He has a half brother, William, from his father re marriage. Robert Redford is of English and Scots Irish lineage. Robert Redford claims that this was one of the most unforgettable moments of his life in a documentary called Remembering Pancho. He is one of Hollywood top celebrities.
When he was a child, legendary tennis star Pancho Gonzales asked Robert Redford to warm him up before a match by hitting a few balls with him. He graduated in 1954, and received a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, where he was a pitcher. He lost the scholarship due to extreme fratting, possibly fueled by the death of his mother, which happened when Robert Redford was 18. He afterward studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes in theatrical set plan at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Robert Redford attended Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California where he was classmates with Natalie Wood and Don Drysdale, and was a colleague on the Van Nuys High School baseball team with Don Drysdale.
In September 1958, Robert Redford married Lola Van Wagenen, who dropped out of college to marry him. They had four children: James, Shauna, Amy, and Scott Anthony Robert Redford, their first child, who died in 1959 at age 2 months of unforeseen infant death syndrome. They separated in 1985. In July 2009, Robert Redford married his longtime partner, Sibylle Szaggars at the luxury Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg, Germany. She had moved in with Robert Redford in the 1990s and shares his Sundance, Utah home. Robert Redford is popular among Hollywood top celebrities.
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Robert Redford was born on August 18, in 1936, is an American actor, movie director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and originator of the Sundance Film Festival. Robert Redford received two Oscars: one in 1981 for Ordinary People and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. Robert Redford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Martha W. and Charles Redford Sr. (on November 19, in 1914 April 2, 1991), a milkman turned accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Robert Redford was born on August 18, in 1936, is an American actor, movie director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and originator of the Sundance Film Festival. Robert Redford received two Oscars: one in 1981 for Ordinary People and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. Robert Redford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Martha W. and Charles Redford Sr. (on November 19, in 1914 April 2, 1991), a milkman turned accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
