American actor and director Robert Redford is dead

Unforgettable in Our best years (1973) and Out of Africa (1985) Two films made by his friend Sydney Pollack, he was an actor with magnetic beauty. A beauty that Georges Roy Hill can sublimate Georges in Butch Cassidy and the Kid (1969), and the scam (1973), in which he replied to Paul Newman, or by Francis Ford Coppola in Gatsby the Magnificent (1974.) But we cannot summarize Robert Redford to his “beautiful mouth”

Under his blond hair and behind his blue eyes hid an scholarly and committed man, fierce defender of independent cinema for the promotion of which he created in 1981 the Sundance Institute. Through his roles, the actor mostly chooses social or political subjects as in President’s men (1976), Brubaker (1980).

His nine films as a director offer a large fresco of contrasts and paradoxes from America. Ecologist and lovers of the beauties of nature, Robert Redford made it the cantor through And in the middle flows a river (1992) and The man who murmured horses in the ear (1998), which were great international successes.