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Hollywood fable Robert Redford has died aged 89.
The Academy Award-winning prima of the likes of All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid cofounded the Sundance Film Festival successful 1981. According to the New York Times, helium died aboriginal Tuesday greeting astatine his location successful Utah.
Redford's publicist Cindi Berger told the BBC the histrion died "at Sundance successful the mountains of Utah — the spot helium loved, surrounded by those helium loved."
"He volition beryllium missed greatly," Berger continued, adding that the household are requesting privacy.
As good arsenic All the President's Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford starred successful the likes of 1967's Barefoot successful the Park and 1972's The Candidate. He received a information for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his show successful 1973 transgression caper The Sting.
Happy 85th day to Robert Redford, who was calved #OnThisDay 1936. While connected Parkinson successful 1980, helium talked astir a agelong moving applicable gag betwixt him and Paul Newman. pic.twitter.com/YiYT9WN3w3
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) August 18, 2021He went connected to prima successful 70s classics specified arsenic The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor, the aforementioned All the President's Men, and The Electric Horseman. All the President's Men, successful which Redford starred alongside Dustin Hoffman, was a peculiar highlight. The much-loved 1976 American biographical governmental thriller movie told the communicative of the Watergate ungraded that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon. It was based connected the 1974 non-fiction publication by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the 2 journalists investigating the ungraded for The Washington Post, and who were played by Hoffman and Redford respectively. All the President's Men went connected to go indispensable viewing for journalists successful grooming crossed the globe.
Redford enjoyed occurrence arsenic a director, too; 1980's Ordinary People (his directorial debut) won 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. He received Best Director and Best Picture nominations successful 1995 for Quiz Show.
More recently, Redford starred successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe arsenic Alexander Pierce successful 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, past reprised the relation for 2019's Avengers: Endgame. He had been mostly retired from acting since.
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