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Duvall in NETWORK.

Robert Duvall, Best Actor 1983: MovieActors.com

TENDER MERCIES (Drama - PG)

Robert Duvall won for his performance as a down-an-out country singer struggling for a comeback who finds the strength to live when he meets a good-natured widow (Tess Harper).

About Robert Duvall (1931 - )

Robert Duvall, though thin and baldish, has been delivering fascinating character portraits since his debut in 1962 in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. He first gained great fame as the family lawyer in THE GODFATHER. He received a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in TENDER MERCIES. Duvall received another Oscar nomination for his portrait of a fiery minister in THE APOSTLE, a film he directed and financed.

Off screen Robert Duvall loves to dance, particularly the tango.

Duvall's solid, assured performance in THE RAIN PEOPLE (1969) marked the beginning of a relationship with director Francis Ford Coppola, for whom he played cool Mafia mouthpiece Tom Hagen in both THE GODFATHER (1972) earning an Oscar nomination, and THE GODFATHER, PART II (1974), and a crazed colonel in APOCALYPSE NOW (1979), getting another Oscar nomination.

Many critics felt that Duvall's finest part was that of a washed-up country singer in TENDER MERCIES (1983, for which he wrote and performed his own songs); members of the Motion Picture Academy agreed, and finally voted him a Best Actor Oscar for his performance.

Duvall's other notable credits include...

SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA (2011)
CRAZY HEART (2009)
GET LOW (2009)
THE ROAD (2009)
FOUR CHRISTMASES (2008)
WE OWN THE NIGHT (2007)
LUCKY YOU (2007)
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (2005)
KICKING AND SCREAMING (2005)
SECONDHAND LIONS (2003)
OPEN RANGE (2003)
GODS AND GENERALS (2003)
ASSASSINATION TANGO (2002)
JOHN Q (2002)
THE 6TH DAY (2000)
A SHOT AT GLORY (2000)
A CIVIL ACTION (1998)
DEEP IMPACT (1998)
THE GINGERBREAD MAN (1998)
THE APOSTLE (1997)
SLING BLADE (1996)
PHENOMENON (1996)
A FAMILY THING (1996)
THE SCARLET LETTER (1995)
THE STARS FELL ON HENRIETTA (1995)
SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT (1995)
THE PAER (1994)
WRESTLING ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1993)
GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND (1993)
FALLING DOWN (1993)
STALIN (1992) (TV) .... Josef Stalin
THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1990) .... Commander
COLORS (1988) .... as a streetwise L.A. cop
THE NATURAL (1984)
THE GREAT SANTINI (1979) ... the father (got a Best Actor Oscar nomination).
IKE (1979) (mini) .... General Dwight D. Eisenhower
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (1976) .... Dr. John H. Watson
NETWORK (1976) ....TV executive
JOE KIDD (1972) .... Frank Harlan
THX 1138 (1971) .... THX 1138
MASH (1970) .... Frank Burns
TRUE GRIT (1969) .... 'Lucky' Ned Pepper
BULLITT (1968) .... Weissberg (Sunshine Cab driver)

Robert Duvall's television credits include:

THE OUTER LIMITS
WILD WILD WEST
COMBAT