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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: Ride The Lightning
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After the untimely death of the first Flash Jay Garrick by the hand of Zolomon Hunter aka Professor Zoom the Speed-Force chooses a forensic scientist named Barry Allen to be the next Speedster. After getting used to his powers Barry has a battle with Zoom but is defeated fairly quickly. Throughout the movie Barry tries to handle this new responsibility as well as trying to prove his father who was framed for the murder of Barry's mother's innocence and dating a reporter named Iris West. Barry ends up revealing his identity and working with his coworker Officer Eddie Thawne as well as Iris's cousin Wally West who is also a forensic scientist. The movie climaxes as Barry, Eddie, and Wally enter Zoom's warehouse and confront Zoom. The fight ends with Barry sending Zoom into the Speed-Force and trapping him there. The movie ends with The Flash, Eddie Thawne, and Wally West being given medals by the city for defeating Zoom. In the pre-credits scene we see Wally West in his lab as he replicates Barry's accident and is struck by lightning and given super-speed by the Speed-Force. In the mid-credits scene we see Zoom in the Speed-Force as his body starts to become corrupt and the logo on his chest turns red. In the post credits scene we see a flashback to the night Barry's mom was murdered as a mysterious yellow figure leaves the Allen house and runs away leaving yellow lightning everywhere as yellow lightning follows the figure.
