Robert Redford was an actor able and willing to address serious subjects with star power. Although he disliked being called an activist, he leveraged his status to raise awareness over the environment, and in the final decades of his life opened new channels for filmmakers through the Sundance Film Festival. He died on September 16 at his Utah home. He was 89.

Redford went to high school in Los Angeles with the children of Hollywood’s golden age stars and made his way back to Hollywood via Broadway. He was blessed with what was still called, in the ‘60s, “all-American” good looks. His charming demeanor was well suited for light romantic comedies such as Barefoot in the Park (1967) with Jane Fonda as well as romantic melodramas such The Way We Were (1973) with Barbra Streisand and the

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