Watch the TV Role That Robert Duvall Thinks is Better Than Any Film He's Made

While making the promotional rounds this morning for his film Get Low, Robert Duvall mentioned in two separate interviews that his best work didn't come from any of the five films that earned him Oscar nominations or even the one film that earned him an actual Academy Award (Tender Mercies). Instead, Duvall singled out an '80s television project.

When asked to cite his best performance on The Howard Stern Show and Live with Regis and Kelly, the actor passed over his legendary roles in The Godfather, The Great Santini and The Apostle for his part in the CBS TV miniseries Lonesome Dove. Duvall called the project (which was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name) the "Texas Bible."

Duvall starred in the Western opposite Tommy Lee Jones, Anjelica Huston and Diane Lane as a former Texas ranger who decides to start the first cattle ranch in the Montana frontier. Below, a scene between Duvall's Gus McCrae and his partner (Tommy Lee Jones) in what is remembered today as one of the best television miniseries of all time.