Redford rose to fame in films like "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "All the President's Men." Robert Redford, the Oscar-winning director, and actor, has died at the age of 89. Redford was one of the biggest stars of the 1970s with such films as "The Candidate," "All the President's Men" and "The Way We Were." As I look back on it, I feel very good about that," Redford told the Associated Press in 2018. "Robert Redford had a series of years where there was nobody better," Trump told reporters as he left the White House after a journalist told him that Redford had died.