Robert Redford dead at 89:
Robert Redford Dies at 89
Screen legend Robert Redford, 89, died in his sleep Tuesday at his home in Utah, The New York Times reported.
His death was confirmed by Cindi Berger, chief executive of Rogers & Cowan PMK.
Redford became one of Hollywood’s top leading men, starring in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,
All the President’s Men, and opposite Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand.
He won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People (1980) and later received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
In 1981, Redford founded the Sundance Institute, later transforming a small festival into the world-famous Sundance Film Festival.
He resisted its commercialization, once saying,
“I want the ambush marketers —
the vodka brands and the gift-bag people and the Paris Hiltons — to go away forever.”
An environmental advocate, Redford told CNN he moved to Utah in 1961 because,
“I discovered how important nature was in my life.”
He is survived by his wife, Sibylle Szaggars, and four children.
