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Robert Redford, a generational icon who commanded the big screen as the star of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Way We Were” and won awards and lasting praise for directing films such as “All the President’s Men” and “Ordinary People,” has died at 89.

Long a critical force in the elevation of independent film-making through the Sundance Institute, Redford died Tuesday morning at his home in Utah, according to The New York Times.

Redford was a natural star who seemed to comfortably reflect the post-war zeitgeist in America with his choice of movie roles and side projects. As Newsweek put it, “What Redford has always captured best is the flawed American hero.”

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