Robert Redford as seen in 1972's The Hot Rock. The late actor is known for embodying the quintessential all-American style. Photo: Collection ChristopheL via AFP
He played a flaxen-haired ballplayer and a blue-jeaned outlaw. A tweedy journalist and a repp-tied politician. He embodied a cocksure skier, a pea-coated spook, a coifed conservative lawyer and even a comic book side character.
Through a career that stretched six decades, Robert Redford, who died Tuesday (Sept 17) at 89, was an intellectual Marlboro Man tuned to maximum Americana.
