BUTTE - Legendary actor and director Robert Redford may be gone, but for a Butte man who acted in Redford’s classic Montana flyfishing film A River Runs Through It, that experience will live forever.

“One of the most magical summer’s of my life, I would say, was shooting that film. It was really spectacular,” said Rob Cox.

Cox was 21 and a recent graduate of University of Montana when he got the part of Conroy in the film. He didn’t realize how much of a big deal it was until the second day of shooting.

Pictured: Cox as character Conroy in 'A River Runs Through It'

A River Runs Through It film

“And then we sat down to have breakfast and I was having breakfast with Redford and Brad Pitt and Craig Sheffer and I was just, this is the weirdest thing in the world. A week ago I was in colle

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