Redford Dies at 89, Here Are His Wyoming Movies

Robert Redford, the actor and director with such great movies as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men,” and invigorated American independent cinema as one of the founders of the Sundance Film Festival, died early Tuesday morning.

He was 89.

Much of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was a Wyoming story.

Jeremiah Johnson, which takes place in the Bighorn Mountains, is once again based on a real person.

Below is a list of Wyoming movies and their corresponding movie locations in Wyoming.

Robert Redford starred in the 2005 drama film An Unfinished Life, which is set in rural Wyoming.

In the movie, Redford plays a gruff rancher, Einar Gilkyson, whose life is changed by the arrival of his estranged daughter-in-law and granddaughter.

The film explores themes of grief, forgiveness, and reconciliation against the backdrop of Wyoming's landscape

Redford started on Broadway in the 1950s, then moved to television and the movies with many iconic roles.

Most of the Wyoming characters that Redford played were based on real people.

Actor Robert Redford was not primarily based in Wyoming, but he has a famous and long-standing connection to the state's neighbor, Utah, through the Sundance Mountain Resort.

While he did not own property in Wyoming, some of his work and business ventures have tangential links to the state:

The Owl Bar: An antique bar once frequented by outlaw Butch Cassidy in Thermopolis, Wyoming, was purchased by Redford and moved to his Sundance resort in Utah.

Filming locations: Some scenes for Redford's 1992 film A River Runs Through It were filmed in the Jackson Hole area of Wyoming, near the Granite Creek Ranch.

The Sundance Kid: The famous outlaw that Redford portrayed in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid got his nickname from the town of Sundance, Wyoming.