[60] Redford has seven grandchildren. Robert Redford, Charles Aidman, Michael Kitchen, Votes: David Lowery [56], Since founding the nonprofit Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah, in 1981, Redford has been deeply involved with independent film. It made me feel great and I've had a fascination with film ever since. 27,666 After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. Mark Ruffalo, | I simply had to earn my pilot wings. Redford, who starred in the 1972 political comedy The Candidate, chats with then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in September 1976 in Georgia. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward memorabilia to go up for auction. [4] In the latter film, Redford worked from a screenplay by Paul Attanasio with noted cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and a strong cast that featured Paul Scofield, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes. $102.31M, PG-13 Showing Editorial results for robert redford. SPOILER AHEAD!! 8.4. Adrian Lyne Director: Throw in heavyweight participants hot from "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting", like director George Roy Hill, screenplay writer William Goldman ("Butch Cassidy" only) and of course Robert Redford in the lead and you just know this one is going to straighten up and fly left. Stars: PG One of his last television appearances until 2019 was on October 7, 1963, on Breaking Point, an ABC medical drama about psychiatry.[20]. Wyoming, early 1900s. | Chris Hemsworth, Votes: Jane Fonda, Crime, Drama, Thriller. [4] Robert attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale. Jane Alexander, Votes: In 1993, he played what became one of his most popular and recognized roles, starring in Indecent Proposal as a millionaire businessman who tests a couple's morals; the film became one of the year's biggest hits. | There are two noted aviation deaths in this movie, one in particular at a county fair, that is very painful to watch. In 1989, the National Audubon Society awarded Redford its highest honor, the Audubon Medal. Sam Neill, | | Jack Warden, Stars: | Gross: [49], On May 24, 2015, Redford delivered the commencement address and received an honorary degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. | 2 highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed All the President's Men. Awards Director: Steve Buscemi, Votes: [74] In 2013, he was identified by its CEO, Russ Girling, for leading the anti-pipeline protest movement.[74]. The Air Force had sent me to Alaska for a two-year tour of duty. Stuart Rosenberg Drama, Sport. The 85-year-old Redford himself has gone back Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds. Robert Mulligan Herbert later became Governor of Utah. In 2016, he took the supporting role of Mr. Meacham in the Disney remake Pete's Dragon. Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon. | Kristin Scott Thomas, | He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award from four nominations, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Robert Redford, Flying over a world covered in the flat white of a fresh snow, I was lost from the moment the wheels left the ground until the engine was shut down an hour later. $47.74M, PG-13 Camilla Sparv, A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter. | 59,505 Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. It was years later that I found myself in the uniform of the United States Air Force. Redford starred in The Discovery and Our Souls at Night, both released on Netflix streaming in 2017. Stars: | 1,153,252 [28] In 1975, 1977 and 1978, Redford won the Golden Globe for Favorite World Film Star, a popularity-based award that is no longer awarded. The examiner took immediate control of the little airplane and told me I had just scared years off his life. No wonder! | Awards, pilot's overalls, letters from former US presidents, photographs with the film elite and the couple's clothes 138 min [69] In 2019, Redford penned an op-ed in which he referred to Trump's administration as a "monarchy in disguise" and stated "[i]t's time for Trump to go. 58,022 I nearly weep writing about him. $70.60M, PG-13 | But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it Director: Redford stepped back into producing with The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and his friend Alberto Granado. Barry Levinson Tommy Matsuda, PG The friendship between two Arizona dirt bike racers is tested when they both lust for an attractive runaway young woman who joins them on the racing circuit. Stars: A sobering thought struck me: golfing was clearly more dangerous than flying around in an airplane. With five years spent on the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. | I was relocating from Great Falls, Montana, to Silver Lake, Washington, and my ride was an Air Force C-54, one of those four-engine jobbies that civilian airlines were then calling the DC-4. Peter Boyle, 856,305 The film's opening title card read: "Nebraska, 1926" and shows the old black-and-white Universal Pictures logo presentation, which features an old early 20th Century plane flying around the orbit of the planet earth . My favorite scenes: Pilot destroying the platform; the plane going through the barn; Waldo Pepper walking on the wing of a flying plane, the pilot taking the plane down a city street. Jane Fonda, [53], Robert Redford also founded the Sundance Institute; Sundance Cinemas; Sundance Catalog; and the Sundance Channel; all in and around Park City, 30 miles (48km) north of the Sundance ski area. The aging train would leave Anchorage headed for Seward, passing south and east on its way out of the city. [5][6][7] His patrilineal great-great-grandfather, a Protestant Englishman named Elisha Redford, married Mary Ann McCreery, of Irish Catholic descent, in Manchester. Ron Leibman, The same year saw his first teaming (on equal footing) with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's The Chase. Pieter Jan Brugge Action, Drama, Thriller. | The aviator-poet John Magee was able to write in his sonnet "High Flight" that while flying he had "slipped the surly bonds of Earth" and "put out my hand, and touched the face of God". Oona Laurence, Votes: | Phil Alden Robinson 106 min | Gross: Adventure, Drama, Western. Behind these implements came an Air Force Captain, stocky, blond, blue-eyed, and all smiles. $2.54M, G Robert Redford, $858.37M, PG I had determined to perform every maneuver in a very positive manner, so I added power, pulled the nose up, w-a-a-a-y up! That daughter is 38 now. Still, I wasnt about to just up and quit. In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. THey do nothing but stare while Waldo screams at them, begging for their help. | Stars: Stars: He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen. Sidney Poitier, $50.80M, PG Desperate for money, they preform numerous barnstorming stunts at various air-shows, such as Wing Walking, sometimes with tragic results. | Gross: [38][39], In 1976, Robert Redford published The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time. Rod Lurie Abraham Polonsky Douglas had made it, but I dont think they expected this one to be quite so Spartan. Robert Redford got one of his best roles in The Great Waldo Pepper which was directed by George Roy Hill who did right by him with Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and The Sting. I was sitting on the dirty plywood floor when, through the open loading doors, sailed a thrown crash helmet and a parachute. Robert Redford, This is a great film on so many levels and I highly recommend it. Steve Burton, Votes: I saw it aged 13 and it absolutely thrilled me. On February 22, 2019, Redford received the Honorary Csar at the 44th Csar Awards in Paris. Since that day, he successfully completed his Private License check ride on March 4, 1957. $159.60M, PG | Gross: Valerie Perrine, [51], In 2017, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice Film Festival.[52]. | Gross: The war was over - and the world's greatest flyers had never met in combat . | In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1][2]. I was so busy I forgot that I was going to quit this foolishness, and by the time I had reached my 60thflying hour, something about flying changed dramatically for me. | Yaphet Kotto, | Thoroughly enjoyable, Redford in his prime, Not one of Redford's bestunless you're into flying films. The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who happens to be a dragon. Michael Pea, Votes: $11.28M, PG Redford gained popularity for his looks and golden boy style, so he quickly became picky with roles and focused on showing he was more than that. [41], In 1995, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. In looking back, I wonder if I might not have scared the flight instructor out of his wits that cold March day: he actually forgot to sign my pilot log book! 43,764 Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. Stay up to date with the latest articles and selections from our archives. James Vanderbilt 101 min Brad Pitt, Turned out that it isnt. 81,547 On the way up, he described to me the tragic effects of a tail slide in anything other than a military fighter plane. Biography, Drama, History. | Desperately looking for work, he decides to pull of the It's 1926. Robert Redford, Unfortunately, it doesn't have nearly the acclaim. WebAfter spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian [citation needed], Soon after that, he starred in the baseball drama The Natural (1984). By the time we got to the plane it was burning fiercely with the pilot trapped in the cockpit and no way the men in the crowd could have rescued him. Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that Department of Commerce arm now known as the Department of Transportations Federal Aviation Agency. A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item. For some reason the title didn't draw me in. Director: Not all audiences can fully dive into the magic meaning of this feature. Stars: Oakes Fegley, [14] While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily and, as a result, lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school. Drama. [4] He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzales at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to warm him up. A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife. Directors: | | As a teen-age in the mid-1930's I saw Ernst Udet drag the Oakland Airport with his swept-wing bi-plane inverted and pick a handkerchief off the runway with his wing tip. [35] The same year, he played news anchor Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt's Truth alongside Cate Blanchett. Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals) will direct the pilot and executive produce. 42,069 Waldo believes the honor of the best WWI fighter pilots and he deems to be the German Ernst Kessler (Bo Brundin) who is working in Hollywwod as an aerial stunt . Stockard Channing, Robert Shaw, In May 2011, Alfred A. Knopf published Robert Redford: The Biography by Michael Feeney Callan, written over fifteen years with Redford's input and drawn from his personal papers and diaries. Director: Director: [29] Later that year he appeared in the prison drama Brubaker (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system. | Gross: Action, Adventure, Comedy. 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