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The late Robert Redford began acting in the 1960s. Back then, the archetype of the leading man was brooding, suited, and, like the scotch he sipped, a little too neat. Sean Connery’s James Bond was a man of mystery who’d emerge from an underwater mission in a spotless tuxedo and a perfectly in-place side part, embodied this perfectly. Redford, with his sun-kissed everything and Southern California swagger, offered something a little more vernacular. And his career followed that path.
