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Robert Redford: Sundance Institute
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Additional Resource: Robert Redford is a board member for the Gaylord A. Nelson Environmental Endowment at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. The institute's Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment has an excellent website containing research summaries, educational materials, and extensive links.
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Robert Redford is an Academy Award winning director, accomplished producer, and world-famous actor. He starred in hit movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Hot Rock (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), All the President's Men (1976), Out of Africa (1985), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Horse Whisperer (1998), The Last Castle (2001), Spy Game (2001), and An Unfinished Life (2005).
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Expand: In 1981 Robert Redford founded the Sundance Institute, which sponsors the Sundance Film festival. A great number of the independent films entered into the festival deal with peace issues. Not many people realize that there is now an online edition of the festival, which allows registered users to preview shorts from the various entries.
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Robert Redford, the actor, movie director and longtime environmentalist, narrates ``Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars,'' a documentary chronicling the efforts of a group of Texas mayors and citizens to block construction of coal-fired plants. The film will have its premiere tonight at a Waco theater hosted by the Redford Center at Sundance Preserve.
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Redford was an average kid, spending much of his time playing baseball at Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles. He received a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado in 1955 but lost it due to a brief drinking problem. The actor was depressed at the time due to his mother’s tragic death the same year. He then spent time studying painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and theatrical set design at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City after living in Europe. His acting career began in 1960 with numerous television roles on shows like “Maverick” and “Perry Mason”. The striking actor worked steadily in television until earning lead roles in Arthur Penn’s “The Chase” and Sydney Pollack’s “This Property is Condemned” in 1966, followed by the lead in “Barefoot in the Park” in 1967.
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Redford made his motion-picture debut in War Hunt (1962). His next four films—Situation Hopeless—But Not Serious (1965), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), The Chase (1966), and This Property Is Condemned (1966)—were critical and financial failures. His first hit film came when he reprised his stage role in Barefoot in the Park (1967), and a number of other highly successful films soon followed. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) featured Paul Newman and Redford as two bandits on the run from the law. Downhill Racer (1969) was about a rebellious ski racer. The Candidate (1972) concerned a young lawyer running for political office in California.
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