Robert Redford
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08/17/1936
Santa Monica, CA |
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| Scored his first major stage hit four years later with Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park; reprised the role of Paul Bratter in the 1967 big-screen adaptation. |
| Appeared on numerous TV series in the early 1960s, including Maverick, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables. |
| Founded the nonprofit Sundance Institute in Park City, UT, in 1980---a venture that has since spawned the Sundance Film Festival and cable TV station the Sundance Channel. |
| First appeared on Broadway in 1959's Tall Story. |
| Traveled to Europe to study art and painting after losing the baseball scholarship on which he was attending the University of Colorado. |
| Made his big-screen debut in 1962, starring alongside Sydney Pollack and Tom Skeritt in the Korean War drama War Hunt. |
