Robert Redford in Pete's Dragon / Disney
Hollywood actor and Oscar-winning director Robert Redford has died at the age of 89, his agent has announced.
In a career stretching back to the 1950s, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA and two Golden Globes – and was also a founder of the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the US.
Redford’s notable roles included The Sting, All The President’s Men and Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, the former of which earned him an Oscar nod, while his directorial career began in 1980 with Ordinary People, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Director.
The star’s publicist Cindi Berger said that he died in his sleep earlier this morning “at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved”.
She added: “He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy.”
Redford is survived by second wife Sibylle Szaggars and two children from his first marriage.
