Robert Redford

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q59215: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Downhill Racer (1969); The Sting (1973); Three Days of the Condor (1975); All the President's Men (1976); The Natural (1984); Up Close & Personal (1996); The Last Castle (2001); Lions for Lambs (2007); Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Inside Daisy Clover; The Way We Were. Count them as director (3 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Three Days of the Condor (1975): 3 lines, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the maker said so). The filmmakers say outright they were making a Condor movie.
“But they're like, we're like, we're making a 3 days of the Condor movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people) · them, directly: Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Robert Redford (the maker said so). Casting Redford was a deliberate evocation of the Condor and gave the MCU a stamp of legitimacy because he never made movies like this.
“it felt like a secondary stamp of legitimacy because this is the type of actor who never did fucking movies like this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). The Russos and Marcus/McFeely were told they could make a Three Days of the Condor style political thriller inside the MCU, provided Feige got his Helicarrier back.
“You want to do a 3 day of the Condor movie?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:19:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Ted Williams: 2 lines

craft (craft) · them, directly: Ted Williams ⇒ Robert Redford (the maker said so: Roger Angell's New Yorker piece). Redford's swing was modeled on Ted Williams, per a New Yorker piece.
“Great swing by Redford.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:33:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Ted Williams ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). Hobbs was loosely modeled after Ted Williams.
“Hobbs was loosely modeled after Ted Williams, lefty number nine”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:11:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Avy Kaufman: 1 line

people (people) · through Lions for Lambs (2007), which they acted in: Avy Kaufman ⇒ Lions for Lambs (the maker said so: Garfield telling his own casting story on the show). The casting director on the unmade Kavalier & Clay passed Garfield's screen test to Robert Redford, which led to his Lions for Lambs audition and casting.
“AV sent, I think, a screen test to Redford.”
The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:41:21 · Andrew Garfield (0.90 sure it was them)

Babe Ruth: 1 line

people (people) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Babe Ruth ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The Whammer is a stand-in for Babe Ruth; real names and fictional creations blend.
“I like the whammer as a cover.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:32:24 · Mallory Rubin (0.60 sure it was them)

Bama Rowell: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Bama Rowell ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The scoreboard-clock home run was inspired by Bama Rowell breaking a clock at Ebbets Field in 1946.
“inspired by Bammer Roell of the Boston Braves doing it to Ebbitt's Field.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:06:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Bernard Malamud: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Bernard Malamud ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The film is adapted from his 1952 novel, but its ending is very different.
“Written in 1952 by Bernard Malamud.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:13:28 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier.
“Because you need Zola to join the other side.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

David Fincher: 1 line

lineage (early inspiration) · through Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which they acted in: David Fincher ⇒ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (the host's read). A televised making-of documentary about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid blew young Fincher's mind about how movies are made.
“the film that inspired young Fincher most”
Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:42:25 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)

Ed Brubaker: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Ed Brubaker ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). The film adapts the Brubaker Winter Soldier comic arc.
“They wanted to take the Ed Brubaker Winter Soldier Arc, which is one of the most famous Captain America Arcs.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Eddie Waitkus: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Eddie Waitkus ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The novel borrowed from the 1949 shooting of Eddie Waitkus of the Phillies.
“Borrowed from this bizarre shooting of Eddie Waitkiss in 1949 in the Phillies”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:13:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Roy Campanella: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Roy Campanella ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). Roy's line about a lot of little boy in you was actually a Campanella quote.
“It was actually a quote by Ray Campanella.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:07:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Ruth Ann Steinhagen: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Ruth Ann Steinhagen ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). A real person, Ruth Ann Steinhagen, inspired Harriet.
“a real person, Ruth Ann Steinhagen inspired Harriet”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:12:40 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Shoeless Joe Jackson: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: Shoeless Joe Jackson ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The book's ending, with a boy saying it ain't true, Roy, is a clear Shoeless Joe Jackson rip-off.
“which is a clear shoeless Joe Jackson, rip off thing.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:14:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Sydney Pollack: 1 line

craft (craft) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Sydney Pollack ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). Winter Soldier's look is said to approximate a Sydney Pollack movie (transcribed 'Sydney Poland').
“And, you know, Captain America's sort of trying to approximate like a fucking Sydney Poland movie or whatever.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:34:31 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Odyssey (Homer): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: The Odyssey (Homer) ⇒ The Natural (the host's read). The movie maps onto Homer: Roy is Odysseus, Harriet and Memo play siren/Calypso figures, Iris is Penelope.
“So basically it's Roy Hobbs is Odysseus.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014): 2 lines, within their own work

lineage (lineage) · through Three Days of the Condor (1975), which they acted in: Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the maker said so). The filmmakers say outright they were making a Condor movie.
“But they're like, we're like, we're making a 3 days of the Condor movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage) · through Three Days of the Condor (1975), which they acted in: Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). The Russos and Marcus/McFeely were told they could make a Three Days of the Condor style political thriller inside the MCU, provided Feige got his Helicarrier back.
“You want to do a 3 day of the Condor movie?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:19:33 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): 1 line

programming (programming) · through Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), which they acted in: Captain America: The Winter Soldier ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read). The post-credits scene sets up the twins and Strucker's experiments.
“You know what they're setting up here, Benny.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:12:03 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Bret Hart: 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through The Natural (1984), which they acted in: The Natural ⇒ Bret Hart (the host's read). Bret Hart took his catchphrase from this movie.
“Took his catchphrase from this.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:11:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Robert Redford: 1 line, within their own work

people (people) · through Three Days of the Condor (1975), which they acted in: Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Robert Redford (the maker said so). Casting Redford was a deliberate evocation of the Condor and gave the MCU a stamp of legitimacy because he never made movies like this.
“it felt like a secondary stamp of legitimacy because this is the type of actor who never did fucking movies like this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Insider (1999): 1 line

lineage (lineage) · through All the President's Men (1976), which they acted in: All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read). The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did.
“they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

What was said about them, by kind

career (9)

career (career): Robert Redford → Ordinary People. Redford won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People.
“he won an Oscar for ordinary people as director”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:16:54 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → All the President's Men. Redford's apex mountain was All the President's Men, when he had the juice to make and produce it.
“We did the other President's Men rewatchables and decided that actually was his Apex Mountain”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:16:59 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → Spy Game. Redford in Spy Game, directed by Tony Scott, is liked by a host.
“I like him in spy game.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:45:50 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → The Devil's Own. Redford is paired with Pitt in a late-career film.
“Like devil's own.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:45:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → Charlotte's Web. Redford voices Ike the horse; one host insists he is good in it.
“He's Ike the horse.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:46:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → Sundance. Redford started the independent film festival out of disgust with the industry.
“He starts independent film festival because he's like, fuck this industry.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:49:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → The Candidate. Redford was the summer soldier in The Candidate, a joke on the movie's title.
“Of course, the summer soldier was in the candidate.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:11:03 · unknown (0.45 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → Pete's Dragon. Redford is great in Pete's Dragon.
“He's great in Pete's Dragon.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:11:25 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Robert Redford → All Is Lost. Redford is the only actor, so nothing can shoot without him; he is idiosyncratic about his schedule.
“And he's the only actor in that movie.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:32:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

craft (craft): Robert Redford → Ted Williams. Redford's swing was modeled on Ted Williams, per a New Yorker piece.
“Great swing by Redford.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:33:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

lineage (lineage): Robert Redford → The Insider. The golf-range scene where the hero realizes he is followed is likened to a Redford footstep scene.
“That's the Redford, it's so good.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:39:53 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Robert Redford → New Hollywood. Redford brings New Hollywood legitimacy to the MCU.
“A fucking great old oak tree of like New Hollywood, right?”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:48:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

people (people): Robert Redford → Kevin Costner. It was crucial that Redford and Costner both looked like baseball players.
“So crucial that him and Costner both really looked like baseball players.”
The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 0:33:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Robert Redford → Three Days of the Condor. Casting Redford was a deliberate evocation of the Condor and gave the MCU a stamp of legitimacy because he never made movies like this.
“it felt like a secondary stamp of legitimacy because this is the type of actor who never did fucking movies like this.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:17 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Robert Redford → Sydney Pollack. Pollack was the one director who knew how to work with Redford, working with him many times.
“that's one guy who knows how to work with him.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:49:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

what-if (what-if): Rocky → Robert Redford. United Artists wanted a well-established star, with Redford, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds and James Caan floated.
“United Artists wanted a well-established star.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:19:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

fun, about Robert Redford: Casual reveal as villain; drinks milk.
“I love that he's drinking milk.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:11:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Robert Redford: Imagining Redford shooting a scene with a robot man; waiting on his newspaper.
“It's just kind of funny to think that Robert Redford filmed this scene.”
Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:31:49 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)