Robert Redford
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Redford at ten, 1946 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
At the Bantam Club on San Vincente Boulevard, 1949. Redford is in the front row, second from left. (Courtesy of Kathleen Andrews)
With Bill Coomber (far left) and Chip Crosby, brother of David Crosby of the Byrds. Redford was aware he was pushing teenage rebellion toward delinquency. “We were out of control,” says Coomber. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
Saying good-bye to Martha in the fall of 1954 as he leaves for Boulder, where he would enroll at the University of Colorado. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
Redford’s artwork from Boulder. “I had no interest then in American abstract art, or the current movements. I thought I might be a good animator.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
Redford’s artwork from Boulder. “I had no interest then in American abstract art, or the current movements. I thought I might be a good animator.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
Scouring the art galleries of Paris, 1956. Jack Brendlinger kept Redford company, but he was happiest alone, quartering the city. (Courtesy of Jack Brendlinger)
“By the time we got to Italy,” says Brendlinger, “we were living on cheese and bread and whatever we could bum off anyone we met.” (Courtesy of Jack Brendlinger)
Cannes, winter 1956. Despite the glamorous pose, Redford was penniless. He slept on the beach in front of the Carlton Hotel. (Courtesy of Jack Brendlinger)
Redford with Frances Fuller, the director of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, who oversaw his admission to acting studies (Courtesy of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York)
Rehearsing with fellow AADA student Ginny Burns. “I was in awe of his freedom,” says Ginny. “When he recited ‘The Raven’ he literally flew around the room.” (Courtesy of Ginny Burns Kelly)
Rehearsing scenes from Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in an academy workshop, winter 1958 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
With director Francis Lettin, who cast Redford in Chekhov’s The Seagull and was impressed by the actor’s determination to break the mold (Courtesy of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York)
First publicity shot, 1962. “I was beginning to think I might like to be an actor.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
Redford marries Lola Van Wagenen in Provo, September 1958. It was their second ceremony. They had legally tied the knot five weeks earlier in Las Vegas. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
On the Broadway stage in James Costigan’s Little Moon of Alban, with Julie Harris (center) and Norah O’Mahony, December 1960 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
Barefoot in the Park on Broadway, with (from left) Mildred Natwick, Elizabeth Ashley, and Kurt Kaszner. The Biltmore Theater, October 1963 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
Backstage at the Biltmore with Ashley and visitor Ingrid Bergman (Courtesy of Wayne Van Wagenen)
With Patricia Blair in NBC-TV’s The Virginian, 1963. Redford saw filmed episodic television as a training ground for movies. (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: National Broadcasting Company)
A visit with his children Jamie and Shauna to grandfather Tiger Redford in New London, 1964. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
With Natalie Wood, 1966. “Our relationship was very close and trusting. She was an exceptional human being.” (Courtesy of Sydney Pollack)
Redford’s first meeting with Sydney Pollack, on the set of War Hunt. “We were friends from the get-go.” (Courtesy of Sydney Pollack)
With Marlon Brando on location for The Chase. Redford’s admiration for Brando was great. He recorded his observations of the actor’s technique in his diary. (Courtesy of Francis Feighan. Photograph: Columbia Pictures)
A home in the hills. With Jamie at the A-frame in Provo Canyon that Redford had envisioned and built himself. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
On location for The Chase in Northern California, with Jamie, Shauna, and Lola. “I felt that Hollywood was a dangerous place for family life. The distractions were too many.” (Courtesy of Wayne Van Wagenen)
Natalie Wood and her soon-to-be husband Richard Gregson, who would be Redford’s partner in his own production company, Wildwood. Wildwood was set up in 1968. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises/ Sundance archive)
The war room at Creative Management Associates, Redford’s agents in Los Angeles. Around the table (from left) are Stephanie Phillips, Freddie Fields, Redford, Mike Frankfurt, and (back to camera) David Begelman. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/ Wildwood Enterprises/Sundance archive)
The family with lawyer and friend Mike Frankfurt, at Mürren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, winter 1968 (Courtesy of Mike Frankfurt)
Timp Haven, Utah, in the 1950s, shortly before Redford purchased the canyon lands. A decade later it would become the Sundance resort. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Sundance archive)
The breakthrough: Redford as the Sundance Kid, 1969. Richard Zanuck, head of Fox, wanted him to lose the mustache. But Redford was adamant: “It was authentic. I got my way.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Twentieth Century–Fox)
Redford and the family with friend Stan Collins at the A-frame. “The house was always filled with music,” says Shauna. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
Paul Newman, Katharine Ross, and Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969. “We had no idea we were on to something special.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Twentieth Century–Fox)
With Gene Hackman on Downhill Racer, 1969. “I wanted Hackman in it, because he was the best actor around.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
New arrival: Lola holds baby Amy Hart Redford, Provo, spring 1971. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
As Bill McKay in The Candidate (1972), a movie planned as part of a trilogy commenting on aspects of modern American life (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
The wit of The Candidate suggested a voice of originality in contemporary cinema. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
Joking with Paul Newman and director George Roy Hill during the making of The Sting, 1973 (Courtesy of George Roy Hill)
With Pollack and Barbra Streisand at Malibu during the making of The Way We Were, 1973. “All credit for that movie’s success goes to Sydney.” (Courtesy of Sydney Pollack)
With Mia Farrow in The Great Gatsby, 1974 (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Paramount Pictures)
With Dustin Hoffman in All the President’s Men, 1976. “Dustin and I were like chalk and cheese, very different in every way. But that drove up the energy.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
Returning to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan, where his favorite actor, Jason Robards Jr., a fellow graduate, was honored in 1978 (Courtesy of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York)
The Electric Horseman, 1979. “It seemed to say a lot about integrity.” (Courtesy of Sydney Pollack. Photograph: Columbia Pictures)
“The Electric Horseman was such a hard script to crack,” said Sydney Pollack. “It finally came down to romantic chemistry. Bob and Jane [Fonda] could deliver Tracy and Hepburn any day.” (Courtesy of Sydney Pollack. Photograph: Columbia Pictures)
The first planning meeting for the embryonic Sundance Institute and arts center, near Redford’s home in Provo Canyon. Redford is fourth from left, with brother-in-law Sterling Van Wagenen seated, looking up at him. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Sundance Institute)
The contentious hair-washing scene in Out of Africa, with Meryl Streep. “Sydney was overcontrolling,” says Redford. (Courtesy of Sydney Pollack. Photograph: Universal Pictures)
Chatting with Sterling Van Wagenen, the Sundance Institute’s first director. Their friendship would falter over which films to support in the mid-1980s. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/ Sundance archive)
Base Camp, Sundance, today. “It’s about creative exploration in the open air,” says Redford. (Ree Ward Callan/Sundance archive)
Redford during a June lab week at Sundance. “A lot of talking, a
lot of sharing, a lot of experimentation.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Sundance archive)
Directing for the first time: Ordinary People, with Timothy Hutton and Mary Tyler Moore, in Chicago, 1980 (Courtesy of Robert Redford/ Wildwood Enterprises)
With Barry Levinson, director of The Natural, 1984 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
With girlfriend Sonia Braga at Cannes, 1988 (Courtesy of Ree Ward Callan)
Receiving the Academy Award for directing Ordinary People, 1981 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
Greenhouse Glasnost, an international initiative, was mounted at Sundance with the Soviet Academy of Sciences, to raise awareness of global warming and environmental risk, in 1989. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Sundance archive)
On the set of Sydney Pollack’s Havana, with Lena Olin, 1990 (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Universal Pictures)
With Brad Pitt and Craig Sheffer in A River Runs Through It, 1992. It was a film Redford had a deep feeling for. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
Directing Rob Morrow and Martin Scorsese in Quiz Show, one of Redford’s most acclaimed films, 1995 (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
Working with Kristin Scott Thomas on location in Montana for The Horse Whisperer, 1998. Redford preferred the far longer version to the one that was released. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
Golf in Georgia, with Matt Damon and Will Smith, on location for The Legend of Bagger Vance, 2000. Redford was always a fine athlete. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
The Last Castle, filming in Tennessee, during the spring of 2001 (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: DreamWorks SKG)
With Brad Pitt in Tony Scott’s Spy Game, 2001 (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Universal Pictures)
Directing Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise in Lions for Lambs (2007), a film Redford saw as a stimulant for debate about social responsibility (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises. Photograph: United Artists Pictures)
Playing his age with dignity and distinction in the ill-fated An Unfinished Life, British Columbia, Canada, 2005 (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Miramax Pictures)
The director (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
After he received his lifetime achievement Academy Award, in the company of Barbra Streisand, 2002 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
An unending political passion: with candidate Ted Wilson, following the results of his state senate race. Salt Lake City, November 1982 (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Sundance archive)
A recent contemplative moment (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Sundance archive)
With Sibylle Szaggars—Bylle— on vacation in 2008. They would marry in 2009. (Shauna Redford Schlosser, Sundance archive)
Family show: Jamie and daughter, Lena, accompany Bylle and Bob to the opening of Bylle’s art exhibition in Sonoma, 2007. (Sundance archive/Sonoma magazine)
ALSO BY MICHAEL FEENEY CALLAN
BIOGRAPHY
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Harris
Sean Connery
Julie Christie
FICTION
Did You Miss Me?
Lovers and Dancers
POETRY
Fifty Fingers
A Note About the Author
Michael Feeney Callan won the Hennessy Literary Award for his early fiction. He wrote Ireland’s first crime detection drama series, The Burke Enigma, starring Donal McCann, and was a story editor at BBC television in London. He wrote for the thriller series The Professionals, and in the United States he adapted Frederick Forsyth’s stories for Mobil Showcase Network. He was a partner in the company that acquired and reactivated Ireland’s Armore Studios in the eighties, and he wrote, produced and directed television films with the Beach Boys, Perry Como and animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Callan has published biographies of Anthony Hopkins, Julie Christie, Richard Harris and Sean Connery, as well as novels and poetry. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.