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   Redford “one of the screen’s great flirts.” (Mr. Redford later expressed   
   regret about “Indecent Proposal.” He said that he had signed on because he   
   was intrigued by the psychological and ethical questions it raised about   
   love, fidelity and the corrupting power of money, but that those themes   
   were flattened in the sensationalistic final version of the film.)   
      
   Mr. Redford’s marriage to Ms. Van Wagenen produced four children: Shauna,   
   Amy, David James (known as Jamie) and Scott, who died of sudden infant   
   death syndrome at 2½ months. The marriage ended in divorce in 1985. Mr.   
   Redford married Sibylle Szaggars, a German artist he had met at the   
   Sundance Institute, in 2009.   
      
   By then, Mr. Redford had seen his family through grief and trauma that   
   occasionally rivaled what he portrayed in “Ordinary People.” In 1983, his   
   daughter Shauna’s boyfriend, Sidney Lee Wells, was shot dead in Colorado.   
   The incident fed Mr. Redford’s reclusive tendencies, according to “Robert   
   Redford: The Biography” (2011), by Mr. Callan. Shauna subsequently   
   survived a gruesome car accident that left her vehicle submerged in water,   
   with her inside.   
      
   Just as Mr. Redford began “Quiz Show,” he saw his son Jamie through two   
   liver transplants that overcame the effects of a chronic disease. Jamie   
   died of cancer of the bile ducts in 2020 at 58.   
      
   In addition to his wife, Mr. Redford’s survivors include two daughters,   
   Shauna Redford Schlosser and Amy Redford, and seven grandchildren.   
      
   Mr. Redford’s finances suffered with the years, partly because some   
   business ventures were ill-timed. A planned movie theater chain, Sundance   
   Cinemas, faltered in 2000 when a partner filed for bankruptcy protection.   
   In 2002, Mr. Redford raised cash by selling half of his Sundance Catalog,   
   a mail-order venture. A more bitter pill was the 2008 sale of his stake in   
   the Sundance Channel cable network to Rainbow Media, which operated the   
   rival Independent Film Channel.   
      
   The financial shake-up may have added to his late-life reasons for pushing   
   his craft as an actor. In 2013, he was the sole performer in “All Is   
   Lost,” about a sailor struggling to survive at sea. The role required Mr.   
   Redford, then in his late 70s, to spend long days in a water tank on the   
   movie’s Baja California set.   
      
   “All Is Lost,” which had almost no dialogue, turned into a disappointment   
   for Mr. Redford: He was snubbed by Oscar voters. The weathered star in   
   turn blasted the film’s distributor, Roadside Attractions.   
      
   “We had no campaign to cross over into the mainstream,” he told reporters   
   with signature directness at a Sundance news conference. “They didn’t want   
   to spend the money, or they were incapable.”   
      
   Mr. Redford’s final acting roles included “Our Souls at Night” (2017), a   
   twilight-years romance co-starring Ms. Fonda, and “The Old Man and the   
   Gun” (2018), a drama, based on a true story, about a septuagenarian bank   
   robber. He retired from acting in part because he was increasingly   
   immobile; decades of riding horses and playing tennis had wreaked havoc on   
   his 5-foot-10 frame.   
      
   Throughout his career, Mr. Redford pushed and questioned and then   
   questioned and pushed. His tenaciousness served him well as early as 1969,   
   when he was preparing to play the Sundance Kid. The president of 20th   
   Century Fox, Richard D. Zanuck, told Mr. Redford to shave the bandit   
   mustache he had grown for the role. He refused.   
      
   “It was authentic,” Mr. Redford told Mr. Callan, his biographer. “I got   
   my   
   way.”   
      
   Michael Cieply contributed reporting.   
      
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