Redford

/ (ˈrɛdfəd) /

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noun

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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How to use Redford in a sentence

We are talking about Redford one day, an actor Hitch admires.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hitch knows damn well that Redford gets pretty much anything he wants.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The difficulty with Mr. Redford is, you see, as I understand it, he gets one million dollars a picture.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nor was Robert Redford for his towering, largely dialogue-less turn as a stoic, shipwrecked badass in All is Lost.
Why Leonardo DiCaprio, Who Wows in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ Deserves to (Finally) Win An Oscar|Marlow Stern|February 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

About 20 minutes in, a thought occurred to me: Redford could get nominated for this.
Did the Academy Snub Robert Redford Because He’s So Damn Handsome?|Andrew Romano|January 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Pigott has a delicious tenor voice, and Mr. Redford a fine barytone.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3)|George Eliot
In the 'Redford burn of happy memories' they sailed ships richly laden with whin pods for vanilla, and yellow lichen for gold.
Robert Louis Stevenson|Margaret Moyes Black
By his decision in regard to this play of Maeterlinck, Mr. Redford has of course conclusively proved his unfitness for his post.
Plays, Acting and Music|Arthur Symons
With Mr. Redford, as the Times puts it, "any tinge of literary merit seems at once to excite his worst suspicions."
Plays, Acting and Music|Arthur Symons
Is Mr. Redford capable of discriminating between what is artistically fine and what is artistically ignoble?
Plays, Acting and Music|Arthur Symons