| 6,027 He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen. Seventies family entertainment picture, which never rises above average though. The political satire The Candidate (1972) was a moderate box office and critical success. Valerie Perrine, | Stars: Biography, Drama, Romance. This is a well shot film (the light in the Prarie scenes are beautiful) about why people love flying and how it gets into their bones to the point where they will take great risks with their lives as well as other people's! | Gross: 2 highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed All the President's Men. James Redford, an activist, filmmaker and philanthropist, has died, a rep for his father, actor and director Robert Redford, confirmed to CNN Tuesday. The same year saw his first teaming (on equal footing) with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's The Chase. | | Gross: Lois Chiles, R In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable television channel devoted to airing independent films. | Adrian Lyne 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. WebDuring 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. 83 min 138 min Robert Redford, Stuart Rosenberg Matthias Schoenaerts, Robert Redford, Mason says, My logs, not always attentively kept, now show 18,000 flying hours as PIC. Tommy Matsuda, PG $61.80M, R | $15.00M, R Kristin Scott Thomas, Stars: Since that day, he successfully completed his Private License check ride on March 4, 1957. Robert Redford, Redford states, "The Outlaw Trail. Stars: Oh and Ive never been lost again, by the way. It actually won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Picture and Best Director. Director: Susan Sarandon, Votes: | | Gross: The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by George Roy Hill. David Lowery Stars: Director: | Gross: [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. Once inside, he yanked the chute off the floor, brandished it high above his head, and said in a loud voice, I can see the headlines now: C-54 CRASHES ONE SURVIVOR. The panache of a real live single-engine fighter pilot, I thought. Glenn Close, In looking back, I wonder if I might not have scared the flight instructor out of his wits that cold March day: he actually forgot to sign my pilot log book! Not as a pilot, but as a passenger, boarding an aircraft for my first ever airplane ride. | Alessandro Nivola, Votes: | Gross: I nearly weep writing about him. Hollywood star Robert Redford is "in mourning" following the death of his son James at the age of 58. 126 min Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. 11,306 Alan J. Pakula 136 min Martin Balsam, Votes: As it turned out, he couldnt have done me a bigger favor. [41], In 1995, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. One of his last television appearances until 2019 was on October 7, 1963, on Breaking Point, an ABC medical drama about psychiatry.[20]. Director: | [citation needed], Redford continued as a major star throughout the 1990s and 2000s. | | He flew an airplane the navy called an SNJ, the same model that the Army Air Corps was calling a T-6. [53], Robert Redford also founded the Sundance Institute; Sundance Cinemas; Sundance Catalog; and the Sundance Channel; all in and around Park City, 30 miles (48km) north of the Sundance ski area. Stars: Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. The honors recipients are recognized for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts: whether in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures or television. Stars: 92 min Crime, Drama, Thriller. Drama, History, War. Other directorial projects have included the period drama A River Runs Through It (1992), based on Norman Maclean's novella, and the expos Quiz Show (1994), about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s. | He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a reunion with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. There are two noted aviation deaths in this movie, one in particular at a county fair, that is very painful to watch. 131 min In April 2014, Redford, a Pitzer College Trustee, and Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley announced that the college will divest fossil fuel stocks from its endowment; at the time, it was the higher education institution with the largest endowment in the US to make this commitment. Stars: 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Finally, I was able to find a DVD copy on E-Bay (apparently it is not currently available on DVD through normal means) and I am glad I did so. After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte). [17][18], In 1960, Redford was cast as Danny Tilford, a mentally disturbed young man trapped in the wreckage of his family garage, in "Breakdown", one of the last episodes of the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries. Biography, Comedy, Crime. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Stars: He took chances tackling roles that few others would accept, and there was always a sense of quality in his films. Trouble was, the only way to get from here to there in that wild country was by air. It was years later that I found myself in the uniform of the United States Air Force. Director: E.G. All the President's Men (1976), in which Redford and Hoffman play Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, was a landmark film for Redford. His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in the original 1963 cast of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park. Stars: Brit Marling, In 2010, Redford released The Conspirator, a period drama revolving around the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. And about 8 years earlier, when I was about 6, I lived in Rio Vista on the Sacramento River mid-way between Sacramento and San Francisco, when a mail plane crashed in a grain field just outside of town. | 43,764 | WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is barnstorming and telling tales of his war exploits in a legendary fight against German ace Kessler. Jane Alexander, Votes: Wyoming, early 1900s. | $87.10M, PG Peter Yates The film's stars were Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda (her debut), and Ray Walston. [65], As an avid environmentalist, Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. 118 min Redford was nominated for a Golden Globe, his first Best Actor nomination for a Golden Globe, and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, his first time winning an acting honour from that group (he had been nominated in 1969 for Downhill Racer). Robert Redford, 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. Robert Redford, | 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). Stars: I saw The Great Waldo Pepper in its first theatrical release back in 1975. Director: He gets into a rivalry with Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson) who travels with his girlfriend Mary Beth (Susan Sarandon). Dakota Fanning, | Arthur Penn In 2008, Sundance exhibited 125 feature-length films from 34 countries, with more than 50,000 attendees, Salt Lake City, and Park City, Utah. Flying in those conditions is unimaginable to me as an owner of an upgraded Beechcraft with multiple redundant systems and devices. Josh Albee, Votes: [69] In 2019, Redford penned an op-ed in which he referred to Trump's administration as a "monarchy in disguise" and stated "[i]t's time for Trump to go. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. A superb, terrific ending that haunts me since my childhood. Stars: Having directed Robert Redford in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting", George Roy Hill cast him yet again in "The Great Waldo Pepper". Director: Robert Redford, 134 min The little plane seemed to fit me perfectly. 59,505 | I was standing where I shouldnt be, smack in the middle of the second fairway, gazing up the Ohio River at a Stinson Voyageur as it descended toward the small Duck Creek Airport just across the highway from where I stood transfixed by the sight. For decades, Robert Redford has been a pillar of Hollywood, known for his acting, his directing, and for creating the Sundance Film Festival. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. Robert Downey Jr., Redford went on to found the Sundance Film Festival, which became the country's largest festival for independent films. Sidney Poitier, Michael J. Pollard, Comedy, Crime, Drama. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment. At first I thought the Stinson was going to make a landing on the small, grass strip, but the pilot only flew low across the field to drop a canvas bag of some sort from the open cabin door. $5.00M, PG-13 But Not Serious, in which he played an American soldier falsely imprisoned by a German civilian even after the war has ended. Kitchen. The press conference was held at the LA Press Club. Drama, Thriller. Stars: | His ASES, Commercial and Instrument Rating followed. [74] In 2013, he was identified by its CEO, Russ Girling, for leading the anti-pipeline protest movement.[74]. $47.74M, PG-13 | Robert Mulligan 1,153,252 Robert Redford, The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbor. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Lgion d'Honneur. 125 min $9.24M, R In fact, I was sometimes so disappointed in poor landings or half-accurate spins or skidding turns that I had decided I would give it up right after earning my private pilot certificate. He endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012. $51.09M, R 81,547 Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn Charles Durning, Votes: Will Geer, He received acclaim for his performance in the film, in which he is its only cast member and there is almost no dialogue. It also explored the political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. It reminds me of my childhood dreams of becoming a military pilot and the joys (and terrors) of flying. Redford did not direct again until The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols's acclaimed novel of the Southwest. Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious subject matter the Watergate scandal and its attempt to create a realistic portrayal of journalism also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes. | Sydney Pollack Now, in 2013 I found it on Netflix and find it to be a very nice, very enjoyable movie. In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. At first, I certainly didnt come naturally to flying. Waldo's friend's death in a crash and fire may correctly need a PG warning but the film will still give most kids a love of flying. And, inside that office, I got my first look at Mr. George Kitchen. Flying is fun. After this initial success, Redford became concerned about his blond male stereotype image[21] and turned down roles in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Stanley Tucci, 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. On the way up, he described to me the tragic effects of a tail slide in anything other than a military fighter plane. Director: Robert Redford, Dick Wenzel, who would remain a friend for more than sixty years, was caddying with another party of golfers that day, and my twosome was behind his group. Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi. 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. Robert Redford isn't merely the star of the movie All Is Lost he plays the only character. | James Gandolfini, | Gary Winick Director: And in this feature, it is also emphasized the true nature of the humans, for instance after the plane crash, with the poor man agonizingI am ashamed to belong to the human kind when I watch this. Meryl Streep, | Charlie McDowell $106.61M, PG | 50,230 Noah Beery Jr. | Drama, Romance. | 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. Mildred Natwick, Votes: Ryan O'Neal, Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. Behind these implements came an Air Force Captain, stocky, blond, blue-eyed, and all smiles. | Gross: Then he took a two-year hiatus from movies, before starring as past-his-prime rodeo star in the adventure-romance The Electric Horseman (1979). | Gross: 1,370 Michael Kitchen, Votes: Redford was born on August 18, 1936,[3] in Santa Monica, California, to Martha Woodruff Redford (ne Hart; 19141955) and Charles Robert Redford (19141991), an accountant. Sections. $8.59M, Approved $0.12M, PG-13 The Great Waldo Pepper really is a work of cinematic art. The cast includes Margot Kidder, Bo Svenson, Edward Herrmann and Susan Sar Robert Redford, Votes: Robert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. Jon Avnet Michael Ritchie Comedy, Drama, Romance. Waldo believes the honor of the best WWI fighter pilots and he deems to be the German Ernst Kessler (Bo Brundin) who is working in Hollywwod as an aerial stunt . Joe Russo But for all the art and positivity that Redford has undoubtedly unleashed into the world, he's endured a shocking amount of hardship, misfortune, death, dysfunction, $76.23M, M Sydney Pollack Desperately looking for work, he decides to pull of the Richard Attenborough | 31,894 $37.12M, PG | | Robert Shaw, 97 min This is a great film on so many levels and I highly recommend it. Drama, Romance. Debra Winger, [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). Director: [66] Redford is the first quote on the back cover of Donald Trump's book Crippled America (2015), saying of Trump's candidacy, "I'm glad he's in there, being the way he is, and saying what he says and the ways he says it, I think shakes things up and I think that is very needed. For the next 10 years I knew I would be a fighter pilot! Turned out that it isnt. Alan Arkin, In 1970, she co-founded Consumer Action Now (CAN), [1] a non-profit educational organization, and in 1995 co-founded Clio Visualizing | After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. Redford starred in The Discovery and Our Souls at Night, both released on Netflix streaming in 2017. 102 min | Robert Redford, By the end of my fourth hour of dual flight instruction, I could perform a two-turn spin in either direction and pull back out into level flight within ten degrees of a pre-determined heading. Michael Caine, | Gross: [61], In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. Thank you! | Redford's family moved to Van Nuys, Los Angeles, while his father worked in El Segundo. Peter Boyle, George gave me my first hour of dual instruction that day. All thanks to Waldo! | Gross: Ive called him George for six decades now, but I still think of him as Mr. | | The pilots depicted are Ormer Locklear (1891-1920), Earl Daugherty (1887-1928), Speed Holman (1898-1931), and Ernst Udet (1896-1941). | | Stars: | Director: $75.38M, TV-14 | Robert Redford, $18.21M, PG-13 10 highest-grossing film for 1974 as it was re-released due to the popularity of The Sting. $29.47M, PG-13 They divorced in 1985. | Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). "[67][68] A representative later clarified that Redford's statement, taken from a longer conversation with Larry King, was not intended to endorse Trump for president. Robert Redford, | Gross: After passing both the written and the practical exams, and being awarded the private pilot license I had worked so hard to get, my friends seemed to crawl out of the woodwork, always needing a ride to some distant place. Robert Redford, SPOILER AHEAD!! It made me feel great and I've had a fascination with film ever since. | In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. The era the picture is set in is mostly the Roaring Twenties , specifically the period is between 1926 and 1931 , in which bitter pilots are reduced to defying death in air flying circus such as Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) , Axel Olson (Bo Svenson) and Ezra Stiles (Edward Herrmann). Anybody who likes old airplanes, stunt flying or just plain adventure and an interesting story should like this early Robert Redford film. A sobering thought struck me: golfing was clearly more dangerous than flying around in an airplane. Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that 32,714 Meryl Streep, Maude's brother Ezra (Ed Herrmann) is building a monoplane to attempt the impossible outside loop. And you also have in this movie the elements which permit you to think that nothing can stop a movie or - flight- circus director to attract audiences, even risking the life of his actors or employees. Jack Clayton Robert Redford, After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights. George Segal, Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. The ball had hit the bag, held in place with my crossed arms atop the club heads, just below my belt level. Strother Martin, Votes: Adventure, Biography, Comedy. The younger Director: He has a half brother,[4] William, from his father's first marriage. In Inside Daisy Clover (1965), which won him a Golden Globe for best new star, he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her along with Charles Bronson for Sydney Pollack's This Property Is Condemned (1966) again, as her lover, though this time in a film which achieved even greater success. Stars: Tell us what you think about this feature. In J. C. Chandors All Is Lost, Robert Redford is a sailor adrift in the Indian Ocean. [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. Eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War . Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. | March 4th, 1957, to be exact. 19,421 $2.54M, R During the summer weeks, I would tie tomatoes for one dollar a thousand, some days earning as much as four dollars. This film marked the only time Redford would star with Marlon Brando. Stars: His Broadway debut was in a small role in Tall Story (1959), followed by parts in The Highest Tree (1959) and Sunday in New York (1961). Ritesh Batra As a disillusioned biplane pilot named Waldo who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later he carries out a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed . Redford stepped back into producing with The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and his friend Alberto Granado. | Daryl Hannah, He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). Jane Fonda, Post WW-I barnstorming pilot has a shot at living his dream. The Milagro Beanfield War is the story of the people of Milagro, New Mexico (based on the real town of Truchas in northern New Mexico), overcoming big developers who set about to ruin their community and force them out with tax increases. In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the prison drama The Last Castle (2001), directed by Rod Lurie. Katharine Ross, | | Barbra Streisand, [4] Robert attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale. [43], In December 2005, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for his contributions to American culture. | Gross: [13] While there, he worked at a restaurant/bar called The Sink, where a painting of his likeness still figures prominently among the bar's murals. Chris Evans, | This movie has stood the test of time. Jo Marr, Votes: This movie is made by some of the same players that made Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Writer, Director and Actor). He received a second Academy Awardfor Lifetime Achievementin 2002. | Robert Redford, 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. Director: | 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. 34,036 Robert Redford, | Gross: The interesting thing was that in those days they did not have license. 856,305 A tale of knights of the air, in a quest of their Graal. Yaphet Kotto, $2.54M, G Jason Segel, Not Rated | Gross: | Gross: This movie has special significance for me because I first saw it as a. It does a wonderful job of capturing a bygone era of the Twenties when after World War I, the airplane was a big toy played with by some big kids. Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Stars: 102 min | | 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. Bradford Dillman, 50,967 In my mind it is an exploration of the competitive nature of the flyers themselves - whether friends or rivals, one soon becomes acutely aware of their constant need to push their limits, not only amongst themselves but also within themselves. Back in front of the camera, Redford received good notices for his role in director Lasse Hallstrm's An Unfinished Life (2005) as a cantankerous rancher who is forced to take in his estranged daughter-in-law (Jennifer Lopez)whom he blames for his son's deathand the granddaughter he never knew he had when they fled an abusive relationship. Stars: Kim Basinger, Votes: Having been a hunter and fisherman all my young life (it was sometimes necessary for us, if we intended to eat regularly), I continued to hunt and fish the great Alaska outback. | | Robert Redford, Director: Robert Duvall, Follows the life post WW1 of a pilot trying to get work barnstorming and in the film business. Comedy, War. and The Graduate. In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of the film, though the following month, Redford stated that he "regretted" announcing his retirement because "you never know". I was sitting on the dirty plywood floor when, through the open loading doors, sailed a thrown crash helmet and a parachute. Elisabeth Moss, Votes: Director: Director: 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. 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