Robert Redford Filmography

Born:: August 18, 1937 in Santa Monica, CA
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer
Birth name:: Charles Robert Redford, Jr
Biography:: The rugged, dashingly handsome Robert Redford was among the biggest movie stars of the 1970s. While an increasingly rare onscreen presence in subsequent years, he remained a powerful motion-picture industry force as an Academy Award-winning director as well as a highly visible champion of American...Read More

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A Walk in the Woods

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Redford

Synopsis: Bill Bryson's satirical travelogue gets the big-screen treatment from director Barry Levinson and actor/producer Robert Redford in A Walk in the Woods. Plot details follow two friends who attempt to walk the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail and discover the American wilderness along the way. ~ Jeremy Read More

1/1/09
The Unforeseen

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Robert Redford, Gary Bradley, William Greider, Marshall Kuykendall, Dick Brown

Synopsis: First-time feature filmmaker Laura Dunn transforms an idea suggested to her by legendary director Terrence Malick into a cinematic reality with an ambitious documentary detailing the rise of a West Texas farm boy-turned-wildly successful real-estate mogul, and the landmark environmental movement Read More

2/29/08
Against All Enemies

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Robert Redford directs this adaptation of Richard A. Clarke's book regarding his history with the Bush administration and their obsession with Iraq pre and post-9/11. Jamie Vanderbilt is handling the adaptation, which Capitol Films is producing for Columbia Pictures. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Read More

1/1/08
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk

Actors: Robert Redford

Synopsis: On the heels of the announcement that mankind has entered what some scientists call a "100 year mega-drought," the producers of Everest and Mystery of the Nile invite viewers to explore the efficient ways in which Native Americans once used the Colorado River without sacrificing the scenic land Read More

2008
Lions for Lambs

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, Michael Peña, Andrew Garfield

Synopsis: Robert Redford directs this dramatic tale of intersecting lives that weaves together the stories of an idealistic professor's attempts to inspire a privileged student, a former student of the teacher who is wounded behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, and a congressman whose interactions with a Read More

11/9/07
The Green [TV Documentary Series]

Crew: Presented by

Actors: Simran Sethi

2007
Charlotte's Web

Actors: Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the Read More

12/15/06
An Unfinished Life

Actors: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Becca Gardner

Synopsis: Two generations of a damaged family are brought together in this emotional drama. Einar Gilkyson (Robert Redford) was a once successful rancher whose spread went to seed after he developed a serious drinking problem. Now on the wagon, Einar looks after what's left of his spread with his friend Read More

9/9/05
Iconoclasts [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

2005
Iconoclasts: Redford on Newman

2005
The Motorcycle Diaries

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Gustavo Bueno, Jorge Chiarella

Synopsis: Brazilian director Walter Salles Jr. follows up the Golden Globe-nominated Behind the Sun with this filmed adaptation of Argentinian-born Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara's journals of the same name. The Motorcycle Diaries stars Gael García Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También, Amores Perros) as a Read More

9/24/04
The Clearing

Actors: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe, Alessandro Nivola, Matt Craven

Synopsis: Dutch film producer Pieter Jan Brugge makes his directorial debut with the dramatic thriller The Clearing. Affluent executive Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) and his lovely wife, Eileen (Helen Mirren), live in a beautiful home in Pittsburg. One day, Wayne is kidnapped by disgruntled employee Arnold Read More

7/2/04
Sacred Planet

Actors: Arapata McKay, Tsaan Ciqae, Mae Tui, Cy Peck Jr., Mutang Urud

Synopsis: Directed by Jon Long, this 45-minute IMAX production travels across the globe not only in an attempt to instill a proper sense of awe, but also to encourage the preservation of the environment as a whole. Among the locations highlighted are the mountains of Vancouver, New Zealand's white sand Read More

4/22/04
Coyote Waits

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Sheila Tousey, Alex Rice, Gary Farmer

Synopsis: When gunshots ring out in a tragic roadside shooting, police officer Delbert Nez winds up dead. His close friend Officer Jim Chee (Adam Beach) is the first on the scene, and upon spotting an elderly, drunken Navajo Shaman named Ashie Pinto (Jimmy Herman) with the murder weapon tucked in his belt Read More

2003
A Thief of Time

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Sheila Tousey, Peter Fonda, Graham Greene

Synopsis: This adaptation of Tony Hillerman's A Thief of Time keeps that book's original storyline. The protagonists Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Jim Chee (Adam Beach) are a pair of Navajo police officers whose beat is their reservation. They must investigate why some important historical artifacts have Read More

2003
Love in the Time of Money

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Vera Farmiga, Domenick Lombardozzi, Malcolm Gets, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Like La Ronde, Peter Mattei's debut film Love in the Time of Money consists of a series of conversational duets that ultimately returns to the person who started the entire chain of events. Starting with prostitute Greta (Vera Farmiga) and disgruntled trick Eddie (Domenick Lombardozzi), the story Read More

11/1/02
People I Know

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal, Téa Leoni, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: A powerful behind-the-scenes man in politics and show business finds himself skidding into a very public scandal in this taut drama. Eli Wurman (Al Pacino) was raised in the deep South, attended Harvard Law School, and has devoted his spare time to progressive political causes since working Read More

10/11/02
Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

2002
Skinwalkers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Saginaw Grant, Gerald Vandever, Alex Rice

Synopsis: Adapted from Tony Hillerman's best-selling novel by James Redford (stepson of Robert Redford), Skinwalkers was the vanguard of the proposed PBS anthology American Mystery. Returning to the Navajo reservation of his birth after many years, police detective Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi) investigates a Read More

2002
The Last Castle

Actors: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Delroy Lindo, Clifton Collins, Jr.

Synopsis: Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court-martialed and sent to The Castle, a maximum security military prison. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini Read More

10/19/01
Spy Game

Actors: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, Larry Bryggman

Synopsis: Brad Pitt is reunited as a co-star with his A River Runs Through It (1992) director Robert Redford for this espionage thriller from Tony Scott. On the verge of retirement from the Central Intelligence Agency, veteran spy Nathan Muir (Redford) learns that his one-time protégé Tom Bishop (Pitt) has Read More

2001
The Legend of Bagger Vance

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journeys. Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was a gifted amateur golfer from Savannah, GA, until traumatic experiences during World War I shattered his Read More

11/3/00
Forever Hollywood

Actors: Sharon Stone, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges, André De Toth

Synopsis: Chief film critic of Variety and director of the acclaimed Visions of Light (1993), Todd McCarthy spins this love letter to tinseltown. Funded in part by the city of Los Angeles, the film charts Hollywood's rapid evolution from a sleepy town to a gleaming center of glamour in the 1950s to its Read More

1999
Mountain Climbing: Free Climb

1999
FilmFest, Vol. 1

1999
A Civil Action

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kathy Bates, John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy, Zeljko Ivanek

Synopsis: Directed by Schindler's List screenwriter Steve Zaillian, this courtroom drama is based on a true story and non-fiction book by Jonathan Harr. The case revolves around an incident in 1979 in East Woburn, MA, where two drinking wells supplying water to the town were found to be contaminated with Read More

12/25/98
No Looking Back

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lauren Holly, Edward Burns, Jon Bon Jovi, Blythe Danner, Jennifer Esposito

Synopsis: Writer-director-actor Edward Burns (The Brothers McMullen, She's the One) looks at small-town ex-lovers in this low-key, blue-collar drama with atmospheric, muted-color cinematography by Emmy-winner Frank Prinzi (Northern Exposure). To the tune of Sheryl Crow's "Home", Charlie (Burns) returns to Read More

1998
Slums of Beverly Hills

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Kevin Corrigan, Eli Marienthal

Synopsis: Tamara Jenkins wrote and directed this comedy-drama depicting the experience of growing up poor in the 90210 zip code, told from the point of view of Vivian Abramowitz (Natasha Lyonne), a teen who lives a nomadic existence in the outskirts of Beverly Hills with her single, divorced father, Murray (Alan Arkin Read More

1998
The Horse Whisperer

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed himself for the first time in this romantic drama adapted from the 1995 best-seller by Nicholas Evans. Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson of Manny & Lo) and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose Read More

1998
Independent's Day

Synopsis: The Sundance Channel produced this guided tour through the world of independent films and filmmakers, tossing out the statistic that the movement has escalated from some 50 films in 1985, to 800 in 1997. Interview segments include Sundance fest director Geoffrey Gilmore, fest programmer Bob Hawk Read More

1998
Anthem

Actors: Robert Redford, Michael Stipe, Studs Terkel, Winona Laduke, George McGovern

Synopsis: Two young women travel across the country in an old Saab armed with Hi-8 cameras, experience as Hollywood production assistants and a strong desire to capture the true character and spirit of the American people. Their journey leads Kristin Hahn and Shainee Gabel to interview a wide variety of Read More

1997
Up Close & Personal

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan

Synopsis: A story about a career television journalist who eclipses her mentor, this drama's plot resembles that of A Star Is Born, and it shares the same screenwriters as those who penned the 1976 version of that film, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. It's based loosely on the real-life story of Read More

1996
She's the One

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Maxine Bahns, Edward Burns, Cameron Diaz, John Mahoney

Synopsis: This is the second film by actor/director Ed Burns, his first being The Brothers McMullen. The two Fitzpatrick brothers, Mickey (Ed Burns) and Francis (Mike McGlone), would appear to have little in common, as the older is a rather volatile cab driver, the younger is a very settled stockbroker. Read More

1996
The American President

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, David Paymer, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: This earnest, intelligent, and well-written romantic comedy is enjoyable and optimistic in classic Hollywood style, even if its idealism doesn't seem quite so credible against the cynical political backdrop of the Nineties. President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly liberal Read More

1995
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Actors: Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Directed by the acclaimed Walter Hill and narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William Wellman (1896-1975). Ambulance driver for the French Foreign Legion and decorated American pilot in World War I, Wellman later became Read More

1995
Filmmaking: Shadow Casting - The Making of "A River Runs Through It"

1994
Quiz Show

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer

Synopsis: It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a phenomenal memory and a broad range of knowledge. He's also a pudgy loudmouth with a grating personality, so Herbert is encouraged to "take a dive" and allow Charles Read More

1994
Indecent Proposal

Actors: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Oliver Platt, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in this yuppie melodrama that poses the conundrum of whether the loving husband of an equally loving wife will accept $1 million to allow his wife to spend one night with a billionaire who looks like Robert Redford. All the cynics Read More

1993
The Dark Wind

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Ward, Gary Farmer, John Karlen, Lance Baker

Synopsis: Noted documentary filmmaker Errol Morris made his dramatic feature debut with this story about murder and other dirty dealings on an American Indian reservation. Recent college graduate Jim Chee (Lou Diamond Phillips) has just taken a job with the Navajo Reservation Police in Arizona, where he Read More

1993
A River Runs Through It

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as Read More

10/9/92
Sneakers

Actors: Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, David Strathairn

Synopsis: In this tech-thriller from director Phil Alden Robinson, a group of five renegade computer hackers, led by Martin Bishop (Robert Redford), are hired by the government to steal a black box, containing a code-breaking machine, from the mathematician who invented the device. The government is able to Read More

9/9/92
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Redford

Synopsis: Produced and narrated by Robert Redford, the documentary Incident at Oglala is an examination of the murder case involving Leonard Peltier. Produced and narrated by Robert Redford, the documentary takes place in the Indian reservations of South Dakota near Wounded Knee, where U.S. soldiers Read More

5/8/92
River of Stone: The Powell Expedition

Synopsis: Explore 19th century American West along the historical path of John Wesley Powell who canoed down the Colorado River. Through the use of historical footage, maps and commentary, glimpse the landscape of the past. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Our Biosphere: The Earth in Our Hands

1991
To Protect Mother Earth

1991
Havana

Actors: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian, Raul Julia

Synopsis: A cynical gambler reluctantly comes to the aid of a mysterious beauty in this interpolation of Casablanca and the real-life Cuban revolution. Big-stakes American gambler Jack Weil (Robert Redford) is comfortable in the anything-goes Havana of 1958. But with Fidel Castro out in the wilderness Read More

12/12/90
American Experience: Yosemite - The Fate of Heaven

Synopsis: Yosemite is one of the gems of the United States National Parks system. Narrated by executive producer Robert Redford, this 1988 documentary aired on the Emmy award-winning PBS series The American Experience. This affectionate history of Yosemite, which was "discovered" in 1851 as U.S. troops Read More

1990
Changing Steps

Actors: Robert Redford

1989
Some Girls

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Florinda Bolkan, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley, Lance Edwards, Ashley Greenfield

Synopsis: Michael (Patrick Dempsey) is a college student invited to spend Christmas vacation in Quebec City with his sweetheart Gabby (Jennifer Connelly) and her family. The wide-eyed Michael sees the city as a fairytale land with the splendid architecture gently dusted by the falling snow. When Michael Read More

9/9/88
The Milagro Beanfield War

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Producer

Actors: Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga, Julie Carmen, James Gammon, John Heard, Chick Vennera

Synopsis: It's advisable to know from the beginning of The Milagro Beanfield War that "milagro" is the Spanish word for "miracle". The scene is a rundown Hispanic community in New Mexico, bordering a posh housing development. In full control of the local water rights, the powers-that-be are secure in the Read More

3/18/88
Promised Land

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Jason Gedrick, Kiefer Sutherland, Meg Ryan, Tracy Pollan, Googy Gress

Synopsis: Three friends face the disappointments of adulthood in this drama. Growing up in Ashville, Utah, a small town where traditional ideals still cling stubbornly to the hearts and minds of youth, Davey Hancock (Jason Gedrick) is the star of the high school's championship basketball team. Pretty Read More

1/22/88
Legal Eagles

Actors: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman directed this film, starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah, that is an amalgam of a thriller, courtroom drama, mystery and Tracy-Hepburn romantic comedy, with a little Mark Rothko-type scandal thrown in. The film revolves around troubled Chelsea Deardon (Daryl Hannah) Read More

6/18/86
Out of Africa

Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens

Synopsis: Out of Africa is drawn from the life and writings of Danish author Isak Dinesen, who during the time that the film's events occured was known by her married name, Karen Blixen-Flecke. For convenience's sake, Karen (Meryl Streep) has married Baron Bor Blixen-Flecke (Klaus Maria Brandauer). In 1914 Read More

1985
The Natural

Actors: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a Read More

1984
The Sun Dagger

Synopsis: Narrated by Robert Redford, with commentary by Joseph Campbell, this documentary examines an archaeological prize from Chaco Canyon in New Mexico: a thousand-year-old, astronomically based calendar created by the Anasazi Indians. The program profiles scientific explanations for how the calendar Read More

1983
Everest North Wall

1982
Ordinary People

Crew: Director

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegration of a "perfect" family. Teenager Conrad (Timothy Hutton) lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns after their boat capsizes in Lake Read More

1980
Brubaker

Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

Synopsis: Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker Read More

1980
The Electric Horseman

Actors: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, John Saxon, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: A cowboy-turned-huckster unexpectedly finds love as he tries to regain his self-respect in this romantic comedy drama. Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) is a one-time rodeo star whose career as a cowboy has ground to a halt. He makes a good living as a spokesman for Ranch Breakfast, a sugar-coated Read More

1979
A Bridge Too Far

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox

Synopsis: It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland, where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Read More

1977
Predators

Actors: Robert Redford

Synopsis: Learn how the environment is kept in balance with the presence and actions of predators. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1977
All the President's Men

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jr.

Synopsis: Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the Read More

1976
Three Days of the Condor