Good friends with Al Gore, Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, Oliver Stone, Robert Duvall, and Will Smith. As of 2023, has appeared in six films that were nominated for a Best Picture Oscar: Love Story (1970), Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), JFK (1991), The Fugitive (1993), No Country for Old Men (2007), and Lincoln (2012).
Why didn't John Wayne and Robert Duvall get along?
Wayne thought of himself as a professional actor, able to deliver what his director required with the close of a clapperboard, while Duvall was from the school of method acting. In fact, the only thing the two had in common was a short fuse.
Did Robert Duvall do his own riding in Lonesome Dove?
“Back when I did Lonesome Dove,” Duvall said, “I was riding everything. Anything and everything.” So he knew enough not to panic — or even break character — while filming a scene in which Gus is pursued by gun-wielding galoots.
despite reports he'd suffered a stroke. Several news outlets reported Duvall, 85, had gone Mia the last 7 months following a health scare. But his rep, Jim Dobson, tells TMZ the stroke thing is 100% false, and the pics from the reunion in Fort Worth prove it.
Duvall has been married four times but does not have any children. "I guess I'm shooting blanks," he said in 2007. He has said, "[I've tried] with a lot of different women, in and out of marriage."
Larry McMurtry's original novel was based upon a screenplay that he had co-written with Peter Bogdanovich for a movie that was intended to star John Wayne as Call, James Stewart as Gus, and Henry Fonda as Jake Spoon, but the project collapsed when John Ford advised Wayne to reject the script.
Jones is an accomplished horseman, and a 2-goal-rated polo player, which we'll talk about later, and when they were preparing to shoot that scene, he knew that it wouldn't come across well as planned.
Joshua Deets was inspired by Bose Ikard, a longtime cowboy and friend of Goodnight. Though Ikard didn't die from an unexpected spearing by an Indigenous boy, Goodnight did carve a fervent epitaph for him when he died of natural causes in Texas.
Wayne outright condemned the evolution the Western genre underwent in the 1960s, refusing to star alongside Clint Eastwood even though Clint Eastwood was eager to work with him. Because the two subgenres of Wild West movies were never reconciled, it meant inevitably that Wayne and Eastwood would never be either.
They did. Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert Duvall were good friends in the 1950s and 60s, when they were working menial jobs and scrounging for any sort of roles. All three survived the classic whipsaw between hope and rejection to become part of that rare breed—character actors on Hollywood's A-list.
John Wayne Criticized Clint Eastwood's 'High Plains Drifter'
Wayne, a traditionalist in his view of good vs. evil and the upstanding role of Western protagonists, was disgusted by Eastwood's depiction of the Old West.
In the mini-series Lonesome Dove, Charles Goodnight was immortalized loosely as Captain Woodrow F. Call, played by Tommy Lee Jones. In truth, Charles Goodnight in real life was even more fascinating than the fictional Woodrow Call.
According to McMurtry, Gus and Call were not modeled after historical characters, but similarities exist with real-life cattle drivers Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving. When Goodnight and Loving's African American guide Bose Ikard died, Goodnight carved a wooden grave marker for him, just as Call does for Deets.
He was apparently a big drinker (“His drinking scared me,” his first wife, the actress Kate Lardner, wrote in her autobiography), and he did not hesitate to confront anyone on movie sets who rubbed him the wrong way.
He has two children from his second marriage to Kimberlea Cloughley, the daughter of Phil Hardberger, former mayor of San Antonio. On March 19, 2001, he married his third wife, Dawn Laurel. Jones resides in Terrell Hills, Texas, a city just outside of downtown San Antonio, and speaks Spanish.
From 1968 to 1970, Robertson was the fourth and final host of the anthology series Death Valley Days. Described by Time magazine in 1959 as "probably the best horseman on television", for most of his career, Robertson played in western films and television shows—well over 60 titles in all.
8.) But he didn't love making the miniseries, in large part because of last-minute casting decisions that Duvall decries as typical of television. “There were problems on the set, arguments about the way it was done,” Duvall said.
Tommy Lee Jones declined to reprise his role so he could appear in The Fugitive (1993). That role had originally been offered to Jon Voight, who turned it down when he found out that Jones was not going to reprise his role in this film, a part Voight wanted to play.
Captain Call's illegitimate son, Newt, has been killed in Montana by the horse his father gave him. Clara, Gus's longtime love, still lives in Nebraska, raising horses. And Lorena, the whore who was in love with Gus, has become a schoolteacher.
In recent years, Duvall said he has focused mainly on small parts instead of lead roles. In terms of retirement, “There always comes a day where you say, 'That's it, no more. ' I haven't quite come to that, but almost.” He believes that “there will always be good actors.
Shelley Alexis Duvall was born on July 7, 1949, in Fort Worth, Texas, the first child of Bobbie Ruth Crawford (née Massengale, 1929–2020), a real estate broker, and Robert Richardson "Bobby" Duvall (1919–1994), a cattle auctioneer-turned-lawyer (not to be confused with actor Robert Duvall, to whom Shelley is not ...
He was born in Silver Spring, Maryland to Robert Andrew Duvall (1926–1971) and Mary Alida Carlson (1925–1997) and is a second cousin of actor Robert Duvall.
The Latin he carves is this: "Uva uvam vivendo varia fit,which seemed to him to be a beautiful motto, whatever it meant" (8.48). What it means is "a grape, seeing another grape, changes color" (source). Considering what Clara has to say about Call changing Gus, and vice-versa, this motto is pretty apt.
