On the way up, he described to me the tragic effects of a tail slide in anything other than a military fighter plane. For some reason the title didn't draw me in. | Gross: 97 min Flying in those conditions is unimaginable to me as an owner of an upgraded Beechcraft with multiple redundant systems and devices. Jane Fonda, Denis Sanders Robert Redford, | Nevertheless, Robert Redford was and is a wonderful actor, and has produced many indelible film characterizations for over 50 years. From The Chase (1965) to Truth (2015), Mr. Redford has always entertained with taste and excellence. Here are 34 of his best acting efforts. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc User Ratings Director: Later, while flying alone to build up the required local flying hours before cross-country solo flight would be allowed, I would time my low altitude practice flights to coincide with the Alaska Railroad train schedule. A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden. Alan Arkin, Director: About 16,000 of those hours were made while flying the Alaska outback, just another of Alaskas long list of ragbag bush pilots. Hes had two books published by Voyageur Press: Flying the Alaska Wild and The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles. $47.74M, PG-13 Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn | Strother Martin, Votes: The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. This movie starts out rather laid back and sweet in nature, but it suddenly turns rather bleak and depressing halfway through for a short moment, which is somewhat odd and not fitting to the general laid back mood of the rest of this family picture. Stars: In The Clearing (2004), a thriller co-starring Helen Mirren, Redford was a successful businessman whose kidnapping unearths the secrets and inadequacies that led to his achieving the American Dream. | Gross: $51.43M, PG-13 Stockard Channing, Jennifer Lopez, Sections. THey do nothing but stare while Waldo screams at them, begging for their help. In April 2014, Redford played the main antagonist of the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Catherine McCormack, Redford was born on August 18, 1936,[3] in Santa Monica, California, to Martha Woodruff Redford (ne Hart; 19141955) and Charles Robert Redford (19141991), an accountant. Stephen Dillane, Votes: Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors. Robert Redford, His latest book is, Pilots really are made, not born Im proof, https://airfactsjournal-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/06175115/champ.jpg, https://airfactsjournal-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/06142440/Air-Facts-Logo340.jpg, COPYRIGHT 2011-2023, SPORTSMAN'S MARKET, INC. All Rights Reserved. A Mormon ceremony took place on September 12 at Lola's grandmother's home. Oprah Winfrey, Stars: In 1977, Redford appeared in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977). Michelle Pfeiffer, Steve Buscemi, Votes: It also explored the political and social issues of South America that influenced Guevara and shaped his future. 8,211 99 min It made me feel great and I've had a fascination with film ever since. Robert Redford, Votes: Redford states, "The Outlaw Trail. Stars: | Joe Russo Action, Comedy, Crime. | Gross: Laurence Olivier, Votes: Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after I remember going to the airport one morning, carefully pre-flighting the little Aeronca, and then, instead of getting into it, I simply put it on. [4] Redford also owned a Park City restaurant, Zoom, that closed in May 2017. That way, I was able to carefully settle atop a boxcar with the main landing gear straddling the centerline of the car, riding along with the tail in the air and the two main wheels firmly planted on the top of the car. The political satire The Candidate (1972) was a moderate box office and critical success. Robert Redford, 58,022 Steve Burton, Votes: External Reviews You know the kind: crooked smile, even teeth, Steve Canyon in uniform. 32,714 On February 22, 2019, Redford received the Honorary Csar at the 44th Csar Awards in Paris. Robert Redford, | Karen Black, Votes: Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. 47,323 Stars: 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. $87.10M, PG Michael Kitchen, Votes: Jane Fonda, Stars: 31,894 WebDuring WW2, a lonely German air-raid warden captures two downed American airmen and keeps them prisoner in his basement way past the end of the war. Drama, History, War. Stars: Robert Redford, [13] While there, he worked at a restaurant/bar called The Sink, where a painting of his likeness still figures prominently among the bar's murals. [34] Redford was a co-producer and, with Emma Thompson and Nick Nolte, costar of the 2015 Broad Green Pictures film A Walk in the Woods, based on Bill Bryson's book of the same name. | $50.80M, PG | While promoting the release of 2018s The Old Man & the Gun which earned him a Golden Globe Adventure, Drama, Western. Director: Alan J. Pakula Jeepers! | | Gross: James Redford, an activist, filmmaker and philanthropist, has died, a rep for his father, actor and director Robert Redford, confirmed to CNN Tuesday. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. 181 min During WW2, a lonely German air-raid warden captures two downed American airmen and keeps them prisoner in his basement way past the end of the war. George Roy Hill | 1,370 Robert Redford, $5.13M, R | SPOILER AHEAD!! Robert Redford He co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance Up Close & Personal (1996), and with Kristin Scott Thomas and a young Scarlett Johansson in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed. Robert Redford, Director: After passing both the written and the practical exams, and being awarded the private pilot license I had worked so hard to get, my friends seemed to crawl out of the woodwork, always needing a ride to some distant place. Sydney Pollack 43,764 [49], On May 24, 2015, Redford delivered the commencement address and received an honorary degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. It was just like slipping into my favorite old jacket. The Air Force didnt teach me to fly, though I was once scheduled for the OCS (Officer Candidate School) class that would later see me assigned to flight school. | 2 highest-grossing film for the year, the critically acclaimed All the President's Men. 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. Drama, Romance. At first, I certainly didnt come naturally to flying. 81,714 Robert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. Drama, Romance. Cliff Robertson, | [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. 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. Stars: | Golf has always struck me as something of a dangerous undertaking. Drama, Western. | Gross: 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. $20.64M, PG Redford, who starred in the 1972 political comedy The Candidate, chats with then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in September 1976 in Georgia. 83 min Redford is also one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival. 2019, Film - Drame, Aventure, Action. 218,905 $0.03M, G | 108 min The airplane has no choice but to follow along with me. Paul Newman, The pilot climbed to turn east out over the Ohio River toward the West Virginia hills, circled upriver, and then turned south again to swoop back for another very low pass across the field. I would solo out on Friday the 13thin April of 1956, after seven hours of dual instruction. Post WW-I barnstorming pilot has a shot at living his dream. 42,069 Oona Laurence, Votes: | A sobering thought struck me: golfing was clearly more dangerous than flying around in an airplane. [74] In 2013, he was identified by its CEO, Russ Girling, for leading the anti-pipeline protest movement.[74]. Still, I wasnt about to just up and quit. Jane Fonda, The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbor. [4] His first film as director was 1980's Best Picture winner Ordinary People, a drama about the slow disintegration of an upper-middle class family, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford bought a ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah, called "Timp Haven". $6.74M, R During that time, he planned to direct and star in a sequel of The Candidate[32] but the project never happened. I never caddied again, though, and Ive never learned to play golf. Comedy, Crime, Romance. Wyoming, early 1900s. | Stars: [35] The same year, he played news anchor Dan Rather in James Vanderbilt's Truth alongside Cate Blanchett. Will Geer, | Gross: Stars: Robert Redford, All the President's Men (1976), in which Redford and Hoffman play Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, was a landmark film for Redford. Redford appeared in the 2011 documentary Buck by Cindy Meehl, where he discussed his experiences with title subject Buck Brannaman during the production of The Horse Whisperer. Demi Moore, | In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. Director: Director: Kristin Scott Thomas, The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichd and overly sentimental. Drama, Family, Romance. But the scene that really sticks in my mind is Susan Sarandon's stunt on the wing; that must've been one harrowing experience! $2.54M, G Chris Evans, 20,570 Anthony Russo, | Gross: Director: I began to time the train and to adjust my airplanes speed to the speed of the train. | 110 min Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. | Robert Downey Jr., | Robert Redford, 102 min [50] On November 22, 2016, President Barack Obama honored Redford with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. | Gross: $106.61M, PG 126 min Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. Let me show you a hammerhead stall, he said. [4], Redford's next film, Legal Eagles (1986) alongside Debra Winger, was only a minor success at the box office. Drama, Romance, War. By the end of my fourth hour of dual flight instruction, I could perform a two-turn spin in either direction and pull back out into level flight within ten degrees of a pre-determined heading. Votes: $9.24M, R Personal finances would delay the private pilots license until the following year. Joe Mantegna, Votes: Kim Basinger, Votes: | He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992, which was a return to mainstream success for Redford as a director and brought a young Brad Pitt to greater prominence. WebRobert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing adventure! No seats, only canvas webbing along either side of the fuselage for seating. Rod Lurie 856,305 The movie proved to be Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful of their seven movies together. Thoroughly enjoyable, Redford in his prime, Not one of Redford's bestunless you're into flying films. [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. Comedy, Drama. 134 min Katharine Ross, 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. Stars: 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). He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. | 19,421 Brian McCarthy, The younger 106 min Star: | Redford attended the University of Colorado in the 1950s and received an honorary degree in 1988. 98 min Tommy Matsuda, PG Comedy, Drama, Romance. I absolutely loved Alaska and all its empty grandeur. Not a bad introduction to the Air Force too bad it was in the back. Stanley Tucci, Watching all these wonderful actors in their prime, the great storyline and the great cinematography for the first time has had me enthralled. Susan Sarandon, Votes: Redfords liberal political engagement off-screen has always overflowed effortlessly into his acting work and in the roles he has chosen. Director: Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Director: He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment. Director: A tale of knights of the air, in a quest of their Graal. In conclusion, I think that this was the first film that I watched, thinking I am an adult enjoying an adult story. Redford had optioned the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman, but had shelved the project after Newman's death. Yaphet Kotto, Now, in 2013 I found it on Netflix and find it to be a very nice, very enjoyable movie. Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals) will direct the pilot and executive produce. | Gross: Redford in his youthful heyday, following the success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Susan Sarandon as the female lead, and yet, apparently, so few have ever seen this that less than two pages covers comments. He was a 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award/Honorary Oscar recipient at the 74th Academy Awards. "[45], The University of Southern California (USC) School of Dramatic Arts announced the first annual Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists in 2009. ", 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. Seventies family entertainment picture, which never rises above average though. After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights. Mort Mason soloed on Friday the 13th (April 1956) on an airplane with skis, in a 20-knot crosswind at Lake Hood, Alaska, in a serious snowstorm. Follows the life post WW1 of a pilot trying to get work barnstorming and in the film business. | Gross: | [36] Redford played bank robber Forrest Tucker in the drama film The Old Man & the Gun, which was released in September 2018, and for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. Biography, Comedy, Crime. Eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War . 138 min [60] Redford has seven grandchildren. | Joe Russo Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi. Ill be eternally grateful for that. In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable television channel devoted to airing independent films. A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item. Director: Directors: And, inside that office, I got my first look at Mr. George Kitchen. 8.4. 125 min 169 min | The film's opening title card read: "Nebraska, 1926" and shows the old black-and-white Universal Pictures logo presentation, which features an old early 20th Century plane flying around the orbit of the planet earth . Martin, Robert Redford, Tina Elmo and Vince A superb, terrific ending that haunts me since my childhood. | The aging train would leave Anchorage headed for Seward, passing south and east on its way out of the city. [73], Redford is opposed to the TransCanada Corporation's Keystone Pipeline. 82,088 Tomas Milian, Votes: Waldo is trying to free him from the burning plane. I learned that I would first have to re-enlist for six years, and I didnt want to give Uncle Sam any more than the four years I had already signed on for. Mary Steenburgen, Votes: $19.99M, PG | 102 min With five years spent on the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. It was definitely an acquired skill for me, and, without question, not one with which I had been born. Robert Redford, [4], In 1975, Redford's hit movies included 1920s aviation drama, The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), and the spy thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), alongside Faye Dunaway, which finished at Nos. Stars: He endorsed Democratic President Barack Obama for re-election in 2012. But the thought of being a thousand miles from a place where one could actually touch bottom drew something of a dampening image. February 27, 2023 endeavor air pilot contract No Comments . Arthur Penn He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). 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