Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom 2016 and the Honorary César in 2019. He was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on
The Twilight Zone in 1962. His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband in Neil Simon's
Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in
War Hunt (1962). He gained success as a leading man in films such as
Barefoot in the Park (1967),
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