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He appeared in the movie version ofMAS*H , inGeorge Lucas ’s first - ever sci - fi movie beforeStar Wars , THX 1138 , and then enjoyed the biggest breakout role of his life history when he depict Tom Hagen in thecast ofThe Godfather . Since that time , Duvall has become one of Hollywood ’s superlative doer , earning seven Oscar nominations and gain one , while also winning two Primetime Emmy Awards ( 5 nomination , 2 wins ) and four Golden Globe Awards ( 7 nomination , 4 wins ) . He keep to do into his 90s .
10Secondhand Lions (2003)
Hub McCann
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While Robert Duvall has several award - winning movies to his name , he has also appeared in some lover favorites that showed his great gift without interest about the awards journey . One of the more overlooked movies of his career come in 2003 when he star inSecondhand Lions . The film asterisk Haley Joel Osment as he carried over his achiever fromThe Sixth Sense . Osment take on 14 - year - erstwhile Walter , a boy whose mother , who was n’t responsible enough to invoke him , sent him to survive with his uncles .
Robert Duvall and Michael Caine star as his uncles , two men who live on a small farm in Texas . Walter ’s mother had ulterior motive , as she believes the uncles have a unavowed luck amassed from previous adventures enshroud somewhere on their land . They then bribe a tamed circus lioness , who becomes Walter ’s pet . The cinema was a small corner office winner and has a 61 % plus Rotten Tomatoes grudge , with critic praising its " wholesome " but " schmaltzy " story .
9A Civil Action (1998)
Jerome Facher
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A Civil Actionwas a John Travolta film , released in 1998 as Travolta continued his calling resurrection thanks to Quentin Tarantino’sPulp Fiction . This , however , was a very different theatrical role for Travolta , who asterisk as a cocky Boston lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann who works for a personal injury business firm . When he is asked to represent a resident of a small town where toxic waste foul the local water supply and led to the death of local children , he has to put his ego to the trial as he move into battle with elephantine corporations .
Robert Duvall whiz inA Civil Actionas Jerry Facher , the attorney for Beatrice Foods , one of the companies creditworthy for all the children ’s deaths . This is a raspy motion picture to look out because it shows how the lordliness of one man can cause every dupe in the motion picture to lose in the end ( although a postscript present that finally justice was constitute ) . The celluloid was a loge function bankruptcy and received interracial review , but Duvall received an Oscar nomination for his operation , the sixth of his career .
8The Judge (2014)
Joseph Palmer
In 2014 , 83 - twelvemonth - erstwhile Robert Duvall earned his seventh Oscar nominating address for his performance in the movieThe Judge . In this plastic film , Duvall plays the nominal Judge Joseph Palmer , while Robert Downey Jr. plays his Word , Hank , an attorney who defend powerful client that he sleep with are guilty of their crimes . When Hank returns home for his mother ’s funeral , he check in on his pa and realizes that Judge Palmer is showing signs of memory loss and soon the judge is catch and charged with first - stage execution after a score - and - run demise .
The Judgereceived assorted reviews , but even the critics who did n’t wish the movie praised Duvall ’s performance as the older judge who look his career and life slipping out from him . Duvall also received a raft of awards attention for the carrying out . On top of his Oscar nod , Duvall also received Golden Globes , Screen Actors Guild , and critic ' Choice nomination . He also won Supporting Actor of the Year from the Hollywood Film Awards .
7The Apostle (1997)
The Apostle E.F.
Released in 1997,The Apostlewas a dramatic play movie that Robert Duvall address and asterisk in . In this movie , Duvall play Euliss F. " Sonny " Dewey , a very charismatic Pentecostal preacher whose wife Jessie ( Farrah Fawcett ) begins an liaison with a youth minister . When Jessie forces Sonny out of his billet as the church ’s preacher man , and the faithful side with her , he refuse to leave . finally , he attacks the youth minister and kills the young man before demolish evidence of his past and run away to Louisiana .
However , when he becomes a popular pastor there , move by the name Apostle E.F. , he ends up draw attention and his ex - married woman alarm the constabulary to his location . The movie was a success , thanks to its low-down $ 5 million budget , and it get mostly cocksure review , with an 88 % Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score . The moving-picture show won Best Film , Best Male Lead ( for Duvall ) , and Best Director ( for Duvall ) at the Independent Spirit Awards , while the actor also received an Oscar nomination for his execution in the movie .
6MAS*H (1970)
Major Frank Burns
MAS*Hremains one of the most successful television shows of all time , and its close had the most spectator of any television instalment for many years . However , the telly series was based on a movie that was released in 1970 . Unlike the serial publication , which just focused on the doctors in the Korean War , the movie was a sports clowning - drama about the same doctors from the TV show , but with an emphasis on them put together a football team for a competition between the 4077th and the 325th Evac Hospital .
The MASH TV show on CBS was miss a key character from Robert Altman ’s moving-picture show and the novels it was based on , and it subtly explicate why .
InMAS*H , Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould trifle Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre , the protagonists of the picture show and the serial . Robert Duvall bring Major Frank Burns , the main antagonistic forcein the movie and TV show ( Larry Linville encounter him on TV ) . The picture was a huge success , make $ 81.6 million on a $ 3 million budget , while also earning five Oscar nomination . The Library of Congress summate it to the National Film Registry in 1996 .
5Tender Mercies (1983)
Mac Sledge
One of Robert Duvall ’s good performances came inTender Mercies , a chef-d’oeuvre of a flick that people seldom let the cat out of the bag about any longer . The film was save by Horton Foote , one of the swell film writer in cinema account and the valet de chambre who pitch the thought of Duvall meet Boo Radley inTo Kill a Mockingbird , another script Foote write . Duvall virtuoso as Mac Sledge , a former country music star whose career and class were destroyed by his alcoholism . Now recovering , he seeks to make a impertinent start . Duvall also actually let the cat out of the bag the songs in the movie .
Tender Merciesmade a small profit , but nowhere near what the studio apartment had hoped . However , it had a long - lasting legacy thanks to the script and Duvall ’s award - win operation . Critics mostly praised the celluloid , with a high 82 % Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score , with kudos going to Duvall ’s understated performance . The film received five Oscar nominating speech , include Best Picture and Best Director , and Duvall win his only Oscar for this performance , while Foote won for Best Screenplay .
4To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Boo Radley
Robert Duvall ’s first - ever movie rolecame in one of the in force movies of all time . He starred as Boo Radley in the chef-d’oeuvre , To vote out a Mockingbird . ground on Harper Lee ’s seminal novel , the film is about a widowed lawyer named Atticus Finch ( Gregory Peck ) who correspond to take on the case of a Black adult male incorrectly incriminate of sexually assaulting a young white fille in the racist , segregated South . The key fruit to the novel and the movie is that the level is seen from the eyes of the new Scout , Finch ’s daughter .
At the ending of the groundbreaking sound drama To Kill a Mockingbird , Boo Radley is protected by the sheriff . But why is n’t he praise as a local bomber ?
One of the key events in the movie has Scout coming across the local urban caption of a scary resident name Boo Radley that most people in the town have never seen outside of his home . However , when a man embarrassed in the motor lodge case comes for retaliation against Finch , and almost kills Scout , Boo saves her life . It was a huge moment in a groundbreaking plastic film that earned eight Oscar nominations , with Peck gain ground Best Actor .
3Network (1976)
Frank Hackett
Reality video is one of the most prevailing forms of entertainment today . However , in 1976 , it was still mostly ascertain as a fantasy and that wee flick likeNetworkso impressive , as it really drives home how dangerous it can be , especially when look at societal spiritualist , which was n’t even a thought in those days . Peter Finch stars as Howard Beale , a diary keeper who is driven to the edge by the societal problem and depravity that be in the veridical world and goes live on TV and allege he will kill himself live on the air .
This leads to an increase in rating as he becomes a principal , with his mantra " I ’m as mad as hellhole and I ’m not go to take this anymore ! " However , as his messages get more extreme , the connection decides they need to do something about it in the most extreme way possible . Robert Duvall plays Frank Hackett , a web exec who charter someone to assassinate Finch live on the air . Networkhas a 91 % Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score , and it was nominated for 10 Academy Award , with Finch gain Best Actor .
2Apocalypse Now (1979)
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Robert Duvall ’s best movies have been with Francis Ford Coppola as director . Three picture were nominated for Best Picture in the 1970s that image Coppola and Duvall team up up . One of these wasApocalypse Now , which sawDuvall star as Lieutenant Colonel William " Bill " Kilgore . In this movie , Martin Sheen is Benjamin Willard , an assassin on his third term of enlistment of Vietnam who is send to drink down Colonel Walter Kurtz ( Marlon Brando ) , a highly decorate Special Forces officeholder who went knave .
Duvall ’s Kilgore is one of the most colourful characters in the movie , and he has some great argumentation , let in " I have a go at it the smell of napalm in the break of the day , " during an all - out bombardment tone-beginning .
Duvall ’s Kilgore is one of the most colorful case in the picture , and he has some capital lines , including " I love the sense of smell of napalm in the morning , " during an all - out bombardment plan of attack . While this tale was mostly about Willard ’s journeying into the " heart of darkness " and about Kurtz ’s fall from saving grace and his disenchantment with the United States military efforts in the res publica , Kilgore is the face of the military and a firm indication of what it takes to lead an onslaught in the mode of the Vietnam War .
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1The Godfather (1972)
Tom Hagen
The best movies that Robert Duvall ever appear in were Francis Ford Coppola ’s masterpieces . This started with the first moving-picture show , The Godfather , whichsaw Duvall star as Tom Hagen . The plastic film postdate Don Corleone ( Marlon Brando ) , a extremely respected and herculean maffia don , and his son Michael , a military hero who does n’t require to be involve in the family business , but soon find there is no way for him to get out this lifetime . Hagen is the Corleone consigliere , lawyer , and adopt member of the kinsfolk .
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The Godfather
March 15 , 1972
The Godfather Part II
December 20 , 1974
The Godfather Part III
December 25 , 1990
Tom Hagen is one ofThe Godfather ’s more important characters , and while he is not a blood sidekick to Michael ( Al Pacino ) and Sonny ( James Caan ) , he is plow as such . WhileThe Godfather Part IIis arguably the better of the two Oscar - winning moving-picture show , the first film is more authoritative when it comes to Tom , as he serve his foster Fatherhood and then help Michael in his slow rise to power . Robert Duvallalso received an Oscar nomination for the firstGodfathermovie .
