Robert Redford Useless at 89

Robert Redford — the legendary Oscar-winning actor and director — has died, TMZ has confirmed.

Redford’s rep, Cindi Berger, tells us … Robert handed away Tuesday morning at his dwelling in Sundance, Utah. Berger says Robert was surrounded by the folks he beloved within the place he beloved. His reason for demise has not been revealed.

The enduring filmmaker spent many years as a number one actor in Hollywood, with a few of his most notable initiatives being 1969’s “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child,” 1973’s “The Sting,” 1975’s “Three Days of the Condor,” 1976’s “All of the President’s Males,” and 1984’s “The Pure.”

He additionally labored with numerous Hollywood’s favourite main women, together with Jane Fonda in 1967’s “Barefoot within the Park,” Barbra Streisand in 1973’s “The Manner We Had been” and Meryl Streep in 1985’s “Out of Africa.”

Redford transitioned to directing in 1980, along with his debut movie “Unusual Folks” profitable main crucial and business success. It additionally gained him an Oscar for Finest Director. In 2002, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Honorary Oscar.

Then, in 2016, President Barack Obama handed Redford the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

Redford can also be identified for founding the Sundance Institute, a nonprofit devoted to showcasing unbiased filmmakers, in 1981. He took the helm of a struggling movie pageant in 1984, which grew to become the enduring movie pageant in Park Metropolis, Utah we all know and love right now. In 2012, he reportedly expressed distaste for a way widespread the pageant grew to become.