104 min Woody Harrelson, | The movie proved to be Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful of their seven movies together. | Drama, Romance. [61], In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. Dianne Wiest, Votes: Robert Redford, Susan Sharendon's sudden exit was a real shocker, which took me months to get over. Jack Clayton With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe. Stuart Rosenberg Douglas had made it, but I dont think they expected this one to be quite so Spartan. | Stars: After passing both the written and the practical exams, and being awarded the private pilot license I had worked so hard to get, my friends seemed to crawl out of the woodwork, always needing a ride to some distant place. 83 min | Scenes with Robert Redford and Bo Svenson climbing out on the wing were done without any security harness or parachutes. When Ezra and Waldo drive up to the farmhouse in Ezra's pick-up it is very obvious that the truck looks far too old for the 1920's time frame of the movie. [38][39], In 1976, Robert Redford published The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time. Stars: Star: Brad Pitt, In April 2014, Redford played the main antagonist of the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Chris Evans, | 11,306 | | $47.74M, PG-13 Stars: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier. Robert Redford, Perhaps because the ultimate tone of the movie is darker, the movie still captures that fun that permeates Butch Cassidy. [35] The same year, he played news anchor Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt's Truth alongside Cate Blanchett. Director: Director: About 16,000 of those hours were made while flying the Alaska outback, just another of Alaskas long list of ragbag bush pilots. Hes had two books published by Voyageur Press: Flying the Alaska Wild and The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles. Robert Redford, User Ratings This film reunited him with Jane Fonda, finishing at No. I will always have a great tenderness for this movie, full of nostalgia and forgotten spirit, if you compare with the movies from now. 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. Bradford Dillman, His ASES, Commercial and Instrument Rating followed. Strother Martin, Votes: For decades, Robert Redford has been a pillar of Hollywood, known for his acting, his directing, and for creating the Sundance Film Festival. | | Director: I began to time the train and to adjust my airplanes speed to the speed of the train. Waldo Pepper (Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn glory during the war and dreams of being the first man to perform the risky "outside loop." Stars: I like the civilian side to this film. WebThe story: Robert Redford plays the part of an ex-World War 1 pilot, who has become a pilot stuntman after the war. 110 min Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. 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. [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. $106.61M, PG | My father never started a job he didnt finish, and that sort of thing rubbed off on me. Robert Redford may or may not be retired from acting. | Robert Redford, I was relocating from Great Falls, Montana, to Silver Lake, Washington, and my ride was an Air Force C-54, one of those four-engine jobbies that civilian airlines were then calling the DC-4. In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1][2]. | Herbert later became Governor of Utah. New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, List of awards and nominations received by Robert Redford, Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America, "Editor's Letter: The Ties That Bind the TIME 100", "Sponsored Archives: A Robert Redford Retrospective, Redford Turns West Again", "New England Historic Genealogical Society", "Did Robert Redford play high school baseball with Don Drysdale? Kristin Scott Thomas, 6,587 It was just like slipping into my favorite old jacket. | Director: Regarding Redford's maternal lineage, the Harts were Irish from Galway and the Greens were Scots-Irish who settled in the United States in the 18th century.[8]. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a reunion with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. Noah Beery Jr. Charles Bronson, | E.G. | | SPOILER AHEAD!! He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the prison drama The Last Castle (2001), directed by Rod Lurie. Morgan Freeman, | Gross: He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards. The interesting thing was that in those days they did not have license. The political satire The Candidate (1972) was a moderate box office and critical success. [26] In 1974 Redford became the first performer since Bing Crosby in 1946 to have three films in a year's top ten grossing titles. 106 min 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. In 1977, Redford appeared in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977). Sydney Pollack 32,714 | Sydney Pollack Robert Redford, Nick Nolte, Votes: Ive called him George for six decades now, but I still think of him as Mr. 159,713 Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). Jane Fonda, Redford starred in The Discovery and Our Souls at Night, both released on Netflix streaming in 2017. 93 min Anita Hfer, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. | Gross: Jo Marr, Votes: Katharine Ross, You can decide whether that added confidence was, in the last analysis, a good or a bad thing. Susan Sarandon, Votes: | [citation needed]. Jane Fonda, The aviator-poet John Magee was able to write in his sonnet "High Flight" that while flying he had "slipped the surly bonds of Earth" and "put out my hand, and touched the face of God". 3,092 | [43], In December 2005, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for his contributions to American culture. 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 . In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. Stars: | The commendation was for having safely soloed more than one thousand student pilots! Jason Segel, Not Rated 108 min Peter Boyle, $29.47M, PG-13 Robert Redford got one of his best roles in The Great Waldo Pepper which was directed by George Roy Hill who did right by him with Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and The Sting. Stars: | Gross: | Characters are so sweet, attracting the most sympathy from the audience, a so moving spirit, so pure, in search of something lost or.unaittable. 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. A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife. Danny Glover, Votes: Robert Redford, Dakota Fanning, Their solution - escape to Bolivia. Stars: Stars: Stars: 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Stars: [65], As an avid environmentalist, Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Or maybe not. | Robert Redford, Redfords liberal political engagement off-screen has always overflowed effortlessly into his acting work and in the roles he has chosen. [29] Later that year he appeared in the prison drama Brubaker (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system. The canvas golf club bag I was carrying was pretty heavy for a lad as small as I was at that time. [4][15], Redford's career, like that of many major stars who emerged in the 1950s, began in New York City, where the actor found work both on stage and in television. Jack Warden, Director: | [5][6][7] His patrilineal great-great-grandfather, a Protestant Englishman named Elisha Redford, married Mary Ann McCreery, of Irish Catholic descent, in Manchester. Chris Hemsworth, Votes: $75.38M, TV-14 Stars: The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star,[4] cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds. [4] Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. [54], Robert Redford is the co-owner of Wildwood Enterprises, Inc., with Bill Holderman, producer, with the following film credits: Lions for Lambs; Quiz Show; A River Runs Through It; Ordinary People; The Horse Whisperer; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Slums of Beverly Hills; The Motorcycle Diaries; and The Conspirator.[55]. Robert Redford, 2 highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed All the President's Men. Director: 161 min You do not have to be Richard Collins or Ernest Gann simply a GA pilot with a story youd share with friends sitting in the hangar. Only my stalls, spins, and skids boosted me through that checkride, Im sure. Portions of the movie Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, was shot near the ski area. Oakes Fegley, | Director: 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. A very interesting story about a combination of a pilot/peddler! Bryce Dallas Howard, | Gross: 8 highest-grossing film of 1974. | Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn Demi Moore, Redford made his screen debut in Tall Story (1960) in a minor role. Robert Redford, Director: Awards Robert Redford, As it turned out, he couldnt have done me a bigger favor. | Gross: 121 min Stars: In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. Director: Director: Robert Redford, 20,570 Daryl Hannah, If you are sensitive with chivalry spirit, and not only war chivalry, maybe this film is made for you. But Not Serious, in which he played an American soldier falsely imprisoned by a German civilian even after the war has ended. Mildred Natwick, Votes: $49.85M, R Paul Newman, Stars: 98 min Redford was nominated for a Golden Globe, his first Best Actor nomination for a Golden Globe, and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, his first time winning an acting honour from that group (he had been nominated in 1969 for Downhill Racer). [34] Redford was a co-producer and, with Emma Thompson and Nick Nolte, costar of the 2015 Broad Green Pictures film A Walk in the Woods, based on Bill Bryson's book of the same name. | Drama, Romance, Western. Stars: Director: This is a great film on so many levels and I highly recommend it. 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. In fact, I was sometimes so disappointed in poor landings or half-accurate spins or skidding turns that I had decided I would give it up right after earning my private pilot certificate. Robert Redford, In conclusion, I think that this was the first film that I watched, thinking I am an adult enjoying an adult story. The latter film, which was also produced by Redford, reunited him with co-star Jane Fonda for the fourth time and garnered positive reviews. Oona Laurence, Votes: The Milagro Beanfield War is the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico (based on the real town of Truchas in northern New Mexico), overcoming big developers who set about to ruin their community and force them out with tax increases. | | Biography, Drama, History. 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. Meanwhile, Redford returned to familiar territory when he reteamed with Meryl Streep 22 years after they starred in Out of Africa, for his personal project Lions for Lambs (2007), which also starred Tom Cruise. 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? Stars: After a great deal of hype, the film opened to mixed reviews and disappointing box office. 9,665 This is a really enjoyable film with considerable depth. | The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. 101 min $70.60M, PG-13 Redford's family moved to Van Nuys, Los Angeles, while his father worked in El Segundo. Drama. Bruce Dern, Robert Redford, [4] Redford also continued work in films with political contexts, such as Havana (1990), playing Jack Weil, a professional gambler in 1959 Cuba during the Revolution, as well as Sneakers (1992), in which he co-starred with River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier, his first teaming with the latter. He renamed it "Sundance" after his Sundance Kid character. Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after | Gross: Michael Ritchie The friendship between two Arizona dirt bike racers is tested when they both lust for an attractive runaway young woman who joins them on the racing circuit. Seventies family entertainment picture, which never rises above average though. Director: Not only did Redford show his skills as an actor, but he also got into directing and proved he was one of the best in the business. He has also supported advocacy groups, such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America. Adventure, Drama. 97 min Mary Steenburgen, Votes: 8,211 The airplane has no choice but to follow along with me. 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. Stay up to date with the latest articles and selections from our archives. | Gross: Robert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. Redford did not direct again until The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols's acclaimed novel of the Southwest. Drama, Romance. Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that Shauna Redford is a painter and married to journalist Eric Schlosser. Director: Biography, Drama, Romance. A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love. | site designed by, "What It's Really Like: Flying the Alaska Bush. Sydney Pollack Tomas Milian, Votes: | 175 min The examiner took immediate control of the little airplane and told me I had just scared years off his life. [4] The film landed eight Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Director (Alan J. Pakula), while winning for the Best Screenplay (Goldman). Charles Aidman, After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights. Melvyn Douglas, [50] On November 22, 2016, President Barack Obama honored Redford with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Robert Redford, Votes: [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. [4] Robert attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale. Stars: I nearly weep writing about him. Action, Adventure, Drama. | Gross: Tony Scott Oprah Winfrey, I thought I had failed my flight test before I had completed my first turn after takeoff. Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). Each year between 1974 and 1976, movie exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office star. The Second Greatest Flyer in the World . 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