Opinion: Robert Redford will always light up our screens

Scott Simon

September 20, 2025 / 5:00 am

Robert Redford died this week at the age of 89. But his performances are indelible.

We'll still see him as the Sundance Kid alongside Paul Newman's Butch Cassidy, leaping off a cliff into rocky rapids. Roy Hobbs in "The Natural," shattering the stadium lights with a home run. Bob Woodward in "All the President's Men," teamed with Dustin Hoffman's Carl Bernstein: reporters in scuffed shoes and dangling neckties, digging out the squalid details of a presidential scandal.

And then there are the fine films he directed, including "Ordinary People," "Quiz Show," and "A River Runs Through It."

But Robert Redford's artistic vision will be projected beyond his lifetime, in the works of filmmake

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