Robert Redford is an actor.
Barefoot in the Park . The play premiered on Broadway in 1963 and starred Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley . Robert Redford . Redford 's career began in 1960 as a guest star on numerous TV shows , including : The Untouchables , Perry Mason , Alfred Hitchcock Presents , and The Twilight Zone , among others . His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil Simon 's Barefoot in the Park ( 1963 ) . The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 , involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters ( Paul Newman and Robert Redford ) to con a mob boss ( Robert Shaw ) .