This is the filmography of the American actor, director, producer and activist Robert Redford.
Redford gained prominence for his leading roles in the romantic comedy Barefoot in the Park (1967) opposite Jane Fonda and the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) alongside Paul Newman. He reunited with Newman in the 1973 caper film The Sting receiving his only nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He continued his leading man status starring in the western film Jeremiah Johnson, the political drama The Candidate (both 1972), the romantic dramas The Way We Were (1973), and The Great Gatsby (1974), and the dramas Three Days of the Condor, and The Great Waldo Pepper (both 1975). The following year he starred as Bob Woodward in the Alan J. Pakula political drama All the President's Men (1976). He later appeared in the Richard Attenborough war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Sydney Pollack western comedy The Electric Horseman (1979).
He further established himself as a star in the Barry Levinson sports drama The Natural (1984) and the Sydney Pollack epic romance Out of Africa (1985). He continued appearing in films such as Sneakers (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), The Horse Whisperer (1998), An Unfinished Life (2005), All is Lost (2013), A Walk in the Woods (2015), Peter's Dragon (2016), and The Discovery (2017). In 2014 he entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe appearing as Alexander Pierce in Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014), a role he would reprise in Avengers: Endgame (2019). In 2015 portrayed Dan Rather in the drama Truth (2015). He reunited with Jane Fonda in the Netflix romance Our Souls at Night (2017), and The Old Man & the Gun (2018).
In 1980 he made his directorial film debut with Ordinary People for which it won the Academy Award for Best Picture with Redford receiving the Academy Award for Best Director. He continued directing films such as A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), The Legend of Bagger Vance (1998), Lions for Lambs (2007), The Conspirator (2010), and The Company You Keep (2012). In 2002 he received the Academy Honorary Award as an "Actor, director, producer, creator of Sundance, inspiration to independent and innovative filmmakers everywhere."
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Maverick | Jimmy Coleman | Episode 76: "Iron Hand" |
| Rescue 8 | Danny Tilford | Episode 67: "Breakdown" | |
| The Deputy | Burt Johnson | Episode 31: "The Last Gunfight" | |
| Playhouse 90 | Lieutenant Lott | Episode 134: "In the Presence of Mine Enemies" | |
| Tate | John Torsett | Episode 3: "The Bounty Hunter" | |
| Tad Dundee | Episode 8: "Comanche Scalps" | ||
| Moment of Fear | Stranger | Episode 1: "The Golden Deed" | |
| Perry Mason | Dick Hart | Episode 96: "The Case of the Treacherous Toupee" | |
| The Play of the Week | Don Parritt | Episodes 8 & 9: "The Iceman Cometh" | |
| 1961 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Charlie Pugh | Season 7 Episode 11: "The Right Kind of Medicine" |
| Route 66 | Janosh | Episode 35: "First-Class Mouliak" | |
| Whispering Smith | Johnny | Episode 2: "The Grudge" | |
| Naked City | Baldwin Larne | Episode 60: "Tombstone for a Derelict" | |
| 1962 | |||
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Chuck Marsden | Season 1 Episode 1: "A Piece of the Action" | |
| Dr. Kildare | Medical Student | Episode 35: "The Burning Sky" | |
| The Twilight Zone | Harold Beldon | Episode 81: "Nothing in the Dark" | |
| 1963 | The Untouchables | Jack Parker | Episode 103: "Snowball" |
| The Virginian | Matthew Cordell | Episode 35: "The Evil That Men Do" | |
| The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | David Chesterman | Season 1 Episode 18: "A Tangled Web" | |
| 2023 | White House Plumbers | Bob Woodward (voice; uncredited cameo) | Episode 4: "The Writer's Wife" |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Ordinary People | |
| 1988 | The Milagro Beanfield War | Also producer |
| 1992 | A River Runs Through It | Also producer |
| 1994 | Quiz Show | Also producer |
| 1998 | The Horse Whisperer | Also producer |
| 2000 | The Legend of Bagger Vance | Also producer |
| 2007 | Lions for Lambs | Also producer |
| 2010 | The Conspirator | Also producer |
| 2012 | The Company You Keep | Also producer |
| 2014 | Cathedrals of Culture | Documentary, segment: "The Salk Institute" |
with Wildwood Enterprises, Inc
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Promised Land | Executive producer |
| 1988 | Some Girls | Executive producer |
| 1991 | The Dark Wind | Executive producer |
| 1996 | She's the One | Executive producer |
| 1998 | No Looking Back | Executive producer |
| Central Station | ||
| Slums of Beverly Hills | Executive producer | |
| A Civil Action | ||
| 2002 | How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog | Executive producer |
| Love in the Time of Money | Executive producer | |
| People I Know | Executive producer | |
| Skinwalkers | TV movie; executive producer | |
| 2004 | The Motorcycle Diaries | Executive producer |
| 2013 | The March | Documentary, Executive producer |
| 2014 | Drunktown's Finest | Executive producer |
| 2015 | The Adderall Diaries | Executive producer |
| 2017 | American Epic | Executive producer |
| The American Epic Sessions | Executive producer | |
| 2019 | The Mustang | Executive producer |
| 2022 | Dark Winds | Executive producer |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Documentary |
| 1971 | The Language And The Music Of The Wolves | Project of The Natural History Magazine |
| 1974 | Following the Tundra Wolf | Documentary |
| 1975 | Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain | Documentary |
| 1977 | The Predators | Documentary |
| 1983 | The Sun Dagger | Documentary |
| 1986 | Audubon Video: Grizzly and Man - Uneasy Truce | Documentary |
| 1988 | Audubon Video: California Condor | Documentary |
| 1989 | Changing Steps | Documentary |
| To Protect Mother Earth | Documentary | |
| 1990 | American Experience: Yosemite - The Fate of Heaven | Documentary |
| 1992 | A River Runs Through It | Also director and producer |
| Incident at Oglala | Documentary | |
| 1997 | Mountain Climbing: Free Climb | Documentary |
| 1998 | Wallace Stegner: A Writer's Life | Documentary |
| 1999 | The Mystery of Chaco Canyon | Documentary |
| 2004 | Sacred Planet | |
| 2006 | Charlotte's Web | Voice of Ike the horse |
| Cosmic Collisions | Documentary | |
| Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures | Narrated two episodes | |
| 2008 | Fighting Goliath: Texas Coal Wars | Documentary |
| Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk | Documentary on the Colorado River | |
| 2009 | Saving The Bay | Documentary on the San Francisco Bay |
| 2010 | Stories From The Gulf | Documentary project of NRDC |
| 2012 | The Movement: One Man Joins An Uprising | Project of the Make A Hero organization |
| 2016 | National Parks Adventure | Project of MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| 2017 | American Epic | Documentary film series |
| Earth: One Amazing Day | BBC documentary | |
| 2018 | The New Environmentalists | PBS documentary[1] |