Robert Redford, Actor-Filmmaker And Founder Of Sundance Film Festival, Dies At 89

Robert Redford, the Hollywood star of films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and All the President's Men, has died at 89. According to a report in The New York Times, the veteran actor was at his home in Provo, Utah, on Tuesday morning when he died in his sleep. Rogers & Cowan PMK chief executive Cindi Berger confirmed that the Hollywood legend had died on September 16. In an official statement, Berger shared, "Robert Redford passed away on September 16 at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah - the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy."Starting out on Broadway in 1959, Redford moved up up to television roles in 1966 and his big screen debut in Tall Story

(1960). With Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford became an overnight star and a Hollywood heartthrob. But he went on to hone his craft both as an actor with films such as The Sting (1973), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), All the President's Men (1976), and The Electric Horseman (1979), and as a filmmaker; he won an Academy Award for best director in 1980 for Ordinary People. In 1978, he founded the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The festival is one of the premier destinations for cinema every January. The veteran actor was also a climate activist and founded The Redford Center with his late son James in 2005. His last few roles before announcing his retirement in 2018 included Ritesh Batra's Our Souls at Night opposite Jane Fonda, The Old Man & the Gun, and a cameo in the MCU film Avengers: Endgame as Alexander Pierce.During his career, the actor-filmmaker was the recipient of an honorary Oscar in 2002, a lifetime achievement Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival in 2017, and an honorary César in 2019. Redford was married twice. His first marriage to historian Lola Van Wagenen lasted from 1958 to 1985; he married artist Sibylle Szaggars in 2009. He had four children.