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Duvall continues acting today and was recently nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in The Judge (2014). Over the course of his career, Duvall has been nominated for seven Academy Awards and won Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Apostle (1997), a film he also wrote and directed. He also starred in respected films like The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), and Apocalypse Now (1979). His first notable critical and commercial success surfaced in his acclaimed performance as Tom Hagen in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974). In the middle of his career, he played a supporting role in Robert Altman’s MASH (1970) and starred in George Lucas’s directorial debut, THX 1138 (1971), as the titular role. During the first wave of his career, he starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone and other television series. Though best known as Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird, Anderson was a prolific television actor, making 120 appearances throughout his career.ĭuvall made his stunning debut as Boo in To Kill a Mockingbird and went on to become one of the most well-known, beloved American actors of the 20th century.

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His portrayals of Admiral Cartwright in two Star Trek films and Joseph Sisko in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in the 90s also gained Peters mainstream recognition. Peters was a prolific actor, and before starring as Tom in To Kill a Mockingbird, he became noticed for his supporting role as Crown in one of the most respected and beloved musicals ever made, Porgy and Bess (1959). After acting for 10 years, Alford officially retired from the profession and eventually became a successful businessman in Alabama. Though he was praised for his performance of Jem, his following career was somewhat lackluster, playing minor roles in television series like The Lloyd Bridges Show (1963), Disney Land (1964), and CBS Playhouse (1969). Like Badham, To Kill a Mockingbird was Alford’s film debut. In 2005, she came out of retirement to play a cameo in Cameron Watson’s Our Very Own, and in 2012, she attended a 50th-anniversary screening of To Kill a Mockingbird with Barack Obama at the White House. Badham had a short career thereafter, starring in “The Bewitchin’ Pool” (the final episode of The Twilight Zone), This Property Is Condemned (1966) starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, and Charles Bronson, and Let’s Kill Uncle (1966) before retiring from acting.

Mary Badham had no acting experience prior to being cast as Scout, and her performance earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role-which made her the youngest actress ever (at age 10) nominated for the category at the time. He was the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1967, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute from 1967 to 1969, and was also a lifelong humanitarian. Peck also starred in acclaimed films like Spellbound (1945), Roman Holiday (1954), The Big Country (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Cape Fear (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), and The Omen (1976). He was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Keys of Kingdom (1941), The Yearling (1946), and Elia Kazan’s Gentleman's Agreement (1947). Though he is most remembered for his performance as Atticus Finch, Peck was a widely respected and popular actor from the 1940s to the 60s.

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