He is best known for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
13:22, 16 Sep 2025Updated 13:29, 16 Sep 2025
Robert Redford(Image: Getty Images)
Actor and director Robert Redford has died, The Mirror US reports.
It has been reported that he died early this morning (Tuesday, September 16).
The 89-year-old was best known for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men.
It has been reported he died in his sleep at his home in Utah.
He was born on 18 August 1936 in Santa Monica, California and became one of the most prominent film stars of the 1960s and 1970s.
His breakthrough role was in Neil Simon’s Broadway hit Barefoot in the Park in 1963, which led to his film debut in War Hunt and meteoric success as a leading man in Hollywood.
The actor-turned-director won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People in 1980 and received an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 2002.
He also appeared in several TV shows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, and Route 66.
He announced his retirement from acting in 2018, after starring in The Old Man and the Gun before making a cameo appearance in the TV show Dark Winds, on which he worked as an executive producer.
Throughout his career, Redford was regarded as both a Hollywood icon and a strong supporter of environmental and political causes.
During the last decade or so of his life, although he had formally retired from acting after The Old Man & the Gun (2018), he made a notable cameo in the television series Dark Winds (2025) at his own request for a closed set.
He also served as executive producer on that series, reaffirming his enduring involvement behind the camera.
As well as an extensive film career, he was deeply committed to environmental causes.
He invested his early fortune in land conservation in Utah land that eventually grew into a nearly 5,000-acre sanctuary housing the Sundance Institute — as he advocated vigorously for protection of air, water and wilderness as a longtime trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council.