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. I didnt know then that it was more properly called Runway 6 or Runway 24, depending upon the direction a pilot would be pointed for either his takeoff or his landing. 128 min Morgan Freeman, Lois Chiles, R The Redford Conservancy educates the next generation of students to create solutions for the most challenging and urgent sustainability problems. $6.00M, PG Since that day, he successfully completed his Private License check ride on March 4, 1957. | 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. [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. [47] On October 14, 2010, Redford was appointed chevalier of the Lgion d'honneur by President Nicolas Sarkozy. Stars: In 2012, Redford directed The Company You Keep, in which he starred as a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run after a journalist discovers his identity. Director: Truthfully, I wasnt all that good at it in the beginning. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. | Personal finances would delay the private pilots license until the following year. 6,027 Web12,851 Robert Redford Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO All Sports Entertainment News Archival Browse 12,851 robert redford stock photos and images available, or search for pattinson or robert de niro to find more great stock photos and pictures. Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn Crime, Mystery, Thriller. It made me feel great and I've had a fascination with film ever since. Director: That was the equivalent of ten thousand hours as an instructor, and I know George did a lot more than just mete out flight instruction to young would-be pilots. 73,639 A very interesting story about a combination of a pilot/peddler! Drama. Stars: Paul Sand, Votes: Susan Clark, Votes: But the scene that really sticks in my mind is Susan Sarandon's stunt on the wing; that must've been one harrowing experience! [25] The romantic period drama with Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were (1973), was the 11th highest-grossing film of 1973. This is a great movie, from a very special era in movies, and contains an all-time great scene that speaks to the darker nature of humanity. | Stars: 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Robert Redford, Mason says, My logs, not always attentively kept, now show 18,000 flying hours as PIC. 95 min A Mormon ceremony took place on September 12 at Lola's grandmother's home. | He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. Director: In 2010, Redford released The Conspirator, a period drama revolving around the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Stars: | | Gross: | A tale of knights of the air, in a quest of their Graal. Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Lopez, Meryl Streep, Back in front of the camera, Redford received good notices for his role in director Lasse Hallstrm's An Unfinished Life (2005) as a cantankerous rancher who is forced to take in his estranged daughter-in-law (Jennifer Lopez)whom he blames for his son's deathand the granddaughter he never knew he had when they fled an abusive relationship. Director: Gene Hackman, Redford gained popularity for his looks and golden boy style, so he quickly became picky with roles and focused on showing he was more than that. Klaus Maria Brandauer, 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". Comedy, Drama. 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. Jason Segel, Not Rated Martin, Robert Redford, Tina Elmo and Vince All the President's Men (1976), in which Redford and Hoffman play Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, was a landmark film for Redford. In 2008, Sundance exhibited 125 feature-length films from 34 countries, with more than 50,000 attendees, Salt Lake City, and Park City, Utah. 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 . Awards, pilot's overalls, letters from former US presidents, photographs with the film elite and the couple's clothes [43], In December 2005, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for his contributions to American culture. Jane Fonda, Jack Warden, Drama, Romance. Lauren Hutton, After that, his second directorial project, The Milagro Beanfield War (1987), failed to generate the same level of attention as Ordinary People. Ivan Reitman Thank you! [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. My golfers were a married couple, he to his wife and bourbon, she to bourbon, her husband, and a terribly gaudy wardrobe. Robert Redford, | Gross: In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. In The Clearing (2004), a thriller co-starring Helen Mirren, Redford was a successful businessman whose kidnapping unearths the secrets and inadequacies that led to his achieving the American Dream. Robert Redford, 110 min Stars: Scenes with Robert Redford and Bo Svenson climbing out on the wing were done without any security harness or parachutes. When Ezra and Waldo drive up to the farmhouse in Ezra's pick-up it is very obvious that the truck looks far too old for the 1920's time frame of the movie. | Directors: After many tragedies, he is reduced to being a Hollywood stuntman under an assumed name in a movie about the legendary dogfight. Redfords liberal political engagement off-screen has always overflowed effortlessly into his acting work and in the roles he has chosen. Dan Aykroyd, Woody Harrelson, But the thought of being a thousand miles from a place where one could actually touch bottom drew something of a dampening image. As an executive is held captive by a former employee, it's up to his wife to deliver the ransom. WebRobert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing adventure! $61.80M, R 2014, Movie - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi Robert Redford used to work at Yosemite National Park. When an 11-year-old Robert Redford was recovering from a mild case of polio in 1949, his mother took him to visit Yosemite National Park. He was immediately blown away by it, and later returned to apply for a job there. | Gross: | Redford is the president and co-founder of Sundance Productions, with Laura Michalchyshyn. Perhaps because the ultimate tone of the movie is darker, the movie still captures that fun that permeates Butch Cassidy. | [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. | | 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! Sam Neill, Karl Michael Vogler, Unrated In 2016, he took the supporting role of Mr. Meacham in the Disney remake Pete's Dragon. Whether real or imagined, it was a name that, for me, held a kind of magic, a freedom, a mystery. From that day to this, I just slip the airplane on and go wherever I decide to go. 25,579 Adventure, Drama, Western. 99 min Pieter Jan Brugge Eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War . 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. Portrait of Robert Redford advocating against the demolition of Santa Monica Pier while filming "The Sting", Los Angeles, California, 1973. 118 min 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. J.C. Chandor | Gross: Director: 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. 138 min Having directed Robert Redford in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting", George Roy Hill cast him yet again in "The Great Waldo Pepper". This is not a great film, but a movie I simply love. 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. $9.24M, R Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment. But Not Serious, in which he played an American soldier falsely imprisoned by a German civilian even after the war has ended. Both were a bit tipsy, but they were having lots of fun, and the weather was truly fine. Ryan O'Neal, [4] Robert attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale. [4] His first film as director was 1980's Best Picture winner Ordinary People, a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He gets into a rivalry with Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson) who travels with his girlfriend Mary Beth (Susan Sarandon). But Waldo was going to change all that - even if it killed him . The film's stars were Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda (her debut), and Ray Walston. Redford in his youthful heyday, following the success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Susan Sarandon as the female lead, and yet, apparently, so few have ever seen this that less than two pages covers comments. Hollywood star Robert Redford is "in mourning" following the death of his son James at the age of 58. Joe Mantegna, Votes: WebAvengers : Endgame. 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[28] In 1975, 1977 and 1978, Redford won the Golden Globe for Favorite World Film Star, a popularity-based award that is no longer awarded. | $5.13M, R After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte). The airplane has no choice but to follow along with me. Director: Stephen Dillane, Votes: | Gross: Catherine McCormack, Ive called him George for six decades now, but I still think of him as Mr. | Willem Dafoe, Desperately looking for work, he decides to pull of the Gary Winick Sometimes, we have the same kind of atmosphere as in GIPSY MOTHS; just replace.skydiving with stunt pilots. [4] Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. Drama, Western. | | Gross: Michael Ritchie | [4] Redford also continued work in films with political contexts, such as Havana (1990), playing Jack Weil, a professional gambler in 1959 Cuba during the Revolution, as well as Sneakers (1992), in which he co-starred with River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier, his first teaming with the latter. | Faye Dunaway, 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. Robert Redford, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Russo, I had determined to perform every maneuver in a very positive manner, so I added power, pulled the nose up, w-a-a-a-y up! The story revolves around Waldo Pepper, a flight instructor from the post-Word War I era, who along with his buddies have a passion for stunt flying. [4][9] He has described himself as having been a "bad" student, finding inspiration outside the classroom, and being interested in art and sports. Sydney Pollack 6,587 | Shauna Redford is a painter and married to journalist Eric Schlosser. A little extra never hurt, so the weekends saw me on the golf links. Anybody who likes old airplanes, stunt flying or just plain adventure and an interesting story should like this early Robert Redford film. Votes: Redford made his screen debut in Tall Story (1960) in a minor role. In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1][2]. While promoting the release of 2018s The Old Man & the Gun which earned him a Golden Globe 1,153,252 | | Robert Redford, I reckoned I would avoid submarines and just stick to the flying, if I could ever find a way to get that activity started. 11,306 And that's not a novelty. WebRobert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run. They divorced in 1985. 3,092 [72] In July 2020, Redford penned an op-ed in which he stated President Trump lacks a "moral compass." Robert Mulligan Sydney Pollack [4] He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzales at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to warm him up. Adventure, Comedy, Family. He received a second Academy Awardfor Lifetime Achievementin 2002. George Roy Hill 121 min Director: During 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. | Gross: Robert Redford may or may not be retired from acting. Martin Balsam, Votes: Director: Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). 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). | Chris Evans, [citation needed], Starting in 1973, Redford experienced an almost-unparalleled four-year run of box office success. Max von Sydow, Votes: Redford supports environmentalism, Native American rights, LGBT rights,[63] and the arts. Drama, Romance. Comedy, Crime, Drama. Michael J. Pollard, Stuart Rosenberg Oona Laurence, Votes: After that , the pilot-become-barnstormer gets hired as a stuntman for the Hollywood movies . In fact, I was sometimes so disappointed in poor landings or half-accurate spins or skidding turns that I had decided I would give it up right after earning my private pilot certificate. 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