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Rehearsing with fellow AADA student Ginny Burns. “I was in awe of his freedom,” says Ginny. “When he recited ‘The Raven’ he literally flew around the room.” (Courtesy of Ginny Burns Kelly)

Rehearsing scenes from Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in an academy workshop, winter 1958 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)

With director Francis Lettin, who cast Redford in Chekhov’s The Seagull and was impressed by the actor’s determination to break the mold (Courtesy of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York)

First publicity shot, 1962. “I was beginning to think I might like to be an actor.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford)

Redford marries Lola Van Wagenen in Provo, September 1958. It was their second ceremony. They had legally tied the knot five weeks earlier in Las Vegas. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)

On the Broadway stage in James Costigan’s Little Moon of Alban, with Julie Harris (center) and Norah O’Mahony, December 1960 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)

Barefoot in the Park on Broadway, with (from left) Mildred Natwick, Elizabeth Ashley, and Kurt Kaszner. The Biltmore Theater, October 1963 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)

Backstage at the Biltmore with Ashley and visitor Ingrid Bergman (Courtesy of Wayne Van Wagenen)

With Patricia Blair in NBC-TV’s The Virginian, 1963. Redford saw filmed episodic television as a training ground for movies. (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: National Broadcasting Company)

A visit with his children Jamie and Shauna to grandfather Tiger Redford in New London, 1964. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)

With Natalie Wood, 1966. “Our relationship was very close and trusting. She was an exceptional human being.” (Courtesy of Sydney Pollack)

Redford’s first meeting with Sydney Pollack, on the set of War Hunt. “We were friends from the get-go.” (Courtesy of Sydney Pollack)

With Marlon Brando on location for The Chase. Redford’s admiration for Brando was great. He recorded his observations of the actor’s technique in his diary. (Courtesy of Francis Feighan. Photograph: Columbia Pictures)

A home in the hills. With Jamie at the A-frame in Provo Canyon that Redford had envisioned and built himself. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)

On location for The Chase in Northern California, with Jamie, Shauna, and Lola. “I felt that Hollywood was a dangerous place for family life. The distractions were too many.” (Courtesy of Wayne Van Wagenen)

Natalie Wood and her soon-to-be husband Richard Gregson, who would be Redford’s partner in his own production company, Wildwood. Wildwood was set up in 1968. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises/ Sundance archive)

The war room at Creative Management Associates, Redford’s agents in Los Angeles. Around the table (from left) are Stephanie Phillips, Freddie Fields, Redford, Mike Frankfurt, and (back to camera) David Begelman. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/ Wildwood Enterprises/Sundance archive)

The family with lawyer and friend Mike Frankfurt, at Mürren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, winter 1968 (Courtesy of Mike Frankfurt)

Timp Haven, Utah, in the 1950s, shortly before Redford purchased the canyon lands. A decade later it would become the Sundance resort. (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Sundance archive)

The breakthrough: Redford as the Sundance Kid, 1969. Richard Zanuck, head of Fox, wanted him to lose the mustache. But Redford was adamant: “It was authentic. I got my way.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Twentieth Century–Fox)

Redford and the family with friend Stan Collins at the A-frame. “The house was always filled with music,” says Shauna. (Courtesy of Robert Redford)

Paul Newman, Katharine Ross, and Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969. “We had no idea we were on to something special.” (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Twentieth Century–Fox)

With Gene Hackman on Downhill Racer, 1969. “I wanted Hackman in it, because he was