The Best of Robert Redford

           

                                                               1936 -- 2025

                      I think a lot of people think my career started with Butch Cassidy.

1)  The Way We Were                            Sydney Pollack                           1973

2)  The Candidate                                  Michael Ritchie                           1972

3)  The Great Waldo Pepper                  George Roy Hill                          1975

4)  All the President's Men                    Alan J. Pakula                             1975

5)  Legal Eagles                                      Ivan Reitman                              1986

6)  Jeremiah Johnson                            Sydney Pollack                           1972

7)  The Sting                                           George Roy Hill                           1973

8)  Inside Daisy Clover                          Robert Mulligan                           1965

9)  Downhill Racer                                 Michael Ritchie                            1969

10) Barefoot in the Park                        Gene Saks                                    1967

I also enjoyed his performances in The Chase, The Hot Rock, Three Days of the Condor, Sneakers, All is Lost and countless television shows in the early 1960s. Probably the biggest star in the world for a few years before the ascendency of Burt Reynolds. More than a few contemporaries of my mother voiced approval of his form within my earshot way back in the 1970s. He peaked with The Way We Were which best exploited his status as a sex symbol. The failure of The Great Gatsby, which highlighted his bland impenetrability, marked the onset of his gradual decline as a box office attraction. Early on, he displayed his facility with mendacity (...Daisy Clover) and comedy (Barefoot...), but Redford was mired in too many star vehicles designed to show off his handsome visage.