An actor's actor is a person whose recognized by other actors for his or her acting ability. These people are rarely megastars. One such actor would be Robert Duval. If you're under 30, you may not have heard of him but you have surely heard of movies he has made. Here is short list of the over 150 films he has made:
To Kill a Mocking Bird,
The Godfather,
Bullet,
True Grit,
M*A*S*H,
Joe Kidd,
The Conversation,
The Godfather II,
The Eagle Has Landed,
The Seven Percent Solution,
Network,
Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
Apocalypse Now,
The Great Santini,
True Confessions,
Tender Mercies,
The Stone Boy,
The Natural,
Let's Get Harry,
Colors,
Days of Thunder,
The Handmaid's Tail,
Rambling Rose,
Newsies,
Falling Down,
Geronimo, An American Legend,
The Paper,
Something to Talk About,
The Scarlet Letter,
Sling Blade,
A Family Thing,
Phenomenon,
The Apostle,
The Gingerbread Man,
A Civil Action,
Gone in 60 Seconds,
A Shot at Glory,
John Q,
Gods and Generals,
Secondhand Lions,
Open Range,
Thank You for Smoking,
Crazy Heart,
Six Days in Utopia,
Jack Reacher,
The Judge,
Wild Horses,
Windows
Robert Duval also played in over 70 TV show. His most notable role was Gus McCall in Lonesome Dove. He has played in over a hundred plays on and off Broadway and community theaters.
Some of the remarkable things about Duval is he has never been interested in being a celerity. His great love in life is acting. He says for every role he accepted he has turn down 3. Of all roles he has played, Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower, military men, drunken husbands, cops, politicians, homeless men, preachers, gunman, actors, westerners, etc. his preference is that of a westerner. He has lived on a 300 acre horse farm in Virginia for over 40 years and commutes to Hollywood or wherever the work is. In Tender Mercies for which he won an Academy Award, he plays an alcoholic country and western singer in which he wrote most his songs and preformed them. In Lonesome Dove he did his own riding as he does in most westerns. One director said when there is a scene with Duval, there is almost always an audience. Other cast members want to see how he plays his role as it's often quite different than the script.
Over his life time he has been nominated for 65 major awards and has won 59 including Emmy Awards, Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFA's, and Critics Choice Movie Awards.
To Kill a Mocking Bird,
The Godfather,
Bullet,
True Grit,
M*A*S*H,
Joe Kidd,
The Conversation,
The Godfather II,
The Eagle Has Landed,
The Seven Percent Solution,
Network,
Invasion of the Body Snatchers,
Apocalypse Now,
The Great Santini,
True Confessions,
Tender Mercies,
The Stone Boy,
The Natural,
Let's Get Harry,
Colors,
Days of Thunder,
The Handmaid's Tail,
Rambling Rose,
Newsies,
Falling Down,
Geronimo, An American Legend,
The Paper,
Something to Talk About,
The Scarlet Letter,
Sling Blade,
A Family Thing,
Phenomenon,
The Apostle,
The Gingerbread Man,
A Civil Action,
Gone in 60 Seconds,
A Shot at Glory,
John Q,
Gods and Generals,
Secondhand Lions,
Open Range,
Thank You for Smoking,
Crazy Heart,
Six Days in Utopia,
Jack Reacher,
The Judge,
Wild Horses,
Windows
Robert Duval also played in over 70 TV show. His most notable role was Gus McCall in Lonesome Dove. He has played in over a hundred plays on and off Broadway and community theaters.
Some of the remarkable things about Duval is he has never been interested in being a celerity. His great love in life is acting. He says for every role he accepted he has turn down 3. Of all roles he has played, Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower, military men, drunken husbands, cops, politicians, homeless men, preachers, gunman, actors, westerners, etc. his preference is that of a westerner. He has lived on a 300 acre horse farm in Virginia for over 40 years and commutes to Hollywood or wherever the work is. In Tender Mercies for which he won an Academy Award, he plays an alcoholic country and western singer in which he wrote most his songs and preformed them. In Lonesome Dove he did his own riding as he does in most westerns. One director said when there is a scene with Duval, there is almost always an audience. Other cast members want to see how he plays his role as it's often quite different than the script.
Over his life time he has been nominated for 65 major awards and has won 59 including Emmy Awards, Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFA's, and Critics Choice Movie Awards.
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