It’s hard to know where to start with Robert Redford now that his life has ended. He was so many things, to so many different people, and for so very long that the void he leaves in the culture after dying at the age of 89 is nearly immeasurable.

He was The Natural . He was The Candidate . He was All the President’s Men . He was in The Way We Were . He was the only actor who could stand alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting and still arguably be the handsome and charismatic one.

Redford’s onscreen roles ran the gamut from fresh-faced heartthrob of 1967’s Barefoot in the Park , his Hollywood breakthrough, to the weary bank robber in the 2018 heist tale The Old Man and the Gun , his last major role. He was the rugged outdoorsman of

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