India, Sept. 16 -- Robert Redford, the celebrated actor, director, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival, passed away at his Utah home at 89. His publicist, Cindi Berger, told NBC that his family has requested privacy at the moment. He is survived by his wife, Sibylle Szaggars, and two kids from his previous marriage.

Redford and his first wife, historian Lola Van Wagenen, had four children. According to People, their first child, Scott Anthony Redford, who was born in 1959, died of sudden infant death syndrome at the tender age of just two and a half months.

Reflecting on the loss some decades later, Redford confided that though he and his wife went forward, the hurt was never completely gone. The couple went on to have and raise t...