American actor and director (1931–2026)
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He slipped into other skins so completely that critics called him "the American Olivier" — the quiet technician who could play a reclusive neighbor, a mob consigliere, and a washed-up country singer with equal conviction, collecting Oscars and Emmys across seven decades without ever becoming a household face.
Robert Duvall started on summer stages in Long Island in 1952, then spent the sixties moving through television drama before slipping onto the big screen as the unseen Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. The 1970s brought the roles that proved his range: the cool consigliore in The Godfather, the surf-obsessed colonel in Apocalypse Now, the brutal father in The Great Santini. He won his Oscar in 1983 for Tender Mercies, playing an alcoholic country singer in a performance he built with technical precision, and kept working into his eighties — earning six more Academy Award nominations, two Em…
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The Western is our genre in the United States of America. The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the Russians have Chekhov, but we have the Western.
Sometimes what comes around the corner is better for you than what you're planning to do anyway.
I don’t try to be a hard guy to work with … but I decide what I’m going to do with a character. I will take direction, but only if it kind of supplements what I want to do.
It was as if somehow Al Capone had become head of the United States.
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