Remembering James Redford, the documentary filmmaker and environmental activist — and son of movie icon Robert Redford

It was a bit of a shock to hear that James Redford had died.

Redford, known to many as Jamie, was best known as the son of Robert Redford, the movie icon and filmmaker. But Jamie Redford, who died Oct. 16 at the age of 58, was a filmmaker and activist in his own right, with a string of documentaries, many of them focusing on the environment and health and where the two met.

James Redford also was a longtime survivor of a liver transplant, which inspired his first movie, “The Kindness of Strangers” (1999), and the forming of a foundation to raise awareness of organ transplants.

Read James Redford’s obituary here, at sltrib.com.