Robert Redford biography
Robert Redford was an American actor and director, born on 18 August 1936 in Santa Monica, who died on 16 September 2025.
Robert Redford's screen career began in 1960 with The Play of the Week, playing Don Parritt.
Robert Redford appeared in 92 films and 22 television or streaming titles between 1960 and 2025.
Honours include National Medal of Arts, Directors Guild of America Award and Knight of the Legion of Honour.
- Also known as
- Charles Robert Redford, Charles Redford Jr., The Legend of Hollywood, Charles Redford
- Born
- 18 August 1936
- Died
- 16 September 2025 (aged 89)
- Birthplace
- Santa Monica
- Work
- Film actor, Film director, Film producer, Stage actor, Executive producer
- Film industries
- Hollywood and beyond
- Years active
- 1958 to 2025
- Awards
- National Medal of Arts
- Directors Guild of America Award
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Academy Award for Best Director
- Theatre World Award
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
Robert Redford filmography
92 films and 22 television or streaming titles, newest first.
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Betty White: A Celebration | English | ||
| 2020 | Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia | Lokia The Dolphin Monster | Voice | |
| 2019 | Avengers: Endgame | Alexander Pierce | Cameo | |
| 2018 | Buttons | English | ||
| 2018 | Jane Fonda in Five Acts | English | ||
| 2018 | The Old Man & the Gun | Forrest Tucker | Also producer | |
| 2018 | The New Environmentalists | PBS documentary | ||
| 2018 | Buttons: A Christmas Tale | |||
| 2017 | Earth: One Amazing Day | BBC documentary | ||
| 2017 | The Discovery | Thomas Harbor | ||
| 2017 | Our Souls at Night | Louis Waters | Also producer | |
| 2017 | American Epic | Documentary film series | ||
| 2016 | Pete's Dragon | Conrad Meacham | ||
| 2016 | National Parks Adventure | Project of MacGillivray Freeman Films | ||
| 2015 | Truth | Dan Rather | ||
| 2015 | A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | Also producer | |
| 2014 | Captain America: The Winter Soldier | Alexander Pierce | ||
| 2014 | Cathedrals of Culture | Documentary; Segment: "The Salk Institute" | ||
| 2013 | All Is Lost | Our Man | ||
| 2013 | Making a Scene | |||
| 2012 | Casting By | English | ||
| 2012 | The Company You Keep | Jim Grant, a.k.a. Nick Sloan | Also producer | |
| 2012 | The Movement: One Man Joins An Uprising | Project of the Make A Hero organization | ||
| 2011 | Buck | English | ||
| 2010 | The Conspirator |
Show all 92 films
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Stories From The Gulf | Documentary project of NRDC | ||
| 2009 | Saving The Bay | Documentary on the San Francisco Bay | ||
| 2008 | Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk | Documentary on the Colorado River | ||
| 2008 | Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars | Documentary | ||
| 2007 | Lions for Lambs | Professor Stephen Malley | Also producer | |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web | Ike | Voice | |
| 2006 | Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures | Narrated two episodes | ||
| 2006 | Cosmic Collisions | Documentary | ||
| 2005 | An Unfinished Life | Einar Gilkyson | ||
| 2004 | The Clearing | Wayne Hayes | ||
| 2004 | Sacred Planet | |||
| 2003 | Abby Singer | English | ||
| 2001 | Spy Game | CIA Case Officer Nathan D. Muir | ||
| 2001 | The Last Castle | Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin | ||
| 2000 | The Legend of Bagger Vance | |||
| 1999 | The Mystery of Chaco Canyon | Documentary | ||
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Tom Booker | Also producer | |
| 1998 | Wallace Stegner: A Writer's Life | Documentary | ||
| 1998 | A Civil Action | |||
| 1997 | Mountain Climbing: Free Climb | Documentary | ||
| 1996 | Up Close & Personal | Warren Justice | ||
| 1994 | Quiz Show | |||
| 1993 | Indecent Proposal | John Gage | ||
| 1992 | A River Runs Through It | Voice of older Norman | Also producer | |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Martin Brice, a.k.a. Marty Bishop | ||
| 1992 | Incident at Oglala | Documentary | ||
| 1991 | Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. | English | ||
| 1990 | Havana | Jack Weil | ||
| 1990 | American Experience: Yosemite - The Fate of Heaven | Documentary | ||
| 1989 | To Protect Mother Earth | Documentary | ||
| 1989 | Changing Steps | Documentary | ||
| 1988 | The Milagro Beanfield War | |||
| 1988 | Audubon Video: California Condor | Documentary | ||
| 1986 | Legal Eagles | Tom Logan | ||
| 1986 | Audubon Video: Grizzly and Man - Uneasy Truce | Documentary | ||
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Denys Finch Hatton | ||
| 1984 | The Natural | Roy Hobbs | ||
| 1983 | The Sun Dagger | Documentary | ||
| 1980 | Brubaker | Henry Brubaker | ||
| 1980 | Ordinary People | |||
| 1979 | The Electric Horseman | Norman 'Sonny' Steele | ||
| 1977 | A Bridge Too Far | Major Julian Cook | ||
| 1977 | The Predators | Documentary | ||
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Bob Woodward | ||
| 1975 | Three Days of the Condor | Joseph Turner, a.k.a. The Condor | ||
| 1975 | The Great Waldo Pepper | Waldo Pepper | ||
| 1975 | Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain | Documentary | ||
| 1974 | The Great Gatsby | Jay Gatsby | ||
| 1974 | Following the Tundra Wolf | Documentary | ||
| 1973 | The Way We Were | Hubbell Gardiner | ||
| 1973 | The Sting | Johnny Hooker | ||
| 1972 | The Candidate | Bill McKay | ||
| 1972 | Jeremiah Johnson | Jeremiah Johnson | ||
| 1972 | The Hot Rock | John Archibald Dortmunder | ||
| 1971 | The Language And The Music Of The Wolves | Project of The Natural History Magazine | ||
| 1970 | Little Fauss and Big Halsy | Halsy Knox | ||
| 1970 | The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Documentary | ||
| 1969 | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here | Dept. Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' Cooper | ||
| 1969 | Downhill Racer | David Chappellet | ||
| 1969 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Sundance Kid | ||
| 1967 | Barefoot in the Park | Paul Bratter | ||
| 1966 | This Property Is Condemned | Owen Legate | ||
| 1966 | The Chase | Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves | ||
| 1965 | Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious | Capt. Hank Wilson | ||
| 1965 | Inside Daisy Clover | Wade Lewis | ||
| 1962 | War Hunt | Private Roy Loomis | ||
| 1960 | Tall Story | Basketball Player | Uncredited |
Television and streaming
| Year | Title | Role | Where | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Dark Winds | Chess Player | ||
| 2023 | White House Plumbers | Bob Woodward | Episode 4: "The Writer's Wife", uncredited voice cameo | |
| 2002 | Skinwalkers | , N/a | Television film; Executive producer | |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | Steven | Television film (archive footage) | |
| 1963 | The Virginian | Matthew Cordell | Episode 35: "The Evil That Men Do" | |
| 1963 | The Untouchables | Jack Parker | Episode 103: "Snowball" | |
| 1963 | The Twilight Zone | Harold Beldon / Death | Episode 81: Nothing in the Dark | |
| 1963 | Dr. Kildare | Medical Student | Episode 35: "The Burning Sky" | |
| 1962 | Nothing in the Dark | English | ||
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Chuck Marsden / David Chesterman | 2 episodes | |
| 1961 | Whispering Smith | Johnny | Episode 2: "The Grudge" | |
| 1961 | Route 66 | Janosh | Episode 35: "First-Class Mouliak" | |
| 1961 | Naked City | Baldwin Larne | Episode 60: "Tombstone for a Derelict" | |
| 1961 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Charlie Pugh | Season 7 Episode 11: "The Right Kind of Medicine" | |
| 1960 | The Play of the Week | Don Parritt | Episodes 8 & 9: "The Iceman Cometh" | |
| 1960 | The Deputy | Burt Johnson | Episode 31: "The Last Gunfight" | |
| 1960 | Tate | John Torsett | Episode 3: "The Bounty Hunter" | |
| 1960 | Rescue 8 | Danny Tilford | Episode 67: "Breakdown" | |
| 1960 | Playhouse 90 | Lieutenant Lott | Episode 134: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" | |
| 1960 | Perry Mason | Dick Hart | Episode 96: "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee" | |
| 1960 | Moment of Fear | Stranger | Episode 1: "The Golden Deed" | |
| 1960 | Maverick | Jimmy Coleman | Episode 76: "Iron Hand" |