Biography, Crime, Drama. Delle Bolton, George gave me my first hour of dual instruction that day. First I must say that this beautiful movie handles the wide screen format extremely well, to watch it on TV comes near to an act of profanation. [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. Paul Newman, Ryan O'Neal, In May 2011, Alfred A. Knopf published Robert Redford: The Biography by Michael Feeney Callan, written over fifteen years with Redford's input and drawn from his personal papers and diaries. THey do nothing but stare while Waldo screams at them, begging for their help. | Robert Redford, [19], Redford earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (ABC, 1962). Since that day, he successfully completed his Private License check ride on March 4, 1957. The canvas golf club bag I was carrying was pretty heavy for a lad as small as I was at that time. My father never started a job he didnt finish, and that sort of thing rubbed off on me. [5][6][7] His patrilineal great-great-grandfather, a Protestant Englishman named Elisha Redford, married Mary Ann McCreery, of Irish Catholic descent, in Manchester. Stars: He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). "[45], The University of Southern California (USC) School of Dramatic Arts announced the first annual Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists in 2009. [4], Through its various workshop programs and popular film festival, Sundance has provided much-needed support for independent filmmakers. | | Katharine Ross, The aging train would leave Anchorage headed for Seward, passing south and east on its way out of the city. For some reason the title didn't draw me in. Stars: That was the equivalent of ten thousand hours as an instructor, and I know George did a lot more than just mete out flight instruction to young would-be pilots. Hollywood star Robert Redford is "in mourning" following the death of his son James at the age of 58. I was sitting on the dirty plywood floor when, through the open loading doors, sailed a thrown crash helmet and a parachute. You can decide whether that added confidence was, in the last analysis, a good or a bad thing. | The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. Director: Tommy Matsuda, PG In 1993, he played what became one of his most popular and recognized roles, starring in Indecent Proposal as a millionaire businessman who tests a couple's morals; the film became one of the year's biggest hits. Turned out that it isnt. | Gross: Michael Ritchie He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992, which was a return to mainstream success for Redford as a director and brought a young Brad Pitt to greater prominence. | 92 min | Jon Avnet | [25] The romantic period drama with Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were (1973), was the 11th highest-grossing film of 1973. | Kristin Scott Thomas, $5.76M, R Metacritic Reviews. 126 min Robert Redford isn't merely the star of the movie All Is Lost he plays the only character. [44], In 2008, he was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life. But his interpretation as Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. In Inside Daisy Clover (1965), which won him a Golden Globe for best new star, he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her along with Charles Bronson for Sydney Pollack's This Property Is Condemned (1966) again, as her lover, though this time in a film which achieved even greater success. The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill. It was definitely an acquired skill for me, and, without question, not one with which I had been born. Barbra Streisand, WebRobert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing adventure! Drama, Thriller. | Truthfully, I wasnt all that good at it in the beginning. WebCaptain America: The Winter Soldier. Demi Moore, The era the picture is set in is mostly the Roaring Twenties , specifically the period is between 1926 and 1931 , in which bitter pilots are reduced to defying death in air flying circus such as Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) , Axel Olson (Bo Svenson) and Ezra Stiles (Edward Herrmann). [60] Redford has seven grandchildren. I absolutely loved Alaska and all its empty grandeur. WebDuring WW2, a lonely German air-raid warden captures two downed American airmen and keeps them prisoner in his basement way past the end of the war. Stars: Kim Basinger, Votes: Post WW-I barnstorming pilot has a shot at living his dream. Web12,851 Robert Redford Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 12,851 robert redford stock photos and images available, or search for pattinson or robert de niro to find more great stock photos and pictures. In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. | Stars: 2 highest-grossing film of 1973. Director: [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. | Gross: The shock of a driven golf ball striking the club bag I was leaning against woke me from my daydream. | 81,547 Director: | Action, Drama, Thriller. Chris Evans, There are obvious comparisons with The Blue Max, made 9 years earlier. Charles Durning, Votes: Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. | Martin Balsam, Votes: My golfers were a married couple, he to his wife and bourbon, she to bourbon, her husband, and a terribly gaudy wardrobe. It actually won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Picture and Best Director. [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. Now, in 2013 I found it on Netflix and find it to be a very nice, very enjoyable movie. This film marked the only time Redford would star with Marlon Brando. | Director: Jason Segel, Not Rated Director: 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 $51.09M, R Director: | 136 min Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). $159.60M, PG The citizens of a Texan town become concerned and panicked when a local bad boy escapes prison and heads for his hometown. [75] In November 2012, Pitzer launched the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College. Drama, Romance. And about 8 years earlier, when I was about 6, I lived in Rio Vista on the Sacramento River mid-way between Sacramento and San Francisco, when a mail plane crashed in a grain field just outside of town. Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn Flying over a world covered in the flat white of a fresh snow, I was lost from the moment the wheels left the ground until the engine was shut down an hour later. Redford appeared in the 2011 documentary Buck by Cindy Meehl, where he discussed his experiences with title subject Buck Brannaman during the production of The Horse Whisperer. A very interesting story about a combination of a pilot/peddler! The western Jeremiah Johnson's (1972) box office earnings from early 1973 until its second re-release in 1975 would have placed it as the No. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen. 138 min James Gandolfini, $87.10M, PG Robert Redford, Both were a bit tipsy, but they were having lots of fun, and the weather was truly fine. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. | Gross: | | As a teen-age in the mid-1930's I saw Ernst Udet drag the Oakland Airport with his swept-wing bi-plane inverted and pick a handkerchief off the runway with his wing tip. | Jack Clayton The Air Force didnt teach me to fly, though I was once scheduled for the OCS (Officer Candidate School) class that would later see me assigned to flight school. Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). Dakota Fanning, $75.38M, TV-14 | Gross: Golf has always struck me as something of a dangerous undertaking. He starred with Natalie Wood in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) which won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. Stars: He renamed it "Sundance" after his Sundance Kid character. Marlon Brando, I saw it aged 13 and it absolutely thrilled me. On October 23, 1955, I marched resolutely across the frozen ground adjacent to Anchorage Merrill Fields east-west runway. Let me show you a hammerhead stall, he said. | Waldo has been telling tall tales. Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon. 42,069 At first I thought the Stinson was going to make a landing on the small, grass strip, but the pilot only flew low across the field to drop a canvas bag of some sort from the open cabin door. Jane Fonda, Sweet, heroic pilot portrait, with a few mindboggling, terrifying stunts. A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit. [citation needed]. In the same piece, he announced that he would be voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. I reckoned I would avoid submarines and just stick to the flying, if I could ever find a way to get that activity started. 110 min | Gross: Kate Reid, PG $1.76M, Not Rated Director: Max von Sydow, Votes: | [51], In 2017, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice Film Festival.[52]. Robert Redford, | He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award from four nominations, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. [41], In 1995, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. From that day to this, I just slip the airplane on and go wherever I decide to go. | $49.85M, R Robert Redford, For the next 10 years I knew I would be a fighter pilot! 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. Douglas had made it, but I dont think they expected this one to be quite so Spartan. [citation needed], Soon after that, he starred in the baseball drama The Natural (1984). Nick Nolte, Votes: Drama, Music, Romance. | | 108 min [4], In 1975, Redford's hit movies included 1920s aviation drama, The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), and the spy thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), alongside Faye Dunaway, which finished at Nos. I dont know if that foolishness added to my skill level, but it did boost my confidence. Streep was nominated for Best Actress but Redford did not receive a nomination. Stars: Once inside, he yanked the chute off the floor, brandished it high above his head, and said in a loud voice, I can see the headlines now: C-54 CRASHES ONE SURVIVOR. The panache of a real live single-engine fighter pilot, I thought. PG Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack Robert Downey Jr., | | Wyoming, early 1900s. Stars: The movie proved to be Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful of their seven movies together. Abraham Polonsky Sydney Pollack 125 min [64] Redford has supported Republicans, including Brent Cornell Morris in his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for Utah's 3rd congressional district in 1990. [61], In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. Robert Redford, In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1][2]. Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Comedy, Crime, Romance. Director: | Gross: $41.51M, Passed Only my stalls, spins, and skids boosted me through that checkride, Im sure. It also explored the political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. $106.61M, PG The pilot continued to descend until the plane looked to be about six or eight feet above the green strip, then I saw him yank another bag from the ground with that dangling hook and pull the Stinson up sharply. The political satire The Candidate (1972) was a moderate box office and critical success. 110 min The story revolves around Waldo Pepper, a flight instructor from the post-Word War I era, who along with his buddies have a passion for stunt flying. | Gross: | $76.23M, M Robert Redford, As usual Robert Redford was great as Waldo Pepper ! | Robert Redford, [47] On October 14, 2010, Redford was appointed chevalier of the Lgion d'honneur by President Nicolas Sarkozy. 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. | In 1970, she co-founded Consumer Action Now (CAN), [1] a non-profit educational organization, and in 1995 co-founded Clio Visualizing Injuries sustained by two Army rangers behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor. Robert Redford, Directors: | In looking back, I wonder if I might not have scared the flight instructor out of his wits that cold March day: he actually forgot to sign my pilot log book! | | Drama, Romance, War. Sissy Spacek, Biography, Comedy, Crime. | Robert Redford, Phil Alden Robinson According to the school's website, the award was created "to honor those who have distinguished themselves not only in the exemplary quality, skill and innovation of their work, but also in their public commitment to social responsibility, to increasing awareness of global issues and events, and to inspiring and empowering young people. This was it, then. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax. | All the President's Men (1976), in which Redford and Hoffman play Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, was a landmark film for Redford. Natalie Wood, Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his wife Kyle confirmed via Twitter. His famous father's publicist, Cindi Berger, said: "The grief is immeasurable with the loss of a child." The 84-year-old retired actor and director starred in movies like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. In 1977, Redford appeared in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977). "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. Comedy, Drama. Robert Redford, Robert Redford is one of the last icons of classic American cinema, who gave brilliant performances in almost every movie he was in. | Director: Did all pilots get that sort of attention? [65], As an avid environmentalist, Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Robert Shaw, Lois Chiles, R In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. 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). They divorced in 1985. Characters are so sweet, attracting the most sympathy from the audience, a so moving spirit, so pure, in search of something lost or.unaittable. Danny would slide grandly through town toward the little grass airstrip behind the wheel of his brand-new, bright red, Chrysler Town-and-Country convertible, drawing sighs from all the local girls. Stars: Robert Redford, [4] Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa (1985), with Redford in the male lead role opposite Meryl Streep, became a large box office success (combined 1985 and 1986 grosses placed it at No. Sydney Pollack The Air Force had sent me to Alaska for a two-year tour of duty. [57] James Redford was a writer and producer, while Amy Redford is an actress, director, and producer. | Robert Redford 8.4. | Desperate for money, they preform numerous barnstorming stunts at various air-shows, such as Wing Walking, sometimes with tragic results. 218,905 I was truly discouraged and downhearted. Will Geer, 25,579 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? 34,036 | Dustin Hoffman, Brad Pitt, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. Joe Russo Stanley Tucci, Robert Redford, Lena Olin, | | Gross: Sean Connery, As it turned out, he couldnt have done me a bigger favor. [26] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) placed as the No. Redford supports environmentalism, Native American rights, LGBT rights,[63] and the arts. | After graduating from high school in 1954,[10] he attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year and a half,[4][11][12] where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. Did you know that most of the articles at Air Facts are written by readers like you? The same year saw his first teaming (on equal footing) with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's The Chase. Christopher Plummer, They emigrated to New York City in 1849, immediately settling in Stonington, Connecticut. With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford bought a ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah, called "Timp Haven". In 2012, Redford directed The Company You Keep, in which he starred as a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run after a journalist discovers his identity. Jane Alexander, Votes: 1,370 John Saxon, 2014, Movie - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi A tale of knights of the air, in a quest of their Graal. Star: Action, Adventure, Comedy. | Gross: Other executive producers include George R.R. Samuel L. Jackson, Redford stepped back into producing with The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and his friend Alberto Granado. 118 min Robert Redford, 50,967 Stars: Everyone was grim-faced and silent, except for one smart alec who said he wished he'd brought his knife and fork because the burning pilot smelled good. A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife. How in the hell did anyone up there know where he was? Brian Dennehy, Votes: I have often wondered if this gruesome event inspired The Great Waldo Pepper's scene where Waldo's friend crashes and burns. Flying is fun. The film's opening title card read: "Nebraska, 1926" and shows the old black-and-white Universal Pictures logo presentation, which features an old early 20th Century plane flying around the orbit of the planet earth . He received a second Academy Awardfor Lifetime Achievementin 2002. It wasnt much later that a captured Japanese two-man submarine was displayed in my hometown of 12,000 residents. Director: Stars: The pilot climbed to turn east out over the Ohio River toward the West Virginia hills, circled upriver, and then turned south again to swoop back for another very low pass across the field. Redford, who starred in the 1972 political comedy The Candidate, chats with then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in September 1976 in Georgia. Comedy, Drama, Romance. After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run. | | 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. David Lowery Robert Redford, 98 min Stars: In 2016, he took the supporting role of Mr. Meacham in the Disney remake Pete's Dragon. | Redford starred in The Discovery and Our Souls at Night, both released on Netflix streaming in 2017. WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is barnstorming and telling tales of his war exploits in a legendary fight against German ace Kessler. Robert Redford, | One of his last television appearances until 2019 was on October 7, 1963, on Breaking Point, an ABC medical drama about psychiatry.[20]. J.C. Chandor Personal finances would delay the private pilots license until the following year. 129 min A dandy fringe benefit, I thought, if that were true. Jennifer Lopez, | Shauna Redford is a painter and married to journalist Eric Schlosser. | Gross: Great For People Who Love These Old Planes, Spectacular story about WWI fliers turned barnstorming aerial stunt pilots including superb flying sequences, One of the all-time greatest scenes in movies. He shouted, Take me back! Then he explained what that control surface really did. and The Graduate. Lauren Hutton, He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards. Charles Aidman, Robert Redford, Stars: On the way up, he described to me the tragic effects of a tail slide in anything other than a military fighter plane. | | No wonder! Later in the checkride, he asked me for a power on stall. $51.43M, PG-13 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". Drama, History, Thriller. Bo Svenson, 175 min | Gross: As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for Downhill Racer. Mildred Natwick, Votes: The film's stars were Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda (her debut), and Ray Walston. 9 in the box office for 1980. Alan J. Pakula $61.80M, R A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter. [4], Redford's next film, Legal Eagles (1986) alongside Debra Winger, was only a minor success at the box office. Jane Fonda, In 2012, he directed the political thriller The Company You Keep starring himself, Shia LaBeouf and Julie Christie. Director: George Roy Hill Dan Aykroyd, Crime, Mystery, Thriller. But for all the art and positivity that Redford has undoubtedly unleashed into the world, he's endured a shocking amount of hardship, misfortune, death, dysfunction, Biography, Drama, Romance. $47.74M, PG-13 [citation needed], Starting in 1973, Redford experienced an almost-unparalleled four-year run of box office success. Redford made his screen debut in Tall Story (1960) in a minor role. Karl Michael Vogler, Unrated | Director: But the thought of being a thousand miles from a place where one could actually touch bottom drew something of a dampening image. I first saw this film in the theater almost 30 years ago and have caught it a few times on TV since. A Mormon ceremony took place on September 12 at Lola's grandmother's home. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. | Gross: Still, I wasnt about to just up and quit. This movie has stood the test of time. 107 min Barry Levinson Robert Redford, My favorite scenes: Pilot destroying the platform; the plane going through the barn; Waldo Pepper walking on the wing of a flying plane, the pilot taking the plane down a city street. A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item. | Gross: Director: | In 2010, Redford released The Conspirator, a period drama revolving around the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. E.G. [4] Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. | Gross: Robert Duvall, Meryl Streep, Don Porter, Votes: Director: 106 min 50,230 Other directorial projects have included the period drama A River Runs Through It (1992), based on Norman Maclean's novella, and the expos Quiz Show (1994), about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s. 19,421 Marshall, Votes: This movie is made by some of the same players that made Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Writer, Director and Actor). The Redford Conservancy educates the next generation of students to create solutions for the most challenging and urgent sustainability problems. Casey Affleck, | Seymour Cassel, Votes: | Daryl Hannah, I saw The Great Waldo Pepper in its first theatrical release back in 1975. Dick Wenzel, who would remain a friend for more than sixty years, was caddying with another party of golfers that day, and my twosome was behind his group. | Gross: | Gross: In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. $50.80M, PG 161 min Strother Martin, Votes: While promoting the release of 2018s The Old Man & the Gun which earned him a Golden Globe | I learned that I would first have to re-enlist for six years, and I didnt want to give Uncle Sam any more than the four years I had already signed on for. It is both fun to watch and has some depth to it - it is not just a piece of fluff. Oakes Fegley, $5.00M, PG-13 But I expect this was a common occurrence. Mark Ruffalo, In my mind it is an exploration of the competitive nature of the flyers themselves - whether friends or rivals, one soon becomes acutely aware of their constant need to push their limits, not only amongst themselves but also within themselves. 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