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Robert Redford Trivia
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- He and Baseball pitcher Don Drysdale were in the same High School graduation class together.
- After his suggestions of Warren Beatty, Alain Delon and Burt Reynolds to play the role of Michael Corleone in "The Godfather" were rejected by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount production chief Robert Evans suggested Robert Redford. When Coppola demurred, preferring his first choice of Tony Awar-winning Broadway actor Al Pacino, Evans explained that Redford could fit the role as he could be perceived as "northern Italian." Evans lost the struggle, Pacino was cast, and a star was born.
- Named an Officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
- In addition to being the graduation speaker for Bard College's 144th Commencement (class of 2004), he also received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the college.
- Is of mostly Irish descent
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