The year was 1961, and “The Twilight Zone” had just cast a young Robert Redford for his looks.
Robert Redford, then just 25 years old, was already a professional actor. He’d been in small roles on hit TV shows like “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “Perry Mason,” and on Broadway. His feature film debut had been just one year earlier, in Joshua Logan’s adaptation of “Tall Story”.
His short role in the “Playhouse 90” production of “In the Presence of Mine Enemies,” opposite screen legend Charles Laughton, caught the eye of “Twilight Zone” director Lamont Johnson, who “thought he was amazing-looking” and believed Redford had “blazing eyes and that candor and…
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