Robert Duvall

Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards.

He began his career appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small to supporting television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird and Captain Newman, M.D.. He started to land much larger roles during the early 1970s with movies like MASH and THX 1138. This was followed by a series of critical successes: The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Network, The Great Santini, Apocalypse Now, and True Confessions. Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies, The Natural, ‘Colors‘, Lonesome Dove, Stalin, The Man Who Captured Eichmann, A Family Thing, The Apostle, A Civil Action, Gods and Generals and Broken Trail. Despite the identical surname, he is not related to actress Shelley Duvall.