81,714 | Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). [4], Through its various workshop programs and popular film festival, Sundance has provided much-needed support for independent filmmakers. But Not Serious, in which he played an American soldier falsely imprisoned by a German civilian even after the war has ended. [4], Redford's next film, Legal Eagles (1986) alongside Debra Winger, was only a minor success at the box office. | Scarlett Johansson, 19,421 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. [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. Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon. 11,258 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. Robert Redford, | Gross: | WebRobert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing and dramatic thrill-ride! The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. 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. Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that Department of Commerce arm now known as the Department of Transportations Federal Aviation Agency. 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. [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. I was headed for the Operations Office rather a grand term, in those days of Safeway Airways, our local Piper aircraft distributor and flight school. The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichd and overly sentimental. WebAvengers : Endgame. | Watch out for the final minutes, with Kessler character, the most fascinating of the film, a so moving character. I took the two oral and one written examinations that led to my licensure as a Territory of Alaska Registered Guide (later State of Alaska Registered Guide), and, over the years, have made just about enough money to keep my airplanes in the airand to sometimes be able to pocket the little dab that was occasionally left over. 2 highest-grossing film of 1973. 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. $76.23M, M No wonder! Ive called him George for six decades now, but I still think of him as Mr. Stephen Dillane, Votes: Stars: Flying is fun. It was years later that I found myself in the uniform of the United States Air Force. Drama, Thriller. Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, [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, 856,305 It was definitely an acquired skill for me, and, without question, not one with which I had been born. Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. Ivan Reitman | Stars: | | Gross: Chris Evans, At the end of those two years, I took my discharge at Wright Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, Ohio, and scooted right back to the Big Empty. I just didnt like it all that much. Robert Redford, I wanted to see it in much the same way as the outlaws did, by horse and by foot, and document the adventure with text and photographs."[40]. Susan Clark, Votes: Ron Leibman, David Lowery | $9.24M, R His latest book is, Pilots really are made, not born Im proof, https://airfactsjournal-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/06175115/champ.jpg, https://airfactsjournal-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06142440/Air-Facts-Logo340.jpg, COPYRIGHT 2011-2023, SPORTSMAN'S MARKET, INC. All Rights Reserved. Alan Arkin, Delle Bolton, | Director: $70.60M, PG-13 Action, Crime, Thriller. Director: Gottfried 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". | New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor, List of awards and nominations received by Robert Redford, Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America, "Editor's Letter: The Ties That Bind the TIME 100", "Sponsored Archives: A Robert Redford Retrospective, Redford Turns West Again", "New England Historic Genealogical Society", "Did Robert Redford play high school baseball with Don Drysdale? Not only did Redford show his skills as an actor, but he also got into directing and proved he was one of the best in the business. Drama, Western. Seymour Cassel, Votes: Robert Redford is one of the last icons of classic American cinema, who gave brilliant performances in almost every movie he was in. Drama, Romance. Melvyn Douglas, Stars: Michael Pea, Votes: | Director: 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. | [25] The romantic period drama with Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were (1973), was the 11th highest-grossing film of 1973. Redford attended the University of Colorado in the 1950s and received an honorary degree in 1988. Don Porter, Votes: Redford supports environmentalism, Native American rights, LGBT rights,[63] and the arts. Redford is of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. 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. But his interpretation as Biography, Comedy, Crime. On February 22, 2019, Redford received the Honorary Csar at the 44th Csar Awards in Paris. 101 min | Gross: WebRobert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. Faye Dunaway, Brian Dennehy, Votes: Director: For some reason the title didn't draw me in. David Lowery Stars: Yaphet Kotto, [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. Whether real or imagined, it was a name that, for me, held a kind of magic, a freedom, a mystery. Gottfried Reinhardt Charles Boyer, And I also found some tiny links in common with MOBY DICK story, though the story has nothing to do with it. $50.80M, PG Robert Redford, Sweet, heroic pilot portrait, with a few mindboggling, terrifying stunts. 58,022 Robert Redford, George Roy Hill | Gross: | Tommy Matsuda, PG In conclusion, I think that this was the first film that I watched, thinking I am an adult enjoying an adult story. 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 pilots depicted are Ormer Locklear (1891-1920), Earl Daugherty (1887-1928), Speed Holman (1898-1931), and Ernst Udet (1896-1941). Stars: $6.26M, PG Robert Redford, | Gross: Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. Strother Martin, Votes: $6.00M, PG Adventure, Biography, Comedy. A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife. Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi. [35] The same year, he played news anchor Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt's Truth alongside Cate Blanchett. Stars: [61], In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. | 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 . He starred with Natalie Wood in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) which won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. Camilla Sparv, Golf has always struck me as something of a dangerous undertaking. | Gross: And, inside that office, I got my first look at Mr. George Kitchen. Robert Redford, It was a whole new experience. Directors: Redford puts his all into the role of a pilot seeking glory after World War I. [4] He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzales at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to warm him up. | 134 min Webjohn flannery robert redford. I simply had to earn my pilot wings. By the time we got to the plane it was burning fiercely with the pilot trapped in the cockpit and no way the men in the crowd could have rescued him. Director: Stars: | Gross: Stuart Rosenberg Then he took a two-year hiatus from movies, before starring as past-his-prime rodeo star in the adventure-romance The Electric Horseman (1979). Getty Images Stars: | 126 min The aging train would leave Anchorage headed for Seward, passing south and east on its way out of the city. $2.54M, R [5][6][7] His patrilineal great-great-grandfather, a Protestant Englishman named Elisha Redford, married Mary Ann McCreery, of Irish Catholic descent, in Manchester. [4][9] He has described himself as having been a "bad" student, finding inspiration outside the classroom, and being interested in art and sports. On October 23, 1955, I marched resolutely across the frozen ground adjacent to Anchorage Merrill Fields east-west runway. [41], In 1995, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bard College. 25,579 Steve Buscemi, Votes: The press conference was held at the LA Press Club. Robert Redford, Redford is also one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival. A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden. [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. 34,036 Stars: They emigrated to New York City in 1849, immediately settling in Stonington, Connecticut. A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. 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 In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. Katharine Ross, Drama, Romance, Western. Stars: Martin, Robert Redford, Tina Elmo and Vince Alan J. Pakula [14] While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily and, as a result, lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school. | Elisabeth Moss, Votes: Scott Redford died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2+12 months and is buried at Provo City Cemetery in Provo, Utah. $51.43M, PG-13 Robert Redford, Robert Redford, Director: Michael J. Pollard, Comedy, Drama. *Spoiler/plot- The Great Waldo Pepper, 1975. 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! Robert Redford, My golfers were a married couple, he to his wife and bourbon, she to bourbon, her husband, and a terribly gaudy wardrobe. This is not a great film, but a movie I simply love. Katharine Ross, | Gross: Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. 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. 50,967 Josh Albee, Votes: Ruth Gordon, TV-MA [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. The friendship between two Arizona dirt bike racers is tested when they both lust for an attractive runaway young woman who joins them on the racing circuit. [64] Redford has supported Republicans, including Brent Cornell Morris in his unsuccessful campaign for the Republican nomination for Utah's 3rd congressional district in 1990. Director: $75.38M, TV-14 Robert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. Crime, Drama. 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. 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. Sydney Pollack Stars: How in the hell did anyone up there know where he was? The Great Waldo Pepper really is a work of cinematic art. | Director: A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love. 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. | 47,323 $5.76M, R | Gross: 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. | Gross: 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. 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! Redford had optioned the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman, but had shelved the project after Newman's death. The examiner took immediate control of the little airplane and told me I had just scared years off his life. The airplane has no choice but to follow along with me. James Gandolfini, | 93 min | Stars: And I remember this movie, by title only, but never saw it. [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. Jane Fonda, A superb, terrific ending that haunts me since my childhood. [11][12] He went on to travel in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy. Lauren Hutton, 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. 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