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Mar 11, 2024 · Explore the best Robert Duvall western roles and movies, from classics like Geronimo, Joe Kidd, and Lonesome Dove to modern gems like Open Range and The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid. See how Duvall brings to life diverse and memorable characters in the American West.
He starred in and executive produced the 2006 Western television miniseries, Broken Trail. For that, he won two Emmy Awards, one for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie and the other for Outstanding Miniseries which he shared with the other producers.
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Robert Duvall would be one of the finest actors in the history of film if he never appeared in a single Western. And he would be one of the finest actors ever to appear in Westerns if he’d only been in Lonesome Dove. But he’s done so much more; he took a long time to reach that landmark, and he’s gone far since. In January of 2023, the same month t...
Considering his niche, it’s fortunate that True Gritcast him as gang leader Lucky Ned Pepper, and not the outlaw who communicates by animal-sounds. The father of Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) has been murdered by Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey), who has joined Pepper’s gang. Mattie hires Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) to track down Chaney. Although Ned Pepper is n...
Over the next decade, Duvall played unforgettable roles, in films like The Outfit, The Godfather Part 2 and Network. He was Dr. Watson in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now. And in 1983 he received his well-earned Best Actor Oscar for Tender Mercies, as a once-great country music star, ruined by alcohol, a...
As John Ford has his Cavalry Trilogy, Lonesome Dove begins Robert Duvall’s Cowboy Trilogy, with three different, great directors: Lonesome Dove by Simon Wincer, Open Range by Kevin Costner, and Broken Trail by Walter Hill. In all three he played an older, wiser cowman moving herds of cattle or horses across vast lands, with younger men—Ricky Schrod...
WILD WEST DAYS (VCI Entertainment—Blu-ray 4K Restoration, $29.95) Kentucky Wade (Johnny Mack Brown) and his pals come to the aid of Larry Munro (Frank McGlynn Jr.) when varmints learn he’s discovered platinum on his land and plot to seize it from him! Brown, once romantic lead to Mary Pickford and Garbo, found his true calling in serials and B-West...
A comprehensive overview of the actor's roles in Western films and TV shows, from To Kill a Mockingbird to Lonesome Dove. Learn how Duvall became one of the finest Western stars and how he evolved from a typecast character actor to a versatile and acclaimed performer.
Aug 15, 2003 · Open Range: Directed by Kevin Costner. With Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon. A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman.
- (78K)
- Action, Drama, Romance
- Kevin Costner
- 2003-08-15
Broken Trail: With Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi, Chris Mulkey. A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while trekking from Oregon to Wyoming.
- (6.8K)
- 2006-06-24
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- 92
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Jun 4, 2006 · Academy Award® winner Robert Duvall (1983 Best Actor in a Leading Role, Tender Mercies) and Academy Award® nominee Thomas Hayden Church (2004 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Sideways) star in this moving Western drama.
