Robert Redford dies at 89; We review your great legacy

The legendary Robert Redford He died on the morning of September 16 at 89 years of age at his home in Utah.

The acclaimed actor, director, producer, activist, died after a brief illness, according to information shared by his publicist, Cindi Berger:

“Robert Redford died on September 16, 2025 at his home in Sunday, in the mountains of Utah, the place he loved, surrounded by his loved ones. We will miss him very much. The family requests privacy.”

Its great legacy includes iconic papers in films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condorthe unforgettable All the President’s Menan Óscar to the best director for Ordinary Peoplethe foundation of Sundance Institute In 1981, which became a Independent Cinema Pilarwith the prestigious film festival in Sunday.

And it is precisely the Sundance Film Festival who gave up one of the most moving tributes to Redford, with the following farewell words:

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of our founder and friend, Robert Redford.

Bob's vision of creating a space and a platform for independent voices promoted a movement that, more than four decades later, has inspired generations of artists and redefined cinema in the United States and worldwide.

Beyond its enormous contributions to culture in general, we will miss its generosity, clarity of purpose, curiosity, rebel spirit and its love for the creative process.

We are honored to be one of the guardians of his extraordinary legacy, who will continue to guide the institute to perpetuity”.

And it is so, without Sunday, the scene of independent cinema and the opportunities that are born for these projects from their projection at the festival, would be completely different.

After working a few years on television and the theater, Redford debuted in the cinema in 1962 with War Huntwhere he appeared with another young actor, Sydney Pollack, who would later lead Redford in seven films, including Out of Africa, The Electric Horseman. His revelation role marked him Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidthe highest grossing film in 1969, which co -starred with another iconic cinema, Paul Newman.

Subsequently, he obtained an Oscar nomination for his role in The Sting (1973). That same year it was consolidated in the romantic genre with The Way We Werewhere he shared the protagonist with Barbra Streisand. Other main roles include The Great Gatsby, Three Days of the Condorand the aforementioned and nominated for 8 Óscar, All the President’s Men (1976), of which Redford was also the executive producer.

Later, in the 80s and 90s, he focused on more mature roles, playing a medium -sized baseball player in The Naturala free spirit hunter in Out of Africanext to Meryl Streep, the gambler rich in Indecent Proposala horse coach in The Horse Whisperer – of which he was also the director–, and a journalist in Up Close & Personal.

In 2000 projects such as Lions for Lambs (2007), about the complicity of the United States in the war with Afghanistan, The Conspirator (2010), which analyzes the irregular justice exercised after the murder of Abraham Lincoln, The Company You Keep (2012), playing a former Weather Underground, whose anonymity is exposed three decades later, All Is Lost (2013), a solo trip that examines a man stranded only in the sea. A year later, he played the villain in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and the following year, the journalist Dan rather in the drama Truth (2015), which narrates the disaster that followed the 60-minute article that claimed that George W. Bush had lied about his service in the National Guard-

His last role was in the new AMC series, Dark Windsmaking a cameo this year. Redford is the executive producer of the television project. Her last appearance in Cine Avengers: Endgame (2019), repeating his role as Secretary Alexander Pierce.

In addition to its great and varied filmography, both in front of the screen and behind the scenes, the Instito by whom of sundance and the Festival of Sundance whopart of an immense size legacy will be considered.

Redford founded the organization in the Utah mountains – his favorite place – in 1981.

What began as a modest filmmakes laboratory became synonymous with the independent cinema revolutionwhile the Sunday festival would be transformed into the most important film event in the United Statesboth for emerging filmmakers and for procurement executives.

Thanks to Robert Redford, for all contributions to the film industry. His work as an actor, producer, director, and dedication to all his ideals, will continue forever.

Rest in peace.