Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
Source: New York Times
Robert Redford in 2013. With a distaste for Hollywood’s dumb-it-down approach to moviemaking, he typically demanded that his films carry cultural weight.Credit...Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Sept. 16, 2025
Robert Redford, the big-screen charmer turned Oscar-winning director whose hit movies often helped America make sense of itself and who, off screen, evangelized for environmental causes and fostered the Sundance-centered independent film movement, died early Tuesday morning at his home in Utah. He was 89.
His death, in the mountains outside Provo, was announced in a statement by Cindi Berger, the chief executive of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK. She said he had died in his sleep but did not provide a specific cause.
With a distaste for Hollywood's dumb-it-down approach to moviemaking, Mr. Redford typically demanded that his films carry cultural weight, in many cases making serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with audiences, in no small part because of his immense star power.
As an actor, his biggest films included "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), with its loving look at rogues in a dying West, and "All the President's Men" (1976), about the journalistic pursuit of President Richard M. Nixon in the Watergate era. In "Three Days of the Condor" (1975) he was an introverted C.I.A. codebreaker caught in a murderous cat-and-mouse game. "The Sting" (1973), about Depression-era grifters, gave Mr. Redford his first and only Oscar nomination as an actor.
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Rest in Peace, Mr. Redford. 
Rest in Peace Robert Redford and thanks for all the great films!
By the time I was six, and two UHF channel movies my dad knew I wouldn't bring anyone ugly home!
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - Poitier
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Double R Superstar
Rest in Power Bob. I'm very lucky to have been on the planet with you, Sidney, and River Phoenix in my lifetime. I'll be watching Sneakers tonight in honor of him . . . and the smorgasbord of hotness with the three of them being in the same movie.
Such a great movie and the photography is spectacular.
After making this movie Redford decided to move to Idaho because he loved it so much.
Still, the scenery in this movie is just amazing!
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Loved this man! So many great movies, directing, and being a good human being. Knew this day was coming, but still, too soon.
Not many like him anymore. I want to see flags lowered half-mast--far better man that Kirk would ever be.
The next one I'm really dreading losing is Harrison Ford. He's 83.
I'm an aviation buff and besides Butch Cassidy I fondly remember him as the early century barnstorming Waldo Pepper with Susan Sarandon (1975). No CGI, all stunt flying:
I'm glad he left me with that memory of him.
R.I.P. Robert Redford
Instead all the people who are good and do good die before him. Redford's lucky, he won't have to deal with this BS any longer.
He was my first teenage crush (HUGE)!!!
The Sting was my first indescribably great favorite film.
All the Presidents Men of course
Three Days of the Condor.
There will not be another like him.
Defined multi dimensional greatness.
You'd never know from the low-res movie trailer, but this film has spectacular photography. It's the reason why Redford loved Idaho so much that he eventually moved there. One of his early greats, from 1972.
He’ll be remembered for his positive contributions.
RIP.
light the corners of my mind.
That’s a travesty!
R.I.P. good sir.
May he rest in peace.
Thanks for all the great movies, Sundance,....and most of all for you immense environmental works!
A life well lived. 
My favorite scene of his is from Dark Winds where he and George Martin are in the jail. I love that series, so well done like everything else he has done in his life. What a loss to humanity. No doubt he is ascended.
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One of the good guys, the best!
Great man that I always looked up to!
and to Boulder, Colorado. I think they said something along the lines of CO being a better "cultural" fit. 
I feel so blessed to have lived in the time he did. RIP, Bob.
another great one is gone.
R-I-P 🙏