Fonda and Redford star as Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower who've lived next to each other for years. 14,138 Director: I was standing where I shouldnt be, smack in the middle of the second fairway, gazing up the Ohio River at a Stinson Voyageur as it descended toward the small Duck Creek Airport just across the highway from where I stood transfixed by the sight. Jane Alexander, Votes: Drama, Romance, War. 126 min With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe. 144 min Director: 125 min Klaus Maria Brandauer, All thanks to Waldo! Charlie McDowell She had moved in with Redford in the 1990s and shared his home in Sundance, Utah.[62]. Redford went on to found the Sundance Film Festival, which became the country's largest festival for independent films. | It actually won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Picture and Best Director. | Gross: Director: SPOILER AHEAD!! | Behind these implements came an Air Force Captain, stocky, blond, blue-eyed, and all smiles. I was headed for the Operations Office rather a grand term, in those days of Safeway Airways, our local Piper aircraft distributor and flight school. Jon Avnet Nick Nolte, Stars: Metacritic Reviews. Robert Redford, | Sean Connery, Katharine Ross, 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. Robert Redford, Charles Boyer, Brian McCarthy, | I was caddying at the local country club on weekends in order to pick up a little extra money. 218,905 A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood. Redfords liberal political engagement off-screen has always overflowed effortlessly into his acting work and in the roles he has chosen. Comedy, Crime, Romance. There are obvious comparisons with The Blue Max, made 9 years earlier. | His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). He shouted, Take me back! Then he explained what that control surface really did. 161 min Stars: | *Spoiler/plot- The Great Waldo Pepper, 1975. Jane Fonda, [4][9] He has described himself as having been a "bad" student, finding inspiration outside the classroom, and being interested in art and sports. | Director: Martin, Robert Redford, Tina Elmo and Vince [4] Robert attended Van Nuys High School, where he was classmates with baseball pitcher Don Drysdale. | Gross: | Director: March 4th, 1957, to be exact. Cliff Robertson, Director: In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. Flying is fun. 131 min [citation needed]. [36] Redford played bank robber Forrest Tucker in the drama film The Old Man & the Gun, which was released in September 2018, and for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. Sydney Pollack Casey Affleck, Josh Albee, Votes: | A tale of knights of the air, in a quest of their Graal. I was sitting on the dirty plywood floor when, through the open loading doors, sailed a thrown crash helmet and a parachute. [19], Redford earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (ABC, 1962). Thoroughly enjoyable, Redford in his prime, Not one of Redford's bestunless you're into flying films. | Gross: I absolutely loved Alaska and all its empty grandeur. Not a bad introduction to the Air Force too bad it was in the back. Adrian Lyne I began to time the train and to adjust my airplanes speed to the speed of the train. Oprah Winfrey, | In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable television channel devoted to airing independent films. And you also have in this movie the elements which permit you to think that nothing can stop a movie or - flight- circus director to attract audiences, even risking the life of his actors or employees. [66] Redford is the first quote on the back cover of Donald Trump's book Crippled America (2015), saying of Trump's candidacy, "I'm glad he's in there, being the way he is, and saying what he says and the ways he says it, I think shakes things up and I think that is very needed. WebRobert Redford takes to the skies in this rousing and dramatic thrill-ride! ", Poor planning, poor choices, and poor airmanship, First solo out of the pattern: an unexpected adventure in risk management, Press on and get the job done: the aroma of deference, Friday photo: Grand Canyon wrapped in a blanket, Im going to crash! -helping a pilot in distress, Maiden Mooney trip: lessons learned but fun too. 3,092 | Gross: I was relocating from Great Falls, Montana, to Silver Lake, Washington, and my ride was an Air Force C-54, one of those four-engine jobbies that civilian airlines were then calling the DC-4. Anthony Russo, Tommy Matsuda, PG Peter Yates | $2.54M, G In April 2014, Redford, a Pitzer College Trustee, and Pitzer College President Laura Skandera Trombley announced that the college will divest fossil fuel stocks from its endowment; at the time, it was the higher education institution with the largest endowment in the US to make this commitment. Scenes with Robert Redford and Bo Svenson climbing out on the wing were done without any security harness or parachutes. When Ezra and Waldo drive up to the farmhouse in Ezra's pick-up it is very obvious that the truck looks far too old for the 1920's time frame of the movie. 134 min | Gross: I nearly weep writing about him. Peter Boyle, The younger 20,570 [13] While there, he worked at a restaurant/bar called The Sink, where a painting of his likeness still figures prominently among the bar's murals. Arthur Penn | "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. | Adventure, Drama, Western. [4] Redford also owned a Park City restaurant, Zoom, that closed in May 2017. 43,764 $5.76M, R | Comedy, Crime, Drama. 6,027 Stars: Redford starred in The Discovery and Our Souls at Night, both released on Netflix streaming in 2017. Throw in heavyweight participants hot from "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting", like director George Roy Hill, screenplay writer William Goldman ("Butch Cassidy" only) and of course Robert Redford in the lead and you just know this one is going to straighten up and fly left. [72] In July 2020, Redford penned an op-ed in which he stated President Trump lacks a "moral compass." With five years spent on the film's making, Redford was credited by director Walter Salles for being instrumental in getting it made and released. The latter two films and the subsequent Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970), and The Hot Rock (1972) were not commercially successful. 106 min Daryl Hannah, | Glenn Close, Marshall, Votes: Jack Warden, | In Inside Daisy Clover (1965), which won him a Golden Globe for best new star, he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her along with Charles Bronson for Sydney Pollack's This Property Is Condemned (1966) again, as her lover, though this time in a film which achieved even greater success. Stars: After a great deal of hype, the film opened to mixed reviews and disappointing box office. Sam Neill, Director: $47.74M, PG-13 I have often wondered if this gruesome event inspired The Great Waldo Pepper's scene where Waldo's friend crashes and burns. Robert Redford, | Drama, Romance. | Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals) will direct the pilot and executive produce. | | During the summer weeks, I would tie tomatoes for one dollar a thousand, some days earning as much as four dollars. Robert Redford, | Awards, pilot's overalls, letters from former US presidents, photographs with the film elite and the couple's clothes Robert Redford, Delle Bolton, Mason says, My logs, not always attentively kept, now show 18,000 flying hours as PIC. After passing both the written and the practical exams, and being awarded the private pilot license I had worked so hard to get, my friends seemed to crawl out of the woodwork, always needing a ride to some distant place. The examiner in the back seat of that little 65-hp Aeronca asked me what the rudder was for, I told him it was to help turn the airplane. His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in the original 1963 cast of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park. Michael Kitchen, Votes: He reconnects with sometimes girlfriend Maude (Margot Kidder). Tomas Milian, Votes: Stars: In conclusion, I think that this was the first film that I watched, thinking I am an adult enjoying an adult story. 126 min Stars: Drama. $75.38M, TV-14 Crime, Drama. It made me feel great and I've had a fascination with film ever since. Robert Redford, | | Director: Richard Attenborough I couldnt believe it I was watching a mail plane deliver the mail! | I remember 1975 well, I was living in the New Orleans area and my 4th child was born, a cute little daughter. Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Clayton Gary Winick Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Watching all these wonderful actors in their prime, the great storyline and the great cinematography for the first time has had me enthralled. Stars: 99 min The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression. 81,714 Sidney Poitier, And about 8 years earlier, when I was about 6, I lived in Rio Vista on the Sacramento River mid-way between Sacramento and San Francisco, when a mail plane crashed in a grain field just outside of town. $858.37M, PG A very interesting story about a combination of a pilot/peddler! Stars: The latter film, which was also produced by Redford, reunited him with co-star Jane Fonda for the fourth time and garnered positive reviews. | | | The flight over the Rocky Mountains didnt last long enough for me, since the entire time was spent in listening to the hangar flying tales of a genuine, in-the-skin fighter pilot. The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse. [74] In 2013, he was identified by its CEO, Russ Girling, for leading the anti-pipeline protest movement.[74]. Robert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. George Segal, Jo Marr, Votes: Stars: Biography, Comedy, Crime. | Robert Blake, Robert Redford, Stars: | Stars: [citation needed], Soon after that, he starred in the baseball drama The Natural (1984). As usual Robert Redford was great as Waldo Pepper ! "[67][68] A representative later clarified that Redford's statement, taken from a longer conversation with Larry King, was not intended to endorse Trump for president. Gene Hackman, The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichd and overly sentimental. Sydney Pollack Robert Redford, Director: Robert Redford got one of his best roles in The Great Waldo Pepper which was directed by George Roy Hill who did right by him with Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and The Sting. Robert Redford, Robert Redford, Scarlett Johansson, In the same piece, he announced that he would be voting for Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. 108 min The cast includes Margot Kidder, Bo Svenson, Edward Herrmann and Susan Sar Director: Redford states, "The Outlaw Trail. | "[45], The University of Southern California (USC) School of Dramatic Arts announced the first annual Robert Redford Award for Engaged Artists in 2009. Robert Redford is one of the last icons of classic American cinema, who gave brilliant performances in almost every movie he was in. Robert Redford, Charles Aidman, | 98 min [4][15], Redford's career, like that of many major stars who emerged in the 1950s, began in New York City, where the actor found work both on stage and in television. and The Graduate. Stars: The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. 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