His last appearance on the big screen was in Avengers Endgame (2019), in a cameo. But to the scenes he had already farewell the year before, with the film “The Old Man & The Gun” by David Lowerry. He died in his sleep at 89, in his home in Utah, Robert Redford, Hollywood legend. The newborn father, according to a custom usual, would have led him to wet in the ocean water, without causing any cry in him. Excellent sign for the Nativeized culture.
“It seems that I even laughing,” said Redford. A two Oscar talent (in 1981 as a director for ordinary people and career in 2002) combined with a stainless charm, political, humanitarian passion and for the environment and support of independent cinema with his Sunday Festival founded together with his friend Sidney Pollack. Born on August 18, 1936 in Santa Monica (California) from Marta W. Hart Casalinga and Charles Robert of Irish origin, Redford sees his mother die at just 41 years old, thus abandoned his studies in 1956 and leaves for Italy and France, to measure himself with the life of the artist.
«It was the years of depression, there were little money, mine had lost everything. They had moved to live on a caravan, emigrating from Chicago to California. A couple of friends of my parents, mercilessly because of my mother’s baby bump, had agreed to host us in the bungalow ».
Irish red hair and face full of wrinkles already at a very young age, Redford is perfect in all roles (except perhaps in the bad ones). In fact, the positive, romantic hero, what every American mother would like as a son -in -law.
In 1958, after some roles in TV series (the untouchables, Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock presented and on the borders of reality), made his debut on the big screen with a hunting hunting in whose cast there is also Sydney Pollack which then, as a director, makes its fetish actor. He is the best actor emerging at the Golden Globe in 1966, for the role of the bisexual producer married to Natalie Wood in the film The Strange World of Daisy Clover.
Then comes the western the hunt for Arthur Penn with Jane Fonda and Marlon Brando and, in 1969, with Paul Newman he is still in a worship western signed by George Roy Hill as Butch Cassidy. Always Hill and the same couple then in 1973 will work on another cult film, the stale (7 Oscar).
For many Redford is the romantic Hubbell with his tormented love for Katie Molosky (Barbara Streisand), a communist militant totally different from him in how we were Pollack, or the 1974 Great Gatsby by Jack Clayton, taken from the novel of the same name by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, in which he is the romantic Jay. With Pollack then arrive the red western Rosso you will not have my scalp! And the spy-stry the three days of the Condor.
With another cult actor such as Dustin Hoffman recites in all the men of the president, in the role of Bob Woodward, one of the two political reporters who discovered the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon’s impeachment. Fortune Fortunato debut then for him in 1980 with ordinary people with whom the Oscar wins as the best director. The following year he puts his hand at the Sundance Film Festival and makes him become the most important world showcase of the Usa Indie cinema.
Still Pollack directs him in my Africa (Out of Africa), with Meryl Streep, inspired by the autobiographical novel of the same name by Karen Blixen. Also on the direction of the direction, they then arrive in 1988 Milagro and the Melò with Brad Pitt in the middle runs the river.
It is still behind the camera for quiz show and for the man who whispered to the horses, by the best-seller of Nicholas Evans. In 2007 he directed Maryl Streep in Lions for Agnelli again, two years later he produced motorcycle diaries. On his political commitment and his loyal soul, only the phrase said by the actor and director in 2012 at the Lido where he had presented the rule of silence, thriller between politics and commitment: «Each generation has the opportunity to become a guide of his time, is sufficient in 2012. I sadly see me to see that mine is so corrupt that it does not take this opportunity that it is also a duty that we have compared to today’s young people: we should leave something good rather than a world that is marching ».