Screen legend Redford calls cut on acting career

LOS ANGELES - Oscar winner Robert Redford will retire from acting following this autumn's release of his upcoming film The Old Man& The Gun, the 81-year-old told Entertainment Weekly in a story published on Monday.

Redford, best known for films such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Out of Africa, plays a seasoned bank robber in the new movie, which is scheduled to debut in theaters in September.

"Never say never, but I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting, and (I'll) move toward retirement after this 'cause I've been doing it since I was 21," Redford told the magazine.