Robert Redford Dead at 89

Robert Redford once tried to yell cut on his legendary career, but as it turns out he’s great at everything but quitting.

Weeks after floating his plan to “move towards retirement” in 2018, he told The New York Times, “I can’t imagine stopping at all, but just moving forward onto new territory.”

And the multihyphenate certainly covered a lot of ground before he died Sept. 16 at the age of 89, his decades-long career seeing him star in a slew of films like All the President’s Men, The Sting, The Natural and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and step behind the camera to direct movies like Ordinary People.

His publicist confirmed his passing to NBC News, noting “he died at his home at Sundance in the mountains of Utah.”

“The place he loved, surrounded by those he loved,” his publicist added in a Sept. 16 statement. “He will be missed greatly. The family requests privacy.”

He was born Charles Robert Redford Jr. on August 18, 1936 to parents Charles Sr. and Martha. Growing up in Santa Monica in the 1940s, Redford was a gifted athlete with a rebellious streak, often skipping school.