Hailed by The New York Times as “the American Laurence Olivier,” Robert Duvall was always considered... (Learn more)
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Robert Duvall’s Milestones
| Formed Butchers Run Films production company | |
| Introduced to Dustin Hoffman by Gene Hackman | |
| Served two years in US Army | |
| Shared a railroad apartment on 107th Street and Broadway with his younger brother, Hoffman and three other struggling actors | |
| 1941 | Moved to Annapolis, Maryland when he was 10 |
| 1955 | Moved to NYC to study acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse |
| 1958 | Fist association with playwright Horton Foote, NYC production of "The Midnight Caller" |
| 1958 | Off-Broadway debut, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" |
| 1962 | Film acting debut in "To Kill a Mockingbird"; Oscar-winning screenplay by Foote |
| 1963 | Began appearing on episodic TV, including "The Twilight Zone" and "The Outer Limits" |
| 1965 | Gained notice Off-Broadway for "A View from the Bridge", directed by Ulu Grosbard; assistant director was Dustin Hoffman |
| 1966 | First film with Marlon Brando, Arthur Penn's "The Chase"; Lillian Hellman wrote screenplay from Foote story and play |
| 1966 | Starred in original Broadway production of "Wait Until Dark" with Lee Remick |
| 1968 | First movie with director Robert Altman and actor James Caan, "Countdown" |
| 1968 | Played old nemesis of John Wayne's Marshall 'Rooster' Cogburn in "True Grit"; Duvall has said of film's director: "Henry Hathaway was an a--hole" |
| 1968 | Reteamed with Penn for NBC-movie "Flesh and Blood", originally intended for Broadway |
| 1969 | Initial screen collaboration with director Francis Ford Coppola, "The Rain People"; second film with Caan |
| 1970 | Portrayed Major Frank Burns in Altman's "M*A*S*H" |
| 1971 | Played the title role in George Lucas' feature directing debut, "THX 1138"; Coppola was executive producer |
| 1972 | Cast as Tom Hagen in Coppola's "The Godfather"; received first Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor; third film with Caan, second with Brando |
| 1972 | Offered an astonishingly good turn as a handyman who falls in love with an abandoned pregnant woman in "Tomorrow"; adapted from the William Faulkner story by Foote |
| 1972 | Supported Clint Eastwood in John Sturges' "Joe Kidd" |
| 1974 | Acted in Coppola's "The Conversation", first film with friend Gene Hackman |
| 1974 | Reprised role of Tom Hagen in "The Godfather, Part II" |
| 1975 | Documentary film directing debut, "We're Not the Jet Set" |
| 1975 | Last film to date with Caan, Sam Peckinpah's "The Killer Elite" |
| 1976 | Second movie with Sturges, "The Eagle Has Landed" |
| 1977 | Last stage performance (to date) the Broadway run of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" |
| 1979 | Had featured role as the gung ho Lt. Col. Kilgore ("I love the smell of napalm in the morning") in Coppola's Vietnam epic "Apocalypse Now"; nominated for Best Supporting Actor Oscar; first feature "song" credit ("Love Me and Let Me Love You") |
| 1979 | Played Dwight D. Eisenhower in the ABC miniseries "Ike"; project reteamed him with Remick |
| 1980 | Earned first Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a hard-nosed military man in "The Great Santini" |
| 1981 | Reteamed with director Grosbard for feature, "True Confessions", co-starring Robert De Niro |
| 1983 | Feature producing debut "Tender Mercies"; also starred and contributed songs; won Best Actor Oscar; first credit as song performer; Horton Foote wrote the Oscar-winning script |
| 1983 | Fiction feature directing and screenwriting debut, "Angelo, My Love"; worked with a large group of nonprofessional actors |
| 1988 | Was well-matched with Sean Penn as Los Angeles street cops assigned to a gang detail in Dennis Hopper's "Colors" |
| 1989 | Starred as Gus McRae in CBS miniseries, "Lonesome Dove"; nominated for an Emmy Award |
| 1989 | Turned down $1 million to reprise Hagan for "The Godfather, Part III" (1990); reportedly wanted a salary on par with co-stars Al Pacino and Diane Keaton who received $3 million and $1.5 million respectively |
| 1992 | Played title role in HBO biopic "Stalin"; again nominated for an Emmy Award |
| 1993 | Acted with Hackman in "Geronimo: An American Legend" |
| 1995 | Appeared as Wyly King, Julia Roberts' straying father in "Something to Talk About" |
| 1995 | First creative association with Billy Bob Thornton, "The Stars Fell on Henrietta" |
| 1996 | Made cameo appearance as Karl Childers' father in "Sling Blade", written by and starring Thornton |
| 1996 | Portrayed Adolph Eichmann in the TNT movie "The Man Who Captured Eichmann" |
| 1996 | Produced and starred opposite James Earl Jones in "A Family Thing" as a white man who looks up his black half-brother when he discovers his birth mother was black; Thornton co-scripted with writing partner Tom Epperson |
| 1997 | Earned acclaim for writing (finished script in 1984) directing and starring in "The Apostle"; received Oscar nomination for Best Actor; as the film's executive producer he put up the money, earning it all back and a little "pocket change" ($1 million) to boot; fourth film with Thornton |
| 1998 | Acted in Altman's "The Gingerbread Man", Mimi Leder's "Deep Impact" and "A Civil Action", garnering the best notices for stealing the latter from John Travolta as the opposing counsel and earning sixth career Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor |
| 2000 | Had supporting role in the remake of "Gone in 60 Seconds" |
| 2000 | Produced, co-wrote and co-starred in "A Shot at Glory", about an aging Scottish coach |
| 2002 | Portrayed General Robert E. Lee in the Civil War drama "Gods and Generals" |
| 2002 | Wrote, produced, directed and starred in the drama "Assassination Tango" |
| 2003 | Co-starred, along with Kevin Costner, in the compelling western drama "Open Range" |
| 2005 | Cast in Andy Garcia's independent film "The Lost City," centered around a club owner in Havana, Cuba, during the 50's |
| 2005 | Played Will Ferrell's father in the comedy "Kicking & Screaming" |
| 2006 | Played an aging cowboy in "Broken Trail," the first original movie to air on American Movie Classics; received Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie |
| 2006 | Portrayed a tobacco tycoon opposite Aaron Eckhart in Jason Reitman's satirical comedy "Thank You for Smoking" |
| 2007 | Co-starred as Eric Bana's father in "Lucky You" directed by Curtis Hanson |
| 2007 | Co-starred with Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg in "We Own the Night" |
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