Robert Redford, Hollywood legend, died at 89 years old
Hollywood icon, hero of Butch Cassidy and the Kid, of the three days of Condor, men of the president or Out of Africa, the actor and director died at the age of 89 in his Sundance refuge.
Hollywood legend, charismatic actor and Oscar -winning director, Robert Redford died Tuesday morning at the age of 89, in his sleep, at his home in Sundance, in the Utah mountains. The news was confirmed at New York Times By his agent Cindi Berger, who did not specify the cause of death.
“Robert Redford died on September 16, 2025, in the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will miss it terribly. The family asks that his intimacy be respected”said his agent in a statement.
A career between glamor and commitment
Revealed in the cinema in War is also a hunt (1962), Robert Redford It was essential in the 1970s as one of the flagship faces of New Hollywood. In duet with Paul Newmanhe becomes immortal with Butch Cassidy and the Kid (1969), then found his partner for The scam (1973), Oscar for best film. The same year, he asserted himself as a romantic seducer in Our best yearsalongside Barbra Streisand.
He then continued success: Gatsby the Magnificent (1974), The three days of the Condor (1975) and especially President’s men (1976), adaptation of the book of Bob Woodward et Carl Bernsteinof which he was also the producer. This film, a symbol of investigation journalism after the Watergate scandal, becomes a classic of American political cinema.
From star to respected filmmaker
Number 1 of the box office in the mid-1970s, Redford quickly chose to go behind the camera. His first film, People like the others (1980), he earned him the Oscar directly for the best director. Will follow other classics such as And in the middle flows a river (1992) or The man who murmured horses in the ear (1998).
At the same time, he embodies significant roles of old seducer in Out of Africa (1985) of Sydney Pollackor in Indecent proposal (1993). In the 2010s, he surprised with All Is Lost (2013), where he plays a lonely sailor lost at sea, almost without dialogue. Then he jumps at Marvel in Captain America: the winter soldier (2014), where he embodies an unexpected antagonist.
A pioneer of independent cinema
Beyond his career as an actor and filmmaker, Robert Redford will remain as the man who has changed the face of American independent cinema. Founder of the Sundance Institute and the Festival of Sundance in 1981, he enabled the emergence of new generations of filmmakers, of Steven Soderbergh has Quentin Tarantino, And helped give a voice to the talents outside the major studios.
The latest roles and heritage
His latest official role in the cinema was in Avengers : Endgame (2019), where he resumed his character from Alexander Pierce. But its ultimate appearance, this year, will remain a short participation, in early 2025, in cameo in season 3 of Dark Windsseries of which he was also a producer.
Oscar, Golden Globes, Bafta, presidential medal of freedom … His career was crowned by the highest distinctions, but it is above all his image of free, committed and elegant man who will remain in the memories. Robert Redford Leaves behind an immense work behind him, between Hollywood glamor, author and activism cinema for ecology and artistic independence.
