When you’re a larger-than-life, generation-spanning star like Robert Redford , the hard truth is that every movie is notable in some way. He was iconic in his own time, whether in front of the camera, or behind it. And in his lifetime, so many of his films transcended their original reviews to find passionate fanbases: Just ask older millennials about the 1992 hacker movie “Sneakers” or the “Sex and the City” generation about “The Way We Were.” Redford died Tuesday at 89, leaving behind an arsenal of great roles that he owned, whether he was playing a quiet CIA agent, a con man, a baseball player, a grizzled mariner, an ambitious journalist, or a charming WASP in love. You could make a feast out of his Sydney Pollack collaborations alone, staring with “Jeremiah Johnson” (streaming on Tubi ), a classic that also took on a surprising afterlife as a meme that became so popular, younger generations didn’t even realize it was Redford behind that beard. His very last role came this year, a cameo in “Dark Winds,” the AMC show about Navajo police officers he produced. This is a list of some of Redford’s most memorable performances, but don’t forget about the films he directed, too: among them are the all-timers “Ordinary People” ( streaming on MGM+ ), which won him the best director Oscar, and “Quiz Show” (rent on Apple TV+ ), which got him another nod. “Barefoot in the Park” (1967) Redford and Jane Fonda play a passionate but mismatched newlywed couple whose relationship is tested by their walk-up New York apartment in this Neil Simon comedy. Reprising the role he’d played on Broadway, Redford is the uptight, conservative foil to her more free-spirited character and they’re both stunningly beautiful and fun to watch. Fonda told The Guardian in 2015 that she was “always in love with Robert Redford.” He later responded that he wasn’t aware. The two also appeared together in “The Chase” (1966), “The Electric Horseman” (1979) and “Our Souls at Night” (2017). WHERE TO WATCH: Stream on Kanopy ; rent on several services, including Prime Video “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969) Redford met Paul Newman on “Butch Cassidy,” George Roy Hill and William Goldman’s Western buddy film about outlaws on the run. It was the start of a lifelong friendship, but it almost didn’t happen, since the studio wanted a star like Steve McQueen or Marlon Brando instead of Redford. “I was not a name equal to Paul’s. I was just sort of moving up at that time,” he told the AP in 2015. “There was a big argument that went on for months and months. They said it had to be a star. (Newman) said, ‘Well, I want to work with an actor,’ because Paul respected acting. Had it not been for Paul, I would not have gotten that break.” WHERE TO WATCH: Rent on several services, including Prime Video “Downhill Racer” (1969) A film that’s as stylish as it is compelling, Redford plays an ambitious and smug downhill skier out for Olympic gold in this Michael Ritchie film. Roger Ebert, in his review, wrote that it is “a portrait of a man that is so complete, and so tragic, that ‘Downhill Racer’ becomes the best movie ever made about sports — without really being about sports at all.” This was one of Redford’s passion projects, his first independent feature that taught him some hard lessons about Hollywood. “That was when I learned about how the film industry really works,” Redford told the Harvard Business Review in 2002. “The studio simply tossed ‘Downhill Racer’ away without a second thought. I broke my heart trying to get that film promoted and distributed.” WHERE TO WATCH: Stream on Kanopy or FuboTV ; rent on Prime Video “The Sting” (1973) After the success of “Butch Cassidy,” “The Sting,” another Hill film, fell into place more easily. Redford and Newman play grifters in 1936 Chicago who fleece Robert Shaw’s rich mobster in this memorable caper that went on to win best picture. “What was interesting was the switcheroo,” Redford told the AP. “Paul had played these iconic, quiet, still characters in the past, and that’s not what Paul is. He was a chatty, nervous guy who was always biting his fingernails. … He loved to have fun and play games.” WHERE TO WATCH: Stream on Spectrum ; rent on several services, including Apple TV+ “The Way We Were” (1973) Ah Hubbell, that beautiful, carefree WASP who falls in love with Barbra Streisand’s fiercely opinionated Katie. The making of the Pollack film, from a script standpoint, was fraught and the original writer Arthur Laurents was never quite happy with how it turned out. But this romantic drama with that memorable song has endured over the generations (it was even a reference in a pivotal “Sex and the City” episode). …