Academy Award-winning actor and director Robert Redford, one of the biggest movie stars to ever grace the screen and whose startlingly magnetic charisma in such films as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Way We Were" and "The Sting" made him an icon, has died. He was 89.

Cindi Berger, CEO of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK, confirmed Redford's death to CBS News in a statement. Berger said he died Tuesday at his home in Utah surrounded by those he loved.

Redford burst into the Hollywood stratosphere in the late 1960s, when he was paired with in the Western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Their charm playing lovable outlaws was undeniable, but it would be Redford's nonchalance about his striking good looks that helped sell his characters — in comedies, dramas and adv

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