Robert Redford death: Remembering his best movies and career highlights

For 20 years or so, movie stars didn’t come much bigger than Robert Redford, who has died aged 89.

He spent the best part of a decade as a jobbing television actor, but from the late 1960s, he became a fixture on the big screen, where he conveyed an easy masculinity.

He was never threatening, always competent, mostly morally upright. Whatever the murky qualities of the character he was playing – bank robber, playboy, maverick political candidate – he somehow managed to also come across as a beacon of wholesome goodness, albeit with an edge.

There are many Robert Redford pictures worth revisiting for a glimpse of what an old-fashioned movie star looked like before CGI and green screen took over. What follows is a short list, far from exhaustive, but just enough to whet the appetite. Let