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Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1937) is an award winning American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, and philanthropist.

Born in Santa Monica, California to Charles Robert Redford, Sr. (an Irish Protestant immigrant from the British Isles) and Martha W. Hart (from Texas).

He attended the University of Colorado in Boulder on a baseball scholarship, was a painting student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and took classes in theatrical set design at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

Redford is known for his roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, The Sting, The Natural, The Way We Were, Out of Africa, The Great Gatsby, and many others. Redford directed the films Ordinary People, Quiz Show, The Legend of Baggar Vance, The Horse Whisperer, The Milagro Beanfield War, and A River Runs Through It, he was also a producer on all of them except for Ordinary People.

In 1980, the first film Redford directed, Ordinary People, won him the Academy Award for Directing; his 1994 film Quiz Show was nominated for the award but lost to Forrest Gump.

With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salary from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford purchased the ski resort just outside Park City, Utah called Timphaven. He renamed it the Sundance Resort, and not long after, 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 in the area. He then founded the Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute, Sundance Catalog, and the Sundance Channel, all in and around Park City. The Sundance Film Festival caters to independent filmmakers in the United States and has received some recognition from the industry as a place to option films. The name Sundance comes from his character the "Sundance Kid." In addition he owns a celebrated restaurant called Zoom, located on Main Street in the former mining town of Park City.

Filmography

• War Hunt (1962)
• Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
• Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
• The Chase (1966)
• This Property Is Condemned (1966)
• Barefoot in the Park (1967)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
• Downhill Racer (1969)
• Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
• The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970) (documentary)
• Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
• The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson (1972) (short subject)
• The Hot Rock (1972)
• The Candidate (1972)
• Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
• The Way We Were (1973)
• The Sting (1973)
• Following the Tundra Wolf (1974) (documentary) (narrator)
• The Great Gatsby (1974)
• Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain (1975) (documentary) (narrator)
• The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
• Three Days of the Condor (1975)
• All the President's Men (1976)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• The Electric Horseman (1979)
• Brubaker (1980)
• The Natural (1984)
• Out of Africa (1985)
• Legal Eagles (1986)
• Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven (1989) (documentary) (narrator)
• To Protect Mother Earth (1989) (documentary) (narrator)
• Chaning Steps (1989) (narrator)
• Havana (1990)
• Our Biosphere: The Earth in Our Hands (1991) (documentary)
• Incident at Oglala (1992) (documentary) (narrator) (also executive producer)
• A River Runs Through It (1992) (narrator) (also director and producer)
• Sneakers (1992)
• Indecent Proposal (1993)
• Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996) (documentary)
• Up Close & Personal (1996)
• Anthem (1997) (documentary)
• The Horse Whisperer (1998) (also director and producer)
• Entangling Shadows (1998) (documentary)
• New York in the 50's (2001) (documentary)
• The Last Castle (2001)
• Spy Game (2001)
• Sundance 20 (2002) (documentary)
• Abby Singer (2003) (Cameo)
• The Clearing (2004)
• Film Trix 2004 (2004) (short subject)
• An Unfinished Life (2005) (currently completed filming)
• Aloft (2005) (also director and producer) (currently announced start of production)
• Charlotte's Web (2006) (voice) (currently filming)
• "Untitled Jackie Robinson Project" (2006) (currently announced start of production)

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