Posted on 09/16/2025 6:06:53 AM PDT by Dacula
Robert Redford, the longtime Hollywood icon and star of classic films such as 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and 1985's Out of Africa, has died. He was 89. "Robert Redford passed away on Sept. 16, 2025, at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved," Cindi Berger, chairman and CEO of Rogers & Cowan PMK, tells PEOPLE in a statement. "He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy."
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I was about to mention Spy Game. Probably my favorite movie he had done. Great cast, great director, great story.
Yes, Gary Oldman is excellent and very memorable in almost every role. Even as a supporting actor he has stolen the show several times.
I just pulled up his list of movies. Several of which I forgot he was even in(JFK & The Firm). Then others like “True Romance” where he played a very memorable character in a supporting role. “Is it White Boy day? I didn’t know it was white boy day?”
Or in “The Fifth Element” where he plays the bad guy.
In fact he played the bad guy(the Heavy) in a lot of roles,
Brad Pitt also played a great supporting role in “True Romance” as the stoner roomate.
HOWEVER, I will go with his role as “Early” in the movie “Kalifornia” as Brad Pitt’s best role ever. He played a tremendous scum bag.
That would be Robert Duvall.
Please. We are not them.
I didn’t agree with his politics but we share a bloodline through his Mother. RIP, Robert Redford. May God comfort his loved ones.
Except Duvall pretty much always plays the same character. But, I’m sure the “greatest living actor” is someone different for everyone.
Obviously I disagree about Duvall’s acting skills, although he often plays the “good guy”. But I do agree that there are probably many whom freepers would call “the greatest.”
His politics WAS "the man", he just play acted someone that you liked. He was a POS and a dumb liberal in real life as far as I'm concerned.
I was about to say that for me it's a tie between Gary Oldman and Daniel Day-Lewis, though DDL is apparently semi-retired from acting.
A lot of popular actors play more or less the same character in every film. As far as I'm concerned, that's not acting, that's being a film personality. Good actors should be chameleon-like, barely recognizable in personality from one role to another. Another good example of this is Ben Kingsley - watch him in his idealized, saintly portrayal of Gandhi, and then watch him as a brutal London gangster in Sexy Beast and it's hard to believe that it's the same man.
We are not on the same side.
Have to agree to DISAGREE. Each of us is more than our politics. I believe it is poor taste to diss a person on the day of their passing in a thread announcing it. One is free to say/write whatever they want about a person whenever, but sometimes the words and the timing reflect poorly on the person speaking/writing.
I really don't care what Robert Redford's political beliefs were, I just liked his film performances.
Oh you can live with it... So can I.
All good movies. I was in film school when he did “All Is Lost” as a one-man show about being shipwrecked. It’s pretty amazing. Only someone of his talent could pull it off.
Yeah - it takes real talent to make a one man show watchable. Another example of this is Locke with Tom Hardy in the title role (no connection to John)!
One of the earliest roles of Robert Redford that I've seen is as the troubled, suicidal young man raised by an anarchist zealot mother in a 1960 made for TV production of Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh". A twenty-something Redford held his own in scenes opposite Jason Robards in the lead role, quite a feat since Robards basically made his reputation performing Eugene O'Neill plays on the stage.
Same here. I don't think he began as a leftie, considering all of the un-PC movies he made and starred in, Jeremiah Johnson being one of the biggest ones.
Brad Pitt, while not a bad actor, doesn't have anywhere near the acting chops that Redford had. Redford appeared in several movies that are now iconic classics. I doubt anything that Brad Pitt made will be remembered much 50 years from now.
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