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Robert Selden Duvall (January 5, 1931 – February 15, 2026) was an American actor and filmmaker. 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. Duvall began appearing in theater in the late 1950s, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s, playing Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and appearing in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), as Major Frank Burns in the blockbuster comedy M*A*S*H (1970) and the lead role in THX 1138 (1971), as well as Horton Foote's adaptation of William Faulkner's Tomorrow (1972), which was developed at The Actors Studio and is his personal favorite. This was followed by a series of critically lauded performances in commercially successful films. He has starred in numerous films and television series, including The Twilight Zone (1963), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), Tender Mercies (1983) (which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor), The Natural (1984), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Days of Thunder (1990), Falling Down (1993), Secondhand Lions (2003), The Judge (2014), and Widows (2018). His final role was in The Pale Blue Eye (2022).
Robert Duvall
Abe Tennenbaum
for Abe Tennenbaum in The Trail to Hell
Suggested by jakubduda
Old man Gordon Tielemans has been running the Sierra Isabella family ranch for 60 years, which was named after his grandfather, who named it after his wife. The Tielemens family gained great fame in the area and supplied all the towns in the area, leading to many enemies. Now Gordon is old, so when he receives an order worth not to be refused, it is clear to him that he alone is not enough to do it with his younger brother and his two sons. He doesn't have any more men available because the last three expeditions ended in a bloody shootout when the wagons were stopped by Milton's gang who took over the town of Hotpoint years ago and now they have the whole area under their thumb, raiding all supplies of food, leather, wood, alcohol. They have an unrivaled environment, where everything is imported only by their affiliated or owned companies. Gang is run by Sam Milton, and his brother is sheriff of Albertown. Gordon procures 10 men to supplement them and help them get the wagons to Cedarwood. Along the way they are attacked many times and loses some men, everything is complicated by the situation when they notice the Hartword family under attack by Indians. During this heroic war, all 3 wagons are damaged, so Gordon, accompanied by his sons, has to go down to Rolling station on horseback and agree with his old friend Abe that he will send a train for them, on which they will load all and take it to Cedarwood. of course, even a train ride is not without a gang attack.
