Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker whose career spans more than seven decades. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
His father, William Howard Duvall (1904â1984), [6] was a U.S. Navy rear admiral and an Annapolis graduate. His father had expected him to attend the Naval Academy, but Duvall said “I was terrible at everything but actingâI could barely get through school”. He again defied his father by serving in the United States Army after the Korean War (from August 19, 1953, to August 20, 1954) leaving the Army as private first class. “That’s led to some confusion in the press,” he explained in 1984, “Some stories have me shooting it out with the Commies from a foxhole over in Frozen Chosin. Pork Chop Hill stuff. Hell, I barely qualified with the M-1 rifle in basic training”. While stationed at Camp Gordon (later renamed Fort Gordon) in Georgia, Duvall acted in an amateur production of the comedy Room Service in nearby Augusta, Georgia.
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