Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia
Harry Parker (swimmer) Harry Parker (swimmer) Henry (Harry) Parker (1849 - 4 December 1932) was an English swimmer. He won the amateur one-mile championship three consecutive times, from 1870-72. These races were held on the River Thames, from Putney to Hammersmith. By the 1890s Parker was the lessee of the bathing pools at the Tunnels Beaches at Ilfracombe, where he was billed as an "expert swimmer and instructor" and "one of the foremost professors of ornamental swimming." Harry's younger sister Emily Parker was also an accomplished swimmer. Harry and his wife Ellen's son Henry Lloyd Parker was also an accomplished swimmer and escapologist.