{"id":2031590,"date":"2025-09-18T12:51:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2031590"},"modified":"2025-09-18T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:51:21","slug":"the-late-robert-redford-truly-shined-when-he-was-directing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-late-robert-redford-truly-shined-when-he-was-directing\/","title":{"rendered":"The late Robert Redford ‘truly shined’ when he was directing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To the editor<\/b>: Robert Redford will be best remembered for teaming with Paul Newman in \u201cButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u201d and \u201cThe Sting,\u201d and with Dustin Hoffman and Jason Robards in \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d (\u201cRobert Redford, Oscar-winning generational icon who founded the Sundance Institute, dies at 89,\u201d<\/u><\/a> Sept. 16) His portrayal of Roy Hobbs in \u201cThe Natural\u201d foreshadowed Kirk Gibson\u2019s storied moment for the Dodgers in the 1988 World Series. He also championed the environment and independent filmmakers.<\/p>\n

But it was as a director that Redford truly shined. \u201cOrdinary People,\u201d which won Oscars for best picture and director, succeeded because of the nuanced performances he coaxed from Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland and Judd Hirsch. \u201cQuiz Show\u201d reconfirmed his talents.<\/p>\n

Stephen A. Silver, San Francisco<\/i><\/p>\n

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To the editor<\/b>: I\u2019m sad to hear that Redford passed away. As soon as I heard about it, I thought of some early TV work of his in an episode of \u201cThe Twilight Zone\u201d titled \u201cNothing in the Dark,\u201d which deals with the subject of our mortality. As his character gently explained to an elderly woman: “What you thought was the end is the beginning.”<\/p>\n

Thanks for everything, Robert.<\/p>\n

Ronald O. Richards, Los Angeles<\/i><\/p>\n

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the editor: Robert Redford will be best remembered for teaming with Paul Newman in \u201cButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u201d and \u201cThe Sting,\u201d and with Dustin Hoffman and Jason Robards in \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d (\u201cRobert Redford, Oscar-winning generational icon who founded the Sundance Institute, dies at 89,\u201d Sept. 16) His portrayal of Roy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[373116,345065,347902,347644,341229,374784,374786,374785,318948,349796,373114,333528,368026],"class_list":["post-2031590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid","tag-dodgers","tag-donald-sutherland","tag-dustin-hoffman","tag-independent-filmmakers","tag-jason-robards","tag-judd-hirsch","tag-liz-o-baylen","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mary-tyler-moore","tag-paul-newman","tag-robert-redford","tag-sundance-institute"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-late-Robert-Redford-truly-shined-when-he-was-directing.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}