Date of Birth:August 18, 1937
Place of Birth:Santa Monica, California
Director, producer, activist and founder of the Sundance Institute. Born Charles Robert Redford on August 18, 1937, in Santa Monica, California. Robert Redford has proved to be one of the great talents in American film. Robert Redford is equally at home behind the scenes as he is in front of the cameras. In addition to his own career, Redford has helped advance others in his field through the Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival.
The son of an oil company accountant, Redford excelled at sports. Robert Redford played on the tennis and football teams at Van Nuys High School. On a personal level, however, Redford floundered as a teenager. After his mother died, he ran into some difficulties. "I was a failure at everything I tried. I worked as a box boy at a supermarket and got fired. Then my dad got me a job at Standard Oil—fired again," he later explained to Success magazine. Redford also had a few run-ins with the law for stealing hubcaps and sneaking into other people's yards to use their pools. In 1954, he graduated from Van Nuys High School.
Despite his misbehavior, Redford won a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, but he did not distinguish himself as an athlete there. Instead, "I became the campus drunk and blew out before I could ever get going," he told People magazine. Some reports say he dropped out, while others say that Redford was expelled from the university. In either case, he soon decided to move to Europe and become an artist.
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