Behind-the-Scenes With Hollywood Icon Robert Redford
yas! | By Sean Sinclear | February 27, 2022
The Hollywood legend, who has been in the industry for
over 50 years, has had many ups and downs. From his movie star roles to his
Oscar-winning work as a director, Redford has done it all. Ever since Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made him a household name, he has been
one of the most dependable actors on the big screen, with many classics such
as Out of Africa and All the President’s Men under
his belt.
While Redford may seem like a known entity to many, there
is much more to him than the average fan knows, and his life is as remarkable
as his numerous performances. It may be surprising to those who grew up with
him, but Redford is over 80 years old now, and over his long life, he has had
many difficulties and tragedies, along with his triumphs and success. These
facts will give you a fuller picture of one of the greatest stars of the
cinema.
Early Years
Redford has always seemed to offer a mature alternative
to the most mainstream elements of Hollywood, especially as he was the founder
of the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where he has a home. However, he was
actually born in Santa Monica.
On August 18, 1936, Redford was born to Charles Robert
Redford Sr. and Martha W. Hart. His father was a milkman who eventually became
an accountant working at an oil company, and Robert was the only child of the
parents. His mother died in 1955, but his father had a second wife, and with
her had a child named William, giving Robert a stepbrother.
Polio
If you have closely followed Redford’s career as a
director, you may have watched a show he did an episode of in 2014 called Cathedrals
of Culture. In the episode, he showcased San Diego’s Salk Institute for Biological Studies. It may seem like an odd
choice for him to highlight, but Redford explained his reasoning to the
newspaper The Express.
The Salk Institute was named after Jonas Salk, whose
claim to fame is from creating the vaccine for polio. This is something that
ties Redford to Salk and his work. Though we always see Redford as being strong
and athletic, as a kid he actually suffered from polio. Thankfully, his
symptoms were mild and he got through it without any lasting problems. The
experience left an impact on him, though, and he is supportive of the work done
to eradicate the disease.
Trouble In School
Nobody can deny that Robert Redford is intelligent in
addition to being artistically inclined, but he never fared well in school. He
says that he had “a wandering mind” and would always be thinking about
something else. “I was not a good student throughout my entire life. My mind
was out of the window. I drew underneath the desk. I drew pictures,” he said in
1980 to Rolling Stone.
“I wasn't learning the way I was supposed to learn,”
Redford continued, "and I think I realized that my education was going to
happen when I got out in the world and engaged with other cultures, other
places, other languages and had the adventure of exploration. And I felt,
‘That's my education.’"
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Not only was Redford a poor student, but he also was not
exactly a model citizen when he was growing up. In fact, he broke the law a few
times. Don’t worry, his days of committing any wrongdoings are long behind him,
and he never did anything that bad.
He admitted to his disrespectful behavior in an interview
in 1980. As a teenager, he had stolen hubcaps off of cars, and intruded into
the backyards of people’s houses, and used their swimming pools. These small
acts of teenage rebellion got him arrested on a few occasions, but he never
went to prison.
Higher Education
While school was never Redford’s strong suit, he still
went to college, attending the University
of Colorado on a scholarship he
earned for athletics. On the baseball team, he was a pitcher, and he also
partook in the fraternity life, joining Kappa Sigma.
His college years were not picture perfect, though. When
his mom passed away, Redford developed a dependence on alcohol, and that got in
the way of his academic life. He was not able to keep his scholarship and ended
up having to drop out of school. However, the university gave him an honorary
degree in 1987, so all's well that ends well.
Meeting His Match
One upside of Redford’s college years was meeting Lola
Van Wagenen. She was also studying at the University of Colorado, and the two
quickly hit it off and fell in love. Their relationship took a test when
Redford dropped out, though.
After dropping out, Redford decided to travel, spending a
year in Europe. He lived in Italy, Spain, and France at that time, and even
studied art in Paris. He and Lola were apart for a year, but their love did not
waver, and they picked up where they left off when he got back.
Tying The Knot
With the two reunited, they decided to get married. With
Robert Redford still unknown to the world, the marriage was not an easy sell
for Lola Van Wagenen’s parents, considering Redford had not finished college
and did not look to have a promising career ahead of him. However, the pair
decided they would not seek permission, and in 1958 they ran off to Vegas to
get married in secret.
They did not plan to keep their secret bottled for long,
though. Just five weeks later, they decided to tell everyone, and they invited
their close friends and family members and had another marriage ceremony, this
time keeping no secrets.
A Growing Family
It did not take long for the Redfords to start a family.
In 1959, Lola gave birth to Scott Redford, and they had their first daughter
Shauna Redford in 1960. Their second son, James, was born in 1962, and then in
1970, they had their fourth and final child Amy.
While Robert and Lola raised wonderful children, the
family had a shocking loss when Scott, only two and a half months old, died of
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. It was a sad echo of what Martha and Charles
Redford went through when they had twin girls who died before Robert was
born.
Son James Also Had Health Issues
The death of their first son, Scott, was not the only
tragedy of health the couple had to deal with when it came to their children.
Only three years after Scott had died, their son James was born prematurely by
seven weeks and suffered from a respiratory ailment that was almost fatal.
After surviving that, he later developed ulcerative colitis as a teen, which
necessitated not only the removal of his colon, but two liver transplants
before he was even 30 years old. It was thought to be over but his
liver disease returned in 2018 and cancer was discovered a year later while he
was waiting for another liver transplant. Unfortunatly James died at
age 58 on January 16th, 2020.
James was a successful writer and producer in his
own right, having produced, among others, the HBO documentary film Mann
v Ford in 2009. He also founded the 'James Redford Institute for
Transplant Awareness' to educate the public about organ donations. At
85, Robert Redford spoke about the loss of his sons: "We were
heartbroken. They lived a beautiful, impactful life & loved by many."
Love Lost And Found
Sadly, Robert and Lola were not able to sustain their
marriage. The two got divorced in 1985, and though they spent nearly three
decades together, things had to come to an end. Every marriage has its ups and
downs, but Redford says that their son Scott’s death was something that they
never really got over.
“It was really hard,” Redford said in a heartfelt
interview. “We were very young… We didn’t know anything about SIDS, so the only
thing you think is that you’ve done something wrong. As a parent, you tend to
blame yourself. That creates a scar that probably never completely heals.”
However, love would strike Redford again when he entered a relationship with
Sibylle Szaggars. The two married in 2009, but they had actually been living
together since the nineties.
First Roles
Redford started acting young and got his first Broadway
role in his early 20s. He got good training in theater, and although he had
found some success, the demands of the theater were not easy for a young
family. When his second kid was born, he made the choice to move to television
so he could get home earlier rather than spend nights away from his wife and
kids.
Redford’s shift to television was a fortuitous one, and
he guest-starred on many of the big shows of the time. He appeared on shows
such as The Twilight Zone, Maverick, Perry
Mason, and many others, and while he was still a way off from stardom, he
definitely had the ball rolling.
All Work And No Pay
Redford’s work as an actor kept him busy and kept his
face on television screens, but it was not necessarily keeping food on his
table. When he got his first-ever television appearance on a game show, the pay
for the show was supposed to be $75. However, rather than paying him, they
decided to give him a high-priced fishing pole.
When Redford was given the fishing rod, he did not
realize that it was foreshadowing his future film A River Runs Through
It. All that was running through his mind at the time was how he could
afford to provide for his family. Maybe he could go fishing!
Up In The Mountains
The early years were a struggle financially for Redford,
but he was not afraid of making some potentially risky investments. One of
those was when he took $500 that he had saved up and used it to buy land in Utah.
The two acres he purchased may not have had an immediate payoff, but it was a
move that over time would turn out to be a smart one.
Over the years, when the money started coming in, he kept
buying more and more land, until he had a total of 5,000 acres. With that land,
he started the Sundance
Institute in 1978, and he also
bought Timp Haven, a ski resort in the area that he gave the name Sundance. He
started the Sundance Film
Festival there, but would
eventually have to move it to Park City as its massive success caused it to
grow so much.
In The Movies
We all know Redford from his film work, so his theater
and television days can be hard to imagine. It was in 1962 that he finally was
seen on the big screen for the first time, playing Private Roy Loomis in War
Hunt. The film took place in the Korean war, it was a major critical
success, giving an auspicious start to Redford’s film career.
It would still be years before his career really took
off, though. Redford was considered one of the best-looking actors of his
generation, but surprisingly enough, that was not always a benefit for him. In
fact, there were times when his handsome appearance cost him roles.
Looks and Inspiration From His Mother
Who else can one thank for his good looks other than his
own mother? Redford explained that he has much respect for women when he said,
"Why do I feel this strong connection to women? I think it probably has to
do with my mom.” Redford has paid tribute to his late mother, Martha, and has
described her as being his loyal supporter.
Throughout his troubled life, Redford always
held his mother close to his heart. He clearly still loves her dearly and
he feels that he never said everything he wanted to. "My regret is that
she passed away before I could thank her."
Not The Right Look
One of the most era-defining films of the 1960s is Mike
Nichols’ The Graduate. The classic film starring Dustin Hoffman
could have turned out very different, as the role of Benjamin Braddock nearly
went to Robert Redford. While Redford surely would have done a great job,
Nichols did not feel he was the right fit.
As the script had the character being a virgin who had
difficulty winning a girl over, Nichols felt that such a conventionally
handsome actor just would not work the same way. Considering Hoffman got an
Oscar nomination for the role, I doubt he was too upset at being regarded as
less conventionally good-looking.
Being Taken Seriously
In an interview, Redford commented on the conundrum of
wanting to be taken seriously as an actor while also being popular for his
looks, saying, “One of the things that have been sort of weird is to see
yourself characterized so often as somebody that looks well, that has glamorous
looks, or is appealing physically. That's nice, I'm not unhappy about that. But
what I saw happening over time was that [it was my looks that were] getting
attention.”
Redford continued to comment about how it was unfortunate
that his looks sometimes got more attention than his acting abilities, saying,
“the notion is that you're not so much of an actor, you're just somebody that
looks well. That was always hard for me because I always took pride in whatever
role I was playing. I would be that character.”
Womanizer?
No, Robert Redford wasn't a womanizer. He was the
golden boy of Hollywood and was loved by many. Especially his female costars
fell for him one after the other. For example Jane Fonda.
Fonda once talked on The Ellen DeGeneres
Show, about her bed scenes with Redford while filming Our
Souls at Night. She said: "There is eventually a love scene. I'm happy
with the love scene. I'm unhappy because it was so short!" On another
occasion, she said jokingly: "I live for sex scenes with [Redford]."
Another Role Lost
Not getting The Graduate might seem like
the biggest missed opportunity in a career, but Redford had another one that
was even bigger just around the corner. At this point, Redford had struck
gold with his star turn in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
and was a hot commodity in Hollywood. Everybody wanted to cast him, and the
producers of The Godfather wanted him to play Michael
Corleone.
Unfortunately for Redford, Francis Ford Coppola had his
heart set on Al Pacino, who looked the part of being Sicilian mafia far more
than blonde pretty boy Redford. While Coppola fought it out with producer
Robert Evans, it ultimately went to Pacino, who made history with his
portrayal.
Fits The Part
As many parts as he may have lost for being too
good-looking, Redford also fits like a glove into many others. In the 1975
film Three Days of the Condor, Redford’s strong, straight features
made him a good fit for playing a CIA agent. However, there was one scene in
the film that did not quite gel with his appearance.
In the film, he has to kidnap a woman played by Faye
Dunaway. He threatens her and holds her in his apartment, but Dunaway was
struggling in their scenes together. As she said to Sydney Pollack, who was
directing, “the idea of being kidnapped and ravished by Robert Redford was
anything but frightening.” Pollack had to stand in for Redford in order for
Dunaway to give a convincing performance, and with a less attractive man
playing opposite her, she played the part perfectly.
With A Little Help From Paul Newman
The one role that Redford will always be linked with is
the Sundance Kid. Alongside Paul Newman, the film was a massive success for the
two of them, and they remained good friends for around 40 years until Newman
passed away. Newman made for a good sidekick both on-screen and in real life,
and Redford’s casting may not have happened if Newman did not campaign for
Redford to get the part. Redford says, “The studio did not want me ... and they
tried everything to keep me out of the film. It was 20th Century Fox.”
“I think it was Paul Newman and William Goldman, the
writer, and George Roy Hill, the director that stood up for me against the
studio,” Redford continued. ”When I met Paul he was very generous, and he told
the studio, ‘I'll [only be in the film] with Redford.’ I never forgot that.”
Reunited
After Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s
success, people were clamoring to see Newman and Redford back together on
screen, and they reunited with each other and director George Roy Hill for the
1973 film The Sting. The pressure was on to top Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and by many measures they did.
The film was a huge box office success, and it won seven
Oscars including best picture. The film was so popular that it may have seemed
like everybody saw it. Everybody except Robert Redford, that is, as it was not
until 2004 that he got around to seeing it. One reason that he waited to see it
is that he was concerned that he would not get to show off much acting as his
character had to run around so much. His concern was noted when he received a
sculpture of the Road Runner from Looney Tunes at the end of the film’s
production.
Redford and Streisand
Redford has shared the screen with many great co-stars,
and one of the best was when he joined Barbara Streisand in The Way We Were. The
film was another huge hit, becoming one of the most popular romantic films of
the '70s and boasting a hit theme song which won an Oscar, along with a win for
the best original dramatic score.
There were four other nominations, including best actress
for Streisand, and it was the third film directed by Sydney Pollack that Redford
starred in, with many more to come in the future, including Three Days
of the Condor. The film was written by Arthur Laurents, who also wrote the
book based on his own experience.
An Admirable Distraction
While All The President’s Men was overtly about
Watergate, the events impacted Redford’s work on other films. When he was
filming The Great Gatsby in 1973, the impeachment hearings
were going on, and Redford was hooked. He watched the news whenever he got a
chance, and it may have gotten in the way of his work.
Mia Farrow played Daisy Buchanan to Redford’s Jay Gatsby,
and though the hype for it was high, the response was mixed. Farrow had a
theory as to why, and she said that she and Redford didn’t have the right
chemistry because he was so fixated on Watergate.
A Big Pay Day
Redford may have had a hard time earning early in his
career, but he certainly made up for it once he became a star. When he teamed
with Richard Attenborough for the 1977 WW2 epic A Bridge Too Far,
he was part of a large ensemble, which differed from his usual starring
roles.
Although he only filmed for two weeks, he still got two
million dollars for his work. The film was a disappointment both critically and
commercially, despite having a cast that also included Sean Connery, Laurence
Olivier, James Caan, and Michael Caine. With a payday like that, though, it is
unlikely that Redford has any regrets about doing it.
A Devoted Dad
In 1983, University of Colorado student Sid Wells, who
was Redford's daughter Shauna's boyfriend, was shot by Thayne Smika, a
24-year-old who had recently moved into his apartment as his roommate. Sid had
been having trouble getting Thayne to pay his rent, and the shooting occurred
the day before that month's payment was due.
Redford paused production on the sports film he was
starring in at the time, The Natural, so that the whole family
could attend Sid's funeral, and Shauna later left school over the incident.
Trouble With Accents
Redford’s sixth collaboration with Sydney Pollack
was Out of Africa, and this time he got to share the screen with
the one and only Meryl Streep. The film was a huge hit, winning seven Oscars
including best picture, and ending up as one of the highest-grossing films of
1985.
In the film, Streep plays the Danish baroness Karen
Blixen, who wrote the autobiography on which it is based under a pseudonym, and
Redford played her lover, the English aristocrat Denys Finch Hatton. While
Redford wanted to do an English accent, Sydney Pollack thought audiences would
not be able to buy into it, so he decided to make the character American.
Ages Like Wine
1993’s hit film Indecent Proposal was
about a billionaire played by Robert Redford offering a million dollars to a
woman, played by Demi Moore, to sleep with him after he sees her and her
husband lose their savings in Vegas, and it shows the effect that has on her
and her husband, who are struggling with marriage.
The story offers an interesting, not to mention
salacious, "what if" question for many viewers, but it is also
another case where Redford’s attractiveness turns things around a bit. He was
approaching 60 when the film was released, but he still qualified as one of the
most desirable men in the world, so that definitely changes the equation.
In The Director’s Chair
Redford is one of the few actors whose work as a director
is as accomplished as his thespian turns. The fifth film he directed was
1998’s The Horse Whisperer, where he got to pay tribute to his love
of nature. He plays an animal trainer who is hired to nurse a young girl’s
injured horse.
That young girl was unknown at the time, but she would
grow up to be as famous as the man who directed her in her breakthrough role.
Scarlett Johansson has come a long way since then, and she and Redford got to
act again in the same film when they both were in Captain America: The
Winter Soldier.
Talent Runs in the Family
Redford's daughter Amy, from his first marriage to Lola
Van Wagenen, has both inherited his good looks and followed in his footsteps as
a director after getting her start in the industry acting in films such
as Maid in Manhattan and The Understudy, and in TV
shows such as Sex and the City and The Sopranos.
Any's directorial debut, The Guitar, premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2008. About her career, Amy mentioned, "I’m
actually an actress in recovery. I was an actress for 20 years on the stage in
New York. My heart really lies in directing."
Late-Career Success
The spotlight seemed to fade on Redford a bit in the
2000s, with few of his performances making a splash like they had in the past.
However, he had something of a comeback with All Is Lost, the survival
drama directed by JC Chandor in 2013 where he plays a man lost at sea and
trying to survive.
The performance was a challenge for Redford, who had to
carry the film by himself, with no other actors to play off of. However, one
part of filming that was easier than usual would have been memorizing his
lines, as the film barely had any lines at all and only had a 31 page script.
While the low-budget film had only modest box office success, it received rave
reviews and gave Redford one of his most acclaimed performances.
Actor, Director, Producer, Stuntman
All Is Lost presented a lot of challenges for
Redford, as he had to give a physical performance. One part of that included
playing a left-handed character, despite being right-handed, and he also did
all of his own stunts in the film, which included a nine-foot jump, which is
especially impressive given that he was in his late 70s when it was
filmed.
Redford says he got beat up a bit on the shoot, which
included getting hit by a hose that impaired his hearing. Redford has always
tried to do many of his stunts, which upset Paul Newman back on Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but he does use a stunt double from time to
time, and he has had the same double ever since Butch Cassidy who
he still works with.
In The Marvel Universe
Redford had not had a big hit in over a decade when he
decided to take a small role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier,
which became his biggest box office success to date. It was a different kind of
role and film that he is used to, and his first foray into the world of special
effects-heavy modern blockbuster filmmaking.
Redford described it as a great learning experience,
saying, “One of the reasons that I did the movie was I wanted to experience
this new form of filmmaking that’s taken over where you have kind of cartoon
characters brought to life through high technology.” He continued, saying, “the
Avengers series is a product of high technology playing a major role in the new
order of filmmaking so I wanted to experience that—I just wanted to know what
that was like and I had that opportunity, so for me, it was like stepping into
new terrain just to experience what it was like.”
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress selects up to 25 films every year
that are each “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and
deserve to be preserved. Those films go into the National Film Registry, which
has the goal of conserving film heritage and make sure the films survive for
future generations to cherish.
It is a huge honor to be selected, and Robert Redford has
three films of his that have made the cut. Those films are Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and All the
President’s Men, and there is a good chance that more of his films will be
added in the future.
Box Office Success, Awards Failure
There are few actors in history who have had the
popularity, adulation, and success of Robert Redford. However, one area where
he has struggled is in awards, and he has especially struck out when it came to
the Oscars, the highest honor in the film world.
As an actor, he has only been nominated once for his
performance in The Sting, which won Best Picture that year. While
many of his performances have been worthy, he has consistently failed to meet
the cut. As if to make up for his constant snubbing, he got a Lifetime
Achievement Oscar in 2001.
Better Luck Behind The Camera
However, he has fared better as a director, winning best
director for Ordinary People, which also won Best Picture and was his
directorial debut, making him one of only five first-time directors to
win.
He was also nominated for best director for his 1994
film Quiz Show, which also got a Best Picture nomination. Though
none of his other films as a director were nominated for Best Picture, they
frequently got awards for other categories, with The Milagro Beanfield
War winning Best Original Score.
High Honors
When Redford’s Ordinary People won Best Picture, he had
the distinction of joining Laurence Olivier for being the only person to ever
direct a best picture winner and also star in another one. Olivier’s
directorial works Henry V and Hamlet both won
Best Picture, as did Rebecca, which he starred in, and in addition
to directing Ordinary Picture, Redford starred in Best
Picture-winner The Sting, and later Out of Africa.
Redford and Olivier have a few other things in common as
well, as they both were in A Bridge Too Far. However, the academy awards were
nothing compared to another award that Redford earned. In 2016 Barack Obama
gave Redford the Presidential Medal of Freedom, putting Redford in a very
exclusive club.
An Actor’s Director
As a director, Redford has had many big stars in his
films, including Donald Sutherland, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Matt Damon, Tom
Cruise, Meryl Streep, James McAvoy, and Shia LaBeouf. He is known to extract
great performances from his actors, and four performances in his films have
received Oscar nominations, including a win for Timothy Hutton in Ordinary
People.
Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch were also nominated for
the same film, and Paul Scofield was nominated for Quiz Show. He
also made a good working environment for his stuntmen, being supportive of them
and insisting that they receive full pay even when he was doing his own
stunts.
Supporting Independent Films
Redford has always been a champion of independent films,
with the Sundance Film Festival being the ultimate market for indie films. He
is open to lending his support to young filmmakers in need, as a story by Ed
Burns illustrates. Before his career had taken off, he needed a distributor for
his self-financed $28,000 debut as a writer/director/actor The Brothers
McMullen.
Nothing was happening with the film before Burns bumped
into Redford one day in an elevator at the studio for Entertainment Tonight.
Burns then sent Redford a copy of the film so he could watch it. Not only did
Redford watch it and love it, but he decided to show it at Sundance. The film
was a sensation at the fest, winning the grand jury prize, securing
distribution from Fox, and eventually making over $10 million when it was
released.
Redford and Newman
There are few on-screen duos as iconic as Paul Newman and
Robert Redford, and fans of their films will be happy to know that the two had
a wonderful relationship in real life too. They met when they were shooting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and reunited for The Sting, but sadly a
third collaboration never came into fruition, though they did talk about one
before Newman died.
Countless people mourned the loss of Paul Newman, and
Redford was devastated by the loss of his good friend. When he died, Redford
said, “there is a point where feelings go beyond words. I have lost a real
friend. My life — and this country — is better for his being in it.”
Good Working Relationships
Like any great actor and director, Robert Redford knows
the importance of collaboration in filmmaking. Naturally, he has cultivated
many great collaborators who he has gone with again and again. One of those is
the legendary writer William Goldman.
Goldman has had a great career as a screenwriter,
playwright, and novelist. One of his most iconic scripts is Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid, and Redford has worked with Goldman many times since then,
including the films The Hot Rock, The Great Waldo Pepper, All The President’s
Men, and A Bridge Too Far.
Another Actor/Director
The most significant of Redford’s collaborations over the
years was with a fellow actor turned director, Sydney Pollack. The two met on
Redford’s debut film War Hunt, and they have been close friends since then.
Their relationship has been both personal and professional, and the two have
done some of their best work together.
Pollack has directed seven films with Redford, and nearly
all of them were both critical and commercial hits. This Property is Condemned,
Jeremiah Johnson, The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor, The Electric
Horseman, Out of Africa, and Havana make for one of the finest runs of films by
a director and an actor team ever.
Nature Lover
Redford has always been known for the causes that he
supports, and in addition to helping people and supporting independent art, he
has also been devoted to saving the environment. His environmental activism was
far ahead of its time, and he fought to prevent a power plant from opening in
Utah back in the 70s.
He worked on clean air and clean water acts in the 70s,
and he started the Institute for Resource Management. He even hosted the
Sundance Symposium on Global Climate Change in 1989. He is also a trustee for
the Natural Resources Defense
Council, an environmental advocacy group.
A Changing Landscape
Part of the reason for Redford’s activism is that he saw
the changes to the environment as they were happening, and that made him seek a
place with more natural beauty than where he grew up. “I went to college to get
out of Los Angeles,” Redford said. “I went to college because it was Colorado,
and it was the mountains, and by that time I realized that nature was going to
be a huge part of my life,”
“Los Angeles, for me, when I was a little kid at the end
of the Second World War, I loved it. It was full of green spaces. When the war
ended ... suddenly Los Angeles, which had no land-use plan, it felt like the
city was being pushed into the sea,” Redford continued. “Suddenly there were
skyscrapers and freeways and smog, and I ... wanted out. So I went into the
mountains, into the Sierras, and worked at Yosemite National Park and fell in
love with nature.”
Top Picks
With over fifty years in the industry, Redford’s catalog
is full of classic movies, and it would be hard for anybody to pick a favorite
if asked. When Redford was asked what he thought his best performance was, he
gave an interesting answer.
Redford says his favorite film he has done is Jeremiah
Johnson, the Sydney Pollack western shot in Utah. As far as performances go,
though, he says he feels his best work was in The Sting. As far as other
people’s films go, he has one favorite that stands above the rest, and that is
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre directed by John Huston.
Retirement
Redford retired after his last film The Old Man & the
Gun in 2018, though he has still made some appearances in other films, having
given a cameo in Avengers: Endgame as well as the Watchmen series.
However, his life is away from the film industry now, and he finds great comfort living in nature, as well as spending time with his grandchildren. After six decades of hard work acting, directing, and producing, making countless great performances and films, he has certainly earned his retirement, and even though he has stopped making films, audiences will never stop watching his iconic performances.
Connecting the Dots:
Barbra Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Robert Redford is
a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense
Council, the founder & president for the Sundance Institute
and an honorary board member for Green
Cross International.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sundance
Institute.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Sundance Institute is a
sponsor for the Sundance Film Festival.
Patricia E.
Mitchell is the vice chair for the Sundance
Institute and a board member for Global
Green USA.
Global Green USA is a US affiliate for Green Cross International.
Robert Redford -
Sourcewatch
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robert_Redford
Robert Redford is
an honorary board member for Green Cross
International.
Mikhail Gorbachev is
the founder of Green Cross International, the
general secretary for the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Joseph Stalin
was the premier for the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics (USSR) and attended
the Yalta Conference.
Alger
Hiss attended the Yalta Conference with Franklin
Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank)
and the Roosevelt Institute.
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Laura Delano
Roosevelt is a governor at the Roosevelt
Institute and Franklin Delano
Roosevelt’s (FDR) granddaughter.
Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt is the chair for the Roosevelt
Institute and an advisory board member for the Wheelchair Foundation.
Mikhail Gorbachev is
an advisory board member for the Wheelchair
Foundation, was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the
president of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR) and the founder
of Green Cross International.
Ted
Turner is an honorary board member for Green Cross International, a member of Kappa Sigma, the founder of CNN, the co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and was married to Jane
Fonda AKA Hanoi Jane.
Robert Redford is member of Kappa Sigma and a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), the Natural Resources Defense Council and
the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
John
E. Bryson was a co-founder for the Natural
Resources Defense Council and a
director at the Walt Disney Company.
John
S. Chen is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and a director at the Walt Disney Company.
Sheryl K.
Sandberg is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank) and a director at the Walt Disney Company.
Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel
Entertainment.
Marvel Publishing Inc. is a
subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment.
Marvel Comics is a division of the Marvel Publishing Inc.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), People for the American Way and the Sundance Institute.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Mary Frances
Berry is a director at the People
for the American Way and was the
chancellor for the University of Colorado.
Margery Tabankin is
a director at the People for the American
Way and the treasurer for the Barbra
Streisand Foundation.
Barbra Streisand Foundation was
a funder for the Natural Resources Defense
Council.
Robert Redford is
a trustee at the Natural Resources Defense
Council, the founder & president for the Sundance Institute
and an honorary board member for Green
Cross International.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Natural Resources Defense
Council, the Sundance Institute and the Robin Hood
Foundation.
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, dated Mary Jane
Salk and a donor for the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation.
Cecily M. Carson is
a leadership council member for the Robin
Hood Foundation and was a
director at the Doe Fund.
Mary Jane Salk was
a director at the Doe Fund,
married to Lee Salk, dated Michael R. Bloomberg and is a trustee at
the Salk Institute.
Lee
Salk was married to Mary Jane Salk,
and Jonas Salk’s brother.
Jonas
Salk was Lee Salk’s brother and founded the Salk Institute.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was
a funder for the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative and the Committee for Economic Development.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was
a funder for the Committee for Economic
Development.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
E. Gordon Gee is
a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development and was the president for the University of Colorado.
Robert Redford attended the University of Colorado.
Resources: Past Research
Report: Leonardo
DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese Visit Obama in White House (Past
Research on Barbra Streisand)
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/12/report-leonardo-dicaprio-martin.htm
Robert Redford May Play
Oral Roberts in 'Come Sunday' (Past Research on Robert
Redford)
FRIDAY, MAY 23, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/05/robert-redford-may-play-oral-roberts-in.html
Alger Hiss - New Deal (Past Research on Alger Hiss & the USSR)
FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/05/alger-hiss-new-deal.html
EMERGENCY SATURDAY
BROADCAST! REPUBLICAN LEADERS ANNOUNCE NEW LOCKDOWN PLAN (Past Research on Green Cross International)
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2021
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2021/07/emergency-saturday-broadcast-republican.html
Jane Fonda: ‘I Don’t
Regret Going to Vietnam’ — ‘I’m Proud That I Went’ (Past
Research on Jane Fonda AKA Hanoi Jane)
TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2018
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/10/jane-fonda-i-dont-regret-going-to.html
The Real Story of Jane
Fonda and the Vietnam Vets Who Hate Her (Military.com
- Jane Fonda AKA Hanoi Jane)
21 Aug 2015
We Are The Mighty | By Blake Stilwell
Marvel Comics
Introduces Muslim Superhero (Past Research on
Marvel)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2013/11/marvel-comics-introduces-muslim.html
Icegate: Now NSIDC
Caught Tampering With Climate Records (Past
Research on the University of Colorado)
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2016
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/04/icegate-now-nsidc-caught-tampering-with.html
Has polio returned to
US after 35 years? (Past Research on Polio & the
Salk Institute)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014
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