Hollywood actor and Oscar-winning director Robert Redford, known for films including Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, All The President’s Men and The Sting, has died at the age of 89.
Redford, who was also one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the US, died on Tuesday morning.
‘Missed greatly’
In a statement, his representative said he was “surrounded by those he loved”, at home in “the place he loved” in Sundance, in the mountains of Utah.
“He will be missed greatly,” she added.
Robert Redford was best known as a go-to leading man of the late 1960s and ’70s, but was also an activist and an accomplished filmmaker – winning the Oscar for best director for Ordinary People in 1981.
It was the second of his two Academy Awards – the first won for his acting performance in The Sting – as well as an honorary prize in 2002.
In a career spanning six decades, he also received three Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement honor in 1994.
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