Death comes for all of us, but movie stars are granted a kind of immortality as long as their films are watched. Few were bigger names of the 20th century than Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at the age of 89 “at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” according to a statement from his publicist Cindi Berger.

His films include “All the President’s Men,” “The Way We Were,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Sting,” “Three Days of the Condor,” “The Natural,” “Out of Africa” and “Indecent Proposal.” He won an Oscar for directing “Ordinary People.” He was an environmental activist early on. And he founded the Sundance Institute and then launched the Sundance Film Festival, which upped the profile of independent filmmaking.

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