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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
Sherlock Holmes
for Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock Holmes VS Arsène Lupin
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An anti-mahogany desk with a forgotten lottery was stolen from Parisian villa to the mathematician professor Gerbois. Lupine knows that he can't choose the win himself, so by fake the kidnapping of Gerbois' daughter Suzanne, he forces Gerbois to split the win in half with him. At the same time, Suzanne volunteered with Lupin's mysterious companion, La Dame Blonde, because she came to the conclusion that half the winnings were better than nothing. Soon after, a rare blue diamond is stolen from the Countess of Crozon's castle. Inspector Ganimard, who is investigating both cases, soon finds out that Arsena Lupine and the Blonde woman are also behind this crime. When his investigation does not lead to a successful conclusion, they ask the disabled for the help of the famous English detective Sherlock Holmes, who also arrives with his friend and companion Watson. Holmes's search is not very successful at first, and the detective falls into several of Lupin's traps. Eventually, however, he manages to reveal the identities of Blondie and Lupine in one of his houses. Lupine is arrested by Ganimard, but she secures the blonde's freedom with Sholmes by returning the diamond. However, after Holmes leaves, Lupine escapes and comes to the station to say goodbye to the departing Holmes.
