagger Vance

Ike

2000

1994

Quiz Show

Director

Charlotte's Web

2006

Film

Notes

Also Producer/Director

Also Producer/Director

A River Runs Through It

Ordinary People

The Conspirator

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Lions for Lambs

1998

2007

2010

The Horse Whisperer

The Milagro Beanfield War

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1992

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1988

1980