Stars: | The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse. 57,897 The political satire The Candidate (1972) was a moderate box office and critical success. This time, I could see a line trailing out behind the plane, one that appeared to terminate at some sort of big three-pronged fishing hook. | [4] Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa (1985), with Redford in the male lead role opposite Meryl Streep, became a large box office success (combined 1985 and 1986 grosses placed it at No. Brad Pitt, | Gross: Jane Fonda, Dianne Wiest, Votes: Drama, History, War. But his interpretation as Michael Ritchie One of his last television appearances until 2019 was on October 7, 1963, on Breaking Point, an ABC medical drama about psychiatry.[20]. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbor. On February 22, 2019, Redford received the Honorary Csar at the 44th Csar Awards in Paris. Christopher Plummer, | [4] Redford's wife Lola was from Utah and they had built a home in the area in 1963. | Gross: [22] Redford found the niche he was looking for in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. 8 highest-grossing film of 1974. After many tragedies, he is reduced to being a Hollywood stuntman under an assumed name in a movie about the legendary dogfight. A sobering thought struck me: golfing was clearly more dangerous than flying around in an airplane. Robert Redford, He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award from four nominations, a British Academy Film Award, two Golden Globe Awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. When they all got into trouble for excessive stunts and the death of a young woman, they went to Hollywood, to be stunt men. 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. David Lowery My father never started a job he didnt finish, and that sort of thing rubbed off on me. $51.09M, R Director: $87.10M, PG Now that flying seems such a mundane, everyday way of getting people from A to B, it is strange to recall that there was a time, not so long ago, when it seemed far more magical. Ive called him George for six decades now, but I still think of him as Mr. Golf? | Martin Balsam, Votes: | He renamed it "Sundance" after his Sundance Kid character. I would solo out on Friday the 13thin April of 1956, after seven hours of dual instruction. 1,370 He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment. Stars: 103 min I will always have a great tenderness for this movie, full of nostalgia and forgotten spirit, if you compare with the movies from now. [50] On November 22, 2016, President Barack Obama honored Redford with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Stars: Casey Affleck, | It reminds me of my childhood dreams of becoming a military pilot and the joys (and terrors) of flying. Adventure, Comedy, Family. | Biography, Drama, Romance. Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn | Waldo has been telling tall tales. 104 min Their solution - escape to Bolivia. Jason Segel, Not Rated [4] He hit tennis balls with Pancho Gonzales at the Los Angeles Tennis Club to warm him up. | | [4] In the latter film, Redford worked from a screenplay by Paul Attanasio with noted cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and a strong cast that featured Paul Scofield, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes. Director: Redford went on to found the Sundance Film Festival, which became the country's largest festival for independent films. Delle Bolton, [43], In December 2005, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for his contributions to American culture. Stay up to date with the latest articles and selections from our archives. [54], Robert Redford is the co-owner of Wildwood Enterprises, Inc., with Bill Holderman, producer, with the following film credits: Lions for Lambs; Quiz Show; A River Runs Through It; Ordinary People; The Horse Whisperer; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Slums of Beverly Hills; The Motorcycle Diaries; and The Conspirator.[55]. Sydney Pollack Stars: | Redford is the president and co-founder of Sundance Productions, with Laura Michalchyshyn. That daughter is 38 now. | [65], As an avid environmentalist, Redford is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Sydney Pollack I ran out with a crowd of town folks and other kids. He gets into a rivalry with Axel Olsson (Bo Svenson) who travels with his girlfriend Mary Beth (Susan Sarandon). Stars: 107 min | Gross: Stars: Director: Ken Kwapis Sections. A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item. $19.99M, PG Adrian Lyne | 181 min Stephen Dillane, Votes: The canvas golf club bag I was carrying was pretty heavy for a lad as small as I was at that time. As an executive is held captive by a former employee, it's up to his wife to deliver the ransom. This is a well shot film (the light in the Prarie scenes are beautiful) about why people love flying and how it gets into their bones to the point where they will take great risks with their lives as well as other people's! | [4] He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (Class of 1959) in New York City. Sidney J. Furie 27,666 WebCaptain America: The Winter Soldier. | Ron Leibman, A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit. A dandy fringe benefit, I thought, if that were true. | | As a disillusioned biplane pilot named Waldo who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later he carries out a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed . | Gross: 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. $2.54M, G Having directed Robert Redford in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting", George Roy Hill cast him yet again in "The Great Waldo Pepper". WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is barnstorming and telling tales of his war exploits in a legendary fight against German ace Kessler. Robert Redford, | In May 2011, Alfred A. Knopf published Robert Redford: The Biography by Michael Feeney Callan, written over fifteen years with Redford's input and drawn from his personal papers and diaries. | | Gross: Not only did Redford show his skills as an actor, but he also got into directing and proved he was one of the best in the business. | After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights. | Gross: Robert Redford, | THey do nothing but stare while Waldo screams at them, begging for their help. Awards, pilot's overalls, letters from former US presidents, photographs with the film elite and the couple's clothes Ryan O'Neal, Each year between 1974 and 1976, movie exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office star. Action, Adventure, Drama. I dont advise this sort of thing, but those were different days and Alaska was most definitely a different place. The commendation was for having safely soloed more than one thousand student pilots! Mark Ruffalo, Director: In 1977, Redford appeared in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977). Director: Robert Mulligan Ivan Reitman 118 min Redford appeared in the 2011 documentary Buck by Cindy Meehl, where he discussed his experiences with title subject Buck Brannaman during the production of The Horse Whisperer. This movie is made by some of the same players that made Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Writer, Director and Actor). 101 min Anybody who likes old airplanes, stunt flying or just plain adventure and an interesting story should like this early Robert Redford film. How in the hell did anyone up there know where he was? In the twenties and thirties aviation represented what space travel came to represent during my childhood in the sixties and seventies- mankind's most thrilling new adventure. | Stockard Channing, The Redford Conservancy educates the next generation of students to create solutions for the most challenging and urgent sustainability problems. Willem Dafoe, | In April 2014, Redford played the main antagonist of the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax. External Reviews 50,967 John Saxon, In fact, he was a great instructor who was held out of the majority of the war. Let me show you a hammerhead stall, he said. $47.74M, PG-13 20,570 And, from that day to this, I have never looked back. After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run. Post WW-I barnstorming pilot has a shot at living his dream. 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. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe. | Gross: Everyone was grim-faced and silent, except for one smart alec who said he wished he'd brought his knife and fork because the burning pilot smelled good. | 11,258 Ruth Gordon, TV-MA This is not a great film, but a movie I simply love. 2019, Film - Drame, Aventure, Action. The latter two films and the subsequent Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970), and The Hot Rock (1972) were not commercially successful. | $29.47M, PG-13 Action, Drama, Thriller. | Director: Redford had optioned the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman, but had shelved the project after Newman's death. [5][6][7] His patrilineal great-great-grandfather, a Protestant Englishman named Elisha Redford, married Mary Ann McCreery, of Irish Catholic descent, in Manchester. 12,365 That was the equivalent of ten thousand hours as an instructor, and I know George did a lot more than just mete out flight instruction to young would-be pilots. It was definitely an acquired skill for me, and, without question, not one with which I had been born. 144 min Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious subject matter the Watergate scandal and its attempt to create a realistic portrayal of journalism also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes. For some reason the title didn't draw me in. I first saw this film in the theater almost 30 years ago and have caught it a few times on TV since. This is a really enjoyable film with considerable depth. [25] The romantic period drama with Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were (1973), was the 11th highest-grossing film of 1973. Meryl Streep, In 1989, the National Audubon Society awarded Redford its highest honor, the Audubon Medal. During the summer weeks, I would tie tomatoes for one dollar a thousand, some days earning as much as four dollars. Mike Connors, Joe Mantegna, Votes: Director: Wyoming, early 1900s. [citation needed]. Golf has always struck me as something of a dangerous undertaking. By the end of my fourth hour of dual flight instruction, I could perform a two-turn spin in either direction and pull back out into level flight within ten degrees of a pre-determined heading. $20.64M, PG Meanwhile, Redford returned to familiar territory when he reteamed with Meryl Streep 22 years after they starred in Out of Africa, for his personal project Lions for Lambs (2007), which also starred Tom Cruise. 159,713 | [citation needed]. $11.28M, PG In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Lgion d'Honneur. Eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War . | He took chances tackling roles that few others would accept, and there was always a sense of quality in his films. $6.74M, R | | He has a half brother,[4] William, from his father's first marriage. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. I love this picture for many reasons. | WebAfter spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Gene Hackman, [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. 99 min Adventure, Biography, Comedy. $1.76M, Not Rated Bo Svenson, | 102 min | Gross: Waldo Pepper (Redford) is a former WWI biplane pilot who feels he missed out on his chance to earn glory during the war and dreams of being the first man to perform the risky "outside loop." $106.61M, PG Great For People Who Love These Old Planes, Spectacular story about WWI fliers turned barnstorming aerial stunt pilots including superb flying sequences, One of the all-time greatest scenes in movies. Just after World War II, I used to watch returned U.S. Navy pilot Danny ONeill flying off that same little grass strip. Robert Redford, 121 min I was truly discouraged and downhearted. | In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.[1][2]. Michael Caine, Alan J. Pakula But for all the art and positivity that Redford has undoubtedly unleashed into the world, he's endured a shocking amount of hardship, misfortune, death, dysfunction, The perfect tool for practicing flow flight. During pre-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs. | Adventure, Drama, Western. Action, Crime, Thriller. Director: Flying in those conditions is unimaginable to me as an owner of an upgraded Beechcraft with multiple redundant systems and devices. $6.26M, PG Stars: | It actually won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Picture and Best Director. Laurence Olivier, Votes: Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after being diagnosed with liver cancer, his wife Kyle confirmed via Twitter. His famous father's publicist, Cindi Berger, said: "The grief is immeasurable with the loss of a child." The 84-year-old retired actor and director starred in movies like Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. | $0.12M, PG-13 | I was so busy I forgot that I was going to quit this foolishness, and by the time I had reached my 60thflying hour, something about flying changed dramatically for me. 6,587 | Gross: Still, I wasnt about to just up and quit. His ASES, Commercial and Instrument Rating followed. I saw The Great Waldo Pepper in its first theatrical release back in 1975. In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable television channel devoted to airing independent films. Drama, Romance, Western. Robert Redford, Drama, Sport. Robert Redford, | 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. And in this feature, it is also emphasized the true nature of the humans, for instance after the plane crash, with the poor man agonizingI am ashamed to belong to the human kind when I watch this. | | [4] The romantic drama The Great Gatsby (1974) was the No. On October 23, 1955, I marched resolutely across the frozen ground adjacent to Anchorage Merrill Fields east-west runway. Two years after the afterlife is scientifically proven, a man attempts to help a young woman break away from her dark past. | | Gross: Will Geer, Robert Redford, | A Mormon ceremony took place on September 12 at Lola's grandmother's home. Drama, Romance. Regarding Redford's maternal lineage, the Harts were Irish from Galway and the Greens were Scots-Irish who settled in the United States in the 18th century.[8]. $18.21M, PG-13 Directors: *Spoiler/plot- The Great Waldo Pepper, 1975. Desperate for money, they preform numerous barnstorming stunts at various air-shows, such as Wing Walking, sometimes with tragic results. Jo Marr, Votes: | I had determined to perform every maneuver in a very positive manner, so I added power, pulled the nose up, w-a-a-a-y up! Mort Mason soloed on Friday the 13th (April 1956) on an airplane with skis, in a 20-knot crosswind at Lake Hood, Alaska, in a serious snowstorm. $82.99M, PG Mason says, My logs, not always attentively kept, now show 18,000 flying hours as PIC. Dick Wenzel, who would remain a friend for more than sixty years, was caddying with another party of golfers that day, and my twosome was behind his group. Typical of the seventies, hidden melancholy. Director: 161 min Stars: On the way up, he described to me the tragic effects of a tail slide in anything other than a military fighter plane. Oona Laurence, Votes: He received acclaim for his performance in the film, in which he is its only cast member and there is almost no dialogue. Natalie Wood, 82,088 That way, I was able to carefully settle atop a boxcar with the main landing gear straddling the centerline of the car, riding along with the tail in the air and the two main wheels firmly planted on the top of the car. 102 min This is a great film on so many levels and I highly recommend it. Melvyn Douglas, The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star,[4] cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. Sydney Pollack | It was just like slipping into my favorite old jacket. Martin, Robert Redford, Tina Elmo and Vince Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. James Gandolfini, 138 min Charles Bronson, Redford also directed Matt Damon and Will Smith in The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000). This film reunited him with Jane Fonda, finishing at No. I dont know if that foolishness added to my skill level, but it did boost my confidence. 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