ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Robert Duvall, an actor and filmmaker whose career spans seven decades. It started at Principia High School, then on to Principia College, in Elsah, Illinois, graduating in 1953 with a Bachelor’s degree in drama.
Something he talked with KMOX’s long time host Charlie Brennan about in October of 2006. “I got interested in drama, but as we were talking before, the thing I remember that really caught my attention was that Muny Opera where you go and sit outside in the evening and see these operettas or musicals sung in English. I was kind of a revelation to me and I loved that because I had never seen that before.”
Duvall told Brennan about being a standout athlete at Principia High School, but his favorite memory didn’t happen on a set, it happened on the football field. “I intercepted a pass in the end zone and went 103 yards for a touchdown and my brother was in the audience and forgot to turn on the camera.”…