Mr. Redford teamed with Mr. Newman again for “The Sting” (1973), which gave him his first and only Oscar nomination as an actor.Credit...Universal PicturesRobert Redford and Paul Newman: A Friendship Forged On-Screen and Off
Robert Redford and Paul Newman were more than just co-stars; they were Hollywood legends whose on-screen chemistry mirrored a deep and enduring friendship. Here's a closer look at their remarkable bond:
Movies and On-Screen Magic:
Their iconic partnership began with the 1969 western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Redford, the handsome newcomer, played the Sundance Kid, while Newman, the established star, portrayed Butch Cassidy. The film's success was fueled by their playful banter and undeniable charisma as two outlaws on the run.
They reunited four years later for "The Sting," a slick con-man caper set in the 1930s. Their effortless on-screen dynamic solidified their status as a box-office powerhouse duo. While they only made two films together, their impact on cinema and their on-screen chemistry remain unforgettable.
Beyond the Silver Screen:
Despite the 11-year age gap, Redford and Newman formed a genuine friendship. They reportedly bonded over their shared interests in independent filmmaking, environmental causes, and a dislike for the Hollywood spotlight.
Unlike some Hollywood friendships, theirs wasn't built on competition. They respected each other's talent and found joy in collaborating. Redford even spoke about Newman's "nervousness" and how they used humor to ease the tension on set.
Individual Success and Enduring Legacy:
Both actors enjoyed illustrious careers outside of their collaborations. Redford became known for his leading-man roles in films like "All the President's Men" and "Out of Africa," while Newman continued to impress with his dramatic range in films like "Cool Hand Luke" and "Absence of Malice."
Sadly, Paul Newman passed away in 2008. Redford spoke fondly of him, highlighting their connection and the fun they had working together.
A Legacy of Friendship and Talent:
Redford and Newman's story transcends their on-screen partnership. It's a testament to the power of genuine friendship within the competitive world of Hollywood. Their legacy lies not just in their iconic films, but also in the inspiration they provided, showing that true friendship and artistic collaboration can flourish even under the bright lights of Hollywood.
In 2013, Mr. Redford was the sole performer in “All Is Lost,” about a sailor struggling to survive at sea.Credit...Daniel Daza/Lionsgate“All Is Lost,” which had almost no dialogue, turned into a disappointment for Mr. Redford: He was snubbed by Oscar voters. The weathered star in turn blasted the film’s distributor, Roadside Attractions.
“We had no campaign to cross over into the mainstream,” he told reporters with signature directness at a Sundance news conference. “They didn’t want to spend the money, or they were incapable.”
Mr. Redford’s final acting roles included “Our Souls at Night” (2017), a twilight-years romance co-starring Ms. Fonda, and “The Old Man and the Gun” (2018), a drama, based on a true story, about a septuagenarian bank robber. He retired from acting in part because he was increasingly immobile; decades of riding horses and playing tennis had wreaked havoc on his 5-foot-10 frame.
Throughout his career, Mr. Redford pushed and questioned and then questioned and pushed. His tenaciousness served him well as early as 1969, when he was preparing to play the Sundance Kid. The president of 20th Century Fox, Richard D. Zanuck, told Mr. Redford to shave the bandit mustache he had grown for the role. He refused.
“It was authentic,” Mr. Redford told Mr. Callan, his biographer. “I got my way.”
雷德福先生駕駛著帆船。他身穿藍色T卹，表情嚴肅，甚至有些陰沉。
2013年，雷德福先生在電影《一切盡失》中擔任唯一主演，該片講述了一位水手在海上掙扎求生的故事。圖片來源：Daniel Daza/獅門影業
幾乎沒有對白的《一切盡失》最終讓雷德福先生大失所望：他被奧斯卡評委冷落。這位飽經風霜的影星隨後猛烈抨擊了該片的發行公司路邊景點影業。
「我們沒有任何宣傳活動來打入主流市場，」他在聖丹斯電影節的新聞發布會上以標誌性的直率告訴記者。 “他們要么不想花錢，要么就是沒有能力。”
雷德福先生的最後演出作品包括與方達女士共同主演的愛情片《夜半魂》（2017），一部講述晚年愛情故事的影片；以及根據真實故事改編的劇情片《老人與槍》（2018），講述了一位七十多歲銀行劫匪的故事。他退出演藝圈的部分原因是他越來越行動不便；幾十年的騎馬和打網球讓他5英尺10英寸（約1.73米）的身高受到了嚴重摧殘。
在他的整個職業生涯中，雷德福先生不斷挑戰、質疑，再質疑、再挑戰。早在1969年，當他準備出演聖丹斯小子時，他的堅韌就讓他受益匪淺。二十世紀福斯的總裁理查德·D·扎努克建議雷德福先生剃掉他為這個角色留的土匪鬍子。他拒絕了。
「這是真的，」雷德福先生告訴他的傳記作者卡蘭先生。 “我如願以償了。”
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雷德福先生的特寫肖像，他穿著棕色皮夾克，裡面有一件敞開的橄欖綠無領襯衫。他面容皺紋深邃，表情嚴肅，直視鏡頭。
2013年的羅伯特‧雷德福。他厭惡好萊塢低俗的電影製作方式，通常要求自己的電影有文化分量。圖片來源：弗雷德·R·康拉德/《紐約時報》
羅伯特雷德福，銀幕偶像轉型為導演和活動家，享年89歲
他讓悲傷和政治腐敗等嚴肅話題引起大眾共鳴，這在很大程度上得益於他自己的明星影響力。
羅伯特雷德福，攝於2013年。他厭惡好萊塢低俗的電影製作方式，通常要求自己的電影有文化分量。圖片來源：弗雷德·R·康拉德/《紐約時報》
羅伯特雷德福，這位從大銀幕魅力男變身奧斯卡獲獎導演的熱門電影常常幫助美國理解自身，在銀幕之外，他積極倡導環保事業，並推動了以聖丹斯電影節為中心的獨立電影運動。他於週二凌晨在猶他州的家中去世，享年89歲。
公關公司Rogers & Cowan PMK的執行長辛迪·伯傑在一份聲明中宣布了他在普羅沃郊外山區去世的消息。她說，雷德福是在睡夢中過世的，但沒有說明具體死因。聲明稱，他「在他深愛的地方，被他所愛的人包圍著」。
雷德福先生厭惡好萊塢低俗的電影製作方式，他通常要求自己的電影具有文化分量，很多情況下，他的作品都以悲傷（家庭、社會）和政治腐敗等嚴肅的話題引起觀眾的共鳴，這在很大程度上得益於他巨大的明星影響力。與其他同等級的明星不同，他敢於冒險，探索黑暗且富有挑戰性的主題；雖然有些人可能只把他看作陽光燦爛的午後電影之神，但他的電影作品——就像他的個人生活一樣——充滿了悲劇和悲傷的氣息。
圖：一張雷德福先生戴著牛仔帽、身穿燈芯絨外套的黑白特寫。雷德福先生留著小鬍子，帽子下露出凌亂的頭髮。
雷德福在1969年的電影《虎豹小霸王》中出演，這是他最賣座的作品之一。圖片來源：20世紀福斯，來自埃弗雷特收藏
作為演員，他最成功的電影包括《虎豹小霸王》（1969年），這部電影充滿愛意地展現了垂死掙扎的西部老派的反叛分子；以及《總統班底》（1976年），講述了水門事件時期追捕理查德·尼克松總統的新聞記者的故事。 （雷德福飾演鮑勃伍德沃德，並利用自己在好萊塢的影響力，將伍德沃德和卡爾伯恩斯坦創作的同名小說搬上了銀幕。）在《禿鷹三日》（1975年）中，雷德福飾演一位性格內向的中情局分析員，捲入了一場殘酷的貓捉老鼠遊戲。 1973年的《騙中騙》（The Sting）講述了大蕭條時期的騙子故事，這部影片為雷德福先生贏得了他作為演員的第一次也是唯一一次奧斯卡提名。
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幾十年來，雷德福先生一直是好萊塢的熱門男主角之一，無論是喜劇、劇情片還是驚悚片；他涉獵廣泛。電影公司常把他當作性感偶像來宣傳。儘管他是一位細膩的演員，擁有獨特的魅力，但他作為浪漫男主角的成就很大程度上要歸功於與他搭檔的幾位實力派女演員——《赤腳公園》（Barefoot in the Park，1967年）、芭芭拉·史翠珊（Barbra Streisand，1973年）、《走出非洲》（Out of Africa，1985年）。
評論家寶琳·凱爾（Pauline Kael）在《紐約客》上寫道：“當我們透過芭芭拉·史翠珊那雙痴迷的眼睛看到他時，雷德福從未如此光彩奪目。”
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右邊一位戴著眼鏡的金髮男子站在旁邊，似乎正在給一位表情嚴肅、撐傘的女士指路。
雷德福先生於1980年執導瑪麗·泰勒·摩爾主演的《普通人》。圖片來源：Marcia Reed/派拉蒙影業，來自Everett Collection
他40多歲時開始涉足導演行業，並憑藉其處女作《普通人》（1980）榮獲奧斯卡獎。該片講述了一個中上階層家庭在兒子去世後解體的故事——這個故事反映了他十幾歲時母親去世後，家人壓抑的悲傷和情感沉默。 《普通人》還獲得了另外三項奧斯卡獎，包括最佳影片獎。
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他執導的下一部電影是《米拉格羅豆田戰爭》（1988），一部關於一位新墨西哥農民被冷漠的開發商剝奪水權的喜劇劇情片，但最終以失敗告終。但雷德福先生固執地拒絕繼續追求…
Robert Redford in 2013. With a distaste for Hollywood’s dumb-it-down approach to moviemaking, he typically demanded that his films carry cultural weight.Credit...Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesRobert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.
Robert Redford in 2013. With a distaste for Hollywood’s dumb-it-down approach to moviemaking, he typically demanded that his films carry cultural weight.Credit...Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
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Robert Redford, the big-screen charmer turned Oscar-winning director whose hit movies often helped America make sense of itself and who, offscreen, evangelized for environmental causes and fostered the Sundance-centered independent film movement, died early Tuesday morning at his home in Utah. He was 89.
His death, in the mountains outside Provo, was announced in a statement by Cindi Berger, the chief executive of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK. She said he had died in his sleep but did not provide a specific cause. He was in “the place he loved surrounded by those he loved,” the statement said.
With a distaste for Hollywood’s dumb-it-down approach to moviemaking, Mr. Redford typically demanded that his films carry cultural weight, in many cases making serious topics like grief (familial, societal) and political corruption resonate with audiences, in no small part because of his immense star power. Unlike other stars of his caliber, he took risks by exploring dark and challenging material; while some people might only have seen him as a sun-kissed matinee god, his filmography — like his personal life — contained currents of tragedy and sadness.
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Mr. Redford in the 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” one of his biggest hits.Credit...20th Century Fox, via Everett CollectionAs an actor, his biggest films included “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969), with its loving look at rogues in a dying Old West, and “All the President’s Men” (1976), about the journalistic pursuit of President Richard M. Nixon in the Watergate era. (Mr. Redford played Bob Woodward and used his clout in Hollywood to bring the book of the same name, by Mr. Woodward and Carl Bernstein, to the screen.) In “Three Days of the Condor” (1975) Mr. Redford was an introverted C.I.A. analyst caught in a murderous cat-and-mouse game. “The Sting” (1973), about Depression-era grifters, gave Mr. Redford his first and only Oscar nomination as an actor.
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Mr. Redford was one of Hollywood’s preferred leads for decades, whether in comedies, dramas or thrillers; he had range. Studios often sold him as a sex symbol. Although he was a subtle performer with a definite magnetism, his body of work as a romantic leading man owed a great deal to the commanding actresses who were paired with him — Jane Fonda in “Barefoot in the Park” (1967), Barbra Streisand in “The Way We Were” (1973), Meryl Streep in “Out of Africa” (1985).
“Redford has never been so radiantly glamorous,” the critic Pauline Kael wrote in The New Yorker, “as when we saw him through Barbra Streisand’s infatuated eyes.”
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Mr. Redford directing Mary Tyler Moore in “Ordinary People” in 1980.Credit...Marcia Reed/Paramount Pictures, via Everett CollectionHe branched into directing in his 40s and won an Academy Award for his first effort, “Ordinary People” (1980), about an upper-middle-class family’s disintegration after a son’s death — a story that reflected the repressed grief and emotional silence in his own family after the death of his mother when he was a teenager. “Ordinary People” won three other Oscars, including for best picture.
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His next film as a director, “The Milagro Beanfield War” (1988), a comedic drama about a New Mexican farmer denied water rights by uncaring developers, was a flop. But Mr. Redford stubbornly refused to pursue less esoteric material. Instead, he directed and produced “A River Runs Through It” (1992), a spare period drama about Montana fly fishermen pondering existential questions, and “Quiz Show” (1994), about a notorious 1950s television scandal. “Quiz Show” was nominated for four Oscars, including best picture and best director.
Perhaps Mr. Redford’s greatest cultural impact was as a make-it-up-as-he-went independent film impresario. In 1981, he founded the Sundance Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to cultivating fresh cinematic voices. He took over a struggling film festival in Utah in 1984 and renamed it after the institute a few years later. (He had been a local since 1961, having spent some of his early earnings as an actor on two acres of land in Provo Canyon. He often said he liked Utah because it gave him a sense of peace and was the antithesis of Hollywood superficiality.)
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Mr. Redford addressed reporters on the opening day of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. He founded the Sundance Institute, dedicated to cultivating fresh cinematic voices, in 1981 and later took over a struggling film festival and renamed it after the institute.Credit...Chris Pizzello/Invision, via Chris Pizzello/Invision/APThe Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, became a global showcase and freewheeling marketplace for American films made outside the Hollywood system. With heat generated by the discovery of talents like Steven Soderbergh, who unveiled his “Sex, Lies and Videotape” at the festival in 1989, Sundance became synonymous with the creative cutting edge.
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The directors Quentin Tarantino, James Wan, Darren Aronofsky, Nicole Holofcener, David O. Russell, Ryan Coogler, Robert Rodriguez, Chloé Zhao and Ava DuVernay were nurtured by Sundance early in their careers. Sundance also grew into one of the world’s top showcases for documentaries, in particular those focused on progressive topics like reproductive rights, L.G.B.T.Q. issues and climate change.
Mr. Redford complained bitterly about the commercial whirlwind the festival created as it grew to more than 85,000 attendees in 2025 from a few hundred in the early 1980s.
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“I want the ambush marketers — the vodka brands and the gift-bag people and the Paris Hiltons — to go away forever,” Mr. Redford told a reporter during the 2012 festival, as he trudged in snow boots to a screening, a young assistant behind him struggling to keep up. “They have nothing to do with what’s going on here!”
Preferring life on his secluded Utah ranch, Mr. Redford created the image of a reluctant star. His Hollywood career, he insisted with characteristic orneriness, was incidental to his real concerns, one of which was the environment. In many ways, he created the actor-as-environmentalist archetype that stars like Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo would adopt.
Mr. Redford did not like to be called an activist, a label he found too severe. But an activist he was.
In 1970, he successfully campaigned against a six-lane highway that was proposed in a Utah canyon (where one year he received eight tickets for speeding, rounding the curves in a Porsche Carrera).
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An ardent environmentalist, Mr. Redford was given the Natural Resources Defense Council Forces for Nature Award by the actress Meryl Streep in 2004.Credit...AP Photo/Natural Resources Defense Council, Ginny Arcari,For five decades, Mr. Redford was a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 1976, he used his clout to help block the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Utah that had been championed by business leaders as a crucial source of jobs. His campaign against the plant included a 36-page photo spread in National Geographic magazine featuring himself on horseback on the scenic Kaiparowits plateau, where construction was to begin. His efforts sparked a backlash — he was called a liberal carpetbagger — and residents of one Utah town burned him in effigy.
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From time to time, people with similar political priorities encouraged him to run for office. He brushed such chatter aside, having become disillusioned with government in the late 1970s, when he was elected commissioner of the Provo Canyon sewer district. (He had sought the office in an effort to protect the Provo Canyon area near his home from development and pollution. But he quickly encountered bureaucracy, which reinforced his belief that independent activism and storytelling through film were more effective tools for change.)
“I was born with a hard eye,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2014. “The way I saw things, I would see what was wrong. I could see what could be better. I developed kind of a dark view of life, looking at my own country.”
A California Youth
Charles Robert Redford Jr. was born on Aug. 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, Calif. His parents, Charles Redford and Martha Hart, married three months later. (Early in his career, 20th Century Fox publicists officially placed Mr. Redford’s birth in 1937, a falsehood that was often repeated over the years.)
After working as a milkman, Mr. Redford’s mercurial father became an accountant and was eventually employed by Standard Oil of California. His mother died in 1955, when Mr. Redford was in his late teens; the cause was a blood disorder associated with the birth of twin girls, who had lived only a short while, leaving Mr. Redford an only child. Her death left him angry and disillusioned.
“I’d had religion pushed on me since I was a kid,” he later told a biographer, Michael Feeney Callan. “But after Mom died, I felt betrayed by God.”
Later in life, Mr. Redford, in dozens of interviews, told and retold the story of his California youth. It was an oral history in which the details sometimes shifted. He liked to cast himself in memory as a juvenile delinquent, sometimes mentioning gang fights, other times hubcap stealing and nights spent in jail. “There was great fear I was going to end up a bum,” he told TV Guide in 2002. He found Van Nuys, the Los Angeles neighborhood where the family lived, to be unbearably conformist and dull — revealing a rebellious nature that never left him.
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Little was ever mentioned of early show business connections that suggested the possibility of a screen future, although he spoke about getting laughed off the Warner Bros. lot at age 15 when asking for stunt work.
In fact, at schools in west Los Angeles, he kept company with children of the screenwriter Robert Rossen (“The Hustler”), the actor Zachary Scott (“Mildred Pierce”) and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer president Dore Schary. In 1959, Mr. Schary produced a Broadway play, “The Highest Tree,” in which Mr. Redford had one of his first stage roles.
He had made his Broadway debut earlier that year in “Tall Story,” in which he had a one-line part. His most successful Broadway appearance was as an uptight lawyer in the Neil Simon comedy about newlyweds, “Barefoot in the Park,” in 1963, directed by Mike Nichols and co-starring Elizabeth Ashley as a free-spirited wife.
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Robert Redford on a 1961 episode of the television show ‘The Twilight Zone.’Credit...CBS Photo Archive, via Getty ImagesAfter high school, Mr. Redford attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship, but he soon dropped out, having chafed at too much “bureaucracy,” as he put it. He had also developed a fondness for all-night beer parties.
For more than a year he bounced around Europe, where he studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, aspired to paint, and — working through what he later described as profound depression — sold sidewalk sketches for pocket cash. (He had been a talented illustrator since high school.)
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Back in Los Angeles, he did oil-field work and met several Mormon students who were sent to proselytize after their first year at Brigham Young University in Utah. He dated one of them, Lola Van Wagenen, and married her in 1958.
The couple would become rooted in Utah. “It’s not trying to pretend to be something it’s not,” he told Rocky Mountain magazine in 1978, comparing Utah with Los Angeles, which he called phony and superficial. “It doesn’t invite you in and then kick you in the shins.”
Film critics loved to kick Mr. Redford.
In 1974, his performance as Jay Gatsby in “The Great Gatsby” received near-universal disdain, with Ms. Kael writing that Mr. Redford “couldn’t transcend his immaculate self-absorption.” Robert Mazzocco, a critic for The New York Review of Books, wrote that Mr. Redford “has the emotions of a telephone recording from Con Ed.”
While the movie was a box-office hit, the response was so harsh that The New York Times weighed in with an article bearing the headline “Why Are They Being So Mean to ‘The Great Gatsby’?” The writer, Foster Hirsch, then enumerated the reasons. “Gatsby is one of the great losers in American literature,” the article said. “Does Redford, with his male model looks, answer such a description?”
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"Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are."
-- Robert Redford
Robert Redford is among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, renowned for his iconic roles as the Sundance Kid, Bob Woodward and Jay Gatsby, and celebrated for his fierce commitment to environmental causes, independent filmmaking, and his Sundance Film Festival. Yet only now, in this revelatory biography written in close collaboration with the extraordinary actor and director himself, do we see the complex man beneath the Hollywood façade. READ an excerpt here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/robert-redford-by-mic…/
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