Robert Redford died on Tuesday, September 16 at 89, September 16. A major figure in American cinema, it will also remain in memories for its ecological and philanthropic commitment. The actor still went through several trials during his life, including two very painful: the loss of two of his children, Scott and James.
The first drama dates back to the dawn of his fatherhood: little Scott died two and a half months after his birth, victim of the sudden infant death syndrome. A trauma that Robert Redford had agreed to evoke in 2017 in “Esquire”: “I was only 21 years old and my wife was 20. We were just starting our lives, I started my career in New York. Of course, it was traumatic, and I did not know how it was going to evolve over time. We had to do with it. You have to move forward. And we had other children. But this kind of thing marks. This probably manifests in tiny ways that we are not even aware of. ”
Sixty years later, the pain struck again. In 2020, David James, his son also called Jamie, died of liver cancer. At the announcement of this mourning, the young man’s agent had expressed the family’s sentence: “Sorrow is immeasurable with the loss of a child. Jamie was a loving son, husband and father. His heritage continues through his children, his art, his cinema and his devoted passion for conversation and the environment. Robert Redford is in mourning with his family during this difficult period and requires respect for his privacy. ”
