Robert Redford filmography

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Redford at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

This is the filmography of American actor, director, producer and activist Robert Redford.

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Redford gained prominence for his leading roles in the romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park (1967) opposite Jane Fonda and the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) alongside Paul Newman. He reunited with Newman in the 1973 caper film The Sting receiving his only nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He continued his leading man status starring in the western film Jeremiah Johnson , the political drama The Candidate (both 1972), the romantic dramas The Way We Were (1973), and The Great Gatsby (1974), and the dramas Three Days of the Condor , and The Great Waldo Pepper (both 1975). The following year he starred as Bob Woodward in the Alan J. Pakula political drama All the President's Men (1976). He later appeared in the Richard Attenborough war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Sydney Pollack western comedy The Electric Horseman (1979).

He further established himself as a star in the Barry Levinson sports drama The Natural (1984) and the Sydney Pollack epic romance Out of Africa (1985). He continued appearing in films such as Sneakers (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Horse Whisperer (1998), An Unfinished Life (2005), All Is Lost (2013), A Walk in the Woods (2015), Pete's Dragon (2016), and The Discovery (2017). In 2014, he entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe appearing as Alexander Pierce in Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), a role he would reprise in Avengers: Endgame (2019). In 2015, he portrayed Dan Rather in the drama Truth (2015). He reunited with Jane Fonda in the Netflix romance Our Souls at Night (2017), and had his final starring role in The Old Man & the Gun (2018).

In 1980 he made his directorial film debut with Ordinary People , which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, with Redford receiving the Academy Award for Best Director. He continued directing films including The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Horse Whisperer (1998), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), Lions for Lambs (2007), The Conspirator (2010), and The Company You Keep (2012). In 2002 he received the Academy Honorary Award as an "Actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere."

Film

Acting roles

YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes
1960 Tall Story Basketball Player Joshua Logan Uncredited
1962 War Hunt Private Roy Loomis Denis Sanders
1965 Inside Daisy Clover Wade Lewis Robert Mulligan
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious Capt. Hank Wilson Gottfried Reinhardt
1966 This Property Is Condemned Owen Legate Sydney Pollack
The Chase Charlie 'Bubber' Reeves Arthur Penn
1967 Barefoot in the Park Paul Bratter Gene Saks
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Sundance Kid George Roy Hill
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Dept. Sheriff Christopher 'Coop' Cooper Abraham Polonsky
Downhill Racer David Chappellet Michael Ritchie
1970 Little Fauss and Big Halsy Halsy Knox Sidney J. Furie
1972 Jeremiah Johnson Jeremiah JohnsonSydney Pollack
The Candidate Bill McKayMichael Ritchie
The Hot Rock John Archibald Dortmunder Peter Yates
1973 The Sting Johnny HookerGeorge Roy Hill
The Way We Were Hubbell GardinerSydney Pollack
1974 The Great Gatsby Jay Gatsby Jack Clayton
1975 Three Days of the Condor Joseph Turner, a.k.a. The CondorSydney Pollack
The Great Waldo Pepper Waldo PepperGeorge Roy Hill
1976 All the President's Men Bob Woodward Alan J. Pakula
1977 A Bridge Too Far Major Julian Cook Richard Attenborough
1979 The Electric Horseman Norman 'Sonny' SteeleSydney Pollack
1980 Brubaker Henry Brubaker Stuart Rosenberg
1984 The Natural Roy Hobbs Barry Levinson
1985 Out of Africa Denys Finch Hatton Sydney Pollack
1986 Legal Eagles Tom Logan Ivan Reitman
1990 Havana Jack WeilSydney Pollack
1992 Sneakers Martin Brice, a.k.a. Marty Bishop Phil Alden Robinson
1993 Indecent Proposal John Gage Adrian Lyne
1996 Up Close & Personal Warren Justice Jon Avnet
1998 The Horse Whisperer Tom Booker Himself Also producer
2001 The Last Castle Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin Rod Lurie
Spy Game CIA Case Officer Nathan D. Muir Tony Scott
2004 The Clearing Wayne Hayes Pieter Jan Brugge
2005 An Unfinished Life Einar Gilkyson Lasse Hallström
2006 Charlotte's Web Ike Gary Winick Voice
2007 Lions for Lambs Professor Stephen MalleyHimselfAlso producer
2012 The Company You Keep Jim Grant, a.k.a. Nick Sloan
2013 All Is Lost Our Man J. C. Chandor
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Alexander Pierce Anthony and Joe Russo
2015 A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson Ken Kwapis Also producer
Truth Dan Rather James Vanderbilt
2016 Pete's Dragon Conrad Meacham David Lowery
2017 The Discovery Thomas Harbor Charlie McDowell
Our Souls at Night Louis Waters Ritesh Batra Also producer
2018 The Old Man & the Gun Forrest Tucker David Lowery
2019 Avengers: Endgame Alexander PierceAnthony and Joe Russo Cameo
2020 Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia Lokia The Dolphin MonsterVariousVoice

Filmmaking roles

YearTitleDirectorProducerNotes
1980 Ordinary People YesNo
1988 The Milagro Beanfield War YesYes
1992 A River Runs Through It YesYes
1994 Quiz Show YesYes
1998 The Horse Whisperer YesYes
A Civil Action NoYes
2000 The Legend of Bagger Vance YesYes
2007 Lions for Lambs YesYes
2010 The Conspirator YesYes
2012 The Company You Keep YesYes
2014Cathedrals of CultureYesNo Documentary
Segment: "The Salk Institute"

Executive producer

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1960 Maverick Jimmy ColemanEpisode 76: "Iron Hand"
Rescue 8 Danny TilfordEpisode 67: "Breakdown"
The Deputy Burt JohnsonEpisode 31: "The Last Gunfight"
Playhouse 90 Lieutenant LottEpisode 134: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"
Tate John TorsettEpisode 3: "The Bounty Hunter"
Tad DundeeEpisode 8: "Comanche Scalps"
Moment of Fear StrangerEpisode 1: "The Golden Deed"
Perry Mason Dick HartEpisode 96: "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee"
The Play of the Week Don ParrittEpisodes 8 & 9: "The Iceman Cometh"
1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Charlie PughSeason 7 Episode 11: "The Right Kind of Medicine"
Route 66 JanoshEpisode 35: "First-Class Mouliak"
Whispering Smith JohnnyEpisode 2: "The Grudge"
Naked City Baldwin LarneEpisode 60: "Tombstone for a Derelict"
1962–63 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Chuck Marsden / David Chesterman2 episodes
1963 Dr. Kildare Medical StudentEpisode 35: "The Burning Sky"
The Twilight Zone Harold Beldon / DeathEpisode 81: "Nothing in the Dark"
The Untouchables Jack ParkerEpisode 103: "Snowball"
The Virginian Matthew CordellEpisode 35: "The Evil That Men Do"
1993 La Classe américaine Steven Television film (archives footage)
2002 Skinwalkers Television film
Executive producer
2004 Tanner on Tanner HimselfEpisode 1: "Dinner at Elaine's"; Episode 4: "The Awful Truth"
2023 White House Plumbers Bob Woodward Voice
Episode 4: "The Writer's Wife", uncredited cameo
2022-25 Dark Winds Chess PlayerUncredited cameo in the 2025 episode "Ye'iitsoh (Big Monster)"
Also executive producer since the show's inception in 2022. [1]

Narrator

YearTitleNotes
1970The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Documentary
1971The Language And The Music Of The WolvesProject of The Natural History Magazine
1974Following the Tundra WolfDocumentary
1975Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
1977The Predators
1983The Sun Dagger
1986Audubon Video: Grizzly and Man - Uneasy Truce
1988Audubon Video: California Condor
1989Changing Steps
To Protect Mother Earth
1990 American Experience: Yosemite - The Fate of Heaven
1992 A River Runs Through It Also director and producer
Incident at Oglala Documentary
1997Mountain Climbing: Free Climb
1998Wallace Stegner: A Writer's Life
1999The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
2004 Sacred Planet
2006Cosmic CollisionsDocumentary
Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean AdventuresNarrated two episodes
2008Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal WarsDocumentary
Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk Documentary on the Colorado River
2009Saving The BayDocumentary on the San Francisco Bay
2010Stories From The GulfDocumentary project of NRDC
2012The Movement: One Man Joins An UprisingProject of the Make A Hero organization
2016National Parks AdventureProject of MacGillivray Freeman Films
2017 American Epic Documentary film series
Earth: One Amazing Day BBC documentary
2018The New EnvironmentalistsPBS documentary
Buttons: A Christmas Tale

References

  1. "Robert Redford Made His Final Screen Appearance on This TV Series 6 Months Before His Death". People.com. Retrieved September 16, 2025.