Robert Redford —the heartthrob-handsome actor who personified “movie star” in the 1960s and 1970s in such films as “Barefoot in the Park,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Sting,” “The Way We Were” and “All the President’s Men” before becoming an Academy Award-winning director and founder of the Sundance Film Festival — died Tuesday at age 89.

His death, at his home in the mountains near Provo, Utah, was announced by his publicist, who did not give a cause.

Publicist Cindi Berger told The New York Times that Redford died in his sleep, adding he was in “the place he loved surrounded by those he loved.”

Redford was born Aug. 18, 1936 in Santa Monica and attended Van Nuys High School, graduating in 1954 before setting off on a legendary six-decade career in the 1960s — beginning

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