Legendary Actor Robert Redford is retiring from acting

Legendary Academy Award-winning actor Robert Redford announced he is retiring from acting after 60 years.  Redford, 81, said he will retire after his role in the film "The Old Man & The Gun." The actor told Entertainment Weekly he has been acting since he was 21. Journalists published the interview about his retirement on August 6. According to US Weekly, Redford responded: "We'll see about that"  when asked if he sees himself directing future films.

Redford, who is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and Out of Africa.  In 2002, he received an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement.