Robert Redford filmography explained

This is the filmography of the American actor, director, producer and activist Robert Redford.

Redford gained prominence for his leading roles in the romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park (1967) opposite Jane Fonda and the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) alongside Paul Newman. He reunited with Newman in the 1973 caper film The Sting receiving his only nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He continued his leading man status starring in the western film Jeremiah Johnson, the political drama The Candidate (both 1972), the romantic dramas The Way We Were (1973), and The Great Gatsby (1974), and the dramas Three Days of the Condor, and The Great Waldo Pepper (both 1975). The following year he starred as Bob Woodward in the Alan J. Pakula political drama All the President's Men (1976). He later appeared in the Richard Attenborough war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Sydney Pollack western comedy The Electric Horseman (1979).

He further established himself as a star in the Barry Levinson sports drama The Natural (1984) and the Sydney Pollack epic romance Out of Africa (1985). He continued appearing in films such as Sneakers (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Horse Whisperer (1998), An Unfinished Life (2005), All Is Lost (2013), A Walk in the Woods (2015), Peter's Dragon (2016), and The Discovery (2017). In 2014, he entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe appearing as Alexander Pierce in (2014), a role he would reprise in (2019). In 2015, portrayed Dan Rather in the drama Truth (2015). He reunited with Jane Fonda in the Netflix romance Our Souls at Night (2017), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018).

In 1980 he made his directorial film debut with Ordinary People for which it won the Academy Award for Best Picture with Redford receiving the Academy Award for Best Director. He continued directing films such as A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Legend of Bagger Vance (1998), Lions for Lambs (2007), The Conspirator (2010), and The Company You Keep (2012). In 2002 he received the Academy Honorary Award as an "Actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere."

Film

Year Title width=65Directorwidth=65ProducerNotes
1980Ordinary PeopleDirectorial debut
1987Promised Land
1988 The Milagro Beanfield War
Some Girls
1991The Dark Wind
1992 A River Runs Through It
1994 Quiz Show
1996She's the One
1998No Looking Back
Central Station
The Horse Whisperer
Slums of Beverly Hills
A Civil Action
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance
2002How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
Love in the Time of Money
People I Know
SkinwalkersTV movie
2004The Motorcycle Diaries
2007 Lions for Lambs
2010 The Conspirator
2012 The Company You Keep
2013The MarchDocumentary
2014Drunktown's Finest
Cathedrals of CultureDocumentary, segment: "The Salk Institute"
2015The Adderall Diaries
2017American Epic
The American Epic Sessions
2019The Mustang
2022Dark Winds

Acting roles

YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes
1960Tall StoryBasketball Player Joshua LoganUncredited
1962War HuntPrivate Roy LoomisDenis Sanders
1965Inside Daisy CloverWade LewisRobert Mulligan
Situation Hopeless... But Not SeriousCapt. Hank WilsonGottfried Reinhardt
1966This Property Is CondemnedOwen LegateSydney Pollack
The ChaseCharlie 'Bubber' ReevesArthur Penn
1967Barefoot in the ParkPaul BratterGene Saks
1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidSundance KidGeorge Roy Hill
Tell Them Willie Boy Is HereDept. Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' CooperAbraham Polonsky
Downhill RacerDavid ChappelletMichael Ritchie
1970Little Fauss and Big HalsyHalsy KnoxSidney J. Furie
1972Jeremiah JohnsonJeremiah JohnsonSydney Pollack
The CandidateBill McKayMichael Ritchie
The Hot RockJohn Archibald DortmunderPeter Yates
1973The StingJohnny HookerGeorge Roy Hill
The Way We WereHubbell GardinerSydney Pollack
1974The Great GatsbyJay GatsbyJack Clayton
1975Three Days of the CondorJoseph Turner / The CondorSydney Pollack
The Great Waldo PepperWaldo PepperGeorge Roy Hill
1976All the President's MenBob WoodwardAlan J. Pakula
1977A Bridge Too FarMajor Julian CookRichard Attenborough
1979The Electric HorsemanNorman 'Sonny' SteeleSydney Pollack
1980BrubakerHenry BrubakerStuart Rosenberg
1984The NaturalRoy HobbsBarry Levinson
1985Out of AfricaDenys Finch HattonSydney Pollack
1986Legal EaglesTom LoganIvan Reitman
1990HavanaJack WeilSydney Pollack
1992SneakersMarty Bishop / Martin BricePhil Alden Robinson
Incident at OglalaNarratorMichael Apted
1993Indecent ProposalJohn GageAdrian Lyne
La Classe américaineStevenMichel Hazanavicius
Dominique Mézerette
1996Up Close & PersonalWarren JusticeJon Avnet
1998The Horse WhispererTom BookerHimselfAlso producer
2001The Last CastleLieutenant General Eugene IrwinRod Lurie
Spy GameCIA Case Officer Nathan D. MuirTony Scott
2004The ClearingWayne HayesPieter Jan Brugge
2005An Unfinished LifeEinar GilkysonLasse Hallström
2006Charlotte's WebIke Gary WinickVoice
2007Lions for LambsProfessor Stephen MalleyHimselfAlso producer
2012The Company You KeepJim Grant / Nick Sloan
2013All Is LostOur ManJ. C. Chandor
2014Alexander PierceAnthony and Joe Russo
2015A Walk in the WoodsBill BrysonKen KwapisAlso producer
TruthDan RatherJames Vanderbilt
2016Pete's DragonMr. MeachamDavid Lowery
2017The DiscoveryThomas HarborCharlie McDowell
Our Souls at NightLouis WatersRitesh BatraAlso producer
2018The Old Man & the GunForrest TuckerDavid LoweryAlso producer
ButtonsNarrator (voice) Tim Janis
2019Alexander PierceAnthony and Joe RussoCameo
2020Lokia The Dolphin Monster (voice)Various

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1960MaverickJimmy ColemanEpisode 76: "Iron Hand"
Rescue 8Danny TilfordEpisode 67: "Breakdown"
The DeputyBurt JohnsonEpisode 31: "The Last Gunfight"
Playhouse 90Lieutenant LottEpisode 134: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"
TateJohn TorsettEpisode 3: "The Bounty Hunter"
Tad DundeeEpisode 8: "Comanche Scalps"
Moment of FearStrangerEpisode 1: "The Golden Deed"
Perry MasonDick HartEpisode 96: "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee"
The Play of the WeekDon ParrittEpisodes 8 & 9: "The Iceman Cometh"
1961Alfred Hitchcock PresentsCharlie PughSeason 7 Episode 11: "The Right Kind of Medicine"
Route 66JanoshEpisode 35: "First-Class Mouliak"
Whispering SmithJohnnyEpisode 2: "The Grudge"
Naked CityBaldwin LarneEpisode 60: "Tombstone for a Derelict"
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock HourChuck MarsdenSeason 1 Episode 1: "A Piece of the Action"
Dr. KildareMedical StudentEpisode 35: "The Burning Sky"
The Twilight ZoneHarold BeldonEpisode 81: "Nothing in the Dark"
1963The UntouchablesJack Parkere 103: "Snowball"
The VirginianMatthew CordellEpisode 35: "The Evil That Men Do"
The Alfred Hitchcock HourDavid ChestermanSeason 1 Episode 18: "A Tangled Web"
2023White House PlumbersBob Woodward (voice; uncredited cameo)Episode 4: "The Writer's Wife"

Narrator

YearTitleNotes
1970The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidDocumentary
1971The Language And The Music Of The WolvesProject of The Natural History Magazine
1974Following the Tundra WolfDocumentary
1975Broken Treaty at Battle MountainDocumentary
1977The PredatorsDocumentary
1983The Sun DaggerDocumentary
1986Audubon Video: Grizzly and Man - Uneasy TruceDocumentary
1988Audubon Video: California CondorDocumentary
1989Changing StepsDocumentary
To Protect Mother EarthDocumentary
1990American Experience

Yosemite - The Fate of Heaven

Documentary
1992A River Runs Through ItAlso director and producer
Incident at OglalaDocumentary
1997Mountain Climbing: Free ClimbDocumentary
1998Wallace Stegner: A Writer's LifeDocumentary
1999The Mystery of Chaco CanyonDocumentary
2004Sacred Planet
2006Charlotte's WebVoice of Ike the horse
Cosmic CollisionsDocumentary
Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean AdventuresNarrated two episodes
2008Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal WarsDocumentary
Documentary on the Colorado River
2009Saving The BayDocumentary on the San Francisco Bay
2010Stories From The GulfDocumentary project of NRDC
2012The Movement: One Man Joins An UprisingProject of the Make A Hero organization
2016National Parks AdventureProject of MacGillivray Freeman Films
2017American EpicDocumentary film series
BBC documentary
2018The New EnvironmentalistsPBS documentary[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: THE NEW ENVIRONMENTALISTS From Guatemala to the Congo . . 10 April 2018 . 29 April 2023.