Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall is a veteran actor and filmmaker known for his spectacular work in Hollywood. The Academy Award-winning artist has been a part of numerous television shows and commercial movies throughout his career.

Robert Selden Duvall was born in California, and he was raised around a Naval Academy as a bit of an army brat with his father as a US Admiral and his mother, an amateur actress. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in drama from Principia College. After college, he joined the army for a short stint and left as a Private, First Class. He resumed his pursuit of acting and went on to train at the Neighbourhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... . During this period, he shared his classes, room and struggles with Gene Hackman Eugene Allen Gene Hackman was born on 30th Jan 193 >> Read More... and Dustin Hoffman He will play tricks in your mind as you watch his >> Read More... ; all three friends would go on to become Hollywood legends. He began his professional career in theatres with Gateway Playhouse. He performed in a series of plays like ‘Laughter in the Stars,’ in which he made his debut, ‘The Cat and the Canary,’ ‘ Time Click to look into! >> Read More... ’s Out for Ginger,’ and ‘I am a Camera,’ to name a few. He subsequently began working for the Augusta Civic Theatre in towards the end of the 50s’. Duvall used Broadway to showcase his incredibly versatile acting skills in the cast of lead roles in critically acclaimed products such as ‘The Rainmaker,’ ‘The Midnight Caller,’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire.’ His immense success brought him many guest roles in popular television thrillers and dramas in the 60s’. Some of the shows he featured in are ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents,’ ‘Route 66,’ and ‘The Twilight Zone.’ Duvall made his screen debut portraying Boo Radley in an adaptation of the literary classic ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird’ in 1962. Duvall went on to play iconic characters like infamous Major Frank Burns in ‘MASH,’ the fugitive in ‘THX1138,’ and Tom Hagen in the ‘ Godfather Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ trilogy. He won the BAFTA and Golden Globe for his performance as Lt. Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. His famous machismo quote, ‘I love the smell of Napalm in the morning,’ has become ingrained in popular culture. He is known to have juggled as many as four different roles in various productions at a time.

Duvall’s six decades in the field of entertainment have been nothing if not eventful and mesmerizing. His work has nominated him for seven Golden Globes and Academy Awards. He won four of the Golden Globes and an Academy Award for his role in ‘Tender Mercies.’ Other exemplary awards to come his way are a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy. In 1992, he established the production house, Butcher’s Run Films. He was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 2005. Duvall has come to be synonymous with the many intense and dramatic roles he has played across his career.