- Web Desk
- Today
Cinema legend Robert Redford dies at 89
LOS ANGELES: Cinema legend Robert Redford who continued his career for six decades and remained screen great, passed away in his 89 on Tuesday morning at his home in Utah, publicist working at Rogers & Cowan PMK firm said.
According to circulated statements, the legend died in his sleep, however officials of the publicity firm did not give any specific reasons that may have caused the Robert’s death.
Chief executive of the firm also said, ‘Robert Redford had died on Sept-16 at his home in the mountains of Utah’. ‘For him, living here was of his own choice as the demised legend used to love living with his loved ones who were with him here.’
The tousled-haired and freckled heartthrob made his breakthrough alongside Paul Newman as the affable outlaw in the hippy Western “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in 1969.
Household name
A household name in English-language cinema in the United States and around the world, Redford won a directing Oscar for his 1980 film “Ordinary People”, as well as an honorary award in 2002.
“Robert Redford’s work as an actor, director and producer always represents the man himself: the intellectual, the artist, the cowboy,” US actress Barbra Streisand said in 2002 when presenting him with the Lifetime Achievement honorary Oscar.
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning is now accessible to all those who missed it
Redford won his only nomination for the best actor Oscar when playing a 1930s con artist in “The Sting” (1973).
One of the greatest achievements of the avowed liberal and conservationist was the launch in 1985 of the independent Sundance Film Festival.
Created to boost filmmakers disaffected with Hollywood’s commercialism and lack of diversity, it has fostered leading independent directors such as Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh.
Late time career
After 20 years as an actor, the legend moved behind the camera, becoming an Oscar-winning director and co-founding the flagship Sundance festival for aspiring independent filmmakers.
A committed environmental activist, Redford also fought to preserve the natural landscape and resources of Utah, where he lived.
Personal life
Born Charles Robert Redford Jr. on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, he was the son of an accountant.
Redford had four children with his first wife, Lola Van Wagenen, one of whom died as an infant.
He married German artist and longtime girlfriend Sibylle Szaggars in 2009.
You May Also Like
