Robert Redford was not necessarily a religious person — at least in any traditional sense.

Though his ancestors were Scottish Presbyterians the actor-director-activist explored Christian Science, Buddhism, Native American spirituality and even the Mormonism of his first wife, but no organized religion appealed to him.

His faith, he told an interviewer with AARP’s magazine in 2011 , was “in the power, the energy, that nature puts in place.”

Yet, there is a fierce morality — and even occasional mysticism — that undergirds his films as an actor and director, says director-producer Greg Whiteley .

The Sundance Institute founder and Utah icon “championed the underdog, lifted up voices and causes that were being drowned out, celebrated nature and the environment,” Whiteley says in an int

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