A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit. Robert Redford, | | Gross: Not a bad introduction to the Air Force too bad it was in the back. WebThe story: Robert Redford plays the part of an ex-World War 1 pilot, who has become a pilot stuntman after the war. 129 min Comedy, Romance. Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. | 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. Maude's brother Ezra (Ed Herrmann) is building a monoplane to attempt the impossible outside loop. Classic "Biggles Opera" - Redford at his most handsome! Robert Redford, Josh Albee, Votes: | $49.85M, R Or maybe not. Jo Marr, Votes: 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). Stars: | 19,421 117 min As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for Downhill Racer. I would solo out on Friday the 13thin April of 1956, after seven hours of dual instruction. 126 min Director: | Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. $2.54M, G I like the civilian side to this film. Truthfully, I wasnt all that good at it in the beginning. | As a teen-age in the mid-1930's I saw Ernst Udet drag the Oakland Airport with his swept-wing bi-plane inverted and pick a handkerchief off the runway with his wing tip. Portrait of Robert Redford advocating against the demolition of Santa Monica Pier while filming "The Sting", Los Angeles, California, 1973. Stars: Marlon Brando, Richard Attenborough | It wasnt much later that a captured Japanese two-man submarine was displayed in my hometown of 12,000 residents. [33] Redford, a leading environmental activist, narrated the IMAX documentary Sacred Planet (2004), a sweeping journey across the globe to some of its most exotic and endangered places. 110 min [49], On May 24, 2015, Redford delivered the commencement address and received an honorary degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. What a delightful and beautifully written story. 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. [51], In 2017, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice Film Festival.[52]. When they all got into trouble for excessive stunts and the death of a young woman, they went to Hollywood, to be stunt men. Robert Redford, | Gross: 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 But the thought of being a thousand miles from a place where one could actually touch bottom drew something of a dampening image. Stars: Flying over a world covered in the flat white of a fresh snow, I was lost from the moment the wheels left the ground until the engine was shut down an hour later. [60] Redford has seven grandchildren. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax. PG 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. Oona Laurence, Votes: I knew, too, that he had trained U.S. Navy pilots before he returned to civilian life to begin training the one thousand young airplane drivers for which he had earned both the CAAs gratitude and that certificate of accomplishment. It was years later that I found myself in the uniform of the United States Air Force. That way, I was able to carefully settle atop a boxcar with the main landing gear straddling the centerline of the car, riding along with the tail in the air and the two main wheels firmly planted on the top of the car. 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. Robert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. Robert Redford, Portions of the movie Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a film which is both one of Redford's favorites and one that has heavily influenced him, was shot near the ski area. Perhaps because the ultimate tone of the movie is darker, the movie still captures that fun that permeates Butch Cassidy. George Segal, | Woody Harrelson, 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. Drama, Western. This film reunited him with Jane Fonda, finishing at No. Robert Redford may or may not be retired from acting. | | For some reason the title didn't draw me in. Golf has always struck me as something of a dangerous undertaking. $15.00M, R Major urging: see this film. | 3,092 Stars: Director: Gottfried Kitchen. He has also supported advocacy groups, such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America. And I remember this movie, by title only, but never saw it. [74] In 2013, he was identified by its CEO, Russ Girling, for leading the anti-pipeline protest movement.[74]. The pilots depicted are Ormer Locklear (1891-1920), Earl Daugherty (1887-1928), Speed Holman (1898-1931), and Ernst Udet (1896-1941). [25] The crime caper reunion with Paul Newman, The Sting (1973), became the top-grossing film of 1974[26] and one of the top 20 highest-grossing movies of all time when adjusted for inflation, plus landed Redford the lone nomination of his career for the Academy Award for Best Actor. My father never started a job he didnt finish, and that sort of thing rubbed off on me. | 125 min 2 highest-grossing film of 1973. Drama, Romance, War. Adventure, Comedy, Family. Nevertheless, Robert Redford was and is a wonderful actor, and has produced many indelible film characterizations for over 50 years. From The Chase (1965) to Truth (2015), Mr. Redford has always entertained with taste and excellence. Here are 34 of his best acting efforts. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc 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. | Director: He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack Director: | 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. | Gross: Director: Stars: Bruce Dern, 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. Stay up to date with the latest articles and selections from our archives. | Sissy Spacek, $51.09M, R In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. [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. [48] He was a 2010 recipient of the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. Action, Adventure, Comedy. 175 min This film marked the only time Redford would star with Marlon Brando. Ill be eternally grateful for that. 131 min The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression. | [73], Redford is opposed to the TransCanada Corporation's Keystone Pipeline. [71] He has criticized the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Joe Russo A middle-aged unknown comes seemingly out of nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost supernatural talent. | $37.12M, PG Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. 138 min 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! 136 min Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after Drama, Sport. [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. [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. According to the school's website, the award was created "to honor those who have distinguished themselves not only in the exemplary quality, skill and innovation of their work, but also in their public commitment to social responsibility, to increasing awareness of global issues and events, and to inspiring and empowering young people. $29.47M, PG-13 Stars: Drama, Romance. If you are sensitive with chivalry spirit, and not only war chivalry, maybe this film is made for you. Stars: 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 . 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[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. In 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie. [22] Redford found the niche he was looking for in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. Anita Hfer, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. [4][9] He has described himself as having been a "bad" student, finding inspiration outside the classroom, and being interested in art and sports. I was railroaded into that transfer, really, and all because I had chased a nosy lieutenant from the radar blockhouse at a small RADARsite in Montana, where he had no security clearanceand no real businessto be in the first place. Melvyn Douglas, [44], In 2008, he was awarded The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the arts, given annually to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life. | Gross: Barbra Streisand, 81,714 Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Director: And that's not a novelty. 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In May 2011, Alfred A. Knopf published Robert Redford: The Biography by Michael Feeney Callan, written over fifteen years with Redford's input and drawn from his personal papers and diaries. Paul Sand, Votes: In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. | Gross: | Stars: Stars: | | Douglas had made it, but I dont think they expected this one to be quite so Spartan. | Gross: Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Votes: $9.24M, R Stuart Rosenberg 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 . Morgan Freeman, Stars: | 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. | Meryl Streep, [4], Redford's next film, Legal Eagles (1986) alongside Debra Winger, was only a minor success at the box office. | | Director: | Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). WebAvengers : Endgame. During that time, he planned to direct and star in a sequel of The Candidate[32] but the project never happened. | Mort Mason soloed on Friday the 13th (April 1956) on an airplane with skis, in a 20-knot crosswind at Lake Hood, Alaska, in a serious snowstorm. Robert Redford, As usual Robert Redford was great as Waldo Pepper ! Robert Redford, The political satire The Candidate (1972) was a moderate box office and critical success. Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his wife Kyle confirmed via Twitter. His famous father's publicist, Cindi Berger, said: "The grief is immeasurable with the loss of a child." The 84-year-old retired actor and director starred in movies like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. | A crowd of onlookers, who came to watch the aerial show, has gathered around the burning plane, staring while Waldo tries to free his best friend. Comedy, Crime, Romance. [14] While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily and, as a result, lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school. Director: Comedy, Crime, Drama. Denis Sanders Robert Redford, | Eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War . 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). The interesting thing was that in those days they did not have license. 31,894 | $106.61M, PG His ASES, Commercial and Instrument Rating followed. 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. | Gross: George Roy Hill Stanley Tucci, 82,088 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. Biography, Drama, History. I was headed for the Operations Office rather a grand term, in those days of Safeway Airways, our local Piper aircraft distributor and flight school. | Gross: Desperate for money, they preform numerous barnstorming stunts at various air-shows, such as Wing Walking, sometimes with tragic results. The Champ first airplane and occasional bushplane. Stars: On August 9, 1958, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Redford married Lola Van Wagenen, who dropped out of college to marry him. Robert Redford His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). [42], In 1996, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Stars: Fonda and Redford star as Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower who've lived next to each other for years. Most recently, Sundance Productions produced Chicagoland (CNN), Cathedrals of Culture (Berlin Film Festival), The March (PBS) and Emmy nominee All The President's Men Revisited (Discovery), Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live!, and To Russia With Love on Epix. 25,579 Action, Drama, Thriller. WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is barnstorming and telling tales of his war exploits in a legendary fight against German ace Kessler. He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards. | This movie has special significance for me because I first saw it as a. Anthony Russo, Crime, Drama, Mystery. The movie proved to be Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful of their seven movies together. Oakes Fegley, Charles Boyer, Crime, Mystery, Thriller. Kim Basinger, Votes: 81,547 Sydney Pollack 121 min [11][12] He went on to travel in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy. | Robert Redford, 83 min [37] He briefly reprised his role as Alexander Pierce for a cameo appearance in Avengers: Endgame, filmed in 2017 prior to the completion of the former film. He starred with Natalie Wood in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) which won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. Flying is fun. | Gross: | $8.59M, Approved 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. Sweet, heroic pilot portrait, with a few mindboggling, terrifying stunts. The perfect tool for practicing flow flight. $61.80M, R $6.00M, PG One of his last television appearances until 2019 was on October 7, 1963, on Breaking Point, an ABC medical drama about psychiatry.[20]. Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, [citation needed], Redford continued as a major star throughout the 1990s and 2000s. Pieter Jan Brugge Director: | [38][39], In 1976, Robert Redford published The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time. Thank you! Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. John Saxon, | [65], As an avid environmentalist, Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Stars: Awards 144 min Watch out for the final minutes, with Kessler character, the most fascinating of the film, a so moving character. Natalie Wood, | In 2013, he starred in All Is Lost, directed by J.C. Chandor, about a man lost at sea. 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. Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). | Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Kitchen, Votes: Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. [25] The romantic period drama with Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were (1973), was the 11th highest-grossing film of 1973. 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). 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. The canvas golf club bag I was carrying was pretty heavy for a lad as small as I was at that time. 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? Tomas Milian, Votes: | 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! A very interesting story about a combination of a pilot/peddler! Mason says, My logs, not always attentively kept, now show 18,000 flying hours as PIC. This time, I could see a line trailing out behind the plane, one that appeared to terminate at some sort of big three-pronged fishing hook. Stars: Ritesh Batra Locklear was a nationally Just after World War II, I used to watch returned U.S. Navy pilot Danny ONeill flying off that same little grass strip. Arthur Penn $5.13M, R The press conference was held at the LA Press Club. [citation needed]. Brian McCarthy, Robert Redford, I couldnt believe it I was watching a mail plane deliver the mail! Alan J. Pakula [19], Redford earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (ABC, 1962). Stars: He shouted, Take me back! Then he explained what that control surface really did. Stars: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. I learned that I would first have to re-enlist for six years, and I didnt want to give Uncle Sam any more than the four years I had already signed on for. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the popular big-screen version of Barefoot in the Park (1967)[4] and were again co-stars many years later in Pollack's The Electric Horseman (1979), followed 38 years later with a Netflix feature, Our Souls at Night. [54], Robert Redford is the co-owner of Wildwood Enterprises, Inc., with Bill Holderman, producer, with the following film credits: Lions for Lambs; Quiz Show; A River Runs Through It; Ordinary People; The Horse Whisperer; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Slums of Beverly Hills; The Motorcycle Diaries; and The Conspirator.[55]. The shock of a driven golf ball striking the club bag I was leaning against woke me from my daydream. Oh and Ive never been lost again, by the way. 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. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. I'm sorry to hear that this film is not as respected as I had assumed. Director: | Iain Armitage, R | Gross: Bryce Dallas Howard, 126 min Each year between 1974 and 1976, movie exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office star. 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. Dianne Wiest, Votes: 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. | 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 . Stars: Debra Winger, Stars: But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it Director: 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, | Mia Farrow, The film's stars were Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda (her debut), and Ray Walston. 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. Klaus Maria Brandauer, Dakota Fanning, 95 min Did you know that most of the articles at Air Facts are written by readers like you? Stars: 9,665 Drama, Mystery, Thriller. | Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. | | 102 min At first, I certainly didnt come naturally to flying. 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