Robert Redford accepted the burden of being born with natural swagger, easy charm, and clean-cut good looks. To many, those attributes would hardly be considered crosses to bear, but in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, Redford was an outlier. To his credit, though, he knew, accepted, and tried to make sense of that status.

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Redford, who died on Sept. 16 at age 89, accepted matinee idol-style roles in some of his earliest successes, including Barefoot in the Park (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Later, he took on parts in which he reckoned with what it meant to have “the

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