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.

Filmography

• The Madison — In Memory Of
• 2026The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream — (archive footage)
• 2024All Illusions Must Be Broken — Executive Producer
• White House Plumbers — Bob Woodward (voice) (uncredited)
• Dark Winds — Robert (uncredited), Executive Producer, In Memory Of
• 2021The Mustangs: America's Wild Horses — Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 2020Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia — Lokia the Dolphin Monster (voice)
• 2020Public Trust — Executive Producer
• 2019Avengers: Endgame — Alexander Pierce
• 2019The Mustang — Executive Producer
• 2018Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché — Executive Producer
• 2018Buttons — Narrator (voice)
• 2018Momentum Generation — Executive Producer
• 2018The Old Man & the Gun — Forrest Tucker, Producer
• American Epic — Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 2017Earth: One Amazing Day — Narrator (voice)
• 2017Our Souls at Night — Louis Waters, Producer
• 2017The Discovery — Dr. Thomas Harbor
• 2017Walden — Narrator
• 2016Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry — Executive Producer
• 2016National Parks Adventure — Narrator
• 2016Pete's Dragon — Mr. Meacham
• 2016The Adderall Diaries — Executive Producer
• The American West — Executive Producer
• 2015A Walk in the Woods — Bill Bryson, Producer
• Nature Is Speaking — The Redwood
• 2015Truth — Dan Rather
• 2014Captain America: The Winter Soldier — Alexander Pierce
• 2014Cathedrals of Culture — Director, Writer
• 2014Drunktown's Finest — Executive Producer
• 2013A Fierce Green Fire — Narrator (voice)
• 2013All Is Lost — Our Man
• 2013Making a Scene | 11 Performances
• 2012The Company You Keep — Jim Grant, Director, Producer
• 2012Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West — Narrator (voice)
• Stories from the Gulf: Living with the Oil Disaster — Presenter
• 2011The Conspirator — Producer, Director
• Saving the Bay — Narrator
• 2009The Cove — Thanks
• 2008Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk — Narrator
• 2007Lions for Lambs — Dr. Stephen Malley, Director, Producer
• 2007The Unforeseen — Self, Executive Producer
• 2006An Inconvenient Truth — Thanks
• 2006Charlotte's Web — Ike the Horse (voice)
• 2006Cosmic Collisions — Narrator (voice)
• 2005An Unfinished Life — Einar Gilkyson
• 2005Global Focus II: The New Environmentalists — Narrator
• Iconoclasts — Self, Producer
• 2005Trudell — Self - Filmmaker, Activist
• 2004A Thief Of Time — Executive Producer
• 2004Sacred Planet — Narrator (voice)
• 2004The Clearing — Wayne Hayes
• 2003Coyote Waits — Executive Producer
• 2002How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog — Executive Producer
• 2002Love in the Time of Money — Executive Producer
• 2002Skinwalkers — Executive Producer
• 2001Spy Game — Nathan Muir
• 2001The Last Castle — Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin
• 2000The Legend of Bagger Vance — Producer, Director
• 1999The Mystery of Chaco Canyon — Narrator (voice)
• 1998A Civil Action — Producer
• 1998No Looking Back — Executive Producer
• 1998Slums of Beverly Hills — Executive Producer
• 1998The Horse Whisperer — Tom Booker, Director, Producer
• 1997Eye of God — Thanks
• 1996She's the One — Executive Producer
• 1996Up Close & Personal — Warren Justice
• 1994Quiz Show — Director, Producer
• 1993Indecent Proposal — John Gage
• 1993La Classe américaine — Steven (archive footage)
• 1992A River Runs Through It — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer
• 1992Incident at Oglala — Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 1992Sneakers — Bishop
• 1992The Dark Wind — Executive Producer
• 1990Havana — Jack Weil
• 1989Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven — Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 1988Some Girls — Executive Producer
• 1988The Milagro Beanfield War — Director, Producer
• 1986Legal Eagles — Tom Logan
• 1985Out of Africa — Denys Finch Hatton
• 1984The Natural — Roy Hobbs
• 1983The Sun Dagger — Narrator (voice)
• 1980Brubaker — Brubaker
• 1980Ordinary People — Director
• 1980The Solar Film — Executive Producer
• 1979The Electric Horseman — Sonny
• 1978Free Climb: The Northwest Face of Half Dome — Narrator
• 1978The Outlaw Trail with Robert Redford
• The South Bank Show
• 1977A Bridge Too Far — Maj. Julian Cook
• 1976All the President's Men — Bob Woodward
• 1975Following the Tundra Wolf — Narrator
• 1975The Great Waldo Pepper — Waldo Pepper
• 1975Three Days of the Condor — Joseph Turner
• 1974The Great Gatsby — Jay Gatsby
• 1973The Sting — Johnny Hooker
• 1973The Way We Were — Hubbell Gardner
• 1972Jeremiah Johnson — Jeremiah Johnson
• 1972The Candidate — Bill McKay, Executive Producer
• 1972The Hot Rock — John Dortmunder
• 1970Little Fauss and Big Halsy — Big Halsy
• 1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — The Sundance Kid
• 1969Downhill Racer — David Chappellet
• 1969Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here — Cooper
• 1967Barefoot in the Park — Paul Bratter
• 1966Inside Daisy Clover — Wade Lewis / Lewis Wade
• 1966The Chase — Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves
• 1966This Property Is Condemned — Owen Legate
• 1965Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious — Captain Hank Wilson
• Breaking Point — Roger Morton
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Chuck Marsden, David Chesterman
• The Virginian — Matthew Cordell
• 1962War Hunt — Pvt. Roy Loomis
• Bus Stop — Art Ellison
• Dr. Kildare — Mark Hadley
• The Americans — George Harrod
• The Defenders — Gary Degan
• The New Breed — Arthur Honniger - Hitchhiker
• 1960Captain Brassbound's Conversion — Blue Jacket
• 1960In the Presence of Mine Enemies — Sergeant Lott
• Moment of Fear — Stranger
• Route 66 — Janosh
• 1960Tall Story — Basketball Player (uncredited)
• Tate — Torsett, Tad Dundee
• The Iceman Cometh — Don Parritt
• Play of the Week — Don Parritt
• The Twilight Zone — Harold Beldon
• The Untouchables — Jackson Emmit Parker
• Naked City — Baldwin Larne
• Maverick — Jimmy Coleman
• Perry Mason — Dick Hart
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Charlie Marx
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Blue Jacket

Appearances as themselves (66)

• 2026Dangerous Citizen: The Life and Times of Abraham Polonsky — Self
• Soccer's American Dream — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Henry Fonda for President — Self (archive footage)
• 2025Robert Redford: The Life & Legacy of an American Icon — Self (archive footage)
• 2023A Journey to Sundance — Self
• 2023Paul Newman: The Restless — Self (archive footage)
• Superpowered: The DC Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Betty White: A Celebration — Self
• 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
• 2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth — Self
• 2019Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound — Self
• 2019Robert Redford: The Golden Look — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Words from a Bear — Self
• 2018Jane Fonda in Five Acts — Self - (archive footage)
• 2017Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution — Self
• 2017The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee — Self
• 2017The Words That Built America — Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
• 2016Borsalino City — Self
• 2015Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman — Self
• 2014Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe — Self
• 2013All the President's Men Revisited — Self - Narrator
• Talking Pictures — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2012Il était une fois... « Les trois jours du Condor » — Self
• 2011Buck — Self
• 2010Smash His Camera — Self
• 2009Ted Williams — Self
• 2008You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story — Self
• 2006All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' — Self
• 2006Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men" — Self
• 2006Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire — Self
• 2005The Art of 'The Sting' — Self
• Leçon de Cinéma — Self
• 2004On the Set: Loews Theater — Self
• Parkinson — Self - Guest (archive footage)
• 2004Something About Sydney Pollack — Self
• Tanner on Tanner — Self
• 2003More About the Condor — Self
• 2003The Making of ‘Sneakers’ — Self
• 2002Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time — Self
• 2002Sundance 20 — Self
• 2001New York in the Fifties — Self
• 1999Forever Hollywood — Self
• 1998Entangling Shadows — Self
• 1997Anthem — Self
• 1997The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson — Self / Jeremiah Johnson
• 1995At Sundance — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1993Made in the USA — Self
• 1991Here's Looking At You, Warner Bros. — Self
• 1990Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies — Self
• 1990Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey — Self
• American Experience — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 1982Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady — Self
• CBS News Sunday Morning — Self
• The Kennedy Center Honors — Self
• 1976Pressure and the Press: The Making of 'All the President's Men' — Self
• 1974Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain — Self / Narrator (voice)
• 1974Frank Sinatra: The Main Event — Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• V.I.P. Schaukel — Self
• 1970The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' — Self
• aspekte — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self (uncredited)