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Academy Award-winning director and actor Robert Redford is dead. He died today at his home in Utah at the age of 89, according to the New York Times. Born in Santa Monica, California in 1936, Redford won an Oscar in 1981 for directing the film "Ordinary People." His acting credits include the movies "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "All Is Lost," "An Unfinished Life," "The Sting," "Spy Game," "The Horse Whisperer," "Lions for Lambs," "All the President's Men," and "Quiz Show."