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Robert Redford basketball game against a team from Russia. After his Broadway success, he was cast in larger feature roles in movies. In 1962 Robert Redford got his second film role in "War Hunt". He was cast alongside screen legend Alec Guinness in the war comedy "Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious", in which he played a soldier who has to spend years of his life hiding behind enemy lines. In "Inside Daisy Clover" (1965), which won him a Golden Globe for best new star, he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood, and rejoined her along with Charles