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Redford

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/ ˈrɛdfəd /

noun

  1. Robert . born 1936, US film actor and director. His films include (as actor) Barefoot in the Park (1966), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), All the President's Men (1976), Up Close and Personal (1996) and (as director) Ordinary People (1980), A River Runs Through It (1992), and The Horse Whisperer (1998)

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The Reiner remembrance was followed by a segment that included tributes to the late Diane Keaton by Rachel McAdams and the late Robert Redford by Barbra Streisand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

The annual in memoriam segment for recently passed icons will honor Robert Redford, who died in September, and Rob Reiner, who was murdered in December.

From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026

Barbra Streisand had the Dolby Theatre in tears when she performed a tribute to Robert Redford during the Oscars on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

Meanwhile, there have been reports that Barbra Streisand will perform at the ceremony to honour her former The Way We Were co-star Robert Redford, who died last year aged 89.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

Likewise the keyboard music of sixteenth-century English composers Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and John Redford, which was originally intended to be sung, was soon adapted, by them and others, into music tailor-made for the virginals.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall