"I've spent most of my life just focused on the road ahead, not looking back," Redford said in the acceptance speech for his 2002 honorary Oscar. "But now tonight, I'm seeing in the rearview mirror that there is something I've not thought about much, called history."
American actors Robert Redford and Paul Newman on the set of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill. Robert Redford and Paul Newman on the set of 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Born Aug. 18, 1936 in Santa Monica, Calif., Redford was a student at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his Broadway debut in 1959's Tall Story, followed by a lead in 1963's Barefoot in the Park — a role he reprised in the 1967 film adaptation alongside Jane Fonda. His onscreen career began in the early 1960s with roles on TV shows like Tate, Route 66, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
And of course, his career reached new heights in 1969 when he landed the role of outlaw the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid alongside Paul Newman.
“I was being put up for Butch Cassidy because I’d done the comedy. But that part didn't interest me,” Redford told Collider in 2019. “What interested me was the Sundance Kid because I could relate to that based on my own experience and particularly my own childhood and feeling like an outlaw most of my life. So I told [director] George [Roy Hill], and he knew Paul really well and knew he was much more like Butch Cassidy, so George turned it all around. He went to Paul and they argued a bit until Paul finally realized that George was right. He was well known and I wasn't, which is why they switched the title, too.”
He was indeed very talented. RIP.
Yes, a lefty, but I loved Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and, later, The Sting. May he RIP.
He was Brad Pitt before Brad Pitt was born.
I liked his acting. Not crazy about his politics.
89 is a good run. Rest in Peace.
He was a very talented actor who continued to hone his skills even after achieving stardom, RIP.
One critic once called him 'the paragon of blonde diffidence'.
Wow! He died again?! Weird. Third time today.
He was in so many great movies, but I think his best performance was in Three Days of the Condor.
I always watch “Jeremiah Johnson” when it’s on.
RIP.
I cannot think of RR without Paul Newman. Maybe they can hang out in heaven now.
No more secrets.
I really liked him in Three Days of the Condor. It’s been a while since I watched it. Might be a good time for a rewatch.
I didn’t agree with his politics but we share a bloodline through his Mother. RIP, Robert Redford. May God comfort his loved ones.
John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, born John Jeremiah Garrison Johnston (July 1, 1824 – January 21, 1900), was a mountain man of the American Old West.
Johnson is said to have been born with the last name Garrison, in the area of the Hickory Tavern near Pattenburg, New Jersey. During the Mexican–American War he served aboard a fighting ship. After striking an officer, he deserted, changed his name to John Johnston and travelled West to try his hand at gold digging in Alder Gulch, Montana Territory. He also became a "woodhawk", supplying cord wood to steamboats.
Rumours and legends about Johnson are common. Perhaps chief among them is that in 1847, his wife, a member of the Flathead American Indian tribe, was killed by a young Crow man and his fellow hunters, which prompted Johnson to embark on a vendetta against the tribe. According to historian Andrew Mehane Southerland, "He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers" to avenge the death of his wife, and "as his reputation and collection of scalps grew, Johnson became an object of fear."
Accounts say that he would cut out and eat the liver of each Crow killed. This led to his being known as "Liver-Eating Johnson". One tale is that while on a foray of over five hundred miles in the winter to sell whiskey to his Flathead kin, he was ambushed by a group of Blackfoot warriors. The Blackfoot planned to sell him to the Crow, his mortal enemies. He was stripped to the waist, tied with leather thongs and put in a teepee with one guard. Johnson managed to break through the straps. He then knocked out the guard with a kick, took his knife and scalped him. He escaped into the woods and fled to the cabin of Del Gue, his trapping partner, a journey of about two hundred miles.
Eventually, Johnson made peace with the Crow and his personal vendetta against them finally ended after 25 years and scores of slain Crow warriors.
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There's no mention of fava beans anywhere in the article.
A little "shout out" for "The Last Castle". That was something, holding his own against a young James Gandolfini. Second time playing a man taking on a prison system, the first being "Brubaker" 20 years before.
He was an amazing actor. I had no respect for his politics but he seemed like a talented man. I pray for his soul that influences of Hollywood did not misdirect him.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/robert-redford-legacy-film-1236374106/
The Legacy of Robert Redford in Film