Celebrity Biographies
Robert Duvall
Actor, director, screenwriter and producer, Robert Selden Duvall (San Diego, 1931) is perhaps one of the best actors of his generation. This Californian, whom we can compare with performers of the stature of Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro or Anthony Hopkins, is already part of the extensive history of cinema in his own right.
Young Robert began his film career by participating in the adaptation of Harper Lee ‘s novel , To Kill a Mockingbird , a masterpiece in which Duvall gave life to the character of Boo Radley; however he would still take ten years to make himself known. It was in 1972, when Francis Ford Coppola hired him to play the “consiglieri” of Vito and Michael Corleone in the first two installments of The Godfather .
son of an admiralthe armyAmerican and an amateur actress, Duvall devoted the early years of her youth to the Army. After completing military service and fighting inwarfrom Korea, enrolled inthe Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York, where he began his acting studies. Little by little, she was appearing in well-known television series, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents or The Untouchables . At this school, she made friends with other great names in American cinema, such as Dustin Hoffman or Gene Hackman ; With the second he would work years later on The conversation and Geronimo, a legend .
As an actor, Duvall has been in more than sixty films, including The Human Pack , with Marlon Brando and Robert Redford ; It rains on my heart , his first work with Coppola; Apocalypse Now , for which he won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and an Oscar nomination for his role as Kilgore, the gas-loving colonel who spouted those priceless lines “Do you smell that? Can you smell it boy? He is napalm. Nothing in the world smells like that. What a delight to smell napalm in the morning!”; and Thanks and favors , with which he won the statuette for best actor.
In addition, he has directed four feature films, among which Camino al cielo stands out , a film for which he was nominated for an Oscar for the second time, which narrates the crime committed by a preacher who, in his escape, decides to establish a new church in another state. . Years later he was in charge of Assassination Tango , a thriller in which he delves into one of his passions, the Argentine tango.
Famous for playing roles with a marked character, Robert Duvall can already boast of having a long career behind him and affirms that if he had not been an actor, “I would have been a cowboy.” His two passions merged in the Westerns Open Range , by Kevin Costner , and, more recently, in The Protectors , where he gave life to two cowboys.
In 2003 he received a star on the Paseo deFameof Hollywood and two years later he obtainedthe National Medalof the Arts, one of the most important recognitions that an American artist can receive.