Robert Redford—matinee idol, Oscar-winning director, advocate for independent filmmaking, and environmental activist—died on Tuesday morning at his home outside Provo, Utah, according to a representative. He was 89.

Photographed by Terry O'Neill, Vogue , July 1979

Born in Santa Monica in August of 1936, Redford acted first on television and onstage in New York before becoming, in the late 1960s, a movie star of staggering proportions, appearing in a string of films —Barefoot in the Park, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jeremiah Johnson, The Sting, The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby, Three Days of the Condor, All the President’s Men, The Natural, Out of Africa— that made him one of his era’s defining performers . A successful career as a director, helming the likes of 1980’s Ord

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