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. James Gandolfini, There are two noted aviation deaths in this movie, one in particular at a county fair, that is very painful to watch. | Gross: Stars: Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. Phil Alden Robinson 110 min 11,258 | Gross: Lauren Hutton, Josh Lucas, Votes: I first saw this film in the theater almost 30 years ago and have caught it a few times on TV since. James Redford, an activist, filmmaker and philanthropist, has died, a rep for his father, actor and director Robert Redford, confirmed to CNN Tuesday. 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. | $159.60M, PG He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen. | After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run. $11.28M, PG 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? 25,579 Valerie Perrine, Helen Mirren, 175 min Comedy, Crime, Drama. Redford supports environmentalism, Native American rights, LGBT rights,[63] and the arts. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for Downhill Racer. | After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights. Dan Aykroyd, 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. 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. "[45], The University of Southern California (USC) School of Dramatic Arts announced the first annual Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists in 2009. Redford is the president and co-founder of Sundance Productions, with Laura Michalchyshyn. 118 min It's 1926. Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). | 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". Michael Ritchie $102.31M, PG-13 Drama, Sport. Iain Armitage, R $8.59M, Approved Inside a small lean-to attachment to the Quonset hut-shaped hangar was the flight office. 129 min [64] Redford also supported Gary Herbert, another Republican and a friend, in Herbert's successful 2004 campaign to be elected Utah's Lieutenant Governor. I was railroaded into that transfer, really, and all because I had chased a nosy lieutenant from the radar blockhouse at a small RADARsite in Montana, where he had no security clearanceand no real businessto be in the first place. Set during 19261931, the film stars Robert Redford as a disaffected World War I veteran pilot who missed the opportunity to fly in combat, and examines his sense of postwar dislocation in 1920s America. Cate Blanchett, 102 min | Not all audiences can fully dive into the magic meaning of this feature. [22] Redford found the niche he was looking for in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. 110 min Drama, Music, Romance. I will always have a great tenderness for this movie, full of nostalgia and forgotten spirit, if you compare with the movies from now. Mark Ruffalo, Director: The Second Greatest Flyer in the World . Stars: Star: The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill. Let me show you a hammerhead stall, he said. Gary Winick | Ritesh Batra | The younger The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse. 218,905 Director: Whether real or imagined, it was a name that, for me, held a kind of magic, a freedom, a mystery. Now that flying seems such a mundane, everyday way of getting people from A to B, it is strange to recall that there was a time, not so long ago, when it seemed far more magical. 6,587 | He has a half brother,[4] William, from his father's first marriage. | | [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. [4] He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Class of 1959) in New York City. | Gross: | I never caddied again, though, and Ive never learned to play golf. Lena Olin, Robert Redford, | Gross: | | Director: Gottfried 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. Bradford Dillman, This is a really enjoyable film with considerable depth. How can this film barely have more than a single page of comments? Peter Boyle, Unfortunately, it doesn't have nearly the acclaim. The Milagro Beanfield War is the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico (based on the real town of Truchas in northern New Mexico), overcoming big developers who set about to ruin their community and force them out with tax increases. 31,894 116 min 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. [61], In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. Arthur Penn In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1][2]. The pilots depicted are Ormer Locklear (1891-1920), Earl Daugherty (1887-1928), Speed Holman (1898-1931), and Ernst Udet (1896-1941). 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. | $9.24M, R Bruce Dern, Paul Newman, Director: A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. Karl Michael Vogler, Unrated [17][18], In 1960, Redford was cast as Danny Tilford, a mentally disturbed young man trapped in the wreckage of his family garage, in "Breakdown", one of the last episodes of the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries. Dakota Fanning, | Robert Redford, THey do nothing but stare while Waldo screams at them, begging for their help. His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). | ", Poor planning, poor choices, and poor airmanship, First solo out of the pattern: an unexpected adventure in risk management, Press on and get the job done: the aroma of deference, Friday photo: Grand Canyon wrapped in a blanket, Im going to crash! -helping a pilot in distress, Maiden Mooney trip: lessons learned but fun too. An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in television journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love. Chris Evans, Scenes with Robert Redford and Bo Svenson climbing out on the wing were done without any security harness or parachutes. When Ezra and Waldo drive up to the farmhouse in Ezra's pick-up it is very obvious that the truck looks far too old for the 1920's time frame of the movie. Action, Adventure, Drama. *Spoiler/plot- The Great Waldo Pepper, 1975. | 121 min Robert Redford, In April 2014, Redford played the main antagonist of the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Marshall, Votes: By the end of my fourth hour of dual flight instruction, I could perform a two-turn spin in either direction and pull back out into level flight within ten degrees of a pre-determined heading. Stars: | Robert Redford, It hurt, but I passed on the chance. Willie Nelson, Votes: After that , the pilot-become-barnstormer gets hired as a stuntman for the Hollywood movies . Redford is also one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival. | Gross: | Gross: The shock of a driven golf ball striking the club bag I was leaning against woke me from my daydream. Noah Beery Jr. $47.74M, PG-13 I have often wondered if this gruesome event inspired The Great Waldo Pepper's scene where Waldo's friend crashes and burns. A tale of knights of the air, in a quest of their Graal. The two rivals become partners in Doc Dillhoefer (Philip Bruns)'s flying circus. Ivan Reitman Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. On October 23, 1955, I marched resolutely across the frozen ground adjacent to Anchorage Merrill Fields east-west runway. 107 min Robert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. | Stars: [29] Later that year he appeared in the prison drama Brubaker (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system. Gottfried Reinhardt Robert Redford, $6.00M, PG His directorial debut, Ordinary People, which followed the disintegration of an upper-class American family after the death of a son, was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars, including Best Director for Redford himself, and Best Picture. Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, I didnt know then that it was more properly called Runway 6 or Runway 24, depending upon the direction a pilot would be pointed for either his takeoff or his landing. $50.80M, PG 18,535 In 2013, he starred in All Is Lost, directed by J.C. Chandor, about a man lost at sea. | Gross: | Director: Rod Lurie Tomas Milian, Votes: 131 min Robert Redford, 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. While promoting the release of 2018s The Old Man & the Gun which earned him a Golden Globe They emigrated to New York City in 1849, immediately settling in Stonington, Connecticut. | | Robert Redford, Director: Action, Adventure, Drama. $5.13M, R Redford's family moved to Van Nuys, Los Angeles, while his father worked in El Segundo. Wyoming, early 1900s. | Stars: Susan Clark, Votes: | 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 $70.60M, PG-13 Stars: Robert Redford got one of his best roles in The Great Waldo Pepper which was directed by George Roy Hill who did right by him with Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and The Sting. After a great deal of hype, the film opened to mixed reviews and disappointing box office. And that's not a novelty. Director: Yaphet Kotto, 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. 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