Robert Redford Featured on TCM

Robert Redford is the subject of an all-day TCM tribute on his 85th birthday on Wednesday, August 18, 2021.

Turner Classic Movies has been celebrating a different star every day in August with all-day tributes to acting legends such as Katherine Hepburn, Lee Marvin, Ingrid Bergman and James Cagney.

Starting at 6 am ET Wednesday, Robert Redford – who was born on August 18, 1936 – is the star of the day, with a showing of 10 of his top films including Out of Africa and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Here is the schedule:

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Robert Redford Movies to Stream

Many of the films of Robert Redford, 83, are now streaming on Amazon Prime and Netflix.  Here is a sample listing of the current Amazon Prime and Netflix movies featuring Robert Redford as the star or director.

Robert Redford on Amazon Prime

Here are the top Robert Redford films that you can stream from Amazon Prime. Some are included free with a Prime membership and some have a rental fee.

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a 1969 classic western co-starring Paul Newman. (Rental charge) Link
• Jeremiah Johnson, a 1972 epic frontier adventure. (Rental charge) Link
• The Sting, a 1973 classic crime comedy co-starring Paul Newman. (Rental charge) Link
• The Way We Were, a 1973 romance co-starring Barbara Streisand. (Rental charge) Link
• Out of Africa, a 1986 epic romance co-starring Meryl Streep. (Rental charge) Link
• A River Runs Through It, a 1992 fly fishing classic that Redford directed, now showing on Amazon Prime. (Rental charge) Link
• The Old Man & The Gun, a 2018 crime drama that Redford says will be his final film.  Now showing on Amazon Prime but there is a rental charge.  Link

You can find more Robert Redford films that you can stream from Amazon Prime at This Link.

Robert Redford on Netflix

Here are the top Robert Redford films that you can stream from Netflix. Netflix signin is required to browse the following links.

• “Our Souls at Night.”   Redford stars with Jane Fonda in this 2017 Netflix drama about two seniors who find each other. A preview is below.  CLICK HERE for details or to see start watching.

You can find more Robert Redford films that are free to Netflix streaming members at This Link

More on Robert Redford (from Wikipedia)

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American retired actor, director, producer, and businessman. He is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. Redford began acting on television in the late 1950s, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). 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).

Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. 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 re-union 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. The popular and acclaimed All the President’s Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford.

In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. 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. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992.

He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. He has won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.

In April 2014, Redford appeared in the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier playing Alexander Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. and leader of the Hydra cell operating the Triskelion. He reprised his role as Pierce in the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame. Redford was a co-producer and, with Emma Thompson and Nick Nolte, costar of the 2015 Broad Green Pictures film A Walk in the Woods, based on Bill Bryson’s book of the same name. Redford had optioned the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman, but had shelved the project after Newman’s death. The same year, he played news anchor Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt’s Truth alongside Cate Blanchett. In 2016, he took the supporting role of Mr. Meacham in the Disney remake Pete’s Dragon.

Redford starred in The Discovery and Our Souls at Night, both released on Netflix streaming in 2017. The latter film, which was also produced by Redford, reunited him with co-star Jane Fonda for the fourth time and garnered positive reviews.  Redford played bank robber Forrest Tucker in the drama film The Old Man & the Gun, which was released in September 2018, and for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of the film. 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.

Redford says he is now retired from acting; here is a recent interview where he talks about his 60-year career.

In April 2014, Time magazine included Redford in their annual Time 100 as one of the “Most Influential People in the World”, declaring him the “Godfather of Indie Film”. In 2016, he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Robert Redford’s Favorite Role

Robert Redford says his favorite role was in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).   He discussed it in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

Is Robert Redford Married?

On August 9, 1958, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Redford married Lola Van Wagenen, who dropped out of college to marry him.  They had four children: Scott Anthony Redford (September 1, 1959 – November 17, 1959), Shauna Jean Redford (born November 15, 1960), David James Redford (May 5, 1962 – October 16, 2020), and Amy Hart Redford (born October 22, 1970). Lola and Redford divorced in 1985.

Scott Redford died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of 2½ months and is buried at Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah. Shauna Redford is a painter and married to journalist Eric Schlosser. James Redford was a writer and producer, while Amy Redford is an actress, director, and producer. Redford has seven grandchildren.

In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. She had moved in with Redford in the 1990s and shared his home in Sundance, Utah.

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.

Robert Redford’s Net Worth

Robert Redford’s net worth is about $170 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.  His assets come from a 60-year career as a film star and director.

Robert Redford Online

Robert Redford appears to have no official website, Facebook page or Twitter page.  You can read more about him on these websites.

Robert Redford IMDB Page

Robert Redford on Rotten Tomatoes

Robert Redford’s Sundance Festival

Robert Redford on TV Guide

Is Robert Redford on TV Today?

You can get a listing of all Robert Redford’s upcoming appearances on network and cable TV at This TV Guide Link

How Old is Robert Redford

Robert Redford was born on August 18, 1936 in Santa Monica, California to Martha W. (née Hart; 1914–1955) and Charles Robert Redford Sr. (1914–1991), a milkman-turned-accountant.  Redford is of Scottish, Irish and Scots-Irish ancestry. His patrilineal great-great grandfather, Scottish-born Elisha Redford, married Irish-Catholic Mary Ann McCreery in Manchester Cathedral; they emigrated to New York City in 1849, immediately settling in Stonington, Connecticut. They had a son named Charles, the first in line to have been given the name.

Redford’s family moved to Van Nuys, California, while his father worked in El Segundo. He attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale. He has described himself as having been a “bad” student, finding inspiration outside the classroom, and being interested in art and sports.

After graduating from high school in 1954, he attended the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado for a year and a half, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. While there, he worked at the restaurant/bar The Sink; a painting of his likeness is prominent in the bar’s murals. While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily, and as a result lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school. Later he traveled in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy. 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.