Robert Redford (Charles Robert Redford, Jr.)

One of Hollywood‘s biggest superstars, Redford officially
announced his retirement from acting in August of 2018.

Redford is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival which
helps hundreds of young filmmakers find a market for their
movies.

Redford with Dustin Hoffman in All the President’s Men      
(1976).

1969

Robert De Niro is considered to be one of the most influential
actors of his generation. He is the recipient of various awards
, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the
Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Life
Achievement Award. In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy
Center Honor, and earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom
from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2016.

1976

Apocalypse Now, the acclaimed Vietnam War film directed
by Francis Ford Coppola, opened in theaters around the
United States on August 15, 1979.

The film was inspired in part by Joseph Conrad’s 1899
novella Heart of Darkness, among other sources.

The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards,
including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and
Best Supporting Actor (Duvall); it went on to win Best
Cinematography and Best Sound.

Apocalypse Now is today considered one of the greatest
films ever made.

Francis Ford Coppola

‘I love the smell Of Napalm in The Morning’… Robert
Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore.

Harrison Ford

Dennis Hopper

Laurence Fishburne

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)

Robin Williams, the prolific Oscar-winning actor and comedian,
died by suicide on August 11, 2014. He was only 63.

On August 11, 1973, the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age
movie American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George
Lucas, opened in theaters across the United States. Set in
California in the summer of 1962, the film was nominated 
for five Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best
Picture, and helped launch the big-screen careers of Richard 
Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford, as well as the former child actor
and future Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard.

Wolfman-Jack

Harrison Ford