Michelle Pfeiffer, Director: Delle Bolton, I'm sorry to hear that this film is not as respected as I had assumed. Jason Segel, Not Rated Stars: | Kate Reid, PG [4] Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa (1985), with Redford in the male lead role opposite Meryl Streep, became a large box office success (combined 1985 and 1986 grosses placed it at No. And in this feature, it is also emphasized the true nature of the humans, for instance after the plane crash, with the poor man agonizingI am ashamed to belong to the human kind when I watch this. But his interpretation as In the twenties and thirties aviation represented what space travel came to represent during my childhood in the sixties and seventies- mankind's most thrilling new adventure. | Gross: Ruth Gordon, TV-MA As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world, he teams up with a fellow Avenger and S.H.I.E.L.D agent, Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin known as the Winter Soldier. 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Behind these implements came an Air Force Captain, stocky, blond, blue-eyed, and all smiles. Director: $2.54M, G 2 highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed All the President's Men. Sweet, heroic pilot portrait, with a few mindboggling, terrifying stunts. | [4] He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Class of 1959) in New York City. Still, I wasnt about to just up and quit. Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. $15.00M, R Stars: | Gross: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. 117 min Stars: Sometimes, we have the same kind of atmosphere as in GIPSY MOTHS; just replace.skydiving with stunt pilots. Flying is fun. [4], Redford's next film, Legal Eagles (1986) alongside Debra Winger, was only a minor success at the box office. This movie has special significance for me because I first saw it as a. 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. If you are sensitive with chivalry spirit, and not only war chivalry, maybe this film is made for you. The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star,[4] cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. Mark Ruffalo, Stars: | He flew an airplane the navy called an SNJ, the same model that the Army Air Corps was calling a T-6. Comedy, Drama, Romance. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbor. George Roy Hill Rod Lurie As usual Robert Redford was great as Waldo Pepper ! | 144 min This is a really enjoyable film with considerable depth. J.C. Chandor Director: As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for Downhill Racer. | 57,897 Mary Steenburgen, Stuart Rosenberg Fonda and Redford star as Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower who've lived next to each other for years. 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. | 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? 8,211 42,069 [61], In July 2009, Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars, at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. Ive learned that not every pilot goes through that metamorphosis, but I certainly did. 144 min 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. Flying in those conditions is unimaginable to me as an owner of an upgraded Beechcraft with multiple redundant systems and devices. 110 min 8.4. Robert Redford, Jane Alexander, Votes: The same year saw his first teaming (on equal footing) with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's The Chase. The shock of a driven golf ball striking the club bag I was leaning against woke me from my daydream. Dakota Fanning, Charlie McDowell [51], In 2017, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 74th Venice Film Festival.[52]. Director: [38][39], In 1976, Robert Redford published The Outlaw Trail: A Journey Through Time. Now thats dangerous. He has a half brother,[4] William, from his father's first marriage. Peter Boyle, I was relocating from Great Falls, Montana, to Silver Lake, Washington, and my ride was an Air Force C-54, one of those four-engine jobbies that civilian airlines were then calling the DC-4. Redford did not direct again until The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), a well-crafted, though not commercially successful, screen version of John Nichols's acclaimed novel of the Southwest. | [citation needed], Starting in 1973, Redford experienced an almost-unparalleled four-year run of box office success. Stars: Katharine Ross, 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. Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious subject matter the Watergate scandal and its attempt to create a realistic portrayal of journalism also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes. The era the picture is set in is mostly the Roaring Twenties , specifically the period is between 1926 and 1931 , in which bitter pilots are reduced to defying death in air flying circus such as Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) , Axel Olson (Bo Svenson) and Ezra Stiles (Edward Herrmann). Stars: | Gross: 14,849 You do not have to be Richard Collins or Ernest Gann simply a GA pilot with a story youd share with friends sitting in the hangar. 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. Joe Russo 169 min | Gross: | He has also supported advocacy groups, such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America. 97 min My favorite scenes: Pilot destroying the platform; the plane going through the barn; Waldo Pepper walking on the wing of a flying plane, the pilot taking the plane down a city street. Robert Redford, 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. WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is barnstorming and telling tales of his war exploits in a legendary fight against German ace Kessler. 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. Stars: | Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. 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. I couldnt believe it I was watching a mail plane deliver the mail! Alan Arkin, 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. Metacritic Reviews. Stars: Michael Pea, Votes: Director: $19.99M, PG | | $2.54M, R Director: Did all pilots get that sort of attention? But the thought of being a thousand miles from a place where one could actually touch bottom drew something of a dampening image. Brad Pitt, [43], In December 2005, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for his contributions to American culture. Having directed Robert Redford in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting", George Roy Hill cast him yet again in "The Great Waldo Pepper". [42], In 1996, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. | Josh Albee, Votes: ", 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. Stars: Natalie Wood, [4][15], Redford's career, like that of many major stars who emerged in the 1950s, began in New York City, where the actor found work both on stage and in television. Personal finances would delay the private pilots license until the following year. 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. He starred with Natalie Wood in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) which won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. [22] Redford found the niche he was looking for in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. Susan Clark, Votes: Charles Durning, Votes: | 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. 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. [35] The same year, he played news anchor Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt's Truth alongside Cate Blanchett. Director: This is a great film on so many levels and I highly recommend it. | Most recently, Sundance Productions produced Chicagoland (CNN), Cathedrals of Culture (Berlin Film Festival), The March (PBS) and Emmy nominee All The President's Men Revisited (Discovery), Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live!, and To Russia With Love on Epix. They divorced in 1985. Paul Sand, Votes: | Director: Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. 3,092 He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). Oona Laurence, Votes: Seymour Cassel, Votes: | 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. Redford, who starred in the 1972 political comedy The Candidate, chats with then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in September 1976 in Georgia. Robert Redford isn't merely the star of the movie All Is Lost he plays the only character. Stay up to date with the latest articles and selections from our archives. | | Director: [4] Redford also continued work in films with political contexts, such as Havana (1990), playing Jack Weil, a professional gambler in 1959 Cuba during the Revolution, as well as Sneakers (1992), in which he co-starred with River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier, his first teaming with the latter. | Gross: In 2012, he directed the political thriller The Company You Keep starring himself, Shia LaBeouf and Julie Christie. 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: Barbra Streisand, $47.95M, R 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. | 9,665 Bo Brundin, Director: Biography, Comedy, Crime. | Gross: [4] Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. A couple of biplane pilots who fought during the WWI came back from the battle field and started working on taking people on rides and trying to see who was the greatest among them. I would solo out on Friday the 13thin April of 1956, after seven hours of dual instruction. | Streep was nominated for Best Actress but Redford did not receive a nomination. Adrian Lyne Stars: Robert Redford, Adventure, Drama. 125 min Danny Glover, Votes: The little plane seemed to fit me perfectly. But I expect this was a common occurrence. It hurt, but I passed on the chance. Director: 12,365 101 min $51.43M, PG-13 They emigrated to New York City in 1849, immediately settling in Stonington, Connecticut. PG [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. Lauren Hutton, Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. | Stars: | Gross: 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. Hollywood star Robert Redford is "in mourning" following the death of his son James at the age of 58. 118,373 [64] Redford also supported Gary Herbert, another Republican and a friend, in Herbert's successful 2004 campaign to be elected Utah's Lieutenant Governor. John Saxon, My father never started a job he didnt finish, and that sort of thing rubbed off on me. Stars: | 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. Strapped to a flatbed trailer, the tiny yellow submarine fascinated me as much as it thrilled my classmates. In May 2011, Alfred A. Knopf published Robert Redford: The Biography by Michael Feeney Callan, written over fifteen years with Redford's input and drawn from his personal papers and diaries. 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