3 h. ago Classic films, pranks and a crushed Porsche: Robert Redford and Paul Newman’s rare friendship

After first meeting while making ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’, the two Hollywood greats forged an enduring relationship. Kevin E G Perry looks back at one of cinema’s great bromances

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6 h. ago Robert Bedford's 'best friend' Paul Newman's touching final words before his death

Robert Redford forged lifelong bonds with co-stars like Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, and Barbra Streisand, whose before his death at the age of 89

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6 h. ago 11 of Robert Redford’s most memorable performances and where to watch them

Robert Redford's career spans generations, making every film notable

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9 h. ago Oscar winner Robert Redford, who became a champion of independent film, dies at 89

Robert Redford has died at 89

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10 h. ago Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: How Robert Redford and Paul Newman captured Hollywood’s greatest outlaws

The 1969 movie wasn’t an immediate success with critics, yet it charmed the public. As Robert Redford dies aged 89, Martin Chilton tells the tale of one of Hollywood’s best buddy films and the two outlaws who inspired it

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11 h. ago Robert Redford: the incandescently handsome star who changed Hollywood forever

Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, began as a blond bombshell at a time when American cinema favoured grit, then turned into a supremely assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie flameRobert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89 – newsRobert Redford – a life in picturesTributes paid to Robert Redford – latest updatesAs the 1960s turned into the 1970s, it wasn’t cool for star actors to be good-looking. The style was more a scuffed, grizzled, bleary, sweaty, paunchy and shlubby realness. The fashion was for leading men like Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen. Even a very beautiful man like Paul Newman had a kind of rugged, daylit quality. But Robert Redford was very different. Here was a supremely beautiful movie star who went on to direct, produce and then be the guardian and gatekeeper of commercial-indie US cinema at his Sundance Institute. And he was always an outlier.When movie audiences thrilled to George Roy Hill’s western Butch Cassidy and ...

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