Robert Redford, Activist, Actor, Director, and Sundance Leader, Dead at 89

Robert Redford, the golden-haired leading man whose progressive politics informed his choices over a 60-year career, died on Tuesday morning at his home in Utah. He was 89.

The New York Times announced his death. In a statement provided to the outlet, Cindi Berger, the chief executive of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan Pmk, said he died in his sleep but did not provide a specific cause.

Born in Santa Monica, California, Redford studied painting at the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship. He began his acting journey at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and debuted on Broadway playing a baseball player in 1959 in “Tall Story.”

He played roles in television, theater and film, breaking out in 1966 with a trio of well-received movies, “Inside Daisy Clover,” “This Property Is Condemned” and “The Chase,” opposite ingenue Jane Fonda, who also costarred in romantic comedy “Barefoot in the Park,” in which…