Robert Redford, the actor-director known as much for his classic, all-American look as his mission to foster independent cinema through his Sundance Institute and film festival, has died. He was 89.

The actor and activist died Tuesday “at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” according to a statement to the Daily News from his publicist, Cindi Berger. “He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy.”

She did not provide a specific cause of death.

The multi-hyphenate was born in Santa Monica as Charles Robert Redford on Aug. 18, 1936. He was 24 when he made his acting debut as an understudy in a 1959 stage production of “Tall Story,” before originating the role of Frederick Ashe, Jr. (Buzz) in “The Highest Tree.” The

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