RIP: Robert Redford, aged 89
Sep. 16th, 2025 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneWhat a career! I think the first thing that I remember him from was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but he did so many things! Amongst them: The Way We Were, Electric Horseman, Ordinary People, Out of Africa, Sneakers, Quiz Show, and two Avengers/MCU movies - Avengers: Endgame and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Not to mention starting the Sundance Film Festival!
In his early television days, as so many actors did, he did a lot of episodic work, including: Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone, Maverick, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, The Virginian, etc. He also did stage work.
And the awards! From Wikipedia: "an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019. He was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014."
An amazing career and quite a legacy of work left for us.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/robert-redford-actor-director-dead-obituary-1234810387/
Not to mention starting the Sundance Film Festival!
In his early television days, as so many actors did, he did a lot of episodic work, including: Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone, Maverick, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, The Virginian, etc. He also did stage work.
And the awards! From Wikipedia: "an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019. He was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014."
An amazing career and quite a legacy of work left for us.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/robert-redford-actor-director-dead-obituary-1234810387/
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Date: 2025-09-16 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-16 04:04 pm (UTC)He was an amazing actor and artist.
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Date: 2025-09-16 02:02 pm (UTC)I opened my email when I got home and had 3-4 emails announcing the sad news. :o
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2025-09-16 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-09-16 04:04 pm (UTC)Sneakers and Quiz Show for me. I watched Butch & Sundance a few years ago, so that's kind of fresh for me. I don't remember any of his appearances in Perry Mason or Twilight Zone, I wonder if I could find those.... But those were before he'd really hit it big. I remember the Sneakers sequence where he's kidnapped and the blind guy uses a synthesizer to recreate the route he was taken over, that was pretty cool.
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Date: 2025-09-16 04:16 pm (UTC)I remember spotting him on an episode of Perry Mason and doing a search to see if it was actually him. I think the Twilight Zone episode he was in had him playing Death.
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Date: 2025-09-16 05:04 pm (UTC)Oh, Condor was a fantastic movie! For some reason I hold Marathon Man in equal esteem. I'm not sure why, radically different films.
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Date: 2025-09-16 09:31 pm (UTC)What a legacy of films he left!
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Date: 2025-09-17 02:22 am (UTC)Oh, how nice! For Russet and I, we met online 22 years ago this December, and when she was coming down the following February the one thing that she really wanted to do was to see one of the Lord of the Rings movies that was showing the director's cut because we had infinitely better movie theaters in Phoenix than in Cloudcroft or El Paso - still do.
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Date: 2025-09-17 12:55 am (UTC)And tonight I watched “Nothing in the Dark” again. As others have said, I hope his passing was as comfortable as he gave in that TWZ episode.
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Date: 2025-09-17 02:33 am (UTC)AWESOME! Can't say that I've read the book, but I'm pretty sure it's in my ebook collection. I know Marathon Man is in there.