Robert Redford dies at 89

Robert Redford, the iconic Hollywood actor and director known for his starring roles in films such as “All the President’s Men” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” has died at the age of 89.

The Academy Award-winning director died Tuesday, publicist Cindi Berger said in a statement. Redford died “at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved. He will be missed greatly,” Berger said.

Born Charles Robert Redford Jr. in California, the performer got his start on Broadway and television before landing his first film role in 1960’s “Tall Story.”

He rose to worldwide fame in 1969 playing opposite Paul Newman in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” before starring in the 1976 Watergate scandal saga “All the President’s Men” alongside Dustin Hoffman.

Redford went on to a prolific directing career, winning the Academy Award for best director for his 1980 film “Ordinary People” and 1994’s “Quiz Show.” He went on to create the famed Sundance Film Festival.

Former President Obama awarded Redford the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.

Redford, a longtime Democratic supporter, had been outspoken in recent years against President Trump. 

During Trump’s first term in office in 2018, Redford wrote, “For the first time I can remember, I feel out of place in the country I was born into and the citizenship I’ve loved my whole life.”

“For weeks I’ve watched with sadness as our civil servants have failed us, turning toward bigotry, mean-spiritedness, and mockery as the now-normal tools of the trade,” he said at the time. 

The actor and father of four accused Trump of running a “dictator-like administration” in 2019.