Overview

• Obituaries note his last on-screen work came as Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, followed by a brief return in Avengers: Endgame.
• Marvel lured Redford out of semi-retirement for the 2014 film, with producer Kevin Feige recalling they never expected to land him for the role.
• Redford said he accepted the part because the story’s mystery appealed to him and the character felt layered.
• The Russo brothers and writers framed The Winter Soldier as a 1970s-style political thriller, with Joe Russo joking it could be called Three Days of Captain America.
• The film embeds nods to All the President’s Men and Watergate-era imagery, underscoring the intentional link to Redford’s classic thrillers.