Robert Duvall  Biography

Robert Duvall was born in San Diego, California, the United States as Robert Selden Duvall. He is an American actor and filmmaker. Duvall is famous for seven Academy Awards (winning for his performance in Tender Mercies) and seven Golden Globe Awards (winning four) and has won a BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Emmy Award. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2005. He has starred in numerous films and series.

Robert Duvall Age

Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, California, U.S. He is 88 years old as of 2019.

Robert Duvall  Family

Duvall was born January 5, 1931, in San Diego, California to Mildred Virginia (née Hart; 1901–c. 1985), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall (1904–1984), a Virginia-born U.S. Navy admiral. He has English, and smaller amounts of Belgian, French Huguenot, German, Scottish, Swiss-German, and Welsh ancestry. He has two siblings John Duvall, William Duvall.

Robert Duvall Married

  • Luciana Pedraza (6 October 2004 – present)
  • Sharon Brophy (1 May 1991 – 1996) ( divorced)
  • Gail Youngs (22 August 1982 – 1986) ( divorced)
  • Barbara Benjamin (31 December 1964 – 1975) ( divorced)

Robert Duvall Children

Despite being married four times, Robert Duvall does not have any children.

Robert Duvall Height

Robert Duvall stands at 1.74 m tall.

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Robert Duvall Career

His first acting career was in 1952, playing the role of a Pilot for a stage show, Laughter in the Stars, an adaptation of The Little Prince.
He was recommended to serve the United States Army for a year from 1953 to 1954. It was during his service at the military that he acted in an amateur production of the comedy, ‘Room Service’. He later returned to theater and was cast in a variety of roles in 1955 including, Eddie Davis in Ronald Alexander’s ‘Time Out For Ginger’, Hal Carter in William Inge’s ‘Picnic’, Charles Wilder in John Willard’s ‘The Cat And The Canary’, Paris in Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ and John the Witchboy in William Berney and Howard Richardson’s ‘Dark Of The Moon’. He made his Off-Broadway debut in 1958 playing the character of Frank Gardner in George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Mrs. Warren’s Profession’. Some of his other Broadway works include Michael Shurtleff’s‘Call Me By My Rightful Name’ and William Snyder’s ‘The Days and Nights of Beebee Fenstermaker’

In 1959 he appeared in a number of leadership roles such as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ ‘Streetcar Named Desire’, 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’ In 1959, he made his debut on television for ‘Armstrong Circle Theatre’, in the episode, ‘The Jailbreak’. Ever since then, he made regular guest appearances in several television shows including, ‘Naked City’, ‘The Untouchables’, ‘Route 66’, ‘The Twilight Zone’, ‘The Outer Limits’, ‘The Fugitive’ and so on. In 1966, he made his Broadway debut as Harry Roat, Jr in Frederick Knott’s ‘Wait Until Dark’. Thereafter, he was seen playing the character of Walter Cole in David Marnet’s‘American Buffalo’.He appeared in a number of films, his biggest breakthrough came with the 1972 film, ‘The Godfather’ in which he played the character of Tom Hagen. He reprised his role for the sequel in 1974. he has made numerous appearances in television including the Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the character of Joseph Stalin in ‘Stalin’ and ‘Adolf Eichmann in ‘The Man Who Captured Eichmann’
He started in 2000 with three releases scheduled, ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’, ‘The 6th Day’ and ‘A Shot at Glory’. Eventually, he was seen appearing in a number of movies, some of which include ‘Assassination Tango’, ‘Gods and Generals’, ‘Open Range’, ‘Four Christmases’, ‘Thank You For Smoking’, ‘Get Low’ and so on. In 2011, he played the role of Johnny Crawford in ‘Seven Days in Utopia’. The following year, he had two releases with ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car’ and ‘Jack Reacher’.

Robert Duvall  Net Worth

The American actor and director, Duvall has an estimated net worth of $70 million.

Robert Duvall Movies

  • The Godfather (1972)
    (Crime, Drama)
  • The Godfather: Part II (1974)
    (Crime, Drama)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
    (Drama, War)
  • We’re Not the Jet Set (1977)
    (Documentary)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    (Crime, Drama)
  • Network (1976)
    (Drama)
  • The Conversation (1974)
    (Drama, Mystery, Thriller)
  • Tomorrow (1972)
    (Drama)

Robert Duvall Western Movies

  • Open Range 2003
  • True Grit 1969
  • Geronimo: An American Legend 1993
  • The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 1972
  • Lawman 1971
  • Joe Kidd 1972
  • A Night in Old Mexico 2013
  • Crazy Heart 2009
  • Robert Duvall Oscar

    • 1984 Best Actor in a Leading Role Tender Mercies (1983)

    Robert Duvall Godfather

    Robert Duvall starred in the Godfather a 1972 American crime film where he played the role of Tom Hagen, portraying adopted son, who serves as the family lawyer and consigliere.

    Robert Duvall Boo Radley

    To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960, where Robert Duvall played the role of Arthur “Boo” Radley.

    Robert Duvall Lonesome Dove

    Robert Duvall starred in the American epic Western adventure television miniseries Lonesome Dove, where he appeared in as Captain Augustus “Gus” McCrae portraying Texas Ranger.

    Robert Duvall Apocalypse Now

    Robert Duvall starred in the Apocalypse Now a 1979 American epic war film where he featured in as Lieutenant Colonel William “Bill” Kilgore portraying 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment commander and surfing fanatic.

    Robert Duvall Get Low

    Get Low is a 2010 drama film where Robert Duvall starred in playing the role of Felix Bush.

    Robert Duvall The Apostle

    The Apostle is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Robert Duvall, he also starred in as Euliss F. “Sonny” Dewey.

    Robert Duvall Tango

    Robert Duvall wrote, produced, and directed the 2002 American crime thriller film Assassination Tango. He also starred in playing the role of John J. Anderson. The film centers on the life of a hitman who travels to Argentina for a job, as well as his discovery of Argentine tango and his relationship with a woman living there.

    Robert Duvall Video

    Published:  May 16, 2018

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

    EMMA BROWN: Let’s start with the basics. How did you get involved in A Night in Old Mexico?

    ROBERT DUVALL: Well, Bill Wittliff—he’s a wonderful Texas writer—he’s worked on this [film] for over 30 years. He’s very much a perfectionist—difficult for some people to work with. Dennis Hopper was going to direct it for a while, and then a French guy got a hold of it, and then, finally, Emilio Aragón from Spain loved the script, had money, brought his expertise and his crew, and we did it in Southeast Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. It was now or never. It had been in the works for years and years and years.

    BROWN: How long had you been following the script?

    DUVALL: I’d been following it for a good 15 or 20 years, but it wasn’t right yet. It was a marinating period. Wittliff updated the script and made it a lot better. Right up until the week before [filming], the powers that be were going to pull the plug and say “We’re not going to make the movie.”

    BROWN: Oh, wow.

    DUVALL: So I had my friend who was producing say, “If you pull the plug, this’ll be more disappointing to Bobby’s feelings than Red Bovine losing his ranch in the movie.” The guy said, “Oh, I get it. We’ll go ahead with this.”

    BROWN: What made this project so special—what made you keep coming back to it?

    DUVALL: I think it started with that character. It was almost like a descendant of those two guys from Lonesome Dove. I’ve always wanted to play the character, Red Bovie. [laughs] He was definitely a character. I didn’t have to do a lot of research; I just let it come. That’s the way I did it with Lonesome Dove. I went around Texas talking with people, meeting ranchers. Stop and get some good barbeque here; hear a good country band there…

    BROWN: Do you like to dance?

    DUVALL: Yeah. I dance the two-step. You don’t take it to the point of the experts, but you dance it in a nice, social way. When I do a movie like that, or any movie—a western, too—I like to do my own dancing, my own singing if I have to, my own horsemanship. My favorite two sports are American football and show jumping. You guys [the English] are probably the top jumping riders in the world today. A lot of our guys become cowboys instead of that, but I’ve always liked it. I’d need to have a bomb-proof horse. Do you know what that means?

    BROWN: One that won’t bolt no matter what.

    DUVALL: Right! [laughs] Some people say, “What do you mean by that?” Well, it’s self-explanatory. If a bomb goes off, hopefully, it won’t do anything.

    BROWN: I used to ride horses in Hyde Park. They were very used to city noises—they’d be fine if a bomb went off—but if a plastic bag floated by…

    DUVALL: Right. I was once on a $150,000 horse—

    that they compete on—very calm. They let me do what I could do on it, ’cause it was bomb proof. Terrific horse. We were riding through the Virginia countryside and we came to a small canine graveyard, and that horse almost jumped out from under me.  Something [must have] jumped out of the grave or something!BROWN: When did you learn to ride?

    DUVALL: Oh, just growing up, and then in California when I had a lot of free time years ago. I wanted to ride Western, but a lot of guys who ride Western are terrible horsemen. They had a place that was a great big facility, and you’d rent a horse for three, four, five dollars an hour. I’d take a horse out bareback, Western saddle, English saddle— I like English saddle—and jump a little bit. I wanted to have a good seat for movies, for Westerns, because so many actors don’t have good seats. That’s where that hobby started—to help my career. When I did Lonesome Dove, even for the stunts, I did my own riding.

    BROWN: A lot of actors will say that they can ride when they can’t. Did you ever exaggerate or lie on your résumé when you first started out as an actor?

    DUVALL: [laughs] It’s been a while since I’ve had a résumé. Been a while since I auditioned. One thing comes to mind: I liked to do different accents. I played Watson once in a movie and I played a Scottish accent—it’s different from the English [accent]. It’s much different; when you go to Glasgow you need a gun with floating subtitles. I did try out once for a play; it was to play of a young King Henry VIII. I got up there and did a pretty good English accent, and the director said, “Where did you learn to do that?” And then he had me do it again. I didn’t get the part, but I puzzled him a little bit!

    BROWN: Jeremy Irvine is a great actor. I always assumed he was just pretty.

    DUVALL: Yeah, he’s from England. He did a good American accent.

    BROWN: I just saw him in The Railway Man—

    DUVALL: Oh, is Jeremy in that? I bet that’s a nice movie.

    BROWN: It is.

    DUVALL: That’s what I hear. Does Jeremy play a soldier?

    BROWN: Yes. He plays a younger version of Colin Firth’s character.

    DUVALL: Great, that’s nice. He’s nice to work with. He loves Southeast Texas. He got on the mechanical bull—we told him you can’t do that ’til the movie’s over. [laughs] You might get hurt! But he was great to work with. Angie Cepeda was terrific to work with; she’s from Colombia. Interesting young lady. Her mother used to be a prosecuting attorney.  She’d sit behind curtains when she prosecuted the drug people, for protection, so they wouldn’t know who she was.

    [Angie Cepeda] works in Madrid. Ed Johnston, the casting guy, found her. She had to do her own screen test in a makeshift thing and she captivated all of us. [It was a ] very good cast. I love working in Texas anyway—especially that part of Texas. Brownsville’s supposed to be the most corrupt town in Texas. The [border] wall is right there; you could touch it. The ladies brought us some cabrito, some goat, from a restaurant over in Mexico one day. Nice ladies. I said it was very good, and they said “Oh, come to our restaurant across the border,” I said, “I’m not coming across.” Too dangerous around there. I have friends that are sheriffs around there, who are half Mexican but are American citizens, and they said: “Don’t cross the border.” Too dangerous.

    I gotta see this film though, ’cause I hear it’s good. Colin Firth is very talented. Jeremy plays him younger? Does a nice job?

    BROWN: Does a great job.

    DUVALL: That’s nice. Do you know where I love to go to London? You know the Capital Hotel, in the back of Harrods? They’ve always had a really good restaurant there. Now they’ve changed hands, and they have a chef who brings all the fish in from the West Country. We were there a year ago, Christmas, to do some publicity. It’s a really little place, you go sit for hours; I love it. I’ve always had good food in England. Cecconi’s—very good Italian food at Cecconi’s. The French still come over to see how to do roasts from the British.

    BROWN: Do you remember your first trip to England?

    DUVALL: Yeah! I did a play over there. I was terrible; I was so nervous. I’d never been on a plane before. I said, “This isn’t so bad,” and we weren’t even off the ground yet! [laughs] But I liked London. It was so far back—it was when [Brazilian soccer player] Pelé was a young man—18 years old. I go back sporadically, it’s a very pleasant place to go to, London. A lot going on. And I like soccer a lot. I was in Mexico [working on Lawman, 1971] when Pelé was still playing for Brazil [in the World Cup]. England was out-played and Brazil won. The crew I was working within Mexico was British, so I came back and I knew the outcome. The director, Michael Winter, do you know that name? Bad guy. He ordered a horse killed in front of everybody. Sicko.

    BROWN: Oh my goodness.

    DUVALL: There are stories about him you can find.

    BROWN: Was he trying to scare everyone into submission?

    DUVALL: He may have, I don’t know. I heard that he ordered a car blown up in Piccadilly during rush hour, and they wouldn’t do it. He was a wacko that guy.

    BROWN: Have you worked with other directors who are a bit off-the-wall like that?

    DUVALL: Yeah, most of ’em. Directors say actors are difficult to work with, well, what about directors? It’s our face that goes up there; it’s only their name.

    Coppola, he’s got his visions, but he waits to see what you do. I’ve worked with directors before who’ll say, “When I say action, tense up, goddamnit!” There’s a difference between tensing up and intensity. So some of the directors are a little difficult to work, for sure.

    BROWN: Do you find directing more stressful than acting? I know you’ve done both.  

    DUVALL: I heard it was impossible to direct yourself, but I find it terrific. If I was in control, I acted better. Not that I watched all the dailies all the time, but I did it twice in a row and I loved it. I’m going to be doing it again coming up.

    BROWN: Are you allowed to talk about the film?

    DUVALL: Why not? [laughs] It’s just a film about the Texas Rangers, and a son that’s kicked off the property for some reason. He comes back years later and there’s been a crime committed. There’s a female Texas ranger—there are only three in reality— and this lady ranger helps to solve the case.

    BROWN: What’s the last film that really spoke to you?

    DUVALL: [There were] certain performances. I thought the performance by Matthew McConaughey [in Dallas Buyers Club] was outstanding. I don’t know if he’ll ever be that good again. I always say people have their year, and they have their career too. Last year it was Joaquin Phoenix in The Master. [There was] Brad Pitt in Snatch. Eric Bana in Chopper. Do you see Chopper?

    BROWN: No, I didn’t.

    DUVALL: Oh, you should see that performance. I don’t know if he’ll ever be that good again.

    BROWN: Are there any films you regret not doing?

    DUVALL: Not really. I’ve turned some things down. They offered me the lead in Jaws. I wanted to play the other part, the one that the guy from England played, Robert Shaw, but I was too young. I had a talk with Spielberg. But I don’t feel bad that I turned down the part of the lead, ’cause I like more character parts. But there are certain parts that slipped away.

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