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Robert Redford, movie star and Sundance founder, dies at 89
Robert Redford, an actor whose beach-god looks and subtle magnetism in films such as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men” made him one of the biggest movie stars of all time, but who forged an even more profound legacy in cinema as a patron saint of American independent film, died Sept. 16 at his home near Provo, Utah. He was 89.
His death was announced in a statement by publicist Cindi Berger, who did not cite a cause.
Since 1981, Mr. Redford had been president and founder of the Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah. Sundance provided a vital platform for two generations of outside-the-system filmmakers — from Quentin Tarantino to Ava DuVernay — who were embraced by ticket buyers and studios and helped enlarge the definition of commercial fare in a risk-averse industry.
This might have seemed an unlikely quest for Mr. Redford, whose square jaw, blue eyes and sun-dappled hair projected an almost blinding beauty that made him a Hollywood sex symbol for five decades. He became one of the most popular and highly paid actors in the world, his audiences reveling in his romantic chemistry with Meryl Streep and Barbra Streisand and his bromantic banter with Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman.
Robert Redford, an actor whose beach-god looks and subtle magnetism in films such as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men” made him one of the biggest movie stars of all time, but who forged an even more profound legacy in cinema as a patron saint of American independent film, died Sept. 16 at his home near Provo, Utah. He was 89.
His death was announced in a statement by publicist Cindi Berger, who did not cite a cause.
Since 1981, Mr. Redford had been president and founder of the Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah. Sundance provided a vital platform for two generations of outside-the-system filmmakers — from Quentin Tarantino to Ava DuVernay — who were embraced by ticket buyers and studios and helped enlarge the definition of commercial fare in a risk-averse industry.
This might have seemed an unlikely quest for Mr. Redford, whose square jaw, blue eyes and sun-dappled hair projected an almost blinding beauty that made him a Hollywood sex symbol for five decades. He became one of the most popular and highly paid actors in the world, his audiences reveling in his romantic chemistry with Meryl Streep and Barbra Streisand and his bromantic banter with Paul Newman and Dustin Hoffman.
