Redford was known internationally for a host films including Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, The Way We Were, and The Sting.
He was also one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent U.S. film festival.
File/American film actor and director Robert Redford, circa 1960. (Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty)
The actor’s publicist Cindi Berger said he died Tuesday at his home “at Sundance in the mountains of Utah – the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved.”
“He will be missed greatly,” Berger said, adding that the family are requesting privacy.
Redford leaves behind his wife Sibylle Szaggars who he married in 2009.
Actors (L-R) Ruth Gordon, Robert Redford and Natalie Wood attending the nomination announcements for the Golden Globe Awards, 1966. (Max B. Miller/Fotos International/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
He had previously been married to Lola Van Wagenen – the couple had four children before divorcing in 1985.
One of their children, Scott, died at the age of two months from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), CBS reports, and James, died of cancer in 2020.
The octogenarian is survived by two daughters – Shauna, an artist, and Amy, a director.
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