Robert Duvall

Acclaimed actor explains how he still believes he can become a better actor.

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are a couple who run the Christmas Day gauntlet as they try to visit their divorced parents' four separate households. The ensemble cast includes Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Favreau and Tim McGraw.

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are a couple who run the Christmas Day gauntlet as they try to visit their divorced parents' four separate households. The ensemble cast includes Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Favreau and Tim McGraw.

The Conversation: Season 1: Episode 5 -- Hosted by British television personality and renowned photographer Amanda de Cadenet, this all-new Lifetime series provides a refreshing and modern take on celebrity interviews as de Cadenet sits down with some of the world's most famous women to discuss topics universal to all females. Tonight's guests: Eva Mendes, Gabby Sidibe, Jane Fonda and Yanna Kamps.

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are a couple who run the Christmas Day gauntlet as they try to visit their divorced parents' four separate households. The ensemble cast includes Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Favreau and Tim McGraw.

In 1970, John Wayne earned an Academy Award for his larger-than-life performance as the drunken, uncouth and totally fearless one-eyed U.S. Marshall, Rooster Cogburn. The cantankerous Rooster is hired by a headstrong young girl (Kim Darby) to find the man who murdered her father and fled with the family savings. When Cogburn's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. And the situation goes from troubled to disastrous when the inexperienced Texas Ranger (Glen Campbell) joins the party. Laughter and tears punctuate the wild action in this extraordinary Western which features performances by Robert Duvall and Strother Martin.

Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball superstardom. Robert Redford stars in this inspiring fable that begins when 14-year-old Hobbs (Redford) fashions a powerful bat from a fallen oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability, fixing his extraordinary talent in the mind of sportswriter Max Mercy (Robert Duvall), who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobb's career. But a meeting with a mysterious woman shatters his dream. Years pass and an older Hobbs reappears as a rookie from The New York Knights. Overcoming physical pain and defying those who have a stake in seeing the Knights lose, Hobbs, with his boyhood bat, has his chance to lead the Knights to the pennant and to finally fulfill his dream.

Harold Robbin's sexy best seller stars Tommy Lee Jones as a racing driver drawn into the spider's web of a Detroit carmaking dynasty. Checkered flag support from Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall and Leslie-Anne Down. Year: 1978 Director: Daniel Petrie Starring: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross

Imprisonment in a foreign country... it may be a fate far worse than death. Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall) is framed for murder by his scheming grandfather (John Huston). Unjustly convicted, he faces 28 hard years of confinement in a crowded Mexican prison. Wagner's guilt-ridden wife Ann (Jill Ireland), who unwittingly aided in framing him by confiding in the grandfather, turns to pilot Nick Colton (Charles Bronson) and his partner Hawk (Randy Quaid) to help Wagner escape. Only the most cunning anddaring tactics can spring Wagner, so Colton must plan the impossible. BREAKOUT builds to an explosive climax when Colton launches an all-out desperate helicopter raid that will either rescue the prisoner or cost the lives of all involved.

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are a couple who run the Christmas Day gauntlet as they try to visit their divorced parents' four separate households. The ensemble cast includes Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Dwight Yoakam, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Favreau and Tim McGraw.

...comes on like thunder! It's a winner! - Joel Siegel, WABC-TV/New York 'fuckBest movie of the summer!' - Steve Kmetko, KCBS-TV/Los Angeles From the engine roar and fever pitch of professional stock car racing, Days of Thunder explodes with the most spectacular racing action ever captured on film. Tom Cruise plays race driver Cole Trickle, whose talent and ambition are surpassed only by his burning need to win. Discovered by businessman Tim Daland (Randy Quaid), Cole is teamed with legendary crew chief and car-builder Harry Hogge (Academy Award. winner Robert Duvall) to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole's career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor (Nicole Kidman) to regain his nerve and the true courage needed to race, to win and to live.

Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar -winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puxo's best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Cann and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972.