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Robert Duvall

Robert Selden Duvall[1] (/dˈvɔːl/; born January 5, 1931)[2][3] is an American actor and filmmaker. With a career spanning seven decades, he is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time.[4] He is the recipient of an Academy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Robert Duvall
Duvall in 2002
Born
Robert Selden Duvall

(1931-01-05) January 5, 1931 (age 93)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Alma materPrincipia College (BA)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • filmmaker
Years active1952–present
WorksFull list
Political partyIndependent
Spouses
Barbara Benjamin Marcus
(m. 1964; div. 1981)
Gail Youngs
(m. 1982; div. 1986)
Sharon Brophy
(m. 1991; div. 1995)
(m. 2005)
AwardsFull list
Military career
BranchUnited States Army
Years of service1953–1954
RankPrivate first class

Duvall began his career on TV with minor roles in 1960 on Playhouse 90 and the Armstrong Circle Theater TV series before transitioning to Broadway and film.[5] Duvall made his Broadway debut in the play Wait Until Dark in 1966. He returned to the stage in David Mamet's play American Buffalo in 1977, earning a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play nomination. He made his feature film acting debut portraying Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). Other early roles include Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), M*A*S*H (1970), THX 1138 (1971), Joe Kidd (1972), and Tomorrow (1972), the last of which was developed at the Actors Studio and is his personal favorite.[1]

Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Tender Mercies (1983). His other Oscar-nominated films 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), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), Falling Down (1993), The Paper (1994), The Scarlet Letter (1995), Sling Blade (1996), Open Range (2003), Crazy Heart (2009), Get Low (2010), Jack Reacher (2012), and Widows (2018).

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

Early life edit

Duvall was born January 5, 1931, in San Diego, California,[6] to Mildred Virginia Duvall (née Hart), an amateur actress, and Admiral William Howard Duvall,[7] a Virginia-born United States Navy rear admiral.[8][9] The second of three sons, he has an elder brother, William Jr. and a younger brother, John (1934–2000), who was an entertainment lawyer.[10] His mother was a relative of American Civil War General Robert E. Lee, and a member of the Lee Family of Virginia, while his father was a descendant of settler Mareen Duvall.[11] Duvall was raised in the Christian Science religion and has stated that, while it is his belief, he does not attend church.[12] He grew up primarily in Annapolis, Maryland,[6] site of the United States Naval Academy. He recalled: "I was a Navy brat. My father started at the Academy when he was 16, made captain at 39 and retired as a rear admiral." He attended Severn School in Severna Park, Maryland, and The Principia in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, in 1953.[6][13]

His father had expected him to attend the Naval Academy, but Duvall said "I was terrible at everything but acting—I could barely get through school". He again defied his father by serving in the United States Army[14] after the Korean War (from August 19, 1953, to August 20, 1954) leaving the Army as private first class.[15] "That's led to some confusion in the press," he explained in 1984, "Some stories have me shooting it out with the Commies from a foxhole over in Frozen Chosin. Pork Chop Hill stuff. Hell, I barely qualified with the M-1 rifle in basic training".[6] While stationed at Camp Gordon (now Fort Eisenhower) in Georgia, Duvall acted in an amateur production of the comedy Room Service in nearby Augusta, Georgia.[13]

In the winter of 1955, Duvall attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City,[6] under Sanford Meisner, on the G.I. Bill. During his two years there, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman and James Caan were among his classmates.[6][16][17][18] While studying acting, he worked as a Manhattan post office clerk. Duvall remains friends today with fellow California-born actors Hoffman and Hackman, whom he knew during their years as struggling actors.[19] In 1955, Duvall roomed with Hoffman in a New York City apartment while they were studying together at the Playhouse.[20][21] Around this time, he also roomed with Hackman, while working odd jobs such as clerking at Macy's, sorting mail at the post office, and driving a truck.[13]

Career edit

Early career: 1952–1969 edit

Theater edit

Duvall began his professional acting career with the Gateway Playhouse, an Equity summer theater based in Bellport, Long Island, New York. Arguably his stage debut was in its 1952 season when he played the Pilot in Laughter In The Stars, an adaptation of The Little Prince, at what was then the Gateway Theatre.[22]

After a year's absence when he was with the U.S. Army (1953–1954), Duvall returned to Gateway in its 1955 summer season, playing: Eddie Davis in Ronald Alexander's Time Out For Ginger (July 1955), Hal Carter in William Inge's Picnic (July 1955), Charles Wilder in John Willard's The Cat And The Canary (August 1955), Parris in Arthur Miller's The Crucible (August 1955), and John the Witchboy in William Berney and Howard Richardson's Dark of the Moon (September 1955). The playbill of Dark of the Moon indicated that he had portrayed the Witchboy before and that he will "repeat his famous portrayal" of this character for the 1955 season's revival of this play. For Gateway's 1956 season (his third season with the Gateway Players), he played the role of Max Halliday in Frederick Knott's Dial M for Murder (July 1956), Virgil Blessing in Inge's Bus Stop (August 1956), and Clive Mortimer in John van Druten's I Am a Camera (August 1956). The playbills for the 1956 season described him as "an audience favorite" in the last season and as having "appeared at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and studied acting with Sandy Meisner this past winter".

In its 1957 season, Duvall appeared as Mr. Mayher in Agatha Christie's Witness For The Prosecution (July 1957), as Hector in Jean Anouilh's Thieves' Carnivall (July 1957), and the role which he once described as the "catalyst of his career": Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge (from July 30 to August 3, 1957, and directed by Ulu Grosbard, who was by then a regular director at the Gateway Theatre).[23] Miller himself attended one of Duvall's performances as Eddie, and during that performance he met important people which allowed him, in two months, to land a "spectacular lead" in the Naked City television series.[16]

While appearing at the Gateway Theatre in the second half of the 1950s, Duvall was also appearing at the Augusta Civic Theatre, the McLean Theatre in Virginia and the Arena Stage in Washington, DC. The 1957 playbills also described him as "a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse" (indicating that he had completed his studies there by the summer of 1957), "a member of Sanford Meisner's professional workshop" and as having worked with Alvin Epstein, a mime and a member of Marcel Marceau's company. By this time (also July 1957), his theatrical credits included performances as Jimmy in The Rainmaker and as Harvey Weems in Horton Foote's The Midnight Caller.[24][25] Already receiving top-billing at the Gateway Playhouse, in the 1959 season, he appeared in lead roles as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (July–August 1959), Maxwell Archer 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 August 1959).[26]

At the Neighborhood Playhouse, Meisner cast him in Tennessee Williams' Camino Real and the title role of Harvey Weems in Foote's one-act play The Midnight Caller. The latter was already part of Duvall's performance credits by mid-July 1957.[24][25][27][28][29][30][31]

Duvall made his off-Broadway debut at the Gate Theater as Frank Gardner in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession on June 25, 1958. This play closed three days later (June 28) after five performances. His other early off-Broadway credits include the role of Doug in the premiere of Michael Shurtleff's Call Me By My Rightful Name on January 31, 1961, at One Sheridan Square and the role of Bob Smith in the premiere of William Snyder's The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker on September 17, 1962, until June 9, 1963, at the Sheridan Square Playhouse. His most notable off-Broadway performance, for which he won an Obie Award in 1965 and which he considers his "Othello", was as Eddie Carbone (again) in Miller's A View From the Bridge at the Sheridan Square Playhouse from January 28, 1965, to December 11, 1966. It was directed again by Ulu Grosbard with Dustin Hoffman. On February 2, 1966, he made his Broadway debut as Harry Roat, Jr in Frederick Knott's Wait Until Dark at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. This played at the Shubert Theatre and George Abbott Theatre and closed on December 31, 1966, at the Music Box Theatre. His other Broadway performance was as Walter Cole in David Mamet's American Buffalo, which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 16, 1977, and closed at the Belasco Theatre on June 11, 1977.[32][33][34]

Television edit

In 1959, Duvall made his first television appearance on Armstrong Circle Theater in the episode "The Jailbreak". He appeared regularly on television as a guest actor during the 1960s, often in action, suspense, detective, or crime dramas. His appearances during this time include performances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, The Untouchables, Route 66, The Twilight Zone, Combat!, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, T.H.E. Cat, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, The F.B.I., and The Mod Squad.

Film edit

His film debut was as Boo Radley in the critically acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He was cast in the film on the recommendation of screenwriter Horton Foote, who met Duvall at Neighborhood Playhouse during a 1957 production of Foote's play, The Midnight Caller. Foote, who collaborated with Duvall many more times over the course of their careers, said he believed Duvall had a particular love of common people and ability to infuse fascinating revelations into his roles. Foote has described Duvall as "our number one actor".[35]

After To Kill a Mockingbird, Duvall appeared in a number of films during the 1960s, mostly in midsized parts, but also in a few larger supporting roles. Some of his more notable appearances include the role of Capt. Paul Cabot Winston in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), Chiz in Countdown (1968), and Gordon in The Rain People. Duvall had a small part as a cab driver who ferries McQueen around just before the chase scene in the film Bullitt (1968). He was the notorious malefactor "Lucky" Ned Pepper in True Grit (1969), in which he engaged in a climactic shootout with John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn on horseback.

Mid-career: 1970–1989 edit

 
Duvall with President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1985
 
Duvall with Diane Lane at the 41st Emmy Awards in September 1989
 
Duvall's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Duvall became an important presence in American films beginning in the 1970s. He drew a considerable amount of attention in 1970 for his portrayal of the malevolent Major Frank Burns in the film MASH and for his portrayal of the title role in THX 1138 in 1971 where he plays a fugitive trying to escape a society controlled by robots. His first major critical success came portraying Tom Hagen in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), the 1972 film earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1976, Duvall played supporting roles in The Eagle Has Landed, and as Dr. Watson in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution with Nicol Williamson, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave and Laurence Olivier.[36]

By the mid-1970s Duvall was a top character actor; People described him as "Hollywood's No. 1 No. 2 lead".[14] Duvall received another Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and won both a BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for his role as Lt. Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979). His line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" from Apocalypse Now is regarded as iconic in cinema history. The full text is:

You smell that? Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. But the smell! You know – that gasoline smell... the whole hill! Smelled like... victory. (Pause) Some day this war is going to end...

Duvall received a BAFTA Award nomination for his portrayal of detestable television executive Frank Hackett in the critically acclaimed film Network (1976) and garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in The Great Santini (1979) as the hard-boiled Marine Lt. Col. "Bull" Meechum. The latter role was based on a Marine aviator, Colonel Donald Conroy, the father of the book's author Pat Conroy. He also co-starred with Laurence Olivier and Tommy Lee Jones in The Betsy (1978) and portrayed United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the television miniseries Ike (1979).

Francis Ford Coppola praised Duvall as "one of the four or five best actors in the world". Wanting top billing in films, in 1977 Duvall returned to Broadway to appear as Walter Cole in David Mamet's American Buffalo, stating "I hope this will get me better film roles".[14] He received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play.

"You can't concoct or push ahead something other than what you have at that moment as yourself, as that character. It's you at that moment in time. ... Between action and cut, it's a nice world, but you can't force that any more than you can force it in life."

—Robert Duvall on acting[35]

Duvall continued appearing in films during the 1980s, including the roles of disillusioned sportswriter Max Mercy in The Natural (1984) and Los Angeles police officer Bob Hodges in Colors (1988). He won an Oscar for Best Actor as country western singer Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies (1983). Duvall did his own singing, insisting it be added to his contract that he sing the songs himself; Duvall said, "What's the point if you're not going to do your own [singing]? They're just going to dub somebody else? I mean, there's no point to that."[35]

Actress Tess Harper, who co-starred, said Duvall inhabited the character so fully that she only got to know Mac Sledge and not Duvall himself. Director Bruce Beresford, too, said the transformation was so believable to him that he could feel his skin crawling up the back of his neck the first day of filming with Duvall. Beresford said of the actor, "Duvall has the ability to completely inhabit the person he's acting. He totally and utterly becomes that person to a degree which is uncanny."[35] Nevertheless, Duvall and Beresford did not get along well during the production and often clashed during filming, including one day in which Beresford walked off the set in frustration.[35]

In 1989, Duvall appeared in the miniseries Lonesome Dove in the role of Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae, Texas Rangers (retired). He has considered this particular role to be his personal favorite.[37] He won a Golden Globe Award and earned an Emmy Award[38] nomination. For his role as a former Texas Ranger peace officer, Duvall was trained in the use of Walker revolvers by the Texas marksman Joe Bowman.

Later career: 1990–present edit

 
Duvall (right) on the set of The Man Who Captured Eichmann, 1996
 
President George W. Bush stands with recipients of the 2005 National Medal of Arts, from left: Leonard Garment, Louis Auchincloss, Paquito D'Rivera, James DePreist, Tina Ramirez, Robert Duvall, and Ollie Johnston

For The Godfather Part III (1990), Duvall declined to reprise the part of Tom Hagen, unless he was paid a salary comparable to Al Pacino's. In 2004, Duvall said on 60 Minutes, "if they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that's fine, but not three or four times, which is what they did."[39] In 1992, Duvall founded the production company Butcher's Run Films.[40] Duvall has maintained a busy film career, sometimes appearing in as many as four in one year. He received Oscar nominations for his portrayals of evangelical preacher Euliss "Sonny" Dewey in The Apostle (1997)—a film he also wrote and directed—and lawyer Jerome Facher in A Civil Action (1998).

He directed Assassination Tango (2002), a thriller about one of his favorite hobbies, tango. He portrayed General Robert E. Lee in Gods and Generals in 2003.

Other roles during this period that displayed the actor's wide range included that of a crew chief in Days of Thunder (1990), a retiring cop in Falling Down (1993), a Hispanic barber in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993), a New York tabloid editor in The Paper (1994), a rural doctor in Phenomenon (1996), a father who owns a jumper horse farm in Something to Talk About (1995), an abusive father in 1996's Sling Blade, an astronaut in Deep Impact (1998), a mechanic in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), a soccer coach in A Shot at Glory, a scientist in The 6th Day (2000), a police officer in John Q. (2002), a trail boss in Open Range (2003), another soccer coach in the comedy Kicking & Screaming, an old free spirit in Secondhand Lions (2003), a Las Vegas poker champion in Lucky You, and a New York City police chief in We Own the Night (both 2007).

He has his own star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.[41]

Duvall has periodically worked in television from the 1990s on. He won a Golden Globe Award and garnered an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in the 1992 television film Stalin. He was nominated for an Emmy again in 1997 for portraying Adolf Eichmann in The Man Who Captured Eichmann. In 2006, he won an Emmy for the role of Prentice "Print" Ritter in the revisionist Western miniseries Broken Trail.

In 2005, Duvall was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President George W. Bush at the White House.[42] In 2014, he starred in The Judge alongside Robert Downey Jr. While the movie itself received mixed reviews,[43] Duvall's performance was praised. He was nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award for his supporting role. In 2015, at age 84, Duvall became the oldest actor ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film The Judge,[44] a record that has since been surpassed by Christopher Plummer.

In 2018, he appeared in the Steve McQueen-directed heist thriller Widows as a corrupt power broker. The film earned critical acclaim.

Personal life edit

Relationships edit

 
Duvall with wife Gail Youngs, NYC apartment, 1984
 
Duvall with future and current wife Luciana Pedraza (right) shaking hands with a member of "The Black Stallions" of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Four at the Taormina Film Fest in Sicily.[45]

Duvall has been married four times but does not have any children. "I guess I'm shooting blanks," he said in 2007.[46] He has said, "[I’ve tried] with a lot of different women, in and out of marriage."[46] Duvall met his first wife, Barbara Benjamin,[3] a former announcer and dancer on The Jackie Gleason Show, during the shooting of To Kill a Mockingbird.[47] She had also appeared in Guys and Dolls (1955) and The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) using the name Barbara Brent.[48] She had two daughters from her previous marriage.[47] 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 temporarily made him the brother-in-law of John Savage,[6][49] Robin Young, and Jim Youngs. His third marriage was to Sharon Brophy, a dancer, from 1991 to 1995.[3]

In 2005, Duvall married his fourth wife, Luciana Pedraza, granddaughter of Argentine aviation pioneer Susana Ferrari Billinghurst.[50] He met Pedraza in Argentina, recalling, "The flower shop was closed, so I went to the bakery. If the flower shop had been open, I never would've met her."[51] They were both born on January 5, but Duvall is 41 years older.[52] They have been together since 1997. He produced, directed, and acted with her in Assassination Tango, with the majority of filming in Buenos Aires. Duvall is also known as a very skilled Argentine tango dancer, having a tango studio in Argentina and in the United States.[19][50][53]

Duvall is known to train Brazilian jiu-jitsu and practices martial arts with his wife.[54]

Politics edit

Duvall's political views are variously described as libertarian or conservative.[19] He was personally invited to Republican President George W. Bush's inauguration in 2001. In September 2007, he announced his support for Rudy Giuliani's campaign in the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries.[55] Duvall worked the floor at the GOP's 2008 national convention.[56] In September 2008, he appeared onstage at a John McCainSarah Palin rally in New Mexico, and he endorsed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.[57] However, in 2014, Duvall said in an interview he had become an independent.[58]

Philanthropy and activism edit

In 2001, Pedraza and Duvall founded the Robert Duvall Children's Fund to assist families in Northern Argentina through renovations of homes, schools, and medical facilities.[59] Duvall and Pedraza have been active supporters of Pro Mujer, a nonprofit charity organization dedicated to helping Latin America's poorest women (with Duvall and Pedraza concentrating on Pedraza's home in the Argentine Northwest).[60][61]

In May 2009, Duvall spoke for historic preservation against Walmart's proposal to build a store across the road from the entrance to the Wilderness Battlefield national park in Orange County, Virginia.[62] In 2011, he appeared at the Texas Children's Cancer Center charity event, "An Evening with a Texas Legend", in Houston, where he was interviewed by Bob Schieffer.[63]

In February 2023, Duvall spoke at a council meeting in suburban Virginia against a proposed Amazon facility. The facility was nonetheless approved.[64]

Filmography edit

Awards and nominations edit

References edit

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Further reading edit

  • Mancin, Elaine (1992). Nicholas, Thomas (ed.). Duvall, Robert. St. James Press. pp. 313–315. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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robert, duvall, french, alchemist, robert, duval, maryland, politician, robert, duvall, kentucky, politician, politician, robert, selden, duvall, ɔː, born, january, 1931, american, actor, filmmaker, with, career, spanning, seven, decades, regarded, greatest, a. For the French alchemist see Robert Duval For the Maryland politician see Robert E Duvall For the Kentucky politician see Robert Duvall politician Robert Selden Duvall 1 d uː ˈ v ɔː l born January 5 1931 2 3 is an American actor and filmmaker With a career spanning seven decades he is regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time 4 He is the recipient of an Academy Award four Golden Globe Awards a BAFTA Award two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award Robert DuvallDuvall in 2002BornRobert Selden Duvall 1931 01 05 January 5 1931 age 93 San Diego California U S Alma materPrincipia College BA OccupationsActorfilmmakerYears active1952 presentWorksFull listPolitical partyIndependentSpousesBarbara Benjamin Marcus m 1964 div 1981 wbr Gail Youngs m 1982 div 1986 wbr Sharon Brophy m 1991 div 1995 wbr Luciana Pedraza m 2005 wbr AwardsFull listMilitary careerBranchUnited States ArmyYears of service1953 1954RankPrivate first classDuvall began his career on TV with minor roles in 1960 on Playhouse 90 and the Armstrong Circle Theater TV series before transitioning to Broadway and film 5 Duvall made his Broadway debut in the play Wait Until Dark in 1966 He returned to the stage in David Mamet s play American Buffalo in 1977 earning a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play nomination He made his feature film acting debut portraying Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Other early roles include Captain Newman M D 1963 Bullitt 1968 True Grit 1969 M A S H 1970 THX 1138 1971 Joe Kidd 1972 and Tomorrow 1972 the last of which was developed at the Actors Studio and is his personal favorite 1 Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film Tender Mercies 1983 His other Oscar nominated films 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 The Handmaid s Tale 1990 Rambling Rose 1991 Falling Down 1993 The Paper 1994 The Scarlet Letter 1995 Sling Blade 1996 Open Range 2003 Crazy Heart 2009 Get Low 2010 Jack Reacher 2012 and Widows 2018 Throughout his career Duvall has starred on numerous television programs He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for the AMC limited series Broken Trail 2007 His other Emmy nominated roles are in the CBS miniseries Lonesome Dove 1989 the HBO film Stalin 1992 and the TNT film The Man Who Captured Eichmann 1996 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Early career 1952 1969 2 1 1 Theater 2 1 2 Television 2 1 3 Film 2 2 Mid career 1970 1989 2 3 Later career 1990 present 3 Personal life 3 1 Relationships 3 2 Politics 3 3 Philanthropy and activism 4 Filmography 5 Awards and nominations 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksEarly life editDuvall was born January 5 1931 in San Diego California 6 to Mildred Virginia Duvall nee Hart an amateur actress and Admiral William Howard Duvall 7 a Virginia born United States Navy rear admiral 8 9 The second of three sons he has an elder brother William Jr and a younger brother John 1934 2000 who was an entertainment lawyer 10 His mother was a relative of American Civil War General Robert E Lee and a member of the Lee Family of Virginia while his father was a descendant of settler Mareen Duvall 11 Duvall was raised in the Christian Science religion and has stated that while it is his belief he does not attend church 12 He grew up primarily in Annapolis Maryland 6 site of the United States Naval Academy He recalled I was a Navy brat My father started at the Academy when he was 16 made captain at 39 and retired as a rear admiral He attended Severn School in Severna Park Maryland and The Principia in St Louis Missouri He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in drama from Principia College in Elsah Illinois in 1953 6 13 His father had expected him to attend the Naval Academy but Duvall said I was terrible at everything but acting I could barely get through school He again defied his father by serving in the United States Army 14 after the Korean War from August 19 1953 to August 20 1954 leaving the Army as private first class 15 That s led to some confusion in the press he explained in 1984 Some stories have me shooting it out with the Commies from a foxhole over in Frozen Chosin Pork Chop Hill stuff Hell I barely qualified with the M 1 rifle in basic training 6 While stationed at Camp Gordon now Fort Eisenhower in Georgia Duvall acted in an amateur production of the comedy Room Service in nearby Augusta Georgia 13 In the winter of 1955 Duvall attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City 6 under Sanford Meisner on the G I Bill During his two years there Dustin Hoffman Gene Hackman and James Caan were among his classmates 6 16 17 18 While studying acting he worked as a Manhattan post office clerk Duvall remains friends today with fellow California born actors Hoffman and Hackman whom he knew during their years as struggling actors 19 In 1955 Duvall roomed with Hoffman in a New York City apartment while they were studying together at the Playhouse 20 21 Around this time he also roomed with Hackman while working odd jobs such as clerking at Macy s sorting mail at the post office and driving a truck 13 Career editEarly career 1952 1969 edit Theater edit Duvall began his professional acting career with the Gateway Playhouse an Equity summer theater based in Bellport Long Island New York Arguably his stage debut was in its 1952 season when he played the Pilot in Laughter In The Stars an adaptation of The Little Prince at what was then the Gateway Theatre 22 After a year s absence when he was with the U S Army 1953 1954 Duvall returned to Gateway in its 1955 summer season playing Eddie Davis in Ronald Alexander s Time Out For Ginger July 1955 Hal Carter in William Inge s Picnic July 1955 Charles Wilder in John Willard s The Cat And The Canary August 1955 Parris in Arthur Miller s The Crucible August 1955 and John the Witchboy in William Berney and Howard Richardson s Dark of the Moon September 1955 The playbill of Dark of the Moon indicated that he had portrayed the Witchboy before and that he will repeat his famous portrayal of this character for the 1955 season s revival of this play For Gateway s 1956 season his third season with the Gateway Players he played the role of Max Halliday in Frederick Knott s Dial M for Murder July 1956 Virgil Blessing in Inge s Bus Stop August 1956 and Clive Mortimer in John van Druten s I Am a Camera August 1956 The playbills for the 1956 season described him as an audience favorite in the last season and as having appeared at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and studied acting with Sandy Meisner this past winter In its 1957 season Duvall appeared as Mr Mayher in Agatha Christie s Witness For The Prosecution July 1957 as Hector in Jean Anouilh s Thieves Carnivall July 1957 and the role which he once described as the catalyst of his career Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller s A View from the Bridge from July 30 to August 3 1957 and directed by Ulu Grosbard who was by then a regular director at the Gateway Theatre 23 Miller himself attended one of Duvall s performances as Eddie and during that performance he met important people which allowed him in two months to land a spectacular lead in the Naked City television series 16 While appearing at the Gateway Theatre in the second half of the 1950s Duvall was also appearing at the Augusta Civic Theatre the McLean Theatre in Virginia and the Arena Stage in Washington DC The 1957 playbills also described him as a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse indicating that he had completed his studies there by the summer of 1957 a member of Sanford Meisner s professional workshop and as having worked with Alvin Epstein a mime and a member of Marcel Marceau s company By this time also July 1957 his theatrical credits included performances as Jimmy in The Rainmaker and as Harvey Weems in Horton Foote s The Midnight Caller 24 25 Already receiving top billing at the Gateway Playhouse in the 1959 season he appeared in lead roles as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire July August 1959 Maxwell Archer 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 August 1959 26 At the Neighborhood Playhouse Meisner cast him in Tennessee Williams Camino Real and the title role of Harvey Weems in Foote s one act play The Midnight Caller The latter was already part of Duvall s performance credits by mid July 1957 24 25 27 28 29 30 31 Duvall made his off Broadway debut at the Gate Theater as Frank Gardner in George Bernard Shaw s Mrs Warren s Profession on June 25 1958 This play closed three days later June 28 after five performances His other early off Broadway credits include the role of Doug in the premiere of Michael Shurtleff s Call Me By My Rightful Name on January 31 1961 at One Sheridan Square and the role of Bob Smith in the premiere of William Snyder s The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker on September 17 1962 until June 9 1963 at the Sheridan Square Playhouse His most notable off Broadway performance for which he won an Obie Award in 1965 and which he considers his Othello was as Eddie Carbone again in Miller s A View From the Bridge at the Sheridan Square Playhouse from January 28 1965 to December 11 1966 It was directed again by Ulu Grosbard with Dustin Hoffman On February 2 1966 he made his Broadway debut as Harry Roat Jr in Frederick Knott s Wait Until Dark at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre This played at the Shubert Theatre and George Abbott Theatre and closed on December 31 1966 at the Music Box Theatre His other Broadway performance was as Walter Cole in David Mamet s American Buffalo which opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 16 1977 and closed at the Belasco Theatre on June 11 1977 32 33 34 Television edit In 1959 Duvall made his first television appearance on Armstrong Circle Theater in the episode The Jailbreak He appeared regularly on television as a guest actor during the 1960s often in action suspense detective or crime dramas His appearances during this time include performances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents Naked City The Untouchables Route 66 The Twilight Zone Combat The Outer Limits The Fugitive T H E Cat Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea The Time Tunnel The F B I and The Mod Squad Film edit His film debut was as Boo Radley in the critically acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 He was cast in the film on the recommendation of screenwriter Horton Foote who met Duvall at Neighborhood Playhouse during a 1957 production of Foote s play The Midnight Caller Foote who collaborated with Duvall many more times over the course of their careers said he believed Duvall had a particular love of common people and ability to infuse fascinating revelations into his roles Foote has described Duvall as our number one actor 35 After To Kill a Mockingbird Duvall appeared in a number of films during the 1960s mostly in midsized parts but also in a few larger supporting roles Some of his more notable appearances include the role of Capt Paul Cabot Winston in Captain Newman M D 1963 Chiz in Countdown 1968 and Gordon in The Rain People Duvall had a small part as a cab driver who ferries McQueen around just before the chase scene in the film Bullitt 1968 He was the notorious malefactor Lucky Ned Pepper in True Grit 1969 in which he engaged in a climactic shootout with John Wayne s Rooster Cogburn on horseback Mid career 1970 1989 edit nbsp Duvall with President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1985 nbsp Duvall with Diane Lane at the 41st Emmy Awards in September 1989 nbsp Duvall s star on the Hollywood Walk of FameDuvall became an important presence in American films beginning in the 1970s He drew a considerable amount of attention in 1970 for his portrayal of the malevolent Major Frank Burns in the film MASH and for his portrayal of the title role in THX 1138 in 1971 where he plays a fugitive trying to escape a society controlled by robots His first major critical success came portraying Tom Hagen in The Godfather 1972 and The Godfather Part II 1974 the 1972 film earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor In 1976 Duvall played supporting roles in The Eagle Has Landed and as Dr Watson in The Seven Per Cent Solution with Nicol Williamson Alan Arkin Vanessa Redgrave and Laurence Olivier 36 By the mid 1970s Duvall was a top character actor People described him as Hollywood s No 1 No 2 lead 14 Duvall received another Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor and won both a BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for his role as Lt Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now 1979 His line I love the smell of napalm in the morning from Apocalypse Now is regarded as iconic in cinema history The full text is You smell that Do you smell that Napalm son Nothing else in the world smells like that I love the smell of napalm in the morning You know one time we had a hill bombed for twelve hours When it was all over I walked up We didn t find one of em not one stinkin dink body But the smell You know that gasoline smell the whole hill Smelled like victory Pause Some day this war is going to end Duvall received a BAFTA Award nomination for his portrayal of detestable television executive Frank Hackett in the critically acclaimed film Network 1976 and garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in The Great Santini 1979 as the hard boiled Marine Lt Col Bull Meechum The latter role was based on a Marine aviator Colonel Donald Conroy the father of the book s author Pat Conroy He also co starred with Laurence Olivier and Tommy Lee Jones in The Betsy 1978 and portrayed United States President Dwight D Eisenhower in the television miniseries Ike 1979 Francis Ford Coppola praised Duvall as one of the four or five best actors in the world Wanting top billing in films in 1977 Duvall returned to Broadway to appear as Walter Cole in David Mamet s American Buffalo stating I hope this will get me better film roles 14 He received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play You can t concoct or push ahead something other than what you have at that moment as yourself as that character It s you at that moment in time Between action and cut it s a nice world but you can t force that any more than you can force it in life Robert Duvall on acting 35 Duvall continued appearing in films during the 1980s including the roles of disillusioned sportswriter Max Mercy in The Natural 1984 and Los Angeles police officer Bob Hodges in Colors 1988 He won an Oscar for Best Actor as country western singer Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies 1983 Duvall did his own singing insisting it be added to his contract that he sing the songs himself Duvall said What s the point if you re not going to do your own singing They re just going to dub somebody else I mean there s no point to that 35 Actress Tess Harper who co starred said Duvall inhabited the character so fully that she only got to know Mac Sledge and not Duvall himself Director Bruce Beresford too said the transformation was so believable to him that he could feel his skin crawling up the back of his neck the first day of filming with Duvall Beresford said of the actor Duvall has the ability to completely inhabit the person he s acting He totally and utterly becomes that person to a degree which is uncanny 35 Nevertheless Duvall and Beresford did not get along well during the production and often clashed during filming including one day in which Beresford walked off the set in frustration 35 In 1989 Duvall appeared in the miniseries Lonesome Dove in the role of Captain Augustus Gus McCrae Texas Rangers retired He has considered this particular role to be his personal favorite 37 He won a Golden Globe Award and earned an Emmy Award 38 nomination For his role as a former Texas Ranger peace officer Duvall was trained in the use of Walker revolvers by the Texas marksman Joe Bowman Later career 1990 present edit nbsp Duvall right on the set of The Man Who Captured Eichmann 1996 nbsp President George W Bush stands with recipients of the 2005 National Medal of Arts from left Leonard Garment Louis Auchincloss Paquito D Rivera James DePreist Tina Ramirez Robert Duvall and Ollie JohnstonFor The Godfather Part III 1990 Duvall declined to reprise the part of Tom Hagen unless he was paid a salary comparable to Al Pacino s In 2004 Duvall said on 60 Minutes if they paid Pacino twice what they paid me that s fine but not three or four times which is what they did 39 In 1992 Duvall founded the production company Butcher s Run Films 40 Duvall has maintained a busy film career sometimes appearing in as many as four in one year He received Oscar nominations for his portrayals of evangelical preacher Euliss Sonny Dewey in The Apostle 1997 a film he also wrote and directed and lawyer Jerome Facher in A Civil Action 1998 He directed Assassination Tango 2002 a thriller about one of his favorite hobbies tango He portrayed General Robert E Lee in Gods and Generals in 2003 Other roles during this period that displayed the actor s wide range included that of a crew chief in Days of Thunder 1990 a retiring cop in Falling Down 1993 a Hispanic barber in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway 1993 a New York tabloid editor in The Paper 1994 a rural doctor in Phenomenon 1996 a father who owns a jumper horse farm in Something to Talk About 1995 an abusive father in 1996 s Sling Blade an astronaut in Deep Impact 1998 a mechanic in Gone in 60 Seconds 2000 a soccer coach in A Shot at Glory a scientist in The 6th Day 2000 a police officer in John Q 2002 a trail boss in Open Range 2003 another soccer coach in the comedy Kicking amp Screaming an old free spirit in Secondhand Lions 2003 a Las Vegas poker champion in Lucky You and a New York City police chief in We Own the Night both 2007 He has his own star on the St Louis Walk of Fame 41 Duvall has periodically worked in television from the 1990s on He won a Golden Globe Award and garnered an Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in the 1992 television film Stalin He was nominated for an Emmy again in 1997 for portraying Adolf Eichmann in The Man Who Captured Eichmann In 2006 he won an Emmy for the role of Prentice Print Ritter in the revisionist Western miniseries Broken Trail In 2005 Duvall was awarded a National Medal of Arts by President George W Bush at the White House 42 In 2014 he starred in The Judge alongside Robert Downey Jr While the movie itself received mixed reviews 43 Duvall s performance was praised He was nominated for a Golden Globe Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award for his supporting role In 2015 at age 84 Duvall became the oldest actor ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film The Judge 44 a record that has since been surpassed by Christopher Plummer In 2018 he appeared in the Steve McQueen directed heist thriller Widows as a corrupt power broker The film earned critical acclaim Personal life editRelationships edit nbsp Duvall with wife Gail Youngs NYC apartment 1984 nbsp Duvall with future and current wife Luciana Pedraza right shaking hands with a member of The Black Stallions of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Four at the Taormina Film Fest in Sicily 45 Duvall has been married four times but does not have any children I guess I m shooting blanks he said in 2007 46 He has said I ve tried with a lot of different women in and out of marriage 46 Duvall met his first wife Barbara Benjamin 3 a former announcer and dancer on The Jackie Gleason Show during the shooting of To Kill a Mockingbird 47 She had also appeared in Guys and Dolls 1955 and The Courtship of Eddie s Father 1963 using the name Barbara Brent 48 She had two daughters from her previous marriage 47 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 temporarily made him the brother in law of John Savage 6 49 Robin Young and Jim Youngs His third marriage was to Sharon Brophy a dancer from 1991 to 1995 3 In 2005 Duvall married his fourth wife Luciana Pedraza granddaughter of Argentine aviation pioneer Susana Ferrari Billinghurst 50 He met Pedraza in Argentina recalling The flower shop was closed so I went to the bakery If the flower shop had been open I never would ve met her 51 They were both born on January 5 but Duvall is 41 years older 52 They have been together since 1997 He produced directed and acted with her in Assassination Tango with the majority of filming in Buenos Aires Duvall is also known as a very skilled Argentine tango dancer having a tango studio in Argentina and in the United States 19 50 53 Duvall is known to train Brazilian jiu jitsu and practices martial arts with his wife 54 Politics edit Duvall s political views are variously described as libertarian or conservative 19 He was personally invited to Republican President George W Bush s inauguration in 2001 In September 2007 he announced his support for Rudy Giuliani s campaign in the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries 55 Duvall worked the floor at the GOP s 2008 national convention 56 In September 2008 he appeared onstage at a John McCain Sarah Palin rally in New Mexico and he endorsed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012 57 However in 2014 Duvall said in an interview he had become an independent 58 Philanthropy and activism edit In 2001 Pedraza and Duvall founded the Robert Duvall Children s Fund to assist families in Northern Argentina through renovations of homes schools and medical facilities 59 Duvall and Pedraza have been active supporters of Pro Mujer a nonprofit charity organization dedicated to helping Latin America s poorest women with Duvall and Pedraza concentrating on Pedraza s home in the Argentine Northwest 60 61 In May 2009 Duvall spoke for historic preservation against Walmart s proposal to build a store across the road from the entrance to the Wilderness Battlefield national park in Orange County Virginia 62 In 2011 he appeared at the Texas Children s Cancer Center charity event An Evening with a Texas Legend in Houston where he was interviewed by Bob Schieffer 63 In February 2023 Duvall spoke at a council meeting in suburban Virginia against a proposed Amazon facility The facility was nonetheless approved 64 Filmography editMain article Robert Duvall filmographyAwards and nominations editMain article List of awards and nominations received by Robert DuvallReferences edit a b Robert Duvall is Staying Put on Broadway The Baltimore Sun February 22 1977 Retrieved December 9 2012 permanent dead link Famous birthdays for 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