
I’ve always been fascinated by Robert Duvall’s background. He was born back in 1931 and ended up serving after the Korean War. He’s even joked about it, saying some stories claim he was in intense battles at places like Chosin and Pork Chop Hill, but he admits he barely knew how to handle a rifle in basic training! Luckily, he used the G.I. Bill to study acting with the great Stanford Meisner. While doing theater and TV work in New York, he connected with Horton Foote, who suggested him for the role of Boo Radley in the classic To Kill a Mockingbird back in ’62. He kept working steadily throughout the sixties, but it was really in the 1970s, during that incredible New Hollywood era, that his career really took off.