Six years after the end of career
Robert Redford surprised with comeback in front of the camera
Updated on 12.03.2025Reading time: 2 min.
He had actually ended his acting career after 60 years. Now Robert Redford was suddenly seen in the US series “Dark Winds”.
“Two bandits”, “The Clou”, “The Corruptible”, “Beyond Africa” ​​or “The horse whisperer” – Robert Redford played in numerous Hollywood hits and is one of the biggest film stars of our time. He also celebrated success as a director and was even awarded an Oscar for “a normal family”.
But after almost 60 years, Robert Redford said goodbye to the canvas, was last seen in the cinema blockbuster “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019. He had announced his end of his career a year earlier. “I decided almost certainly that it was an actor for me,” he told the US magazine “Entertainment Weekly” at the time.
He retired for six years – but now Robert Redford surprisingly celebrated his comeback in front of the camera. On Sunday, the 88-year-old was seen in the opening sequence of the third season of the US series “Dark Winds”-together with “Game of Thrones” author George RR Martin. In the scene, the two play a game chess as prison inmates.
Redford and Martin are among the producers of the show that runs on the TV station AMC in the USA. Since the first season there have been rumors about a guest appearance of the two, the director of the episode, Chris Eyre, revealed at the relay premiere of “Dark Winds”. Now this has finally been implemented.
For the 88-year-old, however, it will probably remain an exception, because as an actor, Robert Redford doesn't want to work anymore. In recent years, however, he continued to work behind the camera and concentrated on the Sundance Film Festival, which he co -founded in 1981.
