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
Robert A. Parker at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Parker retired from NASA on August 31, 2005. Parker married the former Judy Woodruff of San Marino, California. They have five children and nine grandchildren. Parker is a member of the American Astronomical Society and of the International Astronomical Union. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1973) and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal (1974). In the 1998 miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon", Parker was portrayed by Chris Ellis. Robert A. Parker Robert Allan Ridley Parker (born December 14, 1936) is an American physicist and astronomer, former Director