Veteran actor and director Robert Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, the son of a career military officer who later became an admiral. 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...See full bio »
1997The Apostle
(performer: "There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down")
19851918
(performer: "A Long, Long Trail", "Keep the Home Fires Burning")
1983Tender Mercies
(writer: "Fool's Waltz", "I've Decided to Leave Here Forever" / performer: "It Hurts to Face Reality", "Fool's Waltz", "I've Decided to Leave Here Forever", "Wings of a Dove", "If You'll Hold the Ladder I'll Climb to the Top")
1989The 41st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
(TV special)
Himself - Nominee: Best Lead Actor in Miniseries or Special & Co-Presenter: Best Directing/Writing in Drama Series
[1983 comment on Francis Ford Coppola] Coppola's talented. I'm pissed that he cut a scene that would have given the audience an insight into my character in
Apocalypse Now, but he's talented.
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His father was of French Hugenot descent (with the family having immigrated to the U.S. in the 1700s), while his mother was of Anglo-Saxon descent, and is a direct descendant of General Robert E. Lee.
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