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Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. 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. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
Robert Redford
Batman
for Batman in Dang McGee's Joker VI: Echoes of Laughter (October 2021)
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Forty years have passed since the Joker's descent into the sewers and his last confrontation with Batman. Gotham City has transformed into a gleaming metropolis, a stark contrast to the decaying city of the Joker's past. However, beneath the surface, a darkness still lingers. Bruce Wayne, now a frail and weary old man, lives a reclusive life, haunted by the memories of his battles with the Joker. The mantle of Batman has been passed on, but the city's new protector struggles to match the legend of the Dark Knight. Then, a series of disturbing incidents rocks Gotham. Gruesome pranks, eerily reminiscent of the Joker's earlier work, begin to terrorize the city. Commissioner Barbara Gordon, hardened by years of fighting crime, suspects a copycat killer. But Bruce, sensing a more sinister truth, dons the Batsuit once more, determined to face the past one last time. His investigation leads him deep into the labyrinthine sewers, a place he swore never to return to. There, he finds not a cackling madman, but a frail, elderly figure - the Joker, his once vibrant green hair now white, his manic energy replaced by a chilling stillness.
