On September 16, actor, filmmaker, and activist Robert Redford died on the age of 89. Identified for his roles in movies akin to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child, The Sting, All of the President’s Males, The Nice Gatsby, and The Pure, to call just some, the Hollywood icon handed in his sleep, abandoning a legacy that reshaped not solely cinema however tradition itself.
Earlier than he graced silver screens and started guiding budding filmmakers, Redford was as soon as a younger, struggling actor himself, showing in bit elements on an enormous assortment of traditional reveals all through the ’50s and the ’60s. One of many display screen legend’s first roles was a bit half on Maverick, adopted by quite a lot of small roles in Golden Period TV reveals akin to Playhouse 90, Perry Mason, Route 66, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. However few are as bittersweet or as haunting as his portrayal of Officer Harold Beldon on the Twilight Zone within the episode “Nothing within the Darkish” from 1962.