Robert Redford

The rugged, dashingly handsome Robert Redford was among the biggest movie stars of the 1970s; while an increasingly rare on-screen presence in subsequent years, he remained a powerful motion picture industry force as an Academy Award-winning director as well as a highly visible champion of American independent filmmaking. Born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18, 1937 in Santa Monica, CA, he attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship, but was kicked out for drunkenness; after spending a year as an oil worker, he traveled to Europe, living the painter's ...