Robert Redford was constantly described as “golden.” The adjective applied to his wavy blond hair, his sunny all-American good looks—which once led co-star Dustin Hoffman to call him a “walking surfboard”—and his decades-long career as a movie star, as headline after headline dubbed him Hollywood’s “golden boy.” But Redford was, as director Sydney Pollack once said, “a golden boy with a darkness in him.” The classic Redford character had an easy charm but with darker currents beneath the surface. Among dozens of credits, his best-known roles include a wily outlaw in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), a Depression-era grifter in The Sting (1973), a vacuous presidential contender in The Candidate (1972), and an aging baseball prodigy in The Natural (1984). A Utah resident w

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