R.I.P. Robert Redford (18.8.36 - 16.9.25) I loved his films, especially The Sting.

SchoolBelle · 61-69, F

Three Days of the Condor was one of his? A good film.

JSul3 · 70-79

I love Robert Redford for not only his acting talent, but also his activism.

He was a champion of environmentalism, Native American and indigenous people's rights, and LGBT rights.

Redford appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone, titled Nothing in the Dark (Season 3, Episode 16, Jan. 5,1962)

He played Death.

Opening narration:
An old woman living in a nightmare, an old woman who has fought a thousand battles with death and always won. Now she's faced with a grim decision—whether or not to open a door. And in some strange and frightening way she knows that this seemingly ordinary door leads to the Twilight Zone.

Plot:
Wanda Dunn is a frail and elderly woman, who lives in a dark basement apartment in an abandoned tenement. She is awakened one morning by an altercation outside, in which Harold Beldon, a young police officer, is shot and falls just outside her door. Although he cries out that he is dying and pleads for her help, Dunn is reluctant as she knows Death takes many forms and is coming to claim her life. While she eventually relents, she tells Beldon that she has no phone to call a doctor. Dunn is relieved when she touches him and doesn't die which convinces her that he can't possibly be Death.

While inside, she explains her reluctance to help him, describing how she saw Death in the form of a man take an old woman's life just by touching her. She then says that she has seen death many times since then with different faces. Consequently, she has not left her home in years, preferring to live unhappily than to not live at all.

There is a knock at the door and Harold persuades Wanda to answer it, but when she relents the man forces the door open and she collapses from terror. When she regains consciousness, the man apologizes and explains he is a building contractor and is tasked to demolish the building in an hour. He affirms that she has been given due notice, and if she will not leave he will call the police. She turns to Harold for help, but the contractor doesn't see him and leaves to get the authorities.

Wanda looks in a mirror and does not see Harold in the reflection; it dawns on her that Harold is Death. He explains with a friendly smile that he set up the ruse to gain her trust and convince her that he means her no harm. Wanda continues her protests, but he gently assures her she has nothing to fear and finally persuades her to give him her hand. Before she even realizes anything has changed, she finds herself standing beside her own dead body. Wanda and Harold walk arm in arm through the doorway, up the stairs, outside into the sunlight.

Closing narration:
There was an old woman who lived in a room. And, like all of us, was frightened of the dark. But who discovered in a minute last fragment of her life that there was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on. Object lesson for the more frightened amongst us in or out, of the Twilight Zone.

Death came for Robert Redford.
He was 89.

When Death comes for me, I hope he comes in the image of Robert Redford, like his character in this TZ episode, with a smile on his face, and a reassuring manner that there's nothing to fear.

SchoolBelle · 61-69, F

@FreddieUK Wow! Really, that's something!

I remember days with 3 TV channels, if a famous actor died, you would be sad but also happy because all their best films would be shown as a kind of "tribute".