Remembering Robert Redford, star of one of the greatest movies ever made about journalism
Robert Redford, one of America’s greatest and best-known actors, has died. He was 89.
He was so much more than an actor. Aside from his remarkable career on the big screen, Redford was an Oscar-winning director, an activist and a champion of independent movies through his founding of the Sundance Film Festival.
But most of all, he was a movie star in the truest sense of the words. For excellent remembrances of his remarkable career and life, check out Brooks Barnes’ piece for The New York Times, Adam Bernstein’s story for The Washington Post and The Associated Press’ Lindsey Bahr with “11 of Robert Redford’s most memorable performances and where to watch them.” And here’s Variety’s Ellise Shafer and Pat Saperstein with “Robert Redford’s Career in Photos.”
Of course, because this is a media news website, we must talk about Redford’s performance as Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in “All the President’s Men.” The 1976 film about Post’s coverage of Watergate is considered one of the greatest movies ever made about journalism (it was No. 1 on my 2021 list of the best 25 movies about journalism).
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