Which character did Robert Duvall play in The Godfather?
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Duvall played Tom Hagen, the Corleone family’s adopted son and consigliere, earning his first Oscar nomination.
Which film won Robert Duvall the Academy Award for Best Actor?
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He won Best Actor for Tender Mercies (1983), playing a washed-up country singer and doing his own singing.
In Apocalypse Now, Duvall’s Kilgore says he loves the smell of what in the morning?
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“I love the smell of napalm in the morning” became one of the most quoted lines in film history.
Duvall’s first major film role was Boo Radley in which 1962 film?
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He played the reclusive Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird without speaking a single line.
In which 1989 western miniseries did Duvall play Gus McCrae?
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His Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove is widely regarded as one of his finest performances.
Duvall’s father was a rear admiral in which branch of the US military?
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William Duvall was a US Navy rear admiral, and the family moved between naval bases.
In which city was Robert Duvall born?
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He was born in San Diego in 1931 and grew up partly at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
Which Francis Ford Coppola war film cast Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore?
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Apocalypse Now (1979) earned him an Oscar nomination for the surf-loving Kilgore.
In which 1970 Robert Altman comedy did Duvall play Major Frank Burns?
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He originated the uptight Frank Burns in Altman’s M*A*S*H before the role went to television.
In which US state was Duvall’s long-time home farm?
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He lived for more than three decades at Byrnley Farm near The Plains in Virginia.
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