Hollywood actor and Oscar-winning director Robert Redford, known for films including Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, All The President’s Men and The Sting, has died at the age of 89.
Redford, who was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the US, died on Tuesday morning.
In a statement, his representative said he was “surrounded by those he loved”, at home in “the place he loved” in the mountains of Utah.
“He will be missed greatly,” she added.
Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. Pic: THA/Shutterstock
After rising to stardom in the 1960s, Redford became a go-to leading man in Hollywood and a huge star of the ’70s, starring in films including The Candidate, All the President’s Men and The Way We Were.
In the 1990s and 2000s, his film credits included Indecent Proposal, The Last Castle and Spy Game, while he also worked actively as a filmmaker, helming movies including A River Runs Through It and The Legend Of Bagger Vance. In 1998, he both starred in and directed The Horse Whisperer.
But he was best known for his role as the Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman’s Butch Cassidy in the 1969 film. The pair became a famous screen partnership, starring opposite each other again in The Sting a few years later, and good friends.
As well as his starring roles, Redford was also an activist and an accomplished filmmaker – winning the Oscar for best director for Ordinary People in 1981. It was the second of his two Academy Awards – the first won for his acting performance in The Sting – as well as an honorary prize in 2002.
In a career spanning six decades, he also received three Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement honor in 1994.
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