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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
Bud Newton (US President)
for Bud Newton (US President) in Snakebite
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Secret agent and professional assassin Thomas Lanchester was commissioned by his boss to travel and search for members of a top-secret team of secret agents who would quickly train and, with their help, stop an army of space robots who can change their appearance into any living being. Their task is to stop the invasion and get everything back in order. The head of the invasion is the head of a terrorist organization, whose identity remains hidden from the audience and the main character, He named himself Snakebite. On the way, Thomas Lanchester meets a girl named Mary-Anne, He first made her a member of the team, and then He fall in love. Mary-Anne tries to escape from a big city and find a plan to save her mother. Thomas wants to help her, believes her, but she is a puppet in Snakebite’s play, Snakebite sent her to see Thomas, and if she would not do what he wanted, then he would kill her mother. Snakebite also gets into Thomas Lanchester's own head, sends him coded messages with the hidden numbers and plays a game of survival with him, letting him gradually find out who Snakebite is. If he doesn't find out in 14 days, then he'll kill Mary-Anne and destroy the whole world. Thomas took part in an experiment where a serum was injected into him, thanks to which he has superpowers, like Captain America. Mary-Anne is also different for unknown reasons, she has mastered a special magical power since childhood. Thomas finds out that Snakebite is his boss and killed him.
