Robert Redford, The film's opening title card read: "Nebraska, 1926" and shows the old black-and-white Universal Pictures logo presentation, which features an old early 20th Century plane flying around the orbit of the planet earth . | Each year between 1974 and 1976, movie exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office star. Lauren Hutton, Votes: Having been a hunter and fisherman all my young life (it was sometimes necessary for us, if we intended to eat regularly), I continued to hunt and fish the great Alaska outback. [13] While there, he worked at a restaurant/bar called The Sink, where a painting of his likeness still figures prominently among the bar's murals. First I must say that this beautiful movie handles the wide screen format extremely well, to watch it on TV comes near to an act of profanation. James Redford, an activist, filmmaker and philanthropist, has died, a rep for his father, actor and director Robert Redford, confirmed to CNN Tuesday. | Susan Clark, Votes: | Samuel L. Jackson, After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. How can this film barely have more than a single page of comments? Mason says, My logs, not always attentively kept, now show 18,000 flying hours as PIC. The honors recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures or television. Stars: I will always have a great tenderness for this movie, full of nostalgia and forgotten spirit, if you compare with the movies from now. 11,258 Josh Albee, Votes: There are obvious comparisons with The Blue Max, made 9 years earlier. Let me show you a hammerhead stall, he said. I had determined to perform every maneuver in a very positive manner, so I added power, pulled the nose up, w-a-a-a-y up! | [41], In 1995, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. Charles Durning, Votes: 103 min Jennifer Lopez, Michael Kitchen, Votes: Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. | Catherine McCormack, Director: Gottfried James Gandolfini, 104 min | He received acclaim for his performance in the film, in which he is its only cast member and there is almost no dialogue. A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife. Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, [64] Redford has supported Republicans, including Brent Cornell Morris in his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for Utah's 3rd congressional district in 1990. 125 min In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. $858.37M, PG and leader of the Hydra cell operating the Triskelion. | Stars: [48] He was a 2010 recipient of the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Stars: 110 min This was it, then. The pilot climbed to turn east out over the Ohio River toward the West Virginia hills, circled upriver, and then turned south again to swoop back for another very low pass across the field. Anthony Russo, | Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers. Dan Aykroyd, At first I thought the Stinson was going to make a landing on the small, grass strip, but the pilot only flew low across the field to drop a canvas bag of some sort from the open cabin door. Watch out for the final minutes, with Kessler character, the most fascinating of the film, a so moving character. 97 min WebAvengers : Endgame. Don Porter, Votes: All thanks to Waldo! Post WW-I barnstorming pilot has a shot at living his dream. | | Gross: Waldo has been telling tall tales. | Gross: He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a reunion with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. 50,230 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, List of awards and nominations received by Robert Redford, Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America, "Editor's Letter: The Ties That Bind the TIME 100", "Sponsored Archives: A Robert Redford Retrospective, Redford Turns West Again", "New England Historic Genealogical Society", "Did Robert Redford play high school baseball with Don Drysdale? The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse. Awards, pilot's overalls, letters from former US presidents, photographs with the film elite and the couple's clothes [50] On November 22, 2016, President Barack Obama honored Redford with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. | $0.03M, G $76.23M, M He gets into a rivalry with Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson) who travels with his girlfriend Mary Beth (Susan Sarandon). This movie has special significance for me because I first saw it as a. Director: David Lowery Stars: | Action, Drama, Thriller. | [47] On October 14, 2010, Redford was appointed chevalier of the Lgion d'honneur by President Nicolas Sarkozy. Strapped to a flatbed trailer, the tiny yellow submarine fascinated me as much as it thrilled my classmates. 25,579 Having directed Robert Redford in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting", George Roy Hill cast him yet again in "The Great Waldo Pepper". In 2016, he took the supporting role of Mr. Meacham in the Disney remake Pete's Dragon. [14] While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily and, as a result, lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school. | | Robert Mulligan | Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward memorabilia to go up for auction. Mildred Natwick, Votes: Eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War . In conclusion, I think that this was the first film that I watched, thinking I am an adult enjoying an adult story. [29] Later that year he appeared in the prison drama Brubaker (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system. | Gross: Drama, Romance, Western. Kitchen. Adventure, Comedy, Family. But I expect this was a common occurrence. Biography, Comedy, Crime. | [4] He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzales at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to warm him up. 110 min Daryl Hannah, 131 min Stars: $9.24M, R $2.54M, R [citation needed]. I wanted to see it in much the same way as the outlaws did, by horse and by foot, and document the adventure with text and photographs."[40]. Golf? Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn | By the time we got to the plane it was burning fiercely with the pilot trapped in the cockpit and no way the men in the crowd could have rescued him. 20,570 Drama, Mystery, Thriller. A dandy fringe benefit, I thought, if that were true. 98 min Redford's family moved to Van Nuys, Los Angeles, while his father worked in El Segundo. | After passing both the written and the practical exams, and being awarded the private pilot license I had worked so hard to get, my friends seemed to crawl out of the woodwork, always needing a ride to some distant place. 126 min He shouted, Take me back! Then he explained what that control surface really did. Bo Brundin, Bryce Dallas Howard, [4] Redford also owned a Park City restaurant, Zoom, that closed in May 2017. And you also have in this movie the elements which permit you to think that nothing can stop a movie or - flight- circus director to attract audiences, even risking the life of his actors or employees. Robert Blake, Once inside, he yanked the chute off the floor, brandished it high above his head, and said in a loud voice, I can see the headlines now: C-54 CRASHES ONE SURVIVOR. The panache of a real live single-engine fighter pilot, I thought. Bruce Dern, | Gross: 129 min In April 2014, Redford, a Pitzer College Trustee, and Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley announced that the college will divest fossil fuel stocks from its endowment; at the time, it was the higher education institution with the largest endowment in the US to make this commitment. Biography, Drama, History. Marlon Brando, Chris Evans, Scott Redford died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2+12 months and is buried at Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah. 8.4. Gary Winick [16], Starting in 1960, Redford appeared as a guest star on numerous television drama programs, including Naked City, Maverick, The Untouchables, The Americans, Whispering Smith, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Route 66, Dr. Kildare, Playhouse 90, Tate, The Twilight Zone, The Virginian, and Captain Brassbound's Conversion, among others. Turned out that it isnt. Perhaps because the ultimate tone of the movie is darker, the movie still captures that fun that permeates Butch Cassidy. 81,547 | [26] In 1974 Redford became the first performer since Bing Crosby in 1946 to have three films in a year's top ten grossing titles. | [4] His first film as director was 1980's Best Picture winner Ordinary People, a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. It also explored the political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. Anybody who likes old airplanes, stunt flying or just plain adventure and an interesting story should like this early Robert Redford film. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds. During pre-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs. Robert Redford, Directors: Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that | $87.10M, PG | Gross: "[67][68] A representative later clarified that Redford's statement, taken from a longer conversation with Larry King, was not intended to endorse Trump for president. 266,483 $2.54M, G In 2013, he starred in All Is Lost, directed by J.C. Chandor, about a man lost at sea. Stars: 11,306 Comedy, Crime, Romance. | | Gross: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. As a teen-age in the mid-1930's I saw Ernst Udet drag the Oakland Airport with his swept-wing bi-plane inverted and pick a handkerchief off the runway with his wing tip. Director: WebCaptain America: The Winter Soldier. [5][6][7] His patrilineal great-great-grandfather, a Protestant Englishman named Elisha Redford, married Mary Ann McCreery, of Irish Catholic descent, in Manchester. Jack Warden, The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star,[4] cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. Alec Guinness, | Peter Boyle, In the same piece, he announced that he would be voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Morgan Freeman, Oona Laurence, Votes: About 16,000 of those hours were made while flying the Alaska outback, just another of Alaskas long list of ragbag bush pilots. Hes had two books published by Voyageur Press: Flying the Alaska Wild and The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles. A crowd of onlookers, who came to watch the aerial show, has gathered around the burning plane, staring while Waldo tries to free his best friend. Gene Hackman, Stars: | Now thats dangerous. [44], In 2008, he was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life. Stanley Tucci, March 4th, 1957, to be exact. Wyoming, early 1900s. In looking back, I wonder if I might not have scared the flight instructor out of his wits that cold March day: he actually forgot to sign my pilot log book! Alan Arkin, But the thought of being a thousand miles from a place where one could actually touch bottom drew something of a dampening image. 92 min Metacritic Reviews. | and The Graduate. Director: 181 min $41.51M, Passed While promoting the release of 2018s The Old Man & the Gun which earned him a Golden Globe They divorced in 1985. I knew right then that flying would be my world, though I had no idea how I was going to go about starting the whole process. Major urging: see this film. Michael Ritchie Maude's brother Ezra (Ed Herrmann) is building a monoplane to attempt the impossible outside loop. It was a whole new experience. 159,713 It was years later that I found myself in the uniform of the United States Air Force. Jane Fonda, There are two noted aviation deaths in this movie, one in particular at a county fair, that is very painful to watch. $5.76M, R Stars: Redford supports environmentalism, Native American rights, LGBT rights,[63] and the arts. I've long been impressed with the variety of films in which Robert Redford starred during his prime years. [25] The crime caper reunion with Paul Newman, The Sting (1973), became the top-grossing film of 1974[26] and one of the top 20 highest-grossing movies of all time when adjusted for inflation, plus landed Redford the lone nomination of his career for the Academy Award for Best Actor. But Not Serious, in which he played an American soldier falsely imprisoned by a German civilian even after the war has ended. As a disillusioned biplane pilot named Waldo who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later he carries out a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed . The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. Fonda and Redford star as Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower who've lived next to each other for years. WebDuring WW2, a lonely German air-raid warden captures two downed American airmen and keeps them prisoner in his basement way past the end of the war. Director: They had a son named Charles, the first in line to have been given the name. WebLola Van Wagenen (born December 12, 1938) is an American historian and activist. But the scene that really sticks in my mind is Susan Sarandon's stunt on the wing; that must've been one harrowing experience! Director: I would solo out on Friday the 13thin April of 1956, after seven hours of dual instruction. [34] Redford was a co-producer and, with Emma Thompson and Nick Nolte, costar of the 2015 Broad Green Pictures film A Walk in the Woods, based on Bill Bryson's book of the same name. | Alan J. Pakula Robert Redford, An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in television journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love. Director: George Roy Hill Martin Balsam, Votes: The Champ first airplane and occasional bushplane. | Tom Cruise, Ken Kwapis Robert Redford, You know the kind: crooked smile, even teeth, Steve Canyon in uniform. Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. Director: Stars: Brian Dennehy, Votes: WebRobert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing and dramatic thrill-ride! Typical of the seventies, hidden melancholy. Stars: Director: | Gross: $6.74M, R Director: Robert Redford, | | Casey Affleck, In 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie. Robert Redford The little plane seemed to fit me perfectly. Biography, Crime, Drama. Redford was nominated for a Golden Globe, his first Best Actor nomination for a Golden Globe, and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, his first time winning an acting honour from that group (he had been nominated in 1969 for Downhill Racer). I learned that I would first have to re-enlist for six years, and I didnt want to give Uncle Sam any more than the four years I had already signed on for. I'm sorry to hear that this film is not as respected as I had assumed. $259.77M, GP Action, Adventure, Drama. Director: WebThe story: Robert Redford plays the part of an ex-World War 1 pilot, who has become a pilot stuntman after the war. Robert Redford, | Gross: No seats, only canvas webbing along either side of the fuselage for seating. Morgan Freeman, 43,764 124 min | 12,365 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing Feature Film, Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute Honorees, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year Actor, National Board of Review Award for Best Director, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Redford&oldid=1139408920, Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globe winners, Male actors from Santa Monica, California, New Star of the Year (Actor) Golden Globe winners, United States National Medal of Arts recipients, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2022, Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata, Pages using Sister project links with default search, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 00:23. Director: Directors: Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his wife Kyle confirmed via Twitter. His famous father's publicist, Cindi Berger, said: "The grief is immeasurable with the loss of a child." The 84-year-old retired actor and director starred in movies like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. Stars: | | 101 min Ron Leibman, Robert Redford isn't merely the star of the movie All Is Lost he plays the only character. 110 min [60] Redford has seven grandchildren. The Sundance Channel premiered on February 29, 1996. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the popular big-screen version of Barefoot in the Park (1967)[4] and were again co-stars many years later in Pollack's The Electric Horseman (1979), followed 38 years later with a Netflix feature, Our Souls at Night. Dianne Wiest, Votes: Redford puts his all into the role of a pilot seeking glory after World War I. Valerie Perrine, $106.61M, PG Great For People Who Love These Old Planes, Spectacular story about WWI fliers turned barnstorming aerial stunt pilots including superb flying sequences, One of the all-time greatest scenes in movies. For decades, Robert Redford has been a pillar of Hollywood, known for his acting, his directing, and for creating the Sundance Film Festival. Redford in his youthful heyday, following the success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Susan Sarandon as the female lead, and yet, apparently, so few have ever seen this that less than two pages covers comments. In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1][2]. Biography, Drama, Romance. | 2 highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed All the President's Men. Camilla Sparv, | Characters are so sweet, attracting the most sympathy from the audience, a so moving spirit, so pure, in search of something lost or.unaittable. After many tragedies, he is reduced to being a Hollywood stuntman under an assumed name in a movie about the legendary dogfight. Very good earlier Robert Redford flying movie. Drama, Romance. $1.76M, Not Rated | Director: | Charles Bronson, Waldo Pepper (Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn glory during the war and dreams of being the first man to perform the risky "outside loop." Other directorial projects have included the period drama A River Runs Through It (1992), based on Norman Maclean's novella, and the expos Quiz Show (1994), about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s. [37] He briefly reprised his role as Alexander Pierce for a cameo appearance in Avengers: Endgame, filmed in 2017 prior to the completion of the former film. George Roy Hill He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. [27] In 1976 he co-starred with Dustin Hoffman in the No. Woody Harrelson, Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. 218,905 Stars: Did all pilots get that sort of attention? $70.60M, PG-13 Drama, Romance. | Gross: I was standing where I shouldnt be, smack in the middle of the second fairway, gazing up the Ohio River at a Stinson Voyageur as it descended toward the small Duck Creek Airport just across the highway from where I stood transfixed by the sight. [26] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) placed as the No. Comedy, Crime, Drama. | Gross: A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item. | Gross: I never caddied again, though, and Ive never learned to play golf. The same year saw his first teaming (on equal footing) with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's The Chase. The film's stars were Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda (her debut), and Ray Walston. [64] Redford also supported Gary Herbert, another Republican and a friend, in Herbert's successful 2004 campaign to be elected Utah's Lieutenant Governor. Christopher Plummer, | | I knew, too, that he had trained U.S. Navy pilots before he returned to civilian life to begin training the one thousand young airplane drivers for which he had earned both the CAAs gratitude and that certificate of accomplishment. [57] James Redford was a writer and producer, while Amy Redford is an actress, director, and producer. Trouble was, the only way to get from here to there in that wild country was by air. [66] Redford is the first quote on the back cover of Donald Trump's book Crippled America (2015), saying of Trump's candidacy, "I'm glad he's in there, being the way he is, and saying what he says and the ways he says it, I think shakes things up and I think that is very needed. George Roy Hill [42], In 1996, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. After this initial success, Redford became concerned about his blond male stereotype image[21] and turned down roles in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Stars: Redford attended the University of Colorado in the 1950s and received an honorary degree in 1988. No wonder! Michael Ritchie Stars: Director: $51.09M, R | | Gross: In 2010, Redford released The Conspirator, a period drama revolving around the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Nick Nolte, Votes: | Drama, Family, Romance. Director: Nevertheless, Robert Redford was and is a wonderful actor, and has produced many indelible film characterizations for over 50 years. From The Chase (1965) to Truth (2015), Mr. Redford has always entertained with taste and excellence. Here are 34 of his best acting efforts. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc Redford, who starred in the 1972 political comedy The Candidate, chats with then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in September 1976 in Georgia. $51.43M, PG-13 He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. My favorite scenes: Pilot destroying the platform; the plane going through the barn; Waldo Pepper walking on the wing of a flying plane, the pilot taking the plane down a city street. It was definitely an acquired skill for me, and, without question, not one with which I had been born. Redford is of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. Redford was born on August 18, 1936,[3] in Santa Monica, California, to Martha Woodruff Redford (ne Hart; 19141955) and Charles Robert Redford (19141991), an accountant. After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run. 169 min Stars: Robert Redford, Action, Comedy, Crime. Barbra Streisand, Seymour Cassel, Votes: Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Stars: Robert Redford, Drama, Romance. 99 min | Gross: | 1,153,252 A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood. After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte). Kate Reid, PG Will Geer, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, | [61], In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of the film, though the following month, Redford stated that he "regretted" announcing his retirement because "you never know". [citation needed], Redford continued as a major star throughout the 1990s and 2000s. She had moved in with Redford in the 1990s and shared his home in Sundance, Utah.[62]. Drama, Sport. | | Gross: Redfords liberal political engagement off-screen has always overflowed effortlessly into his acting work and in the roles he has chosen. Jane Alexander, Votes: 136 min On the way up, he described to me the tragic effects of a tail slide in anything other than a military fighter plane. | Thank you! | My father never started a job he didnt finish, and that sort of thing rubbed off on me. Flying is fun. | Gross: Dennis Quaid, | Jane Fonda, $47.95M, R 27,666 Sydney Pollack "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. With five years spent on the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. In 1989, the National Audubon Society awarded Redford its highest honor, the Audubon Medal. Behind these implements came an Air Force Captain, stocky, blond, blue-eyed, and all smiles. Director: Not all audiences can fully dive into the magic meaning of this feature. | Drama, Romance. The commendation was for having safely soloed more than one thousand student pilots! Cate Blanchett, Drama, Romance. Not as a pilot, but as a passenger, boarding an aircraft for my first ever airplane ride. Thought, if that were true family moved to Van Nuys, Los Angeles, while Amy is! 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