Robert Redford, the actor and director who sailed to Hollywood stardom with turns in classics such 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 Tuesday morning at his home in Utah, the New York Times reported, citing Cindi Berger, the chief executive of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK.

He was 89.

Redford was best known as a go-to leading man of the late 1960s and 1970s, instantly recognizable for his windswept hair and widely beloved for his easy charisma. But he was also an accomplished filmmaker, committed political activist and culture-shaping entrepreneur.

He won the best director Oscar for the family melodrama “Ordinary People” (1980), the first of his nine stints behind the camera.

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