Robert Redford, Golden Boy of Hollywood, Dies at 89

Robert Redford, the Hollywood golden boy and Sundance Film Festival founder who starred in such movies as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Way We Were and All the President’s Men — and who won an Academy Award for directing Ordinary People — has died. He was 89.

Redford died early Tuesday at his home in Utah, his long-time publicist Cindi Berger confirmed to THR.

The actor-producer-director, a four-time Academy Award nominee and honorary Oscar recipient, was one of the few truly iconic screen figures of the past half-century, the avatar of a certain kind of all-American ideal who nonetheless took a dyspeptic view of his country in several notable dramas including Downhill Racer (1969), The Candidate (1972), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and All the President’s Men (1976).

He brought his good looks, ineffable charm and romantic appeal to heroes as well as antiheroes, from one of the outlaws in Sundance Kid to the…