Robert Redford was best known for his performance in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, and also won an Oscar for directing Ordinary People.
In a statement, his representative said he was “surrounded by those he loved”, at home in “the place he loved” in Sun dance, in the mountains of Utah.
“He will be missed greatly,” she added.
Redford was best known as a go-to leading man of the late 1960s and ’70s, but was also an activist and an accomplished filmmaker – winning the Oscar for best director for Ordinary People in 1981.
It was the second of his two Academy Awards – the first won for his acting performance in The Sting – as well as an honorary prize in 2002.
In a career spanning six decades, he also received three Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement honor in 1994.
