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Hollywood star Robert Redford dies at the age of 89 Hollywood star Robert Redford dies at the age of 89
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US acting legend Redford, known for roles in The Sting and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, has died at the age of 89. US acting legend Redford, known for roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, has died at the age of 89.
"Robert Redford passed away on September 16 at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah - the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy," his publicist Cindi Berger told BBC News. In a statement, his publicist Cindi Berger, said: "Robert Redford passed away on September 16 at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah - the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy."
The Oscar-winning star of Out of Africa was also known for founding the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.The Oscar-winning star of Out of Africa was also known for founding the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
He won an Academy Award for best director in 1980 for Ordinary People. Redford announced he was retiring from acting in 2018, having said two years earlier he was tired of it. He won an Academy Award for best director in 1980 for Ordinary People. Redford announced he was retiring from acting in 2018, having said in 2016 that he was "tired of acting."
Redford's other roles included The Candidate, All the President's Men and Indecent Proposal.Redford's other roles included The Candidate, All the President's Men and Indecent Proposal.
It was Butch Cassidy that made Redford an overnight star but he was never comfortable with his tag as a good-looking charmer. It was Butch Cassidy, a Western film about two risk-taking bank robbers, that made Redford an overnight star, but he was never comfortable with his tag as a good-looking heartthrob.
"People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm. It's not easy being Robert Redford," he once told New York magazine.
Part of the New Hollywood film movement of the late 1960s, he teamed up again with fellow star Paul Newman - who he appeared alongside in Butch Cassidy - for crime caper The Sting in 1973, also considered a classic.
Despite their long-running friendship and on-screen chemistry, the pair never appeared on screen together again.
Redford's biggest contribution to film was arguably Sundance Film Festival, which helped boost independent film-making in the late 80s and early 90s, to rival the period which launched his career.
Redford leaves behind his wife Sibylle Szaggars who he married in 2009, according to CBS News.
He had previously been married to Lola Van Wagenen - the couple had four children before divorcing in 1995.
One of their children, Scott, died at the age of two months from sudden infant death syndrome, CBS reports, and James, died of cancer in 2020.
He is survived by two daughters - Shauna, an artist, and Amy, a director.