Robert Redford, a screen legend, filmmaker, environmentalist, and tireless champion of independent voices in cinema has died.

Revereered for his magnetic presence on screen.

In classics like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and all the president's men,

Redford's legacy is as much about art as it is about integrity. Senior arts correspondent

Jeffrey Brown has this remembrance.

Get away from me. I want to fight him. He had the looks, the charisma, the talent. Robert

Redford was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood history, appearing in more than 50 films,

directing others, and using his

fame to promote causes dear to him, the environment and independent filmmaking.

In 2018, you reflected on his life and work when I sat down with Sissy Spaceik and

him at the Toronto International Film Festival to talk about their film, The Old Man

and the Gun, which Redford had announced would be his last leading role.

I told you, you probably wouldn't want to see me again.

Who said I was going to see you again?

Would you?

The first project I ever did, to tell you how my beginning was, was a Perry Mason TV show back in 1959.

It looks like he put up a little fight.

What's that?

Looks like hair from a wing.

And the title was the case of the tortured toupee.

I still don't know what that meant, but anyway, that was my first job.

But you remember... He went uphill from there. But anyway, that was my first job. But you remember it.

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