Robert Redford in five films

US movie fable Robert Redford died connected Tuesday aged 89. He was 1 of the astir palmy stars of his procreation arsenic good arsenic an Oscar-winning director.

Here are immoderate of Robert Redford astir celebrated films:

‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ (1969)

Redford formed 1 of Hollywood’s top treble acts with Paul Newman successful his breakthrough film. It’s a hippy occidental astir 2 outlaw buddies who fly to Bolivia to flight US authorities aft robbing a bid of banks and trains.

Based connected a existent story, the emotion triangle romance astatine its halfway took spot to the tune of Burt Bacharach’s “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ connected My Head”.

The movie was besides the opening of a adjacent relationship betwixt Redford and Newman.

‘The Sting’ (1973)

Redford and Newman teamed up again arsenic con artists successful George Roy Hill’s “The Sting” (1973), which won Redford his lone information for an Oscar for champion actor.

Set successful 1936 successful Chicago, with a ragtime score, it tells the communicative of 2 grifters who transportation retired the eventual con of a transgression brag called Doyle Lonnegan, played by Robert Shaw.

The film, which won 7 Oscars, is constructed similar a play, with elaborate props, intrigue and music. The audience, which believes it is successful connected the conmen’s secret, ends up being duped too.

‘All the President’s Men’ (1976)

A classical American governmental thriller, Alan Pakula’s “All the President’s Men” tells the communicative of the probe by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein into the Watergate ungraded that toppled President Richard Nixon.

Redford, who plays Woodward (Dustin Hoffman was Bernstein), was the driving unit down the film, which won 4 Oscars and which minutely elaborate the journalists’ enactment investigating 1 of the biggest scandals successful US governmental history.

“Forty-five years aft Watergate, the information is again successful danger,” Redford said successful the Washington Post successful April 2017, comparing President Donald Trump’s hatred of journalists to that of the Nixon administration.

‘Out of Africa’ (1985)

Epic romance “Out of Africa” consecrated the Redford legend. He plays an indomitable large crippled huntsman and aviator, with whom Meryl Streep falls successful emotion against the jaw-dropping backdrop of the Kenyan savannah.

Redford was the archetype of the cleanable if somewhat elusive lover, swooping down successful his biplane to whisk writer Karen Blixen disconnected for a romanticist formation implicit the Maasai Mara crippled parkland oregon a picnic successful the bush earlier disappearing for weeks connected end.

Nominated for 11 Oscars, the adaptation of Blixen’s autobiography won 7 Oscars and 3 Golden Globes. It is the sixth retired of 7 films Redford made with manager Sydney Pollack.

‘The Horse Whisperer’ (1998)

Redford deed container bureau golden with Nicholas Evans’s communicative astir a antheral with an bonzer mode with horses, which helium some starred successful and directed.

The classy tearjerker acceptable successful the distant mountains of Montana astir bringing a severely injured teen and her equine backmost from a precise acheronian place, was besides 1 of Scarlett Johansson’s breakthrough performances.

While it got an Oscar nomination, Redford did not get different of the statuettes helium picked up for his directorial debut with “Ordinary People” successful 1980.

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