Robert Redford, star actor and champion of independent film, dies aged 89

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Actor, director and producer Robert Redford, who was both the quintessential handsome Hollywood leading man and an influential supporter of independent films through his Sundance Institute, died on Tuesday (Sept 16) at the age of 89.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/ycp6f7k3  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning actor, director, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival,

00:07died peacefully in his sleep on Tuesday at his home in Sundance, Utah. He was 89. His publicist,

00:14Cindy Berger of Rogers and Cowan PMK, confirmed his passing on September 16th, surrounded by

00:20loved ones in the mountains he cherished. Redford shot to stardom in 1969 as the outlaw

00:27Sundance Kid, opposite Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He later cemented

00:32his place in Hollywood with The Sting in 1973, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best

00:38Actor. After two decades in front of the camera, Redford transitioned to directing, winning an

00:44Oscar for his 1980 debut film Ordinary People. Redford received an honorary Oscar in 2002,

00:51with Barbra Streisand calling him the intellectual, the artist, the cowboy. The same year, the Sundance

00:58Film Festival, which he launched in 1985, had already grown into the world's premier showcase

01:04for independent cinema.

01:07I think probably the high points are ones where I was able to make a film that I was told I couldn't.

01:14All the President's Men was one, Candidate was one, Quiz Show was one, Ordinary People was

01:22one, River Runs Through It was one. So I think it's a kind of a collective. There are performances

01:30I'm pleased with, but I'd rather not get into that. But the films that I've made, I think

01:35probably the ones I look most favorably on are the ones that I was told would never get

01:41made, and by perseverance they did. Beyond film, Redford was a dedicated environmental

01:47activist, working tirelessly to preserve Utah's landscapes and natural resources. Born Charles

01:54Robert Redford Jr. on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, he was the son of an accountant.

02:02He had four children with his first wife, historian Lola Van Wagenen, one of whom died in infancy.

02:09In 2009, he married German artist Sibyl Sagars. For more than six decades, Robert Redford embodied

02:16the golden era of Hollywood while nurturing new generations of filmmakers, leaving behind

02:21a legacy as both a screen icon and a cultural pioneer.

02:39So, the wonder Susan E.

02:40for more than 19 years ago, Robert Redford, who was his father in her life who told Jesus

02:43to suffer full of him. She would be a good woman and a cultural painter and an instructional day

02:44of their dreams, living in the past. So we were a part of her family, and the

02:47former mother of his father in the past, and a cultural painter, a during the past, and

02:48for one a time we had loved her. So that was a really big one. So let's go in and

02:50another one. So let's go to that. So let's go into the two people. So let me give you a

02:52book. So let's go into the book and tell him the idea that

02:56we have this. We're going to be a little bit. So let's go into that, and we're going in. So I see that

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