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Robert Redford, the Hollywood aureate lad who became an Oscar-winning director, wide activistic and godfather for autarkic cinema nether the sanction of 1 of his best-loved characters, died Tuesday astatine 89.
Redford died “at his location astatine Sundance successful the mountains of Utah — the spot helium loved, surrounded by those helium loved,” publicist Cindi Berger said successful a statement. No origin of decease was provided.
After rising to stardom successful the 1960s, Redford was 1 of the biggest stars of the ’70s with specified films arsenic “The Candidate,” “All the President’s Men” and “The Way We Were,” capping that decennary with the champion manager Oscar for 1980's “Ordinary People,” which besides won champion representation successful 1980.
His wavy blond hairsbreadth and boyish grin made him the astir desired of starring men, but helium worked hard to transcend his looks — whether done his governmental advocacy, his willingness to instrumentality connected unglamorous roles oregon his dedication to providing a level for low-budget movies.
His roles ranged from Washington Post writer Bob Woodward to a upland antheral successful “Jeremiah Johnson” to a treble cause successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and his co-stars included Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise. But his astir celebrated surface spouse was his aged person and fellow activistic and applicable joker Paul Newman, their films a saltation of their warm, teasing narration off-screen.
Redford played the wily outlaw other Newman successful 1969’s “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” a box-office smash from which Redford's Sundance Institute and festival got its name. He besides teamed with Newman connected 1973’s best-picture Oscar winner, “The Sting,” which earned Redford a best-actor information arsenic a young con creator successful 1930s Chicago.
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