FrameThrower · Actors · Robert Redford
Robert Redford
9 films · 792 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1969–2018
Born 18 August 1936 · Santa Monica, California, USA · died 16 September 2025
Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 9 films · 792 frames · top-billed in 7 · 1969–2018
- Academy Award for Best Director1981
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award1994
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award1995
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement2017
- National Medal of Arts1996
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Honorary César2019
- Presidential Medal of Freedom2016
- honorary doctorate of Trinity College, Dublin2008
- The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize2008
- Academy Honorary Award2002
How their films are shot
Measured across 792 frames from the 9 films we hold. This is the look of the work Robert takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 9 films we hold, 59% of their frames are day, 50% natural — the look of the work Robert takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Old Man & The Gun
2018 · Forrest Tucker
National Parks Adventure
2016 · Narrator
All Is Lost
2013 · Our Man
Spy Game
2001 · Nathan Muir
All the President's Men
1976 · Bob Woodward
Three Days of the Condor
1975 · Joseph Turner
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 · Sundance Kid
Pete’s Dragon
2016 · Mr. Meacham
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014 · Alexander Pierce
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 792 frames from Robert Redford's 9 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.