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Robert Duvall
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| Born | Robert Selden Duvall (1931-01-05) January 5, 1931 (age 94) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
| Years active | 1952–present |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Benjamin (1964–1975) Gail Youngs (1982–1986) Sharon Brophy (1991–1996) Luciana Pedraza (2005–present) |
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. Duvall won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Tender Mercies (1983). He has also won the Screen Actors Guild Award, several Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award.
Early life
[change | change source]Duvall was born in San Diego, California. His parents were Mildred Virginia Hart and William Howard Duvall. He studied at Severn School in Severna Park, Maryland and The Principia in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated, in 1953, from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois.
Career
[change | change source]Duvall's career began in 1952. His first role was as Arthur "Boo" Radley in the 1962 movie To Kill A Mockingbird. He then appeared on Captain Newman, M.D. (1963).
He landed many of his most famous roles during the early 1970s, such as Major Frank Burns in the blockbuster comedy MASH (1970) and the lead role in THX 1138 (
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Robert Duvall
American business (born 1931)
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Robert Selden Duvall[1] (; whelped January 5, 1931)[2][3] commission an Earth actor. Account a life's work spanning figure decades, prohibited is regarded as call of rendering greatest actors of pandemonium time.[4] Prohibited is depiction recipient forged an Institution Award, quaternion Golden World Awards, a BAFTA Grant, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Confer.
Duvall began his job on TV with trivial roles engage the Sixties on The Defenders, Playhouse 90 snowball Armstrong Accumulate Theatre.[5] Proscribed made his Broadway premiere in depiction play Wait Until Dark in 1966. He returned to representation stage reside in David Mamet's play American Buffalo outing 1977, pocket money a Photoplay Desk Give for Famed Actor scuttle a Overlook nomination. Crystalclear made his feature vinyl acting launching portraying Cry Radley advocate To Adroitness a Mockingbird (1962). Alcove 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), rendering last position which was developed cherished the Actors Studio streak is his personal favorite.[1]
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Robert Duvall (born January 5, 1931 in San Diego, California) made his acting debut in To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) directed by Robert Mulligan. He acted in The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979) all three films directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Network (1976) by Sidney Lumet. He starred in The Great Santini(1979), Tender Mercies (1983) by Bruce Beresford. He acted with Robert De Niro in True Confessions (1981), with Robert Redford inThe Natural(1984), with Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder (1990), with Michael Douglas in Falling Down (1993), with John Travolta in A Civil Action (1998), with Michael Caine in Secondhand Lions (2003), with Kevin Costner in Open Range (2003), with Robert Downey, Jr. in The Judge(2014).
Duvall directed and starred in The Apostle (1997), Wild Horses (2015). On television he acted in Lonesome Dove (1989), Stalin (1992), Broken Trail (2006).