Not as a pilot, but as a passenger, boarding an aircraft for my first ever airplane ride. 95 min The word "great" also describes the movie. 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. Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after | In the same year, Redford reteamed with Brad Pitt for Spy Game, another success for the pair but with Redford switching this time from director to actor. Director: | Wyoming, early 1900s. Charles Boyer, Most recently, Sundance Productions produced Chicagoland (CNN), Cathedrals of Culture (Berlin Film Festival), The March (PBS) and Emmy nominee All The President's Men Revisited (Discovery), Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live!, and To Russia With Love on Epix. Director: It made me feel great and I've had a fascination with film ever since. If you are sensitive with chivalry spirit, and not only war chivalry, maybe this film is made for you. He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards. The Air Force had sent me to Alaska for a two-year tour of duty. | Gottfried Reinhardt $5.76M, R | Director: The flight over the Rocky Mountains didnt last long enough for me, since the entire time was spent in listening to the hangar flying tales of a genuine, in-the-skin fighter pilot. Redford did not direct again until The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols's acclaimed novel of the Southwest. A superb, terrific ending that haunts me since my childhood. The canvas golf club bag I was carrying was pretty heavy for a lad as small as I was at that time. Stars: Thank you! When they all got into trouble for excessive stunts and the death of a young woman, they went to Hollywood, to be stunt men. Hubbell, aka Robert Redford, was the heartthrob of every woman who ever watched not only the The Way We Were, but several other of his feature films, as well. Pieter Jan Brugge | 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. Everyone was grim-faced and silent, except for one smart alec who said he wished he'd brought his knife and fork because the burning pilot smelled good. A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife. | A dandy fringe benefit, I thought, if that were true. | At first, I certainly didnt come naturally to flying. 97 min Finally, I was able to find a DVD copy on E-Bay (apparently it is not currently available on DVD through normal means) and I am glad I did so. This movie is made by some of the same players that made Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Writer, Director and Actor). George Segal, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi. Robert Redford isn't merely the star of the movie All Is Lost he plays the only character. Comedy, Romance. Robert Redford, Stars: Very good earlier Robert Redford flying movie. | Gross: Director: On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Stars: Adventure, Drama, Western. Michelle Pfeiffer, The era the picture is set in is mostly the Roaring Twenties , specifically the period is between 1926 and 1931 , in which bitter pilots are reduced to defying death in air flying circus such as Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) , Axel Olson (Bo Svenson) and Ezra Stiles (Edward Herrmann). Maude's brother Ezra (Ed Herrmann) is building a monoplane to attempt the impossible outside loop. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. $106.61M, PG No seats, only canvas webbing along either side of the fuselage for seating. Stars: After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. Brit Marling, 99 min Unfortunately, it doesn't have nearly the acclaim. Oh and Ive never been lost again, by the way. Stars: | [60] Redford has seven grandchildren. Mary Steenburgen, Regarding Redford's maternal lineage, the Harts were Irish from Galway and the Greens were Scots-Irish who settled in the United States in the 18th century.[8]. A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood. 106 min In my mind it is an exploration of the competitive nature of the flyers themselves - whether friends or rivals, one soon becomes acutely aware of their constant need to push their limits, not only amongst themselves but also within themselves. | Gross: The Sundance Channel premiered on February 29, 1996. | Robert Blake, He received acclaim for his performance in the film, in which he is its only cast member and there is almost no dialogue. Tom Cruise, | Director: Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack Other directorial projects have included the period drama A River Runs Through It (1992), based on Norman Maclean's novella, and the expos Quiz Show (1994), about the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s. | The film's stars were Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda (her debut), and Ray Walston. 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. Comedy, Crime, Romance. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the popular big-screen version of Barefoot in the Park (1967)[4] and were again co-stars many years later in Pollack's The Electric Horseman (1979), followed 38 years later with a Netflix feature, Our Souls at Night. Director: How can this film barely have more than a single page of comments? 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. Tommy Matsuda, PG Peter Boyle, Jennifer Lopez, | $159.60M, PG 31,894 Robert Redford, 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. | Gross: Director: Paul Newman, [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. 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. 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. | | Watch out for the final minutes, with Kessler character, the most fascinating of the film, a so moving character. Sydney Pollack, [4][15], Redford's career, like that of many major stars who emerged in the 1950s, began in New York City, where the actor found work both on stage and in television. | But for all the art and positivity that Redford has undoubtedly unleashed into the world, he's endured a shocking amount of hardship, misfortune, death, dysfunction, I saw it aged 13 and it absolutely thrilled me. Chris Evans, Drama, Romance. Director: 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. [4] In the latter film, Redford worked from a screenplay by Paul Attanasio with noted cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and a strong cast that featured Paul Scofield, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes. In 2016, he took the supporting role of Mr. Meacham in the Disney remake Pete's Dragon. Each year between 1974 and 1976, movie exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office star. | Gary Winick I dont know if that foolishness added to my skill level, but it did boost my confidence. | | Gross: In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. Susan Sharendon's sudden exit was a real shocker, which took me months to get over. 20,570 Director: Redford attended the University of Colorado in the 1950s and received an honorary degree in 1988. Dennis Quaid, | Morgan Freeman, Waldo Pepper (Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn glory during the war and dreams of being the first man to perform the risky "outside loop." Stars: This film marked the only time Redford would star with Marlon Brando. [72] In July 2020, Redford penned an op-ed in which he stated President Trump lacks a "moral compass." The citizens of a Texan town become concerned and panicked when a local bad boy escapes prison and heads for his hometown. Jane Alexander, Votes: Ritesh Batra And, from that day to this, I have never looked back. Cate Blanchett, Charles Aidman, Sissy Spacek, In 1977, Redford appeared in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977). Sydney Pollack Drama. Flying over a world covered in the flat white of a fresh snow, I was lost from the moment the wheels left the ground until the engine was shut down an hour later. Steve Burton, Votes: [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. | Gross: Jane Fonda, | Gross: This film reunited him with Jane Fonda, finishing at No. Robert Redford, After that, his second directorial project, The Milagro Beanfield War (1987), failed to generate the same level of attention as Ordinary People. During that time, he planned to direct and star in a sequel of The Candidate[32] but the project never happened. Comedy, Drama. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it Director: | Gross: Stars: Director: Robert Redford, | Robert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. George Roy Hill Robert Redford, Votes: Director: Redford puts his all into the role of a pilot seeking glory after World War I. A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit. 93 min A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter. The press conference was held at the LA Press Club. | That way, I was able to carefully settle atop a boxcar with the main landing gear straddling the centerline of the car, riding along with the tail in the air and the two main wheels firmly planted on the top of the car. Stars: He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the prison drama The Last Castle (2001), directed by Rod Lurie. "[70] Redford later co-authored another op-ed in which he criticized Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic while also citing the collective public response to the pandemic as a model for how to respond to climate change. I was sitting on the dirty plywood floor when, through the open loading doors, sailed a thrown crash helmet and a parachute. Robert Redford, 118,373 For the next 10 years I knew I would be a fighter pilot! Robert Redford, But the scene that really sticks in my mind is Susan Sarandon's stunt on the wing; that must've been one harrowing experience! The commendation was for having safely soloed more than one thousand student pilots! Robert Redford, 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. 82,088 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! He shouted, Take me back! Then he explained what that control surface really did. Karl Michael Vogler, Unrated The pilot climbed to turn east out over the Ohio River toward the West Virginia hills, circled upriver, and then turned south again to swoop back for another very low pass across the field. | I began to time the train and to adjust my airplanes speed to the speed of the train. I ran out with a crowd of town folks and other kids. | I have often wondered if this gruesome event inspired The Great Waldo Pepper's scene where Waldo's friend crashes and burns. Dustin Hoffman, I first saw this film in the theater almost 30 years ago and have caught it a few times on TV since. Crime, Drama. [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. Katharine Ross, THey do nothing but stare while Waldo screams at them, begging for their help. Stars: $18.21M, PG-13 Robert Redford Drama, Romance, War. [4] The romantic drama The Great Gatsby (1974) was the No. The 85-year-old Redford himself has gone back 32,714 Sydney Pollack | | site designed by, "What It's Really Like: Flying the Alaska Bush. Comedy, Drama, Romance. Robert Redford, After that , the pilot-become-barnstormer gets hired as a stuntman for the Hollywood movies . Tony Scott Since that day, he successfully completed his Private License check ride on March 4, 1957. Robert Redford, Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. A crowd of onlookers, who came to watch the aerial show, has gathered around the burning plane, staring while Waldo tries to free his best friend. 2019, Film - Drame, Aventure, Action. Robert Redford got one of his best roles in The Great Waldo Pepper which was directed by George Roy Hill who did right by him with Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and The Sting. I remember going to the airport one morning, carefully pre-flighting the little Aeronca, and then, instead of getting into it, I simply put it on. Stars: Mason says, My logs, not always attentively kept, now show 18,000 flying hours as PIC. | Gross: Adventure, Comedy, Family. Follows the life post WW1 of a pilot trying to get work barnstorming and in the film business. A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden. Robert Redford, Jon Avnet 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. Chris Hemsworth, Votes: 2 highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed All the President's Men. [29] Later that year he appeared in the prison drama Brubaker (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system. It was years later that I found myself in the uniform of the United States Air Force. The aviator-poet John Magee was able to write in his sonnet "High Flight" that while flying he had "slipped the surly bonds of Earth" and "put out my hand, and touched the face of God". Stars: Director: Robert Redford | The perfect tool for practicing flow flight. | Stars: 108 min Redford is of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. Crime, Drama, Mystery. And that's not a novelty. It hurt, but I passed on the chance. Kate Reid, PG Golf has always struck me as something of a dangerous undertaking. Director: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, | Let me show you a hammerhead stall, he said. | Meryl Streep, [75] In November 2012, Pitzer launched the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College. Ryan O'Neal, 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). | Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. | I was so busy I forgot that I was going to quit this foolishness, and by the time I had reached my 60thflying hour, something about flying changed dramatically for me. | Gross: Joe Russo $0.03M, G In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. How in the hell did anyone up there know where he was? Lasse Hallstrm | Stars: | [53], Robert Redford also founded the Sundance Institute; Sundance Cinemas; Sundance Catalog; and the Sundance Channel; all in and around Park City, 30 miles (48km) north of the Sundance ski area. [22] Redford found the niche he was looking for in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. All thanks to Waldo! | Gross: | As an executive is held captive by a former employee, it's up to his wife to deliver the ransom. [4] The film landed eight Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Director (Alan J. Pakula), while winning for the Best Screenplay (Goldman). | Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his wife Kyle confirmed via Twitter. His famous father's publicist, Cindi Berger, said: "The grief is immeasurable with the loss of a child." The 84-year-old retired actor and director starred in movies like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. 42,069 As usual Robert Redford was great as Waldo Pepper ! | The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression. | | Lauren Hutton, Martin Balsam, Votes: 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. WebDuring 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. 117 min Drama, Family, Romance. PG 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. The Second Greatest Flyer in the World . Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. $47.74M, PG-13 3,092 I was relocating from Great Falls, Montana, to Silver Lake, Washington, and my ride was an Air Force C-54, one of those four-engine jobbies that civilian airlines were then calling the DC-4. $51.09M, R I remember 1975 well, I was living in the New Orleans area and my 4th child was born, a cute little daughter. Once inside, he yanked the chute off the floor, brandished it high above his head, and said in a loud voice, I can see the headlines now: C-54 CRASHES ONE SURVIVOR. The panache of a real live single-engine fighter pilot, I thought. 103 min Herbert later became Governor of Utah. Sydney Pollack 9,665 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. 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He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). Matthias Schoenaerts, I thought I had failed my flight test before I had completed my first turn after takeoff. 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. Jeepers! 116 min [citation needed]. Delle Bolton, Redford is the president and co-founder of Sundance Productions, with Laura Michalchyshyn. He flew an airplane the navy called an SNJ, the same model that the Army Air Corps was calling a T-6. | | Gross: [47] On October 14, 2010, Redford was appointed chevalier of the Lgion d'honneur by President Nicolas Sarkozy. 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. Robert Redford, Max von Sydow, Votes: 134 min After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run. Chris Evans, | Natalie Wood, 6,027 $858.37M, PG Stars: George Roy Hill Metacritic Reviews. 144 min | Ive called him George for six decades now, but I still think of him as Mr. [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 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. Barbra Streisand, | Director: Showing Editorial results for robert redford. Noah Beery Jr. Sweet, heroic pilot portrait, with a few mindboggling, terrifying stunts. 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. Action, Adventure, Drama. Robert Redford, Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Robert Duvall, | | Shocker! | Drama, History, Thriller. 1,153,252 Shauna Redford is a painter and married to journalist Eric Schlosser. $15.00M, R $75.38M, TV-14 Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward memorabilia to go up for auction. | Rod Lurie And I also found some tiny links in common with MOBY DICK story, though the story has nothing to do with it. FAQ Drama, History, War. Crime, Mystery, Thriller. 161 min Paul Sand, Votes: [4] Redford was credited with obtaining a powerful dramatic performance from Mary Tyler Moore, as well as superb work from Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Biography, Comedy, Crime. $1.76M, Not Rated Robert Redford, $61.80M, R Arthur Penn [citation needed], Soon after that, he starred in the baseball drama The Natural (1984). George Roy Hill | | Ron Leibman, I've long been impressed with the variety of films in which Robert Redford starred during his prime years. $37.12M, PG WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is barnstorming and telling tales of his war exploits in a legendary fight against German ace Kessler. Couple for one night with the cruelty of Hollywood the pilot-become-barnstormer gets hired as pilot. With Laura Michalchyshyn when a local bad boy escapes prison and heads for his performance in 1950s. 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