FOX “Robert Redford passed away on September 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” his representative told Fox News Digital. “He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy.”
The Oscar-winning director was best known for his work in popular films including, “The Sting,” “All the President’s Men” and more.
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A pretty boy actor who landed a lot of iconic roles in the 70s. He did a lot of film I will still watch today and a few stinkers (The Way We Were for example). There’d be no Sundance without Redford. He did a really memorable turn as Death in a Twilight Zone episode.
Now I have to break the news to my 91-year-old mother.
He might have been an even better director than an actor, from one of my favorite movies;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Gv8hhEbnM
When I worked in MN, my company sent some of us to Park City, Utah for a conference. Park City is near Sundance and Robert Redford had a restaurant there where we had dinner a few times.
It was a nice little town in the mountains. It was also known for hosting the Olympics for downhill skiing in 2002.
Sometimes I am shocked at how old a famous person is or was. Then I remember how old I am.
3 days & j. johnson, still good
Yes, he did good movies, but I did not like his political actions. I just wish that movie stars, musicians would just entertain us and keep their politics to themselves. I have total respect for people such as Dolly Parton, Denzel Washington and Gary Sinise who do good things quietly.
Yes, he was a Liberal. But he managed to keep his political opinions to himself, and concentrated on making (usually good) movies.
And he also “did it right” in environmentalism.
Instead of demanding that Gubberment seize land and make it into a perpetual wilderness (yeah, SUWA, I’m looking at YOU assholes), he bought up land, made it his private property, then legally turned it into a natural conservancy.
RIP good sir. There may be things that you have done that irritated me (usually politically), but I can’t think of anything at the moment.
I keep so-called “stars” at arm’s length. They’re actors in a story and generally good at what they do. Like anyone else I enjoy good entertainment It’s when some of them stop entertaining, step off the stage and start being activists is where I draw the line. I don’t recall Redford doing that. So I say congratulations on a good career, I enjoyed your work and RIP.
When I was a young boy, I was able to see the movie “The Sting”at the theater and I recall that it was wildly popular, as was the soundtrack. Jeremiah Johnson and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid sealed the deal for some of my favorite of his films. Politics was not on my active radar in my early teens but, I witnessed many world events that did lay out the path I began and follow to this day. Yeah, he was a lib but, he wasn’t as extreme as many are these days.
RIP, Jeremiah.
I was elk hunting way up in the mountains north of Lake City, Colorado years ago. I came down off the mountain after several days of hunting to take a break in town. I was walking down a wooden sidewalk toward Poker Alice Pizza Parlor to get a sandwich. I passed by a guy wearing a fedora and we said hi to each other as we passed. When I walked into Poker Alice, the girls were hopping around excited about something. They asked if I saw Robert Redford outside. I said no. They said I had just walked right past him. He had signed menus for the girls to keep after eating and said he was taking the scenic route to Telluride in his car. If you’ve never been to the Lake City area, it is truly scenic and remote. Lake City is an unspoiled gem.
I only met him once outside a sound studio at Paramount. He was working on ‘Quiz Show’ and I was playing my gameboy and chatting with Mark Isham. I didn’t know it was Mark Isham until Mr. Redford came up to us and chatted with him about the music track. He was very nice. Small stature, warm and approachable.
I loved the Natural, Jeremiah Johnson, A River runs through it … Ordinary People was a wonderful debut film, too.
He also played a young Neo Nazi from an upper-class family on the cop show The Naked City in the early 60’s who was caught and had to face the consequences of his actions. The naked City was one of the best of the early police dramas of the early 60’s. Jeremiah Johnson was actually based on the true story of “Liver eating” Johnson a mountain man in the 1830’s or 40’s who had declared war on the Crow Indians for killing his wife and child.
Nothing In The Dark from The Twilight Zone.
Redford plays an interesting role…
Radical environmentalist. Sheesh. How soon people forget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhBPVOknBI&list=RDHlhBPVOknBI&start_radio=1
And then there’s “Sneakers”.
JK, can’t win ‘em all.
Dr. Tar — hahaha! Yeah, my dear mother (of blessed memory) absolutely swooned over Redford and Newman. My favorite Redford/Newman film was “The Sting”. Both had great acting skills, but Redford nailed the zoot suit, impertinent gangster character.
George Roy Hill directed both “The Sting” and “Butch Cassidy….”
HE GAVE SPEECHES at the UN about Climate & SHILLED FOR DEMOCRAPS:
BIDEN, CAMEL TOE, BARKEY etc.
Note: At the end of his move “Sneakers” 1992, it is implied his character bankrupts the RNC & Donates the funds to Amnesty int., greenpeace, the united negro college fund.
Y’all still love him?
Go check his comments on DJT.
Couple good movies. Not a good person. Not a God fearing person. If you did not “love” the polar bear he would just as soon seen you in jail. Unless something changed later in life, Robert is not going to be resting in peace.
Hey pilgrim, are you sure you can skin grizz?
@ 459: good scene
He pretended for a living and was a hard core communist death democrat. His final eternal role will be shoveling carbon dioxide into one of Hells furnaces. In real life he was so short he could have scored a role as one of the Oompa Loompas in Willie Wonka.
Redford, Steve McQueen, & Paul Newman were all part of the rugged leading man era.
Steve & Paul died before turning into an old lesbian though…
I have The Towering Inferno on DVD.
Have to watch it again…
He was an actor of my parents generation. He never had any appeal for me, and there’s nothing of his I’d care to watch again.
^^^^^^ Old guy here. I guess. Before Butch and the Kid he did the western rotation when he was young. He played a real shitty role on the Virginian. Nothing special. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was his break out role as am actor and he was freaken awesome. So was Paul Newman. Who actually had pretty good politics. Jeremiah Johnson was awesome. That’s enough for me. I think sometimes these fruit loop actors get over shadowed by the parts they play. To this day if Butch and the Kid come on I’ll sit down and watch it start to finish.
I commented this on the wrong post. “Who the hell are those guys”? I’ve used that line on the golf course.” “Who are those guys”?
““Who are those guys”
Such good entertainment. “You dumb son of a bitch the fall will probably kill us”. Newman and Redford were good together.
” I’ve used that line on the golf course.”
Still laughing. We’ve been chased by old Jewish couple that play swat and fetch a 100 yards at a time.
“The fall will probably kill you”
Good iconic line.
Actors give their left nut for a great line.
“Go ahead, make my day”
“Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape”
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat”
“My name is Bond, James Bond”
“Here’s looking at you, kid”
^^^^^^ “Wolverines” Thinking we are about there.
“Go ahead, make my day!” And a dozen other Clint Eastwood lines. This is sort of funny. Back when I was working in Alaska the oil companies began putting up security checkpoints. One of my horses ass crew mates had an issue with this and even though the guards always recognized our crew van they asked for the last name of the driver. Alan was frequently the driver and he gave his last name as Eastwood. After a few weeks of this our toolpusher came into the lunchroom and declared, “all I want to know is which one of you assholes is Eastwood!” Oh man, we all laughed. This same toolpusher, during the Kuwait oil well fires that the Iraqis torched off was interviewed by CNN. He was one of the HMFIC’s and they said how can you stand being here, it’s horrible. His reply, “there is no place in the world I’d rather be!”. Oilfield guys are great, rodeo cowboys too. Machinists and real creators of metal works as well!