Stars: Melvyn Douglas, 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. Robert Redford, Director: The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression. | Lasse Hallstrm Sam Neill, 8.4. By the time we got to the plane it was burning fiercely with the pilot trapped in the cockpit and no way the men in the crowd could have rescued him. Did you know that most of the articles at Air Facts are written by readers like you? The younger | [4], Redford's next film, Legal Eagles (1986) alongside Debra Winger, was only a minor success at the box office. Follows the life post WW1 of a pilot trying to get work barnstorming and in the film business. Douglas had made it, but I dont think they expected this one to be quite so Spartan. The interesting thing was that in those days they did not have license. Robert Redford, | Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that My golfers were a married couple, he to his wife and bourbon, she to bourbon, her husband, and a terribly gaudy wardrobe. Will Geer, 50,967 | Gross: My favorite scenes: Pilot destroying the platform; the plane going through the barn; Waldo Pepper walking on the wing of a flying plane, the pilot taking the plane down a city street. Scarlett Johansson, Redford appeared in the 2011 documentary Buck by Cindy Meehl, where he discussed his experiences with title subject Buck Brannaman during the production of The Horse Whisperer. 108 min Director: Cate Blanchett, George Roy Hill Stars: | Alessandro Nivola, Votes: 134 min The word "great" also describes the movie. [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. Let me show you a hammerhead stall, he said. Director: Gottfried Drama, Thriller. Or maybe not. $0.03M, G Drama, Romance. Director: The pilots depicted are Ormer Locklear (1891-1920), Earl Daugherty (1887-1928), Speed Holman (1898-1931), and Ernst Udet (1896-1941). The western Jeremiah Johnson's (1972) box office earnings from early 1973 until its second re-release in 1975 would have placed it as the No. Redford's family moved to Van Nuys, Los Angeles, while his father worked in El Segundo. [75] In November 2012, Pitzer launched the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College. 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). | The canvas golf club bag I was carrying was pretty heavy for a lad as small as I was at that time. Alec Guinness, Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Drama, Romance. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it Director: | I was sitting on the dirty plywood floor when, through the open loading doors, sailed a thrown crash helmet and a parachute. Director: 95 min 34,036 It hurt, but I passed on the chance. This is not a great film, but a movie I simply love. Unfortunately, it doesn't have nearly the acclaim. Robert Redford, Robert Redford, | Denis Sanders | Oprah Winfrey, It was just like slipping into my favorite old jacket. 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. Lena Olin, Danny would slide grandly through town toward the little grass airstrip behind the wheel of his brand-new, bright red, Chrysler Town-and-Country convertible, drawing sighs from all the local girls. 9 in the box office for 1980. Ritesh Batra Sydney Pollack You do not have to be Richard Collins or Ernest Gann simply a GA pilot with a story youd share with friends sitting in the hangar. | [4] Robert attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale. | | Gross: | Gross: Bryce Dallas Howard, The examiner in the back seat of that little 65-hp Aeronca asked me what the rudder was for, I told him it was to help turn the airplane. Director: | Adventure, Drama. Sydney Pollack After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run. 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. 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. 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 81,714 With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford bought a ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah, called "Timp Haven". Director: Biography, Crime, Drama. The Redford Conservancy educates the next generation of students to create solutions for the most challenging and urgent sustainability problems. 19,421 12,365 57,897 | 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 . Robert Redford, $51.09M, R 60,071 Stars: [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. [11][12] He went on to travel in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy. Not a bad introduction to the Air Force too bad it was in the back. 83 min Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. It was years later that I found myself in the uniform of the United States Air Force. Robert Redford, 50,230 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. Stars: $61.80M, R Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actor, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing Feature Film, Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute Honorees, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year Actor, National Board of Review Award for Best Director, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Redford&oldid=1139408920, Cecil B. DeMille Award Golden Globe winners, Male actors from Santa Monica, California, New Star of the Year (Actor) Golden Globe winners, United States National Medal of Arts recipients, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2022, Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata, Pages using Sister project links with default search, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 15 February 2023, at 00:23. 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. On February 22, 2019, Redford received the Honorary Csar at the 44th Csar Awards in Paris. [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. $47.74M, PG-13 You can decide whether that added confidence was, in the last analysis, a good or a bad thing. | But the thought of being a thousand miles from a place where one could actually touch bottom drew something of a dampening image. 31,894 | Meryl Streep, | Gross: [48] He was a 2010 recipient of the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. The commendation was for having safely soloed more than one thousand student pilots! Comedy, Crime, Romance. | [57] James Redford was a writer and producer, while Amy Redford is an actress, director, and producer. 27,666 Morgan Freeman, Hollywood star Robert Redford is "in mourning" following the death of his son James at the age of 58. 266,483 Nick Nolte, | Danny Glover, Votes: | Sydney Pollack It reminds me of my childhood dreams of becoming a military pilot and the joys (and terrors) of flying. Paul Sand, Votes: Bo Svenson, 126 min [61], In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. Jane Alexander, Votes: 14,138 WebRobert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing adventure! Comedy, Romance. In 2013, he starred in All Is Lost, directed by J.C. Chandor, about a man lost at sea. 3,092 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. | 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. I absolutely loved Alaska and all its empty grandeur. [49], On May 24, 2015, Redford delivered the commencement address and received an honorary degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Stars: Awards On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. My father never started a job he didnt finish, and that sort of thing rubbed off on me. | And, from that day to this, I have never looked back. [4], Through its various workshop programs and popular film festival, Sundance has provided much-needed support for independent filmmakers. Michael Ritchie Whether real or imagined, it was a name that, for me, held a kind of magic, a freedom, a mystery. Redford supports environmentalism, Native American rights, LGBT rights,[63] and the arts. | Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. Mary Steenburgen, Votes: Sydney Pollack 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, He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. $0.12M, PG-13 Stars: George Roy Hill Jeepers! 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). Yaphet Kotto, | He renamed it "Sundance" after his Sundance Kid character. Not as a pilot, but as a passenger, boarding an aircraft for my first ever airplane ride. Anybody who likes old airplanes, stunt flying or just plain adventure and an interesting story should like this early Robert Redford film. Robert Redford, 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. Stars: She had moved in with Redford in the 1990s and shared his home in Sundance, Utah.[62]. Robert Redford THey do nothing but stare while Waldo screams at them, begging for their help. [36] 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. 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. And I also found some tiny links in common with MOBY DICK story, though the story has nothing to do with it. Major urging: see this film. | Gross: 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. The ball had hit the bag, held in place with my crossed arms atop the club heads, just below my belt level. | Josh Lucas, Votes: 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. 108 min | [65], As an avid environmentalist, Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. [43], In December 2005, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for his contributions to American culture. | The Air Force had sent me to Alaska for a two-year tour of duty. [4] Redford also owned a Park City restaurant, Zoom, that closed in May 2017. Watch out for the final minutes, with Kessler character, the most fascinating of the film, a so moving character. Martin, Robert Redford, Tina Elmo and Vince $102.31M, PG-13 It wasnt much later that a captured Japanese two-man submarine was displayed in my hometown of 12,000 residents. Webjohn flannery robert redford. [72] In July 2020, Redford penned an op-ed in which he stated President Trump lacks a "moral compass." Robert Redford, Stars: Director: Karl Michael Vogler, Unrated He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. | 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. Flying in those conditions is unimaginable to me as an owner of an upgraded Beechcraft with multiple redundant systems and devices. Did all pilots get that sort of attention? [26] Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) placed as the No. Tom Cruise, Sometimes, we have the same kind of atmosphere as in GIPSY MOTHS; just replace.skydiving with stunt pilots. Stars: Robert Redford, I dont advise this sort of thing, but those were different days and Alaska was most definitely a different place. [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. Star: Kristin Scott Thomas, 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. 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. Director: | Gross: 2 highest-grossing film of 1973. | I don't know why it isn't available on DVD. Drama, Romance, Western. Stars: Stars: It does n't have nearly the acclaim be quite so Spartan its workshop! 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