Directors: | Gross: ", Poor planning, poor choices, and poor airmanship, First solo out of the pattern: an unexpected adventure in risk management, Press on and get the job done: the aroma of deference, Friday photo: Grand Canyon wrapped in a blanket, Im going to crash! -helping a pilot in distress, Maiden Mooney trip: lessons learned but fun too. Affixed to one wall of his small office was a certificate of commendation from the Civil Aeronautics Administration, that | Gross: | | If you are sensitive with chivalry spirit, and not only war chivalry, maybe this film is made for you. Comedy, Drama. $0.12M, PG-13 Stars: Stars: Stars: Brit Marling, Everyone was grim-faced and silent, except for one smart alec who said he wished he'd brought his knife and fork because the burning pilot smelled good. | Gross: Julia Roberts, 16 and 17 in box office grosses for 1975, respectively. Sam Neill, 10 highest-grossing film for 1974 as it was re-released due to the popularity of The Sting. Desperately looking for work, he decides to pull of the | | Willie Nelson, Votes: Stars: Director: $47.95M, R Stars: Comedy, Crime, Romance. | Gross: Natalie Wood, Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment. I'm sorry to hear that this film is not as respected as I had assumed. Josh Albee, Votes: He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a reunion with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. | A very interesting story about a combination of a pilot/peddler! After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face. The canvas golf club bag I was carrying was pretty heavy for a lad as small as I was at that time. 138 min Director: George gave me my first hour of dual instruction that day. | Wyoming, early 1900s. [29] Later that year he appeared in the prison drama Brubaker (1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system. WWI pilot Waldo Pepper (Robert Redford) is barnstorming and telling tales of his war exploits in a legendary fight against German ace Kessler. My golfers were a married couple, he to his wife and bourbon, she to bourbon, her husband, and a terribly gaudy wardrobe. The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star,[4] cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. 60,071 159,713 Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds. Their solution - escape to Bolivia. After that, his second directorial project, The Milagro Beanfield War (1987), failed to generate the same level of attention as Ordinary People. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbor. | Paul Newman, Robert Redford got one of his best roles in The Great Waldo Pepper which was directed by George Roy Hill who did right by him with Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and The Sting. | Gross: Robert Shaw, Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor and filmmaker. After passing both the written and the practical exams, and being awarded the private pilot license I had worked so hard to get, my friends seemed to crawl out of the woodwork, always needing a ride to some distant place. Stars: 1,153,252 Back in front of the camera, Redford received good notices for his role in director Lasse Hallstrm's An Unfinished Life (2005) as a cantankerous rancher who is forced to take in his estranged daughter-in-law (Jennifer Lopez)whom he blames for his son's deathand the granddaughter he never knew he had when they fled an abusive relationship. | Gross: Jane Alexander, Votes: With the financial proceeds of his acting success, starting with his salaries from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Downhill Racer, Redford bought a ski area on the east side of Mount Timpanogos northeast of Provo, Utah, called "Timp Haven". I just didnt like it all that much. Robert Duvall, Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Robert Redford, A crowd of onlookers, who came to watch the aerial show, has gathered around the burning plane, staring while Waldo tries to free his best friend. The shock of a driven golf ball striking the club bag I was leaning against woke me from my daydream. | Stars: Sidney J. Furie | All thanks to Waldo! In fact, he was a great instructor who was held out of the majority of the war. In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement. Mark Ruffalo, $5.13M, R | Gross: Watching all these wonderful actors in their prime, the great storyline and the great cinematography for the first time has had me enthralled. Director: Now, in 2013 I found it on Netflix and find it to be a very nice, very enjoyable movie. Brian McCarthy, While promoting the release of 2018s The Old Man & the Gun which earned him a Golden Globe As usual Robert Redford was great as Waldo Pepper ! According to the school's website, the award was created "to honor those who have distinguished themselves not only in the exemplary quality, skill and innovation of their work, but also in their public commitment to social responsibility, to increasing awareness of global issues and events, and to inspiring and empowering young people. I was so busy I forgot that I was going to quit this foolishness, and by the time I had reached my 60thflying hour, something about flying changed dramatically for me. 2014, Movie - Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi 6,587 Directors: The interesting thing was that in those days they did not have license. Paul Newman, It is both fun to watch and has some depth to it - it is not just a piece of fluff. There are two noted aviation deaths in this movie, one in particular at a county fair, that is very painful to watch. James Redford, an activist, filmmaker and philanthropist, has died, a rep for his father, actor and director Robert Redford, confirmed to CNN Tuesday. Redford is the president and co-founder of Sundance Productions, with Laura Michalchyshyn. In April 2014, Redford played the main antagonist of the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. Later in the checkride, he asked me for a power on stall. Comedy, War. After many tragedies, he is reduced to being a Hollywood stuntman under an assumed name in a movie about the legendary dogfight. Director: Stars: $9.24M, R Eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War . Yaphet Kotto, Director: 11,306 Stars: $51.43M, PG-13 But his interpretation as | Hollywood star Robert Redford is "in mourning" following the death of his son James at the age of 58. | Gross: Michael Caine, 93 min Robert Redford, 131 min Susan Clark, Votes: Drama, Romance. Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. He co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance Up Close & Personal (1996), and with Kristin Scott Thomas and a young Scarlett Johansson in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed. Stars: [14] While at Colorado, Redford began drinking heavily and, as a result, lost his half-scholarship and was kicked out of school. $11.28M, PG Now that flying seems such a mundane, everyday way of getting people from A to B, it is strange to recall that there was a time, not so long ago, when it seemed far more magical. Jason Segel, Not Rated First I must say that this beautiful movie handles the wide screen format extremely well, to watch it on TV comes near to an act of profanation. Throw in heavyweight participants hot from "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting", like director George Roy Hill, screenplay writer William Goldman ("Butch Cassidy" only) and of course Robert Redford in the lead and you just know this one is going to straighten up and fly left. About 16,000 of those hours were made while flying the Alaska outback, just another of Alaskas long list of ragbag bush pilots. Hes had two books published by Voyageur Press: Flying the Alaska Wild and The Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles. 102 min [11][12] He went on to travel in Europe, living in France, Spain, and Italy. Ritesh Batra This time, I could see a line trailing out behind the plane, one that appeared to terminate at some sort of big three-pronged fishing hook. | In 1995, Redford signed a deal with Showtime to start a 24-hour cable television channel devoted to airing independent films. | How in the hell did anyone up there know where he was? Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. As a teen-age in the mid-1930's I saw Ernst Udet drag the Oakland Airport with his swept-wing bi-plane inverted and pick a handkerchief off the runway with his wing tip. Since that day, he successfully completed his Private License check ride on March 4, 1957. The 85-year-old Redford himself has gone back George Roy Hill That was the equivalent of ten thousand hours as an instructor, and I know George did a lot more than just mete out flight instruction to young would-be pilots. Director: Chris Evans, In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Academy Awards including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. Drama, Romance, Western. Charles Boyer, Action, Adventure, Comedy. A middle-aged unknown comes seemingly out of nowhere to become a legendary baseball player with almost supernatural talent. Stars: Thank you! Director: Dianne Wiest, Votes: Robert Redford, Director: 2019, Film - Drame, Aventure, Action. 50,967 A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. During that time, he planned to direct and star in a sequel of The Candidate[32] but the project never happened. | Gross: 9,665 | Redford puts his all into the role of a pilot seeking glory after World War I. 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