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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
Mayor Buck Hardin
for Mayor Buck Hardin in LAND OF WOLVES (2027)
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When Sheriff Dean Rucker— a jaded, morally ambiguous lawman who’s long been in the pocket of local cartels — warns Travis to let go of his vendetta, Travis doubles down, turning to his old friend and former military comrade, Deputy Emmett Lawson, for help. The duo soon realizes the stakes are higher than they imagined when they uncover the involvement of Mayor Buck Hardin, a local hero who’s built an empire by helping the cartel funnel drugs through Black Rock. With their lives on the line, Travis and Emmett must navigate a town riddled with betrayal and violence to uncover the truth. As Travis’s investigation gains traction, Nora Highwater, a local activist and community leader, joins forces with him to bring light to the atrocities facing their people. Her fierce determination to protect Black Rock’s heritage and families puts her at direct odds with both the cartel and law enforcement. However, when Special Agent Caroline West arrives from the DEA to investigate a string of overdoses, she finds herself in the midst of a local war, caught between upholding the law and understanding the complexities of rural justice.
