Adrian Lyne The Redford Conservancy educates the next generation of students to create solutions for the most challenging and urgent sustainability problems. 95 min 14,138 A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter. $41.51M, Passed Both were a bit tipsy, but they were having lots of fun, and the weather was truly fine. They had a son named Charles, the first in line to have been given the name. Samuel L. Jackson, With five years spent on the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. 42,069 Drama, Mystery, Thriller. | Oh and Ive never been lost again, by the way. Other executive producers include George R.R. Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that 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. Robert Redford, The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse. | 144 min | I first saw this film in the theater almost 30 years ago and have caught it a few times on TV since. | A dandy fringe benefit, I thought, if that were true. [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. His ASES, Commercial and Instrument Rating followed. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment. Stars: He co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance Up Close & Personal (1996), and with Kristin Scott Thomas and a young Scarlett Johansson in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed. 218,905 | Gross: Robert Redford, Mason says, My logs, not always attentively kept, now show 18,000 flying hours as PIC. In 1977, Redford appeared in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977). 12,365 Kristin Scott Thomas, | During 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. On February 22, 2019, Redford received the Honorary Csar at the 44th Csar Awards in Paris. | Gross: | Gross: Adventure, Biography, Comedy. I was caddying at the local country club on weekends in order to pick up a little extra money. | Katharine Ross, Willie Nelson, Votes: But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it Director: The same year saw his first teaming (on equal footing) with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's The Chase. It is both fun to watch and has some depth to it - it is not just a piece of fluff. | After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face. George Segal, Scarlett Johansson, In The Clearing (2004), a thriller co-starring Helen Mirren, Redford was a successful businessman whose kidnapping unearths the secrets and inadequacies that led to his achieving the American Dream. 136 min $106.61M, PG [61], In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. Stars: Robert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. Dakota Fanning, Trouble was, the only way to get from here to there in that wild country was by air. Waldo has been telling tall tales. A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood. Desperate for money, they preform numerous barnstorming stunts at various air-shows, such as Wing Walking, sometimes with tragic results. The 85-year-old Redford himself has gone back 10 highest-grossing film for 1974 as it was re-released due to the popularity of The Sting. And, from that day to this, I have never looked back. | It was a whole new experience. J.C. Chandor | Gross: Nick Nolte, Votes: Not a bad introduction to the Air Force too bad it was in the back. $0.03M, G [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. 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. Robert Redford, Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax. | Action, Drama, Thriller. | The examiner in the back seat of that little 65-hp Aeronca asked me what the rudder was for, I told him it was to help turn the airplane. 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. By the time we got to the plane it was burning fiercely with the pilot trapped in the cockpit and no way the men in the crowd could have rescued him. Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). 118,373 Stuart Rosenberg Michael Ritchie $6.00M, PG Paul Sand, Votes: *Spoiler/plot- The Great Waldo Pepper, 1975. Sydney Pollack Later, while flying alone to build up the required local flying hours before cross-country solo flight would be allowed, I would time my low altitude practice flights to coincide with the Alaska Railroad train schedule. 92 min Sidney J. Furie David Lowery Lauren Hutton, Robert Downey Jr., Stars: And that's not a novelty. Eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War . Sydney Pollack Robert Redford, [23] While Redford did not receive an Academy Award or Golden Globe nomination for playing the Sundance Kid, he won a British Academy of Film and Television Award (BAFTA) for that role and his parts in Downhill Racer[24] (1969) and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969). Brian Dennehy, Votes: The perfect tool for practicing flow flight. Robert Redford, It was just like slipping into my favorite old jacket. There are obvious comparisons with The Blue Max, made 9 years earlier. Alec Guinness, | 131 min Robert Redford, Robert Redford, Stars: It was a name that fascinated me - a geographical anchor in Western folklore. Now thats dangerous. 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. Hubbell, aka Robert Redford, was the heartthrob of every woman who ever watched not only the The Way We Were, but several other of his feature films, as well. $11.28M, PG Susan Clark, Votes: 108 min Scott Redford died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2+12 months and is buried at Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah. Drama, Romance. | Gross: As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. Drama, History, War. | Comedy, Drama. | Truthfully, I wasnt all that good at it in the beginning. WebRobert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing adventure! Redford supports environmentalism, Native American rights, LGBT rights,[63] and the arts. He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the prison drama The Last Castle (2001), directed by Rod Lurie. $29.47M, PG-13 Robert Redford, A very interesting story about a combination of a pilot/peddler! Stephen Dillane, Votes: Getty Images Max von Sydow, Votes: | Director: His directorial debut, Ordinary People, which followed the disintegration of an upper-class American family after the death of a son, was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars, including Best Director for Redford himself, and Best Picture. For decades, Robert Redford has been a pillar of Hollywood, known for his acting, his directing, and for creating the Sundance Film Festival. Comedy, War. Stars: Each year between 1974 and 1976, movie exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office star. Robert Redford, Crime, Drama, Mystery. Metacritic Reviews. | Gross: 266,483 | Gross: 16 and 17 in box office grosses for 1975, respectively. The latter film, which was also produced by Redford, reunited him with co-star Jane Fonda for the fourth time and garnered positive reviews. Director: 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 . After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. 181 min | [4] His first film as director was 1980's Best Picture winner Ordinary People, a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. 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. "[70] Redford later co-authored another op-ed in which he criticized Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic while also citing the collective public response to the pandemic as a model for how to respond to climate change. He flew an airplane the navy called an SNJ, the same model that the Army Air Corps was calling a T-6. Stars: Born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, Robert Redford has proved to be one of the great talents in American film, starring in classics such as The Did you know that most of the articles at Air Facts are written by readers like you? Star: Robert Redford, I dont advise this sort of thing, but those were different days and Alaska was most definitely a different place. | | Director: | Sections. Flying in those conditions is unimaginable to me as an owner of an upgraded Beechcraft with multiple redundant systems and devices. In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable television channel devoted to airing independent films. | [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. $49.85M, R In the same year, Redford reteamed with Brad Pitt for Spy Game, another success for the pair but with Redford switching this time from director to actor. Oona Laurence, Votes: Shauna Redford is a painter and married to journalist Eric Schlosser. Turned out that it isnt. $102.31M, PG-13 Set during 19261931, the film stars Robert Redford as a disaffected World War I veteran pilot who missed the opportunity to fly in combat, and examines his sense of postwar dislocation in 1920s America. 3,092 Susan Sharendon's sudden exit was a real shocker, which took me months to get over. [4] Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers. This film reunited him with Jane Fonda, finishing at No. 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. 161 min Robert Redford, $8.59M, Approved During that time, he planned to direct and star in a sequel of The Candidate[32] but the project never happened. In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. Director: Richard Attenborough 20,570 Redford in his youthful heyday, following the success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Susan Sarandon as the female lead, and yet, apparently, so few have ever seen this that less than two pages covers comments. Perhaps because the ultimate tone of the movie is darker, the movie still captures that fun that permeates Butch Cassidy. Drama. He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards. Crime, Drama. Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. 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. 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]. Everything on the ground looked the same to me, except for the nearby Chugach Mountains, and I knew right then that I was never destined to fly. In J. C. Chandors All Is Lost, Robert Redford is a sailor adrift in the Indian Ocean. 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. | The airplane has no choice but to follow along with me. | No seats, only canvas webbing along either side of the fuselage for seating. He reconnects with sometimes girlfriend Maude (Margot Kidder). Julia Roberts, Director: | Morgan Freeman, Since that day, he successfully completed his Private License check ride on March 4, 1957. | 101 min It made me feel great and I've had a fascination with film ever since. Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. Anybody who likes old airplanes, stunt flying or just plain adventure and an interesting story should like this early Robert Redford film. Stars: [citation needed], Soon after that, he starred in the baseball drama The Natural (1984). Director: Redford had optioned the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman, but had shelved the project after Newman's death. 57,897 The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression. [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. Karl Michael Vogler, Unrated Gene Hackman, After many tragedies, he is reduced to being a Hollywood stuntman under an assumed name in a movie about the legendary dogfight. Marlon Brando, That daughter is 38 now. Brian McCarthy, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, Votes: The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill. George Roy Hill Stars: Faye Dunaway, 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. Katharine Ross, 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. Stars: | [26] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) placed as the No. Their solution - escape to Bolivia. 159,713 Meryl Streep, | | 58,022 They had four children: Scott Anthony Redford (September 1, 1959 November 17, 1959), Shauna Jean Redford[57] (born November 15, 1960), David James Redford (May 5, 1962 October 16, 2020),[58][59] and Amy Hart Redford (born October 22, 1970). 2014, Movie - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Stars: Director: I ran out with a crowd of town folks and other kids. Later in the checkride, he asked me for a power on stall. | [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. Robert Redford, Still, I wasnt about to just up and quit. I knew right then that flying would be my world, though I had no idea how I was going to go about starting the whole process. $5.76M, R Alessandro Nivola, Votes: | Gross: The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. My father never started a job he didnt finish, and that sort of thing rubbed off on me. This was it, then. 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. Charlie McDowell 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. Chris Evans, | [35] The same year, he played news anchor Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt's Truth alongside Cate Blanchett. 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