Robert Duvall Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Robert Duvall is an American actor, producer, and director who has a net worth of $50 million. He is best known for his roles in films such as The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, and The Great Santini. He has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Duvall was born on January 5, 1931 in San Diego, California. He attended Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, and then transferred to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. He made his film debut in To Kill a Mockingbird in 1962. Duvall has been married twice. His first marriage was to Barbara Benjamin from 1964 to 1975. His second marriage was to Sharon Brophy from 1982 to 1986. He has two children, Angelica and Robert. Duvall has been nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning one for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performance in Tender Mercies in 1983. He has also won two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award.

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Robert Duvall Height, Weight & Measurements

At 92 years old, Robert Duvall height is 5′ 9″ .

Who Is Robert Duvall's Wife?

His wife is Barbara Benjamin Marcus (m. 1964-1981) Gail Youngs (m. 1982-1986) Sharon Brophy (m. 1991-1995) Luciana Pedraza (m. 2005)

Robert Duvall Net Worth

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Timeline

He was the subject of a false death report on 19 August 2019.

As of 2018, has been a co-star to eight Oscar winning acting performances: Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962); John Wayne for True Grit (1969); Marlon Brando for The Godfather (1972); Robert De Niro for The Godfather: Part II (1974); Beatrice Straight, Faye Dunaway, and Peter Finch for Network (1976); and Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009).

As of 2014, has appeared in eight films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), MASH (1970), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979) and Tender Mercies (1983). Of those, The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974) are winners in the category. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, and won Best Actor for Tender Mercies.

Hosted a fundraiser for Rudy Giuliani at his Hollywood home. He later endorsed Senator John McCain after Guiliani dropped out. [January 2008]

Watched Broken Trail (2006) with President George W. Bush in a special screening at the White House on June 11, 2006.

Resided with Luciana Pedraza for seven years before marrying her on October 6, 2004. She is 41 years younger than him.

Fractured several ribs after falling off a horse while rehearsing for a role in Open Range (2003). [April 2002]

He publicly criticized director Steven Spielberg for flying to Cuba in October 2002, and vowed never to work for Dreamworks studio again.

A staunch, lifelong supporter of the Republican party, Duvall was personally invited to George W. Bush's inauguration as President in 2001. Duvall attended the ceremony.

Kirsty Mitchell's initial break-through performance came as Robert Duvall's daughter in film A Shot at Glory (2000).

The film brought Duvall back to the front ranks of great actors, and was followed by a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for A Civil Action (1998). Robert Duvall will long be remembered as one of the great naturalistic American screen actors in the mode of Spencer Tracy and his frequent co-star Marlon Brando.

As a writer-director, Duvall gave himself one of his most memorable roles, that of the preacher on the run from the law in The Apostle (1997), a brilliant performance for which he received his third Best Actor nomination and fifth Oscar nomination overall.

Was considered for the role of Mitch Leary in In the Line of Fire (1993), which went to John Malkovich.

He received a second Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in Stalin (1992), and a third Emmy nomination playing Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996). The shakeout of his career doldrums was that Duvall eventually settled back into his status as one of the premier character actors in the industry, rivaled only by his old friend Gene Hackman.

Was considered for the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), which went to Anthony Hopkins.

He did not appear in The Godfather Part III (1990), as the studio would not give in to his demands for a salary commensurate with that of Al Pacino, who was receiving $5 million to reprise Michael Corleone.

His greatest achievement in his immediate post-Oscar period was his triumphant characterization of grizzled Texas Ranger Gus McCrae in the TV mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989), for which he received an Emmy nomination.

Named My Life as a Dog (1985) as one of his favorite movies.

His performance as Mac Sledge in Tender Mercies (1983) is ranked #14 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

Kilgore" in another Coppola picture, Apocalypse Now (1979), that solidified Duvall's reputation as a great actor. He got his second Academy Award nomination for the role, and was named by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most versatile actor in the world.

Duvall created one of the most memorable characters ever assayed on film, and gave the world the memorable phrase, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"Subsequently, Duvall proved one of the few established character actors to move from supporting to leading roles, with his Oscar-nominated turns in The Great Santini (1979) and Tender Mercies (1983), the latter of which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Now at the summit of his career, Duvall seemed to be afflicted with the fabled "Oscar curse" that had overwhelmed the careers of fellow Academy Award winners Luise Rainer, Rod Steiger and Cliff Robertson. He could not find work equal to his talents, either due to his post-Oscar salary demands or a lack of perception in the industry that he truly was leading man material.

Although he played Laurence Olivier's grandson in The Betsy (1978), he is only 23 years his junior in real life.

Duvall, unlike Hackman, also has directed pictures, including the documentary We're Not the Jet Set (1977), Angelo My Love (1983) and Assassination Tango (2002).

Was director Robert Altman's first choice for a country singer in Nashville (1975), but he used Henry Gibson instead when Duvall could not do this because of the scheduling.

Thereafter, Duvall had steady work in featured roles in such films as The Godfather: Part II (1974), The Killer Elite (1975), Network (1976), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976).

He was less impressive as the lead in Badge 373 (1973), in which he played a character based on real-life NYPD detective Eddie Egan, the same man his old friend Gene Hackman had won an Oscar for playing, in fictionalized form as "Popeye Doyle" in The French Connection (1971). It was his appearance as "Lt. Col.

It was Francis Ford Coppola, casting The Godfather (1972), who reunited Duvall with Brando and Caan and provided him with his career breakthrough as mob lawyer "Tom Hagen". He received the first of his six Academy Award nominations for the role.

Occasionally this actor's actor got the chance to assay a lead role, most notably in Tomorrow (1972), in which he was brilliant as William Faulkner's inarticulate backwoods farmer.

Frank Burns", creating the character in Altman's Korean War comedy MASH (1970). He also appeared as the eponymous lead in George Lucas' directorial debut, THX 1138 (1971).

He was also memorable as the heavy who is shot by John Wayne at the climax of True Grit (1969) and was the first "Maj.

He found steady work in episodic TV and appeared as a modestly billed character actor in films, such as Arthur Penn's The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando and in Robert Altman's Countdown (1967) and Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain People (1969), in both of which he co-starred with James Caan.

Duvall began making a name for himself as a stage actor in New York, winning an Obie Award in 1965 playing incest-minded longshoreman "Eddie Carbone" in the off-Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge", a production for which his old roommate Hoffman was assistant director.

Meisner cast Duvall in the play "The Midnight Caller" by Horton Foote, a link that would prove critical to his career, as it was Foote who recommended Duvall to play the mentally disabled "Boo Radley" in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).

His performances as "Boo Radley" in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), "Jackson Fentry" in Tomorrow (1972), "Tom Hagen" in the first two "Godfather" movies, "Frank Hackett" in Network (1976), "Lt. Col.

This was his first "major" role since his 1956 motion picture debut as an MP in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), starring Paul Newman.

Bill in 1955, studying under Sanford Meisner along with Dustin Hoffman, with whom Duvall shared an apartment. Both were close to another struggling young actor named Gene Hackman.

Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a two-year hitch in the army after graduating in 1953. He began attending The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre In New York City on the G. I.

Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard DuVall, a career military officer who later became an admiral.

Has English, with smaller amounts of German, Swiss-German, French, Welsh and Scottish, ancestry. His French Hugenot ancestors immigrated to the United States in the 1700s.

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