Academy Award-winning actor and director Robert Redford, one of the biggest movie stars to ever grace the screen and whose startlingly magnetic charisma in such films as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Way We Were" and "The Sting" made him an icon, has died. He was 89.
Cindi Berger, CEO of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK, confirmed Redford's death to CBS News in a statement. Berger said he died Tuesday at his home in the mountains of Utah surrounded by those he loved. She didn't provide details about the circumstances surrounding his death.
Actor Robin Wright, who worked with Redford on his 2010 film "The Conspirator," praised the Hollywood legend during an interview on "CBS Mornings Plus" after news of his death was announced.
"He was amazing," Wright said. "I mean, wh