# RIP Robert Redford **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, celebrity-death\ **Created:** [September 16, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085 "2025-09-16T12:47:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/1 "2025-09-16T12:47:23Z")
Turns out, the fall _did_ kill him. Eventually. > **[Robert Redford, Golden Boy of Hollywood, Dies at 89](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robert-redford-dead-oscar-winner-sundance-founder-was-89-1236372445/)** > > The Oscar winner and Sundance founder died Sept. 16 at his home in Utah. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/2 "2025-09-16T12:56:40Z")
This is really an end of a era kind of moment. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/3 "2025-09-16T12:58:23Z")
I think I’ll watch his Twilight Zone tonight: [Nothing in the Dark - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_in_the_Dark). _The Sting_ is one of my all time favorite movies and probably an odd choice, _Barefoot in the Park_ with Jane Fonda. ETA: _ **Nothing in the Dark,** _ The Twilight Zone: Season 3, Episode 16 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/4 "2025-09-16T12:59:34Z")
I just now saw that on the NYT. Holy shit! Seems like the guy has been around my entire life. Well, I guess he has, since he’s older than I am by eleven years, but I’m pretty sure I would have seen him on “The Twilight Zone” and other series of the 60s. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/5 "2025-09-16T13:09:28Z")
Robert Redford? You mean the bad guy in that Marvel movie? 😜 I actually was seriously happy to see him in it after all those years. And yes I remember him from other performances as well. `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/6 "2025-09-16T13:12:07Z")
Liked him in a lot of movies and TV shows (including that Twilight Zone episode, one of his earliest appearances). Loved him in **The Sting** and **The Natural**. I didn’t first see **Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid** until long after it came out. I saw him, from a distance, the one time I skied at Sundance, his ski resort and one-time movie festival (it’s merged with the Park City festival and moved there now). He was way off in the distance, but people swore it was him out there skiiing. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/7 "2025-09-16T13:19:22Z")
All the President’s Men is one of my favorite films. RIP, Robert. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/8 "2025-09-16T13:21:09Z")
Nice Obit on NPR: [Robert Redford has died at age 89 : NPR](https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/1068370058/robert-redford-obituary) I didn’t realize he had a Baseball scholarship to College. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/9 "2025-09-16T13:24:30Z")
I will always remember him as Jeremiah Johnson and what a powerful character he portrayed. A truely talented man has left the stage of life. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/10 "2025-09-16T13:27:04Z")
“Goddammit, Bryson!” This is a death of an important man. This I can be sad about. As long as we agree to forget about _Indecent Proposal_. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/11 "2025-09-16T13:32:29Z")
i was stunned by the news this morning. amazing career and life. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/12 "2025-09-16T13:35:13Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Nice Obit on NPR: [Robert Redford has died at age 89 : NPR](https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/1068370058/robert-redford-obituary) Thanks for the link. The morning news just had a minute about it. > [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > I will always remember him as Jeremiah Johnson This is one of my wife’s favourite films. I bought the DVD in 2002, and we watch it about once a year since she moved in, in 2010. When I told her this morning, she said that now TCM can have a marathon of his films. > [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > All the President’s Men is one of my favourite films. I liked it when I first saw it eons ago. I watched it this year, and it definitely made me feel old. The mid-'70s pacing, no computers or cell phones, and I watched as much of the Watergate proceedings as I could after school. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/13 "2025-09-16T13:38:48Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > As long as we agree to forget about _Indecent Proposal_. In the _praising-with-faint-damns_ category, literally the worst thing I can think to say about his performance in that one was that — as usual — he simply radiated sincerity in it. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/14 "2025-09-16T13:58:45Z")
What a long, creative life he had. RIP, handsome man. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/15 "2025-09-16T14:01:30Z")
I remember my mother was deeply in love with Robert Redford. He was so good in “Three Days of the Condor” - “I gave it to them.” > [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > I will always remember him as Jeremiah Johnson and what a powerful character he portrayed. Elk don’t know how many feet a horse has! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/16 "2025-09-16T14:05:51Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Nice Obit on NPR: [Robert Redford has died at age 89 : NPR](https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/1068370058/robert-redford-obituary) > > I didn’t realize he had a Baseball scholarship to College. That was a nice article, thanks for that. And I didn’t realize that either. But his baseball moves in _The Natural_ were, uhh, natural. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/17 "2025-09-16T14:07:35Z")
Damn. 😢 All the President’s Men, Sneakers, The Sting – those are my favorites. I’ve watched each one a dozen times. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/18 "2025-09-16T14:09:17Z")
What? What? What? This can’t be real. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/19 "2025-09-16T14:14:28Z")
> [@icon](#): > > Robert Redford? You mean the bad guy in that Marvel movie? 😜 I actually was seriously happy to see him in it after all those years. And yes I remember him from other performances as well. You joke, but I was thinking that’s where quite a few people these days will know him from best. I know he’d been working pretty much the whole time, but the last movie I saw him in before Winter Soldier was Sneakers in 1992. No, that’s not quite true, I did happen to catch _The Clearing_ co-starring Willem Dafoe and Helen Mirren in 2004. I suspect most of Redford’s movies wouldn’t appeal to younger people, not counting voice work. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085/20 "2025-09-16T14:37:30Z")
😢 RIP. As already noted, a true icon of the screen and the American West. Besides his film career, when I think of Robert Redford I remember visiting Arches National Park for the first time and hearing his voice on the park info radio, welcoming visitors to the park and admonishing them to keep their eye on the road. The other thing that comes to mind was his National Geographic-sponsored trek that retraced the Outlaw Trail with a small crew that included Ed Abbey. (The book [The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time](https://archive.org/details/outlawtrail00redf) is available to borrow on the Internet Archive if you’re a member) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-robert-redford/1023085.md?page=2)