LOS ANGELES: Cinema legend Robert Redford, a display screen nice each in entrance of and behind the digital camera whose profession spanned six a long time, died early on Tuesday (Sep 16) at his house in Utah, his publicist stated. He was 89.
Redford died in his sleep and no particular trigger was given, in line with an announcement by Cindi Berger, chief government of publicity agency Rogers & Cowan PMK.
“Robert Redford handed away on September 16, 2025, at his house at Sundance within the mountains of Utah — the place he liked, surrounded by these he liked,” Berger stated.
The tousled-haired and freckled heartthrob made his breakthrough alongside Paul Newman because the affable outlaw within the Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child in 1969.
After 20 years as an actor, he moved behind the digital camera, turning into an Oscar-winning director and co-founding the Sundance Pageant for aspiring unbiased filmmakers.
A dedicated environmental activist, Redford additionally fought to protect the pure panorama and sources of Utah, the place he lived.
Born Charles Robert Redford Jr on Aug 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, he was the son of an accountant. Redford had 4 youngsters together with his first spouse, Lola Van Wagenen, certainly one of whom died as an toddler. He married German artist and longtime girlfriend Sibylle Szaggars in 2009.
‘INTELLECTUAL, ARTIST, COWBOY’
A family title in cinema worldwide, Redford received a directing Oscar for his 1980 movie Strange Folks, in addition to an honorary Academy Award in 2002.
“Robert Redford’s work as an actor, director and producer all the time represents the person himself: the mental, the artist, the cowboy,” Barbra Streisand stated in 2002 when presenting him with a Lifetime Achievement honorary Oscar.
Tributes started pouring in on Tuesday.
“One of many lions has handed. Relaxation in peace my beautiful buddy,” stated Meryl Streep in a short emailed assertion.
Jane Fonda mourned Redford, a fellow activist, as “an attractive individual in each manner.”
“It hit me arduous this morning once I learn that Bob was gone. I can not cease crying. He meant loads to me and was an attractive individual in each manner. He stood for an America we’ve got to maintain preventing for,” she stated.
President Donald Trump hailed the actor as “nice.”
“Robert Redford had a collection of years the place there was no person higher,” Trump instructed reporters as he left the White Home after being knowledgeable of the actor’s loss of life.
One in all Redford’s most beloved roles was within the basic political thriller All of the President’s Males (1976), which instructed the story of how two journalists uncovered the Watergate scandal that introduced down U.S. president Richard Nixon.
He obtained his solely greatest actor Oscar nomination for The Sting (1973), taking part in a Despair-era con artist.
