Robert Duvall

At 93 years old, Robert Duvall has this physical status:

Career

Duvall began his professional acting career with the Gateway Playhouse, an Equity summer theater based in Bellport, Long Island, New York. Arguably, his first appearance in Laughter In The Stars, a production of The Little Prince, was in its 1952 season.

After a year of service (1953-1954), he returned to Gateway in 1955, playing: Eddie Davis in Patrick Willard's The Cat And The Canary (July 1955), and John the Witchboy in William Berney's Dark of the Moon (September 1955). The playbill of Dark of the Moon said he had portrayed the Witchboy before and that he would "repeat his famous portrayal" of this character for the 1955 season's revival of this drama. He appeared in Max Halliday'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). He was described as "an audience favorite" in the last season, according to the playbills, as having "appeared at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and spent time with Sandy Meisner this winter.

He appeared as Mr. Mayher in Agatha Christie's Witness For The Prosecution (July 1957), as Hector in Jean Anouilh's Aspect From The Bridge (July 1957), and later 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 later a regular director at the Gateway Theatre) during his 1957 debut (July 1957). Miller attended one of Duvall's performances as Eddie, and during that appearance he met some of his teammates, which allowed him to land a "spectacular lead" in the Naked City television series for two months.

While appearing at the Gateway Theatre in the second half of the 1950s, he was also appearing at the Augusta Civic Theatre in Virginia, the McLean Theatre in Virginia, and Washington, DC's Arena Stage. His father, "a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse" (implying that he completed his studies by the summer of 1957), "a participant of Sanford Meisner's professional workshop") and as having worked with Alvin Epstein, a mime and a shareholder of Marcel Marceau's firm, was also listed in the 1957 playbills as "a professional of the neighborhood playhouse" (indicating that he was employed by the company's firm. By this time (also July 1957), Jimmy in The Rainmaker and as Harvey Weems in Horton Foote's The Midnight Caller had a performing career. Stanley Kowalski of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (July–August 1959), Maxwell Archer in Joseph Ustinov's Romanoff and Juliet, and Joe Mancuso in Kyle Crichton's The Happiest Millionaire were all in August 1959).

Meisner appeared in Tennessee Williams' Camino Real and Harvey Weems' title role in Foote's one-act play The Midnight Caller, as a boy in the neighborhood playhouse. By mid-July 1957, the latter was already a member of Duvall's success.

On June 25, 1958, Duvall made his off-Broadway debut at the Gate Theater as Frank Gardner in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession. After five performances, this production came to a close three days later (June 28). Doug appeared in Michael Shurtlef's Call Me By My Rightful Name on January 31, 1961, at One Sheridan Square, and later in the Sheridan Square Playhouse's The Days and Nights of BeeBee Fenstermaker's premiere on June 9, 1963, 1963. Eddie Carbone (again) in Miller's A View from the Bridge, his most notable off-Broadway performance, for which he earned an Obie Award in 1965 and which he describes as his "Othello" was from January 28, 1965 to December 11, 1966. Ulu Grosbard and Dustin Hoffmann directed it again. Harry Roat, Jr. made his Broadway debut in Frederick Knott's Wait Until Dark, Jr. at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 2, 1966. This was performed at the Shubert Theatre and George Abbott Theatre, which eventually closed on December 31, 1966 at the Music Box Theatre. Walter Cole appeared in David Mamet's American Buffalo, which opened in 1976 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and closed at the Belasco Theatre on June 11, 1977.

In 1959, Duvall made his first television appearance on Armstrong Circle Theater in the episode "The Jailbreak." During the 1960s, he appeared on television as a guest actor, suspense, investigator, or crime dramas. During this period, he appeared on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Naked City, The Untouchables, Route 66, Combat!, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, T.H.E. The Time Tunnel, The F.B.I., and The Mod Squad, Cat, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

In the critically acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Boo Radley made his film debut. He was cast in the film on the recommendation of screenwriter Horton Foote, who met Duvall at the Neighborhood Playhouse during a 1957 production of Foote's play The Midnight Caller. Foote, who worked with Duvall many times throughout their careers, said he felt Duvall had a particular obsession with common people and the ability to channel mysterious revelations into his work. Foote has described Duvall as "our number one actor."

Duvall appeared in several films during the 1960s, most in mid-sized roles, but also in a few larger supporting roles. Capt. was one of his most popular appearances. M.D. Captain Newman, M.D. Paul Cabot Winston is a writer who writes about James Cabot Winston. (1963), Chiz in Countdown (1968), and Gordon in The Rain People, Duvall had a small part in the film Bullitt (1968) as a cab driver who ferries McQueen around just before the chase scene. He was the notorious malefactor "Lucky" Ned Pepper in True Grit (1969), in which he participated in a dramatic shootout with John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn on horseback.

Starting in the 1970s, Duvall was a central figure in American cinema. In 1970, he drew a great deal of notice for his portrayal of the malevolent Major Frank Burns in the film MASH and his portrayal of the title role in THX 1138, where he plays a fugitive trying to escape a society ruled by robots. Tom Hagen's first major critic success came in the 1972 film The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Duvall appeared in The Eagle Has Landed and as Dr. Watson in The Seven-Perpetence Solution with Nicol Williamson, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, and Laurence Olivier.

Duvall, a top character actor in the mid-1970s, was known as "Hollywood's No. 1" by the end. 1 No. 1 (USA): No. 1 — Lead (02) is a result. Duvall received another Oscar nomination for his role as an actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for his role as Lt. Colonel Kilgore of Apocalypse Now (1979) screams at Apocalypse. Apocalypse Now's line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" is considered to be one of cinema history.

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

"One of the world's best actors," Francis Ford Coppola praised Duvall as "one of the top actors in the world." In 1977 Duvall returned to Broadway to appear as Walter Cole in David Mamet's American Buffalo, "I hope this will get me better film roles." He was nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Play by the Drama Desk Awards.

Duvall appeared in films in the 1980s, including disillusioned sportswriter Max Mercy in The Natural (1984) and Los Angeles police officer Bob Hodges in Colors (1988). In Tender Mercies (1983), he received an Oscar for Best Actor as a country western singer Mac Sledge. Duvall did his own singing, insisting that it be included in his deal; Duvall said, "What's the point if you don't want to do your own [singing]?

They're just going to dub somebody else?

No point to it, I mean.

Duvall inhabited the role so fully that she needed to know Mac Sledge and not Duvall himself, according to actress Tess Harper, who co-starred. On the first day of filming with Duvall, producer Bruce Beresford said the change was so realistic to him that he could feel his skin crawling up the back of his neck. "Duvall has the ability to completely inhabit the person he's portraying," Beresford said of him. He's completely and utterly becomes the one who is uncanny." Nonetheless, Duvall and Beresford did not get along well during the filming and often clashed during filming, including one day where Beresford walked away in annoyance.

In 1989, Duvall appeared in the miniseries Lonesome Dove as Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae, Texas Rangers (retired). He has chosen this role to be his personal favorite. He received a Golden Globe Award as a child and received an Emmy Award nomination. Duvall, the Texas marksman, was trained in the use of Walker revolvers for his job as a former Texas Ranger peace officer.

Duvall's part III (1990) was rejected for the role because he was paid at a similar salary to Al Pacino's. "If they paid Pacino twice what they paid me," Duvall said on 60 Minutes, "that's fine, but not three or four times, as they did." Butcher's Run Films, Duvall's 1992 founding, was founded in Butcher, Butcher. Duvall has had a full film career, with occasional appearances in as many as four films in one year. In The Apostle (1997), he received Academy Award nominations for his portrayals of evangelical preacher Euliss "Sonny" Dewey, a film in which he also wrote and directed—and played lawyer Jerome Facher in A Civil Action (1998).

Tango (2002), a drama about one of his favorite hobbies, tango, was directed by him. In 2003, he portrayed General Robert E. Lee in Gods and Generals.

Other notable performances during this period included an abusive father in Days of Thunder (1990), a retired cop in Wrestling (1993), a medical professor in Phenomenon (1994), a soccer coach in A Shot at Glory, a scientist in A Shot at Glory (1996), a gun technician in a father in Falling Down (1993), a retired cop in Gone (1990), a former soldier in Something to Talk About (1995), a father in P A trail manager in Open Range (2003), another soccer coach in Kicking & Screaming, an old free spirit in Secondhand Lions (2003), a Las Vegas poker champion in Lucky You (2003), and a New York police chief in We Own the Night (both 2007).

On the St. Louis Walk of Fame, he has his own celebrity.

Duvall has appeared on television from the 1990s to today. He received a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy Award for his role as Soviet Prime Minister Joseph Stalin in the 1992 television film Stalin. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1997 for portraying Adolf Eichmann in The Man Who Captured Eichmann. In 2006, he received an Emmy for his role as Prentice "Print" Ritter in the new Western miniseries Broken Trail.

President George W. Bush at the White House awarded Duvall a National Medal of Arts in 2005. He appeared in The Judge alongside Robert Downey Jr. in 2014. Although the film itself received mixed feedback, Duvall's performance was lauded. For his support role, he was nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award. Duvall achieved the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film The Judge in 2015, an award 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. Critical praise has been given to the film. Stephen Colbert's interview with Stephen Colbert in 2021 addressed his film career, living with Dustin Hoffman, his role in Network, and his acting methods.

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