# Robert Duvall role in The Naked City \[edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797 "2017-01-10T02:29:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/1 "2017-01-10T02:29:52Z")
I watched Robert Duvall in an episode of _Naked City._ He had a bald spot in 1958. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/2 "2017-01-10T02:44:59Z")
What? Don’t do that. I saw the Subject line and thought Robert Duvall died. The post itself didn’t help. I had to go to IMDB to see that he was still alive. Context please. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/3 "2017-01-10T02:49:26Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > What? Don’t do that. I saw the Subject line and thought Robert Duvall died. The post itself didn’t help. I had to go to IMDB to see that he was still alive. Context please. I also thought it was a death announcement. Even worse, it was a bald spot announcement. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/4 "2017-01-10T02:49:48Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I saw the Subject line and thought Robert Duvall died. It wasn’t just you. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/5 "2017-01-10T02:50:50Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I watched Robert Duvall in an episode of _Naked City._ > He had a bald spot in 1958. Well, that was the fashion at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/6 "2017-01-10T14:51:44Z")
He’s a middle aged version Dick Clark…has not aged a day in 60 years ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/7 "2017-01-10T16:37:07Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > He’s a middle aged version Dick Clark…has not aged a day in 60 years And if I were an actor, I’d still take his career. Even when he’s in bad movies, he makes a part of them good. Like Ebert’s “Stanton/Walsh” rule, which should be amended to add Duvall. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/8 "2017-01-10T18:19:29Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Well, that was the fashion at the time. Yeah, but otherwise he didn’t look old enough to drive. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/9 "2017-01-10T18:30:31Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > What? Don’t do that. I saw the Subject line and thought Robert Duvall died. The post itself didn’t help. I had to go to IMDB to see that he was still alive. Context please. A simple hover over (or even click) would have fixed that concern even faster than going to imdb. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/10 "2017-01-10T18:32:26Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > He’s a middle aged version Dick Clark…has not aged a day in 60 years Gene Hackman is another actor like that (i.e., perpetually middle-aged) as was Walter Matthau. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/11 "2017-01-10T19:31:44Z")
Robert Duvall was born 40 years old. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/12 "2017-01-10T19:37:46Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Robert Duvall was born 40 years old. He didn’t look old enough to shave. The actor was familiar as hell, but I had to see the credits to discover who he was. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/13 "2017-01-10T19:43:02Z")
He did yeoman duty in TV before making the break into film. Did The Fugitive, Outer Limits, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel and many more! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/14 "2017-01-10T19:43:11Z")
Well, ok, he is old enough to [shave.](https://blogduwest2.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/naked-duvall.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/15 "2017-01-10T21:09:29Z")
If the title troubles people, perhaps a moderator could change it to “Robert Duvall role in The Naked City”. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/16 "2017-01-10T21:40:21Z")
[Moderating] Title changed at OP’s request. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/17 "2017-01-10T22:18:06Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Gene Hackman is another actor like that (i.e., perpetually middle-aged) as was Walter Matthau. I am always amused at how “old” actors in the 1940s-1960s look, even when they are 20-somethings playing a 20-something. There’s (uh) something about the hair styles and clothing and such that irresistibly makes me think of my father and other men of that generation. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/18 "2017-01-10T22:25:26Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > [Moderating] > > Title changed at OP’s request. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/19 "2017-01-10T22:27:59Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > I am always amused at how “old” actors in the 1940s-1960s look, even when they are 20-somethings playing a 20-something. There’s (uh) something about the hair styles and clothing and such that irresistibly makes me think of my father and other men of that generation. I’ve been watching 1950s private detective shows, and David Janssen looks as though he dipped his head into a barrel of 10W40. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797/20 "2017-01-11T00:35:25Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Gene Hackman is another actor like that (i.e., perpetually middle-aged) as was Walter Matthau. Well, Hackman didn’t start getting on air roles until his 30’s. He was 37 when he had his breakout role in _Bonnie and Clyde_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robert-duvall-role-in-the-naked-city-edited-title/776797.md?page=2)