Robert Redford Useless at 89

Robert Redford — the legendary Oscar-winning actor and director — has died.

Redford’s rep, Cindi Berger, tells us … Robert handed away Tuesday morning at his residence in Sundance, Utah. Berger says Robert was surrounded by the individuals he cherished within the place he cherished. His explanation for loss of life has not been revealed.

The long-lasting filmmaker spent many years as a number one actor in Hollywood, with a few of his most notable initiatives being 1969’s “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child,” 1973’s “The Sting,” 1975’s “Three Days of the Condor,” 1976’s “All of the President’s Males,” and 1984’s “The Pure.”

He additionally labored with quite a lot of Hollywood’s favourite main girls, together with Jane Fonda in 1967’s “Barefoot within the Park,” Barbra Streisand in 1973’s “The Means We Have been” and Meryl Streep in 1985’s “Out of Africa.”

Redford transitioned to directing in 1980, along with his debut movie “Bizarre Individuals” successful main important and business success. It additionally gained him an Oscar for Greatest Director. In 2002, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Honorary Oscar.

Then, in 2016, President Barack Obama handed Redford the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Redford can also be identified for founding the Sundance Institute, a nonprofit devoted to showcasing unbiased filmmakers, in 1981. He took the helm of a struggling movie pageant in 1984, which turned the long-lasting movie pageant in Park Metropolis, Utah we all know and love right now. In 2012, he reportedly expressed distaste for a way well-liked the pageant turned.