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Article: I live in a castle and wear the kilt ... of course I'm Scottish; Robert Redford on the dad who shaped his life.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
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- July 30, 1998
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Robert Redford looks every inch an all-American Hollywood golden boy. But he admits he cannot escape his tartan roots.
He joked: "I live in a castle and wear a kilt all the time. As everyone knows, I'm half Irish and half Scottish."
With his blond hair and blue eyes he's always been seen as a typically Californian glamour boy.
But yesterday Robert, 60, revealed that his dad Charles, like Sean Connery, had been a Scottish milkman.
Charles Redford moved to California in 1936 when he realised he would never make enough money to support a ...