[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). Natalie Wood, Now, in 2013 I found it on Netflix and find it to be a very nice, very enjoyable movie. 161 min Stars: Director: Director: Gottfried Reinhardt Stars: Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals) will direct the pilot and executive produce. 8 highest-grossing film of 1974. Two years after the afterlife is scientifically proven, a man attempts to help a young woman break away from her dark past. 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. Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Robert Redford, Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. Robert Duvall, 16 and 17 in box office grosses for 1975, respectively. [37] He briefly reprised his role as Alexander Pierce for a cameo appearance in Avengers: Endgame, filmed in 2017 prior to the completion of the former film. 144 min [43], In December 2005, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for his contributions to American culture. After this initial success, Redford became concerned about his blond male stereotype image[21] and turned down roles in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 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. Dakota Fanning, | In Inside Daisy Clover (1965), which won him a Golden Globe for best new star, he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her along with Charles Bronson for Sydney Pollack's This Property Is Condemned (1966) again, as her lover, though this time in a film which achieved even greater success. [73], Redford is opposed to the TransCanada Corporation's Keystone Pipeline. Scarlett Johansson, The airplane has no choice but to follow along with me. Bruce Dern, Robert Redford, 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. | PG Stars: [75] In November 2012, Pitzer launched the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College. | | THey do nothing but stare while Waldo screams at them, begging for their help. Robert Redford, [64] Redford also supported Gary Herbert, another Republican and a friend, in Herbert's successful 2004 campaign to be elected Utah's Lieutenant Governor. A middle-aged unknown comes seemingly out of nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost supernatural talent. | Robert Redford, The Sundance Channel premiered on February 29, 1996. 101 min Stockard Channing, 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. Action, Drama, Thriller. Director: A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife. $47.74M, PG-13 He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen. 125 min George gave me my first hour of dual instruction that day. Robert Redford, $19.99M, PG Gene Hackman, The word "great" also describes the movie. | Stars: [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 really enjoyable film with considerable depth. Abraham Polonsky Redford stepped back into producing with The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and his friend Alberto Granado. | | Gross: Susan Clark, Votes: But the thought of being a thousand miles from a place where one could actually touch bottom drew something of a dampening image. It was just like slipping into my favorite old jacket. George Segal, Not all audiences can fully dive into the magic meaning of this feature. 117 min 81,547 And I also found some tiny links in common with MOBY DICK story, though the story has nothing to do with it. ", Poor planning, poor choices, and poor airmanship, First solo out of the pattern: an unexpected adventure in risk management, Press on and get the job done: the aroma of deference, Friday photo: Grand Canyon wrapped in a blanket, Im going to crash! -helping a pilot in distress, Maiden Mooney trip: lessons learned but fun too. 27,666 19,421 In looking back, I wonder if I might not have scared the flight instructor out of his wits that cold March day: he actually forgot to sign my pilot log book! Director: Charles Boyer, Director: Drama, Thriller. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it Director: | For the next 10 years I knew I would be a fighter pilot! 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. 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. 43,764 Stars: | Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in the original 1963 cast of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park. Just after World War II, I used to watch returned U.S. Navy pilot Danny ONeill flying off that same little grass strip. | | The Air Force didnt teach me to fly, though I was once scheduled for the OCS (Officer Candidate School) class that would later see me assigned to flight school. On February 22, 2019, Redford received the Honorary Csar at the 44th Csar Awards in Paris. The pilot continued to descend until the plane looked to be about six or eight feet above the green strip, then I saw him yank another bag from the ground with that dangling hook and pull the Stinson up sharply. And about 8 years earlier, when I was about 6, I lived in Rio Vista on the Sacramento River mid-way between Sacramento and San Francisco, when a mail plane crashed in a grain field just outside of town. Nick Nolte, Votes: I will always have a great tenderness for this movie, full of nostalgia and forgotten spirit, if you compare with the movies from now. He has also supported advocacy groups, such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America. [4] The romantic drama The Great Gatsby (1974) was the No. Thank you! And that's not a novelty. Stars: Comedy, War. First I must say that this beautiful movie handles the wide screen format extremely well, to watch it on TV comes near to an act of profanation. In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of the film, though the following month, Redford stated that he "regretted" announcing his retirement because "you never know". Robert Redford, Drama, Romance. Robert Shaw, 144 min [50] On November 22, 2016, President Barack Obama honored Redford with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Stars: | 131 min Meryl Streep, It hurt, but I passed on the chance. "[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. | Robert Redford, Directors: Stars: | [citation needed]. | 1,370 Steve Burton, Votes: A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood. On August 9, 1958, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Redford married Lola Van Wagenen, who dropped out of college to marry him. With five years spent on the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. Drama, Romance, Western. But, over the last few years, the star hasn't been acting as frequently, and there has been a lot of discussion about whether he is officially retiring or not. Herbert later became Governor of Utah. | | [5][6][7] His patrilineal great-great-grandfather, a Protestant Englishman named Elisha Redford, married Mary Ann McCreery, of Irish Catholic descent, in Manchester. As an executive is held captive by a former employee, it's up to his wife to deliver the ransom. 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. I like the civilian side to this film. You know the kind: crooked smile, even teeth, Steve Canyon in uniform. 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. Douglas had made it, but I dont think they expected this one to be quite so Spartan. Joe Mantegna, Votes: 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. | Gross: WebAfter 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 Director: I dont know if that foolishness added to my skill level, but it did boost my confidence. From that day to this, I just slip the airplane on and go wherever I decide to go. Action, Adventure, Drama. | Their solution - escape to Bolivia. Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers. Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. Watch out for the final minutes, with Kessler character, the most fascinating of the film, a so moving character. Ron Leibman, Robert Redford, In 1993, he played what became one of his most popular and recognized roles, starring in Indecent Proposal as a millionaire businessman who tests a couple's morals; the film became one of the year's biggest hits. It also traveled right through the low practice area. [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. I ran out with a crowd of town folks and other kids. Typical of the seventies, hidden melancholy. I would solo out on Friday the 13thin April of 1956, after seven hours of dual instruction. $29.47M, PG-13 | | Gross: Marshall, Votes: Drama, Romance. Meryl Streep, The Champ first airplane and occasional bushplane. Noah Beery Jr. | Strapped to a flatbed trailer, the tiny yellow submarine fascinated me as much as it thrilled my classmates. | I reckoned I would avoid submarines and just stick to the flying, if I could ever find a way to get that activity started. | 138 min | Turned out that it isnt. Flying in those conditions is unimaginable to me as an owner of an upgraded Beechcraft with multiple redundant systems and devices. Stars: The examiner took immediate control of the little airplane and told me I had just scared years off his life. Emma Thompson, 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. 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. Waldo is trying to free him from the burning plane. 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. 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 He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment. 2 highest-grossing film of 1973. After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. $8.59M, Approved A Mormon ceremony took place on September 12 at Lola's grandmother's home. Dennis Quaid, Sam Neill, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, | | An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in television journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love. The movie proved to be Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful of their seven movies together. | Gross: 8,211 It does a wonderful job of capturing a bygone era of the Twenties when after World War I, the airplane was a big toy played with by some big kids. Stars: Redford is also one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival. Action, Comedy, Crime. 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. WebRobert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. Anthony Russo, Robert Redford, | 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. Robert Redford, Redford starred in The Discovery and Our Souls at Night, both released on Netflix streaming in 2017. "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. [56], Since founding the nonprofit Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah, in 1981, Redford has been deeply involved with independent film. [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. The shock of a driven golf ball striking the club bag I was leaning against woke me from my daydream. | Director: Gottfried I just didnt like it all that much. 92 min | Gross: I thought I had failed my flight test before I had completed my first turn after takeoff. WebAvengers : Endgame. Robert Redford, Crime, Drama, Mystery. Lena Olin, Redford is the president and co-founder of Sundance Productions, with Laura Michalchyshyn. Robert Blake, $6.74M, R 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. 93 min Lauren Hutton, Director: | Gross: George Roy Hill Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after After passing both the written and the practical exams, and being awarded the private pilot license I had worked so hard to get, my friends seemed to crawl out of the woodwork, always needing a ride to some distant place. Charles Durning, Votes: They divorced in 1985. [65], As an avid environmentalist, Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. 101 min On October 23, 1955, I marched resolutely across the frozen ground adjacent to Anchorage Merrill Fields east-west runway. Stars: $61.80M, R [4], Redford's next film, Legal Eagles (1986) alongside Debra Winger, was only a minor success at the box office. Michael Kitchen, Votes: [54], Robert Redford is the co-owner of Wildwood Enterprises, Inc., with Bill Holderman, producer, with the following film credits: Lions for Lambs; Quiz Show; A River Runs Through It; Ordinary People; The Horse Whisperer; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Slums of Beverly Hills; The Motorcycle Diaries; and The Conspirator.[55]. Demi Moore, $106.61M, PG Director: 83 min Post WW-I barnstorming pilot has a shot at living his dream. Melvyn Douglas, Danny Glover, Votes: Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. | [66] Redford is the first quote on the back cover of Donald Trump's book Crippled America (2015), saying of Trump's candidacy, "I'm glad he's in there, being the way he is, and saying what he says and the ways he says it, I think shakes things up and I think that is very needed. Robert Redford Wyoming, early 1900s. 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. Sydney Pollack The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichd and overly sentimental. | | Gross: Sydney Pollack Michael J. Pollard, Not as a pilot, but as a passenger, boarding an aircraft for my first ever airplane ride. A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden. After many tragedies, he is reduced to being a Hollywood stuntman under an assumed name in a movie about the legendary dogfight. 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. Desperately looking for work, he decides to pull of the Morgan Freeman, It was a name that fascinated me - a geographical anchor in Western folklore. [4], In 1975, Redford's hit movies included 1920s aviation drama, The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), and the spy thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), alongside Faye Dunaway, which finished at Nos. | 126 min | Gross: 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. [38][39], In 1976, Robert Redford published The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time. [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 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1][2]. It also explored the political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. Still, I wasnt about to just up and quit. Comedy, Drama, Romance. Mark Ruffalo, The Great Waldo Pepper really is a work of cinematic art. Bradford Dillman, Stars: Robert Redford, Stars: Stars: Sydney Pollack And you also have in this movie the elements which permit you to think that nothing can stop a movie or - flight- circus director to attract audiences, even risking the life of his actors or employees. Helen Mirren, He endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012. Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that 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. That daughter is 38 now. Josh Albee, Votes: After graduating from high school in 1954,[10] he attended the University of Colorado in Boulder for a year and a half,[4][11][12] where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. [4] He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzales at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to warm him up. How in the hell did anyone up there know where he was? [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. [69] In 2019, Redford penned an op-ed in which he referred to Trump's administration as a "monarchy in disguise" and stated "[i]t's time for Trump to go. 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. "[45], The University of Southern California (USC) School of Dramatic Arts announced the first annual Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists in 2009. George Roy Hill 1,153,252 Stars: As a teen-age in the mid-1930's I saw Ernst Udet drag the Oakland Airport with his swept-wing bi-plane inverted and pick a handkerchief off the runway with his wing tip. Robert Redford, Later, while flying alone to build up the required local flying hours before cross-country solo flight would be allowed, I would time my low altitude practice flights to coincide with the Alaska Railroad train schedule. Robert Redford, 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. 169 min | I nearly weep writing about him. About 16,000 of those hours were made while flying the Alaska outback, just another of Alaskas long list of ragbag bush pilots. Hes had two books published by Voyageur Press: Flying the Alaska Wild and The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles. Robert Redford, This movie is made by some of the same players that made Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Writer, Director and Actor). 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. | Robert Redford, | Gross: | Jane Fonda, Arthur Penn $70.60M, PG-13 Willie Nelson, Votes: | Peter Boyle, Delle Bolton, Drama, Romance, War. Maude's brother Ezra (Ed Herrmann) is building a monoplane to attempt the impossible outside loop. Ryan O'Neal, | WebRobert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing adventure! It reminds me of my childhood dreams of becoming a military pilot and the joys (and terrors) of flying. Glenn Close, I had to somehow earn the money to afford the flying machines. Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. | Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. Meanwhile, Redford returned to familiar territory when he reteamed with Meryl Streep 22 years after they starred in Out of Africa, for his personal project Lions for Lambs (2007), which also starred Tom Cruise. The aging train would leave Anchorage headed for Seward, passing south and east on its way out of the city. Gary Winick He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). Jason Segel, Not Rated Director: 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. Director: Behind these implements came an Air Force Captain, stocky, blond, blue-eyed, and all smiles. 129 min It wasnt much later that a captured Japanese two-man submarine was displayed in my hometown of 12,000 residents. | But Not Serious, in which he played an American soldier falsely imprisoned by a German civilian even after the war has ended. A tale of knights of the air, in a quest of their Graal. Mike Connors, Adventure, Drama, Western. $2.54M, G Robert Redford, [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. | Sydney Pollack 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. 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. | SPOILER AHEAD!! Paul Newman, Director: Did you know that most of the articles at Air Facts are written by readers like you? Paul Newman, They had a son named Charles, the first in line to have been given the name. $5.13M, R On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. | | Gross: I dont advise this sort of thing, but those were different days and Alaska was most definitely a different place. After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights. 110 min 42,069 | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Oh and Ive never been lost again, by the way. Adventure, Comedy, Family. Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi. 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. Sweet, heroic pilot portrait, with a few mindboggling, terrifying stunts. [71] He has criticized the decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. 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. 856,305 Karen Black, Votes: This is a great film on so many levels and I highly recommend it. [72] In July 2020, Redford penned an op-ed in which he stated President Trump lacks a "moral compass." He reconnects with sometimes girlfriend Maude (Margot Kidder). 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