Robert Redford dead: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid star dies at 89

Robert Redford, the big-screen actor turned Oscar-winning director has died at the age of 89. It's reported he died early Tuesday morning in his sleep at his home in Utah.

The actor, director, producer, and environmentalist is best known for his roles in classic films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, All the President’s Men, and Out of Africa.

He won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People in 1980 and received an honorary lifetime achievement Oscar in 2002. Redford announced his retirement from acting in 2018, after starring in The Old Man & the Gun before making a cameo appearance in the TV show Dark Winds, on which he worked as an executive producer.

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He began his acting career on stage and television in the late 1950s and studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and made his Broadway debut in the play Tall Story in 1959.

He also appeared in several TV shows, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, and Route 66. His breakthrough role was in Neil Simon’s Broadway hit Barefoot in the Park in 1963, which led to his film debut in War Hunt and meteoric success as a leading man in Hollywood.

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