77 m. ago Robert Redford confessed he was paid 'practically nothing' for legendary movie role

Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, once opened up about his iconic role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and how he was paid 'practically nothing' for it

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2 h. ago Robert Redford says he was paid 'practically nothing' for iconic Butch Cassidy role

Hollywood actor Robert Redford, who has sadly passed away aged 89, once admitted that he was paid "practically nothing" for his iconic role in the 1969 Western classic

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3 h. ago Robert Redford dies: tributes paid to giant of American cinema – latest updates

Star of Hollywood classics including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and All the President’s Men, dies aged 89‘The star who changed Hollywood’: Peter Bradshaw on Robert RedfordRobert Redford – a life in picturesBack in 2019, Ryan Gilbey set about ranking Redford’s top ten performances.As always with Ranked, positioning and omissions are supposed to spark debate (or ignite endless arguing. Should Indecent Proposal have been excluded from the top ten? Was All the President’s Men only worthy of fourth place? The debate continues. Here’s Ryan’s number one entry, the aforementioned Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:Redford’s sole Oscar nomination for acting was, rather shockingly, for The Sting, a complacent 1973 con-man comedy. But it was his first pairing with Sting co-star Paul Newman that distils the performer’s essence. Although the movie is unable to fess up to its bromantic longings – did any woman in a buddy movie ever look more like a gooseberry than poor Katharin...

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5 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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5 h. ago Robert Redford dead, aged 89, as tributes paid to Hollywood legend

The star of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid died while at home in Utah

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1 week ago Inside Natalie Cassidy's life and 'weight lifted' since quitting EastEnders role

EastEnders icon Natalie Cassidy departed Walford after 30 years on the BBC One soap as she made her exit from the show

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