Actor Robert Redford, Hollywood's golden and committed smile, dies.

BarcelonaAmerican actor and director Robert Redford died Tuesday at his home in Utah at the age of 89, according to reports. The New York Times, which cites her representative, Cindi Berger, as a source. A Hollywood legend and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, her filmography includes films such as The coup, All the President's Men and Two men and one destiny. He won an Oscar as director for his directorial debut, Ordinary people (1980), and in 2002 an honorary Oscar for his entire career.

The actor reached stardom in the late 1960s, when the studio system was already dying, but his classic heartthrob appeal, the nobility of his gaze and the winning smile made Redford an old-fashioned star, almost from the golden age of Hollywood. He lived without problems with his status as a sex symbol, but he did not exploit it at any price; on the contrary, as soon as he gained power in the industry, he used it to support projects with a marked political nature, such as All the President's Men (1976), a gripping chronicle of the journalistic investigation into the Watergate scandal, or the corrosive political satire The candidate (1972).

In some ways, Redford was one of the first to shape the archetype of the committed actor, especially through the creation of the Sundance Institute, the birthplace of the most important independent film festival in the United States, which he founded himself. However, his cinema as an actor and director always moved within the aesthetic orbit of Hollywood. He starred in films as popular and emblematic of his time as buddy movie par excellence Two men and one destiny (1969) a western about the bandits Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Redford) which was not his first success, but it did establish the image of the actor as a movie star: skeptical, biting and with the charm of eternal losers.

The absolute chemistry that Redford and Newman had in the film – two friends who shared everything, even their wife, and who faced death with a sardonic laugh – was attempted to be captured again in the thriller of scammers The coup (1973), also directed by the efficient George Roy Hill and featuring a wonderful soundtrack of ragtime piano melodies by Scott Joplin. Redford was an actor whose iconic presence was enough to fill the screen, but he knew how to establish interesting partnerships; for example, with Jane Fonda, the co-star of his first film success, the film adaptation of Neil Simon's play Barefoot in the park (1967). Fonda and Redford, Hollywood royalty who shared an interest in politics, reunited in 1979 in the stimulating neowestern The Electric Horseman.

His status as a cinematic myth was established during the 1970s, his most inspired and productive period, when he displayed charisma and vulnerability in a classic of the western twilight like Jeremiah Johnson (1972), signed by Sydney Pollack who would direct him again to the jewel of the thriller modern conspiracy theorist, The Three Days of the Condor (1975), in which he plays a secret agent caught in an internal US government conspiracy that resonates strongly in our present. With Pollack's endorsement as director, Redford made his two most popular forays into romantic melodrama: Just as we were, A bittersweet and nostalgic journey through the history of the marriage formed by Redford and Barbra Streissand, and the most successful Out of Africa, an Oscar-winning and hugely popular adaptation of the autobiography of writer Isak Dinesen in which Redford plays a minor role as the great love of Meryl Streep, the absolute star of the film.

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