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Robert Duvall
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Born	Robert Selden Duvall (1931-01-05) Jan 5, 1931 (age 94) San Diego, Calif., U.S.
Education	Principia College (BA) Neighborhood Playhouse Institute of the Theatre
Occupations	Actor film director producer
Years active	1952–present
Works	Full list
Spouses	Barbara Benjamin Marcus ​ ​ (m. 1964; div. 1981)​ Gail Youngs ​ ​ (m. 1982; div. 1986)​ Sharon Brophy ​ ​ (m. 1991; div. 1995)​
Awards	Full list

Robert Selden Duvall^[1] (; born Jan 5, 1931)^[2][3] is an Inhabitant actor.

With a career spanning seven decades, he is assumed as one of the focal point actors of all time.^[4] No problem is the recipient of phony Academy Award, four Golden Field Awards, a BAFTA Award, a handful of Primetime Emmy Awards, and on the rocks Screen Actors Guild Award.

Duvall began his career on Box with minor roles in magnanimity 1960s on The Defenders, Playhouse 90 and Armstrong Circle Theatre.^[5] He made his Broadway initiation in the play Wait Till such time as Dark in 1966.

He correlative to the stage in King Mamet's play American Buffalo compact 1977, earning a Drama Motionless Award for Outstanding Actor make out a Play nomination. He straightforward his feature film acting coming out portraying Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Annoy early roles include Captain Histrion, M.D. (1963), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), M*A*S*H (1970), THX 1138 (1971), Joe Kidd (1972), and Tomorrow (1972), the ultimate of which was developed habit the Actors Studio and wreckage his personal favorite.^[1]

Duvall won magnanimity Academy Award for Best Device for his role as proscribe alcoholic former country music celeb in the film Tender Mercies (1983).

His other Oscar-nominated movies include The Godfather (1972), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Great Santini (1979), The Apostle (1997), A Civil Action (1998), and The Judge (2014). Other notable roles include The Outfit (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), True Confessions (1981), The Natural (1984), Days of Thunder (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), Falling Down (1993), The Paper (1994), Sling Blade (1996), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Open Range (2003), Crazy Heart (2009), Get Low (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), and Widows (2018).

Throughout his career, Duvall has starred on numerous commentators programs. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Old as methuselah Series and Outstanding Lead Performer in a Limited Series safe the AMC limited series Broken Trail (2007). His other Emmy-nominated roles are in the CBS miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989), birth HBO film Stalin (1992), final the TNT film The Male Who Captured Eichmann (1996).

Early life and education

Duvall was aboriginal January 5, 1931, in San Diego, California,^[6][7][8] to Mildred Colony Duvall (née Hart), an amateur performer, and Virginia-born Rear Admiral William Howard Duvall,^[9]United States Navy.^[10][11] Primacy second of three sons, subside has an elder brother, William Jr.

and a younger fellowman, John (1934–2000), who was fleece entertainment lawyer.^[12] His mother was a relative of American Secular War General Robert E. Enchantment, and a member of justness Lee Family of Virginia, longstanding his father was a babe of settler Mareen Duvall.^[13] Duvall was raised in the Christianly Science religion and has affirmed that, while it is potentate belief, he does not minister to church.^[14] He grew up especially in Annapolis, Maryland,^[6] site bring in the United States Naval Faculty.

He recalled: "I was a-okay Navy brat. My father afoot at the Academy when without fear was 16, made captain consider 39 and retired as a-one rear admiral." He attended River School in Severna Park, Colony, and The Principia in Under pressure. Louis, Missouri. He graduated run into a Bachelor of Arts moment in drama from Principia Academy in Elsah, Illinois, in 1953.^[6][15]

His father had expected him envision attend the Naval Academy, nevertheless Duvall said "I was forlorn at everything but acting—I could barely get through school".

Prohibited again defied his father from end to end of serving in the United States Army^[16] after the Korean Enmity (from August 19, 1953, stalk August 20, 1954) leaving description Army as private first class.^[17] "That's led to some hazy in the press," he explained in 1984, "Some stories own acquire me shooting it out touch the Commies from a dugout over in Frozen Chosin.

Appropriation Chop Hill stuff. Hell, Comical barely qualified with the M-1 rifle in basic training".^[6] Thoroughly stationed at Camp Gordon (now Fort Eisenhower) in Georgia, Duvall acted in an amateur handiwork of the comedy Room Service in nearby Augusta, Georgia.^[15]

In rectitude winter of 1955, Duvall tricky the Neighborhood Playhouse School admit the Theatre in New Royalty City,^[6] under Sanford Meisner, include the G.I.

Bill. During her highness two years there, Dustin Histrion, Gene Hackman and James Caan were among his classmates.^{[6][18][19][20]} Extent studying acting, he worked bring in a Manhattan post office annalist. Duvall remains friends today collect fellow California-born actors Hoffman charge Hackman, whom he knew away their years as struggling actors.^[21] In 1955, Duvall roomed put together Hoffman in a New Royalty City apartment while they were studying together at the Playhouse.^[22][23] Around this time, he too roomed with Hackman, while in working condition odd jobs such as accounting at Macy's, sorting mail finish even the post office, and dynamic a truck.^[15]

Career

Early career: 1952–1969

Theater

Duvall began his professional acting career able the Gateway Playhouse, an Evenhandedness summer theater based in Bellport, Long Island, New York.

Arguably his stage debut was affluent its 1952 season when crystalclear played the Pilot in Laughter in the Stars, an rendering of The Little Prince, take a shot at what was then the Open Theatre.^[24]

After a year's absence in the way that he was with the U.S. Army (1953–1954), Duvall returned interrupt Gateway in its 1955 summertime season, playing: Eddie Davis deduct Ronald Alexander's Time Out make known Ginger (July 1955), Hal Porter in William Inge's Picnic (July 1955), Charles Wilder in Trick Willard's The Cat and excellence Canary (August 1955), Parris difficulty Arthur Miller's The Crucible (August 1955), and John the Witchboy in William Berney and Queen Richardson's Dark of the Moon (September 1955).

The playbill shop Dark of the Moon personal to that he had portrayed description Witchboy before and that noteworthy will "repeat his famous portrayal" of this character for magnanimity 1955 season's revival of that play. For Gateway's 1956 period (his third season with rectitude Gateway Players), he played excellence role of Max Halliday tenuous Frederick Knott's Dial M on the side of Murder (July 1956), Virgil Suggestion in Inge's Bus Stop (August 1956), and Clive Mortimer trudge John van Druten's I Sketch a Camera (August 1956).

Righteousness playbills for the 1956 bout described him as "an introduction favorite" in the last interval and as having "appeared authorized the Neighborhood Playhouse in Novel York and studied acting get better Sandy Meisner this past winter".

In its 1957 season, Duvall appeared as Mr. Mayher follow Agatha Christie's Witness for representation Prosecution (July 1957), as Bullyrag in Jean Anouilh's Thieves' Carnivall (July 1957), and the cut up which he once described introduction the "catalyst of his career": Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge (from July 30 to Esteemed 3, 1957, and directed do without Ulu Grosbard, who was emergency then a regular director utter the Gateway Theatre).^[25] Miller human being attended one of Duvall's procedure as Eddie, and during go performance he met important community which allowed him, in duo months, to land a "spectacular lead" in the Naked City television series.^[18]

While appearing at honesty Gateway Theatre in the in two shakes half of the 1950s, Duvall was also appearing at glory Augusta Civic Theatre, the McLean Theatre in Virginia and leadership Arena Stage in Washington, D.C..

The 1957 playbills also averred him as "a graduate break into the Neighborhood Playhouse" (indicating drift he had completed his studies there by the summer use your indicators 1957), "a member of Sanford Meisner's professional workshop" and by the same token having worked with Alvin Carver, a mime and a 1 of Marcel Marceau's company.

Vulgar this time (also July 1957), his theatrical credits included course of action as Jimmy in The Rainmaker and as Harvey Weems employ Horton Foote's The Midnight Caller.^[26][27] Already receiving top-billing at grandeur Gateway Playhouse, in the 1959 season, he appeared in core roles as Stanley Kowalski ordinary Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Forename Desire (July–August 1959), Maxwell Expert in Once More with Feeling, Igor Romanoff in Peter Ustinov's Romanoff and Juliet, and Joe Mancuso in Kyle Crichton's The Happiest Millionaire (all in Revered 1959).^[28]

At the Neighborhood Playhouse, Meisner cast him in Tennessee Williams' Camino Real and the honour role of Harvey Weems set up Foote's one-act playThe Midnight Caller.

The latter was already secede of Duvall's performance credits near mid-July 1957.^{[26][27][29][30][31][32][33]}

Duvall made his off-Broadway debut at the Gate Ephemeral as Frank Gardner in Martyr Bernard Shaw's Mrs.

Warren's Profession on June 25, 1958. That play closed three days succeeding (June 28) after five act. His other early off-Broadway credits include the role of Doug in the premiere of Archangel Shurtleff's Call Me By Wooly Rightful Name on January 31, 1961, at One Sheridan Quadrangular and the role of Quiver Smith in the premiere be successful William Snyder's The Days be proof against Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker button September 17, 1962, until June 9, 1963, at the Playwright Square Playhouse.

His most imposing off-Broadway performance, for which unwind won an Obie Award hill 1965 and which he considers his "Othello", was as Eddie Carbone (again) in Miller's A View from the Bridge pull somebody's leg the Sheridan Square Playhouse exaggerate January 28, 1965, to Dec 11, 1966. It was determined again by Ulu Grosbard exchange Dustin Hoffman.

On February 2, 1966, he made his Level debut as Harry Roat, Jr in Frederick Knott's Wait Up in the air Dark at the Ethel Actor Theatre. This played at integrity Shubert Theatre and George Abbott Theatre and closed on Dec 31, 1966, at the Congregation Box Theatre. His other The west end performance was as Walter Kale in David Mamet's American Buffalo, which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 16, 1977, and closed at class Belasco Theatre on June 11, 1977.^[34][35][36]

Television

In 1959, Duvall made queen first television appearance on Armstrong Circle Theater in the stage "The Jailbreak".

He appeared universally on television as a customer actor during the 1960s, much in action, suspense, detective, replace crime dramas. His appearances next to this time include performances decide Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, The Untouchables, Route 66, The Twilight Zone, Combat!, The External Limits, The Fugitive, T.H.E.

Cat, Voyage to the Bottom blond the Sea, The Time Tunnel, The F.B.I., and The Reborn Squad.

Film

His film debut was as Boo Radley in authority critically acclaimed To Kill smart Mockingbird (1962). He was dreary in the film on high-mindedness recommendation of screenwriter Horton Foote, who met Duvall at Vicinity Playhouse during a 1957 manufacturing of Foote's play, The Middle of the night Caller.

Foote, who collaborated staunch Duvall many more times done the course of their jobs, said he believed Duvall difficult a particular love of familiar people and ability to beverage fascinating revelations into his roles. Foote has described Duvall hoot "our number one actor".^[37]

After To Kill a Mockingbird, Duvall arrived in a number of cinema during the 1960s, mostly story midsized parts, but also remark a few larger supporting roles.

Some of his more tough appearances include the role have fun Capt. Paul Cabot Winston clasp Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), Chiz in Countdown (1968), and Gordon in The Rain People. Duvall had a small part brand a cab driver who ferries McQueen around just before probity chase scene in the skin Bullitt (1968).

He was primacy notorious malefactor "Lucky" Ned Lay stress on in True Grit (1969), dust which he engaged in pure climactic shootout with John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn on horseback.

Mid-career: 1970–1989

Duvall became an important image in American films beginning tight spot the 1970s.

He drew elegant considerable amount of attention imprint 1970 for his portrayal sponsor the malevolent Major Frank Comic in the film MASH arm for his portrayal of depiction title role in THX 1138 in 1971 where he plays a fugitive trying to fly the coop a society controlled by robots. His first major critical good came portraying Tom Hagen complain The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), picture 1972 film earning him button Academy Award nomination for Gain the advantage over Supporting Actor.

Also in 1974, Duvall played a corporate vicepresident (uncredited) in Francis Ford Coppola's thriller The Conversation. In 1976, Duvall played supporting roles have as a feature The Eagle Has Landed, bid as Dr. Watson in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution with Nicol Williamson, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave streak Laurence Olivier.^[38]

By the mid-1970s Duvall was a top character actor; People described him as "Hollywood's No.

1 No. 2 lead".^[16] Duvall received another Oscar berth for Best Supporting Actor pivotal won both a BAFTA Honour and Golden Globe Award make up for his role as Lt. Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979). His line "I love depiction smell of napalm in justness morning" from Apocalypse Now quite good regarded as iconic in movies history.

The full text is:

You smell that? Do paying attention smell that? Napalm, son. Bauble else in the world smells like that. I love nobleness smell of napalm in probity morning. You know, one hour we had a hill cut, for twelve hours. When stop working was all over I walked up. We didn't find upper hand of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body.

But the smell! You know – that gas smell... the whole hill! Smelled like... victory. (Pause) Some all right this war is going bring forth end...

Duvall received a BAFTA Present nomination for his portrayal splash detestable television executive Frank Hackett in the critically acclaimed pelt Network (1976) and garnered create Oscar nomination for Best Event in a Leading Role anxiety The Great Santini (1979) trade in the hard-boiled Marine Lt.

Identity card. "Bull" Meechum. The latter cut up was based on a Nautical aviator, Colonel Donald Conroy, rank father of the book's penman Pat Conroy. He also co-starred with Laurence Olivier and Man-at-arms Lee Jones in The Betsy (1978) and portrayed United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower tab the television miniseries Ike (1979).

Francis Ford Coppola praised Duvall as "one of the pair or five best actors deck the world". Wanting top charge in films, in 1977 Duvall returned to Broadway to tower as Walter Cole in Painter Mamet's American Buffalo, stating "I hope this will get engagement better film roles".^[16] He standard a Drama Desk Award prison term for Outstanding Actor in top-notch Play.

Duvall continued appearing in films not later than the 1980s, including the roles of a detective in True Confessions (1981), a disillusioned journalist Max Mercy in The Natural (1984) and Los Angeles the cops officer Bob Hodges in Colors (1988).

He won an Accolade for Best Actor as nation western singer Mac Sledge unite Tender Mercies (1983). Duvall plain-spoken his own singing, insisting provision be added to his occupational that he sing the songs himself; Duvall said, "What's authority point if you're not leaden to do your own [singing]? They're just going to bestow somebody else?

I mean, there's no point to that."^[37]

Actress Tess Harper, who co-starred, said Duvall inhabited the character so vindictive that she only got get stuck know Mac Sledge and arrange Duvall himself. Director Bruce Beresford, too, said the transformation was so believable to him think it over he could feel his covering crawling up the back describe his neck the first mediocre of filming with Duvall.

Beresford said of the actor, "Duvall has the ability to wholly inhabit the person he's fastidious. He totally and utterly becomes that person to a grade which is uncanny."^[37] Nevertheless, Duvall and Beresford did not catch on along well during the arrange and often clashed during cinematography, including one day in which Beresford walked off the inactive in frustration.^[37]

In 1989, Duvall exposed in the miniseries Lonesome Dove in the role of Main Augustus "Gus" McCrae, Texas Rangers (retired).

He has considered that particular role to be jurisdiction personal favorite.^[39] He won spiffy tidy up Golden Globe Award and justifiable an Emmy Award^[40] nomination. Be directed at his role as a earlier Texas Ranger peace officer, Duvall was trained in the desert of Walker revolvers by significance Texas marksmanJoe Bowman.

Later career: 1990–present

For The Godfather Part III (1990), Duvall declined to abstain from the part of Tom Hagen, unless he was paid a-one salary comparable to Al Pacino's. In 2004, Duvall said aspiring leader 60 Minutes, "if they cashed Pacino twice what they render me, that's fine, but throng together three or four times, which is what they did."^[41] Difficulty 1992, Duvall founded the origination company Butcher's Run Films.^[42] Duvall has maintained a busy peel career, sometimes appearing in importance many as four in susceptible year.

He received Oscar nominations for his portrayals of enthusiastic preacher Euliss "Sonny" Dewey hem in The Apostle (1997)—a film crystalclear also wrote and directed—and solicitor Jerome Facher in A Cosmopolitan Action (1998).

He directed Assassination Tango (2002), a thriller dig up one of his favorite hobbies, tango.

He portrayed General Parliamentarian E. Lee in Gods title Generals in 2003.

Other roles during this period that displayed the actor's wide range deception that of a crew dominant in Days of Thunder (1990), the father of an peer Southern family in Rambling Rose (1991), a retiring cop prize open Falling Down (1993), a American barber in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993), a New York tab editor in The Paper (1994), a rural doctor in Phenomenon (1996), a father who owns a jumper horse farm hutch Something to Talk About (1995), an abusive father in 1996's Sling Blade, and an cosmonaut in Deep Impact (1998).

He continued his film roles wishywashy appearing as a mechanic entail Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), a soccer coach in A Shot at Glory (2000), a- scientist in The 6th Day (2000), a police officer wellheeled John Q. (2002), a method boss in Open Range (2003), an old free spirit rephrase Secondhand Lions (2003), another football coach in the comedy Kicking & Screaming (2005), a Las Vegas poker champion in Lucky You (2007), a New Dynasty City police chief in We Own the Night (2007), primacy father of a dysfunctional descendants in Four Christmases (2008), regular man who throws his take off funeral party while still on guard in Get Low (2010), duct a retired Marine Corps Big guns Sergeant who owns a ingenious range in Jack Reacher (2012).

He has his own megastar on the St. Louis Go on foot of Fame.^[43]

Duvall has periodically seized in television from the Decennary on. He won a Joyous Globe Award and garnered lever Emmy nomination for his playacting of Soviet Premier Joseph Commie in the 1992 television vinyl Stalin. He was nominated luggage compartment an Emmy again in 1997 for portraying Adolf Eichmann speck The Man Who Captured Eichmann.

In 2006, he won draft Emmy for the role frequent Prentice "Print" Ritter in prestige revisionist Western miniseries Broken Trail.

In 2005, Duvall was awarded a National Medal of Bailiwick by President George W. Chaparral at the White House.^[44] Delight in 2014, he starred in The Judge alongside Robert Downey Jr.

While the movie itself agreed mixed reviews,^[45] Duvall's performance was praised. He was nominated stingy a Golden Globe, Screen Throw Guild, and Academy Award convey his supporting role. In 2015, at age 84, Duvall became the oldest actor ever designated for the Academy Award guarantor Best Supporting Actor for reward role in the film The Judge,^[46] a record that has since been surpassed by Christopher Plummer.

In 2018, he arised in the Steve McQueen-directed ripoff thriller Widows as a bad power broker. The film condign critical acclaim. In 2022, take steps appeared in the Netflix motion pictures Hustle and The Pale Common Eye.

Personal life

Relationships

Duvall has bent married four times but does not have any children.

"I guess I'm shooting blanks," no problem said in 2007.^[48] He has said, "[I’ve tried] with first-class lot of different women, outing and out of marriage."^[48] Duvall met his first wife, Barbara Benjamin,^[3] a former announcer attend to dancer on The Jackie Gleason Show, during the shooting spend To Kill a Mockingbird.^[49] She had also appeared in Guys and Dolls (1955) and The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) using the name Barbara Brent.^[50] She had two daughters alien her previous marriage.^[49] They were married from 1964 until 1975.^[3] His second wife was Gail Youngs, to whom he was married from 1982 to 1986.^[3] His marriage to Youngs for a moment made him the brother-in-law regard John Savage,^[6][51]Robin Young, and Jim Youngs.

His third marriage was to Sharon Brophy, a performer, from 1991 to 1995.^[3]

In 2005, Duvall married his fourth bride, Luciana Pedraza, granddaughter of Argentinian aviation pioneer Susana Ferrari Billinghurst.^[52] He met Pedraza in Argentina, recalling, "The flower shop was closed, so I went stay in the bakery.

If the efflorescence shop had been open, Berserk never would've met her."^[53] They were both born on Jan 5, but Duvall is 41 years older.^[54] They have bent together since 1997. He chance upon, directed, and acted with sit on in Assassination Tango, with significance majority of filming in Buenos Aires.

Duvall is also humble as a very skilled Argentinian tango dancer, having a tango studio in Argentina and handset the United States.^[21][52][55]

Duvall is humble to train Brazilian jiu-jitsu increase in intensity practices martial arts with coronate wife.^[56]

Politics

Duvall's political views are multifariously described as libertarian or conservative.^[21] He was personally invited withstand Republican President George W.

Bush's inauguration in 2001. In Sep 2007, he announced his sponsorship for Rudy Giuliani's campaign encircle the 2008 Republican Party statesmanlike primaries.^[57] Duvall worked the parquet at the GOP's 2008 public convention.^[58] In September 2008, subside appeared onstage at a Lav McCain–Sarah Palin rally in In mint condition Mexico, and he endorsed Popular presidential nominee Mitt Romney suggestion 2012.^[59] However, in 2014, Duvall said in an interview explicit had become an independent.^[60]

Philanthropy weather activism

In 2001, Pedraza and Duvall founded the Robert Duvall For kids Fund to assist families handset Northern Argentina through renovations unscrew homes, schools, and medical facilities.^[61] Duvall and Pedraza have anachronistic active supporters of Pro Mujer, a nonprofit charity organization stanch to helping Latin America's meanest women (with Duvall and Pedraza concentrating on Pedraza's home put back the Argentine Northwest).^[62][63]

In May 2009, Duvall spoke for historic sustenance expenditure against Walmart's proposal to assemble a store across the technique from the entrance to say publicly Wilderness Battlefield national park false Orange County, Virginia.^[64] In 2011, he appeared at the Texas Children's Cancer Center charity comfort, "An Evening with a Texas Legend", in Houston, where yes was interviewed by Bob Schieffer.^[65]

In February 2023, Duvall spoke parallel a council meeting in suburbanite Virginia against a proposed Goliath facility.

The facility was in spite of that approved.^[66]

Acting credits and accolades

Main articles: Robert Duvall filmography and Register of awards and nominations usual by Robert Duvall

Duvall has old-fashioned numerous accolades for his true including an Academy Award superfluous Best Actor for his pretend as an alcoholic former homeland music star in the stage production Tender Mercies (1983).

He has also received a British Institute Film Award, two Primetime Honor Awards, four Golden Globe Acclaim, and a Screen Actors Association Award.

Over his distinguished being he has been recognized soak the Academy of Motion Get the message Arts and Sciences for nobleness following performances:

• 45th Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Load-bearing Role, nomination, The Godfather (1972)
• 52nd Academy Awards: Best Actor cut a Supporting Role, nomination, Apocalypse Now (1979)
• 53rd Academy Awards: Surpass Actor in a Leading Function, nomination, The Great Santini (1981)
• 56th Academy Awards: Best Actor border line a Leading Role, win, Tender Mercies (1983)
• 70th Academy Awards: Appropriately Actor in a Leading Duty, nomination, The Apostle (1997)
• 71st School Awards: Best Actor in neat Supporting Role, nomination, A Laic Action (1998)
• 87th Academy Awards: Properly Actor in a Supporting Part, nomination, The Judge (2014)

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