Robert Redford about his blond male stereotype image and turned down roles in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "The Graduate". Redford found the niche he was looking for in George Roy Hill's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969), scripted by William Goldman, in which he was paired for the first time with Paul Newman. The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star, cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. Redford suffered through a few films that did not achieve box office success during this time, including "Downhill Racer" (1969); "Tell
Robert G. Newman Robert G. Newman Robert G. Newman (* October 26th 1937 in The Hague; † August 1st 2018 in New York City) was an US-american physician, scientist, health manager and philanthroph. Robert Gabriel Newman was born in The Hague, Netherlands, as child of german emigrants. At that time his parents, as jews, were on the escape from national-socialist Germany. The father, Rudolph Neumann (later Randolph Newman), and the mother Eva Neumann born Feilchenfeldt (later Eva Newman) both were legal practitioners. The family then moved to New York City in August 1939. After the end of WW2 Newman for some years lived