Robert Duvall
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PERSONAL DATA OF ROBERT DUVALL
Age: 90 years old
Born in: San Diego, California, USA
Born on: 05/01/1931
BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT DUVALL
Robert Selden Duvall was born in California to Mildred Virginia Hart (amateur actress) and William Howard Duvall (admiral of the US Navy), but grew up in Annapolis, Maryland, where the United States Naval Academy, the workplace of her father, is based. Robert Duvall he graduated in Dramatic Arts from Principia College in Elsah in Illinois before serving the country in the ranks of the army in 1953, participating in the Korean War. Two years later he starts dating in New York The Neighborhood Playhouse theater school finding a certain among the classmates Dustin Hoffman and a certain Gene Hackman, of which he becomes the roommate first of one then of the other. With Hackman he also shares some temporary jobs to pay for his expenses, as a sorting at the Post Office and a clerk at Macy’s.
Duvall cuts his teeth on the off-Broadway stage before making a series of television appearances. From 1959 onwards gets various roles in TV series such as Alfred Hitchcock presents, On the edge of reality, The Untouchables, The Outer Limits is The fugitive. The debut in the cinema comes thanks to the screenwriter Horton Foote who, having appreciated him a few years earlier in a play he wrote, recommends him for the part of Boo Radley in The dark beyond the hedge (1962). The film wins three Academy Awards, including the one for Foote’s Best Screenplay. There are rumors that her first real film appearance took place in 1956, an uncredited appearance in Someone up there loves me. This rumor still remains unconfirmed.
In the 60s the theatrical activity that marks the debut continues in Brodway with Wait Until Dark, while cinema salaries are increasing. Duvall is cast in supporting roles for the films Hunting (1966), Countdown (1968) and I’m not going home tonight (1969), directed by respectively Arthur Penn, Robert Altman is Francis Ford Coppola. Hardly the directors who work with him forget it. Altman calls it for a part in MASH. (1970), while Coppola report it first to George Lucas who chooses him as the protagonist of his directorial debut with The man who escaped from the future (1971), then entrusts him with the part of Tom Hagen neither The Godfather (1972). Playing Don Vito Corleone’s lawyer, Duvall conquers the first of six Oscar nominations.
We are in the mid-70s and Robert Duvall’s career is on the rise. After the success of The Godfather – Part II (1974), Coppola it also involves him in the thriller The conversation where he finds his friend Gene Hackman. Make movies Killer Elite, Fifth estate, The night of the eagle, Betsy to reach the definitive artistic consecration in the part of Lieutenant Colonel Bill “I-like-the-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning” Kilgore in Apocalypse Now (1979), again directed by Coppola. This film and the next (both war films) The great Santini (1980) are worth it two Oscar nominations, but it is with the musical drama A tender thanks (1983) who manages to get the coveted statuette as best leading actor.
In the following years, he fell victim to the infamous post-Oscar curse, pioneered by other actors such as Luise Rainer, Rod Steiger and Cliff Robertson. His career undergoes an inflection due to the job offers he receives, roles not up to his talent. One explanation can be found in his remuneration, naturally increased after the award, and in the fact that the Hollywood majors have never really considered him a leading name for the saleability of a film. In fact, his absence in the cast of The Godfather – Part III (1990) is due to the fee of 1 million dollars offered to him by Paramount and judged not proportionate by the actor for his character, considering that in the first draft the script gave a fundamental importance to the role of Tom Hagen and that at the same time Al Pacino 5 million had been proposed to go back to being Michael Corleone.
In 1988 reads next to Sean Penn in the detective Colors – War Colors and two years later it is next to Tom Cruise in Days of thunder. Between these two works, he returns to television accepting the lead role in the mini western series Lonesome Dove which yields him a Golden Globe (the third). He wins the same prize again in the same category in 1993 playing Stalin, in the biographical TV movie of the same name. Apart from these awards, Robert Duvall he is now an actor settled on supporting roles of any cinematographic genre, always and in any case a guarantee of interpretative quality. Hunt down Michael Douglas in A day of ordinary madness (1993), editor of a newspaper in Assault Chroniclers (1994), is the revived husband of The scarlet letter (1995), medicates telekinetic John Travolta in Phenomenon (1996).
Throughout the 2000s spanning comedy, drama, science fiction and sport, he stars in films with Nicolas Cage, Denzel Washington, Arnold Schwarzenegger is Kevin Costner until the return to the small screen with another western mini series entitled Broken Trail, which is worth his first and only one Emmy Award. In addition to being back in the role of the councilor Tom Hagen even if only with the voice for the various versions videogame of the Godfather, Robert Duvall he also allowed himself the artistic luxury of sitting behind the camera. It happened in 1977 with the documentary We’re Not the Jet Set, in 1983 with the film about a real group of New York gypsies Angelo My Love and directing himself ne The apostle (1997) and in Assassination Tango (2002). He recently proved to be always in great shape by giving depth to his characters in Jack Reacher (2012) and especially in The Judge (2014), film for which he gets the seventh Oscar nomination.
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THE MOST RECENT MOVIES BY ROBERT DUVALL
The Apostle
Role: Film director
Year: 1997
Angelo My Love
Role: Film director
Year: 1983
Widows – Criminal Legacy (Widows)
Role: Actor
Year: 2018
In Dubious Battle – The Courage of the Last (In Dubious Battle)
Role: Actor
Year: 2016 Go to the complete Filmography
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