Oscar-winning actor and director Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at 89, was once a janitor at The Sink in Boulder, leaving behind a legacy and a caricature on the wall for all who eat there.

Redford, the Hollywood golden boy who became an Oscar-winning director, liberal activist and godfather for independent cinema under the name of one of his best-loved characters, died “at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah — the place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” publicist Cindi Berger said in a statement. No cause of death was provided.

In the mid-1950s while a student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Redford worked at The Sink as a janitor, cleaning the burger restaurant’s floors and saving up money to go get breakfast across the street, owner Mark Heinritz said.

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