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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

Henry Allen
for Henry Allen in The Flash: Over the Edge
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The movie opens with Barry Allen announcing to the world that he is the Flash and will be retiring. He tells everyone that he is getting married and wants to start a family without the stress of a double life. We cut to Barry and Iris West's wedding. Just then Cold busts down the wall and tries to kill Barry. The two fight until Wally comes in and stops Cold immediately. Cold is sent to prison. After the wedding Barry tells Wally he wants to do one more thing as the Flash. After Wally told Barry about travelling to the past Barry has started thinking about whether or not he can go back in time and stop his mom's death. Wally tells him that it might change the outcome of his and Iris's relationship but Barry insists. Barry tries to run fast enough to create a portal but fails and so Wally tries but also fails. Throughout the next couple of months Barry tries over and over again and goes deeper into the Speed-Force corrupting himself more and more. Barry manages to create the portal and goes to save his mom. Barry goes into his childhood house and finds a man in a yellow suit who Barry stops and chases outside. The man tells him that his name is Thawne and if he stops him things will change for the worst. Barry tells Thawne things are going to change. Barry starts vibrating his hand and pushes it through Thawne. The movie ends with Barry going back to the present only to realize he doesn't have his powers, Iris doesn't know him, Wally is the only Flash, and his mom is alive.