Robert Redford, Votes: | Gross: The latter film, which was also produced by Redford, reunited him with co-star Jane Fonda for the fourth time and garnered positive reviews. Don Porter, Votes: WebRobert Redford he wasnt, but a pilot he certainly was. | Robert Redford, Anybody who likes old airplanes, stunt flying or just plain adventure and an interesting story should like this early Robert Redford film. Hollywood star Robert Redford is "in mourning" following the death of his son James at the age of 58. Adventure, Biography, Comedy. Redford made his screen debut in Tall Story (1960) in a minor role. Willie Nelson, Votes: George Segal, Their solution - escape to Bolivia. | Gross: Michelle Pfeiffer, 266,483 Robert Redford, $5.13M, R Joe Russo In fact, I was sometimes so disappointed in poor landings or half-accurate spins or skidding turns that I had decided I would give it up right after earning my private pilot certificate. WebCaptain America: The Winter Soldier. Drama, Sport. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. 2 highest-grossing film of 1973. | In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. | I never caddied again, though, and Ive never learned to play golf. A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden. Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that Department of Commerce arm now known as the Department of Transportations Federal Aviation Agency. [54], Robert Redford is the co-owner of Wildwood Enterprises, Inc., with Bill Holderman, producer, with the following film credits: Lions for Lambs; Quiz Show; A River Runs Through It; Ordinary People; The Horse Whisperer; The Legend of Bagger Vance; Slums of Beverly Hills; The Motorcycle Diaries; and The Conspirator.[55]. The pilots depicted are Ormer Locklear (1891-1920), Earl Daugherty (1887-1928), Speed Holman (1898-1931), and Ernst Udet (1896-1941). Cliff Robertson, Rod Lurie He starred with Natalie Wood in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) which won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. 138 min He appeared as a disgraced Army general sent to prison in the prison drama The Last Castle (2001), directed by Rod Lurie. James Gandolfini, Director: Bruce Dern, But for all the art and positivity that Redford has undoubtedly unleashed into the world, he's endured a shocking amount of hardship, misfortune, death, dysfunction, It was just like slipping into my favorite old jacket. | Gross: [72] In July 2020, Redford penned an op-ed in which he stated President Trump lacks a "moral compass." Kitchen. | Director: and The Graduate. $8.59M, Approved Stars: For decades, Robert Redford has been a pillar of Hollywood, known for his acting, his directing, and for creating the Sundance Film Festival. | | Locklear was a nationally Stars: | Gross: Elisabeth Moss, Votes: Susan Sarandon, Votes: | [4] The romantic drama The Great Gatsby (1974) was the No. But his interpretation as By the end of my fourth hour of dual flight instruction, I could perform a two-turn spin in either direction and pull back out into level flight within ten degrees of a pre-determined heading. The film, which sat on the shelf for many months while its distributor Miramax was restructured, was generally dismissed as clichd and overly sentimental. 42,069 [11][12] He went on to travel in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy. After I had earned my ticket, as they say, I realized that personal airplanes, like boats, are pretty much just big holes in the sky, and into which their owners throw large sums of money. Redford supports environmentalism, Native American rights, LGBT rights,[63] and the arts. Redford in his youthful heyday, following the success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Susan Sarandon as the female lead, and yet, apparently, so few have ever seen this that less than two pages covers comments. | He has also supported advocacy groups, such as the Political Action Committee of the Directors Guild of America. E.G. Stars: | | Gross: Stephen Dillane, Votes: | | Drama, Romance, Western. Kim Basinger, Votes: The commendation was for having safely soloed more than one thousand student pilots! It also traveled right through the low practice area. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbor. | The citizens of a Texan town become concerned and panicked when a local bad boy escapes prison and heads for his hometown. $50.80M, PG 110 min Drama, Romance, War. Maude's brother Ezra (Ed Herrmann) is building a monoplane to attempt the impossible outside loop. I had determined to perform every maneuver in a very positive manner, so I added power, pulled the nose up, w-a-a-a-y up! Mike Connors, After many tragedies, he is reduced to being a Hollywood stuntman under an assumed name in a movie about the legendary dogfight. [25] The crime caper reunion with Paul Newman, The Sting (1973), became the top-grossing film of 1974[26] and one of the top 20 highest-grossing movies of all time when adjusted for inflation, plus landed Redford the lone nomination of his career for the Academy Award for Best Actor. When they all got into trouble for excessive stunts and the death of a young woman, they went to Hollywood, to be stunt men. Comedy, Crime, Drama. [29] Later that year he appeared in the prison drama Brubaker (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system. 34,036 At first, I certainly didnt come naturally to flying. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. In 2016, he took the supporting role of Mr. Meacham in the Disney remake Pete's Dragon. 83 min Robert Redford | Gross: Stars: Stars: A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn't commit. Action, Adventure, Drama. | | I knew right then that flying would be my world, though I had no idea how I was going to go about starting the whole process. The pilot continued to descend until the plane looked to be about six or eight feet above the green strip, then I saw him yank another bag from the ground with that dangling hook and pull the Stinson up sharply. $47.95M, R Major urging: see this film. Redford gained popularity for his looks and golden boy style, so he quickly became picky with roles and focused on showing he was more than that. It wasnt much later that a captured Japanese two-man submarine was displayed in my hometown of 12,000 residents. | Richard Attenborough After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights. The Great Waldo Pepper really is a work of cinematic art. Behind these implements came an Air Force Captain, stocky, blond, blue-eyed, and all smiles. In April 2014, Redford played the main antagonist of the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. | 20,570 The examiner in the back seat of that little 65-hp Aeronca asked me what the rudder was for, I told him it was to help turn the airplane. Dustin Hoffman, While promoting the release of 2018s The Old Man & the Gun which earned him a Golden Globe $6.00M, PG Stars: | Meryl Streep, 5 for 1986),[30] won a Golden Globe for Best Picture,[31] and won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. [4] Sydney Pollack's Out of Africa (1985), with Redford in the male lead role opposite Meryl Streep, became a large box office success (combined 1985 and 1986 grosses placed it at No. Director: Drama, History, War. | How in the hell did anyone up there know where he was? Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. Josh Lucas, Votes: | He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. Michael Caine, In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of the film, though the following month, Redford stated that he "regretted" announcing his retirement because "you never know". [48] He was a 2010 recipient of the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. 93 min 159,713 Each year between 1974 and 1976, movie exhibitors voted Redford Hollywood's top box-office star. Jason Segel, Not Rated I love this picture for many reasons. Robert Redford, The war was over - and the world's greatest flyers had never met in combat . Did all pilots get that sort of attention? Director: $61.80M, R Robert Redford is one of the last icons of classic American cinema, who gave brilliant performances in almost every movie he was in. I began to time the train and to adjust my airplanes speed to the speed of the train. This movie starts out rather laid back and sweet in nature, but it suddenly turns rather bleak and depressing halfway through for a short moment, which is somewhat odd and not fitting to the general laid back mood of the rest of this family picture. Drama, History, Thriller. The shock of a driven golf ball striking the club bag I was leaning against woke me from my daydream. [17][18], In 1960, Redford was cast as Danny Tilford, a mentally disturbed young man trapped in the wreckage of his family garage, in "Breakdown", one of the last episodes of the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries. | Gross: George Roy Hill In Inside Daisy Clover (1965), which won him a Golden Globe for best new star, he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her along with Charles Bronson for Sydney Pollack's This Property Is Condemned (1966) again, as her lover, though this time in a film which achieved even greater success. In 2014, Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. David Lowery Director: And, from that day to this, I have never looked back. Noah Beery Jr. Michael J. Pollard, Stars: Morgan Freeman, | 25,579 Stars: [4][15], Redford's career, like that of many major stars who emerged in the 1950s, began in New York City, where the actor found work both on stage and in television. 110 min Stars: Dakota Fanning, | Gross: For some reason the title didn't draw me in. Everyone was grim-faced and silent, except for one smart alec who said he wished he'd brought his knife and fork because the burning pilot smelled good. | Activist and filmmaker James Redford died on Friday after $20.64M, PG Bo Brundin, [33] Redford, a leading environmental activist, narrated the IMAX documentary Sacred Planet (2004), a sweeping journey across the globe to some of its most exotic and endangered places. Stars: Action, Comedy, Crime. Eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War . Stars: Alec Guinness, The era the picture is set in is mostly the Roaring Twenties , specifically the period is between 1926 and 1931 , in which bitter pilots are reduced to defying death in air flying circus such as Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) , Axel Olson (Bo Svenson) and Ezra Stiles (Edward Herrmann). Stay up to date with the latest articles and selections from our archives. Stars: The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who happens to be a dragon. | Robert Redford, Votes: Ryan O'Neal, 121 min Chris Evans, Biography, Drama, History. But, over the last few years, the star hasn't been acting as frequently, and there has been a lot of discussion about whether he is officially retiring or not. Did you know that most of the articles at Air Facts are written by readers like you? Action, Drama, Thriller. | Gross: | It was a whole new experience. Great reading, though! A very interesting story about a combination of a pilot/peddler! 47,323 Very good earlier Robert Redford flying movie. Set during 19261931, the film stars Robert Redford as a disaffected World War I veteran pilot who missed the opportunity to fly in combat, and examines his sense of postwar dislocation in 1920s America. Chris Evans, Tell us what you think about this feature. External Reviews Dianne Wiest, Votes: I didnt know then that it was more properly called Runway 6 or Runway 24, depending upon the direction a pilot would be pointed for either his takeoff or his landing. Comedy, Drama, Romance. Director: All thanks to Waldo! Sweet, heroic pilot portrait, with a few mindboggling, terrifying stunts. It is both fun to watch and has some depth to it - it is not just a piece of fluff. 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