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Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall

Born: 1931-01-05 • San Diego, California, USA

Robert Selden Duvall (January 5, 1931 – February 15, 2026) was an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of an Academy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Duvall began appearing in theater in the late 1950s, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s, playing Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and appearing in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), as Major Frank Burns in the blockbuster comedy M*A*S*H (1970) and the lead role in THX 1138 (1971), as well as Horton Foote's adaptation of William Faulkner's Tomorrow (1972), which was developed at The Actors Studio and is his personal favorite. This was followed by a series of critically lauded performances in commercially successful films.

He has starred in numerous films and television series, including The Twilight Zone (1963), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), Tender Mercies (1983) (which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor), The Natural (1984), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Days of Thunder (1990), Falling Down (1993), Secondhand Lions (2003), The Judge (2014), and Widows (2018). His final role was in The Pale Blue Eye (2022).

Filmography
June poster
June
2023 • Self
The Pale Blue Eye poster
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 • Jean-Pepe
Hustle poster
Hustle
2022 • Rex Merrick
12 Mighty Orphans poster
12 Mighty Orphans
2021 • Mason Hawk
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder poster
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
2020 • Self (archive footage)
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash poster
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
2019 • Self
Widows poster
Widows
2018 • Tom Mulligan
The Words That Built America poster
The Words That Built America
2017 • Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
In Dubious Battle poster
In Dubious Battle
2016 • Chris Bolton
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 poster
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016 • Tom Hagen
Wild Horses poster
Wild Horses
2015 • Scott Briggs
The Judge poster
The Judge
2014 • Joseph Palmer
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire poster
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014 • Self - Actor
A Night in Old Mexico poster
A Night in Old Mexico
2013 • Red
Jayne Mansfield's Car poster
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013 • Jim Caldwell
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around poster
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013 • Self
Jack Reacher poster
Jack Reacher
2012 • Martin Cash
Casting By poster
Casting By
2012 • Self
Hemingway & Gellhorn poster
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012 • Russian General (uncredited)
Seven Days in Utopia poster
Seven Days in Utopia
2011 • Johnny Crawford
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides poster
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011 • Self
Get Low poster
Get Low
2010 • Felix Bush
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself poster
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
2010 • Self
Crazy Heart poster
Crazy Heart
2009 • Wayne
The Road poster
The Road
2009 • Old Man - Eli
Four Christmases poster
Four Christmases
2008 • Howard McVie
We Own the Night poster
We Own the Night
2007 • Burt Grusinsky
Lucky You poster
Lucky You
2007 • L.C. Cheever
Brando poster
Brando
2007 • Self
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience poster
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
2007 • Taking Chance (voice)
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western poster
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
2006 • self
The Making of 'Network' poster
The Making of 'Network'
2006 • Self (archive footage)
Thank You for Smoking poster
Thank You for Smoking
2005 • The Captain
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood poster
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005 • Self
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken poster
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2005 • Self
Kicking & Screaming poster
Kicking & Screaming
2005 • Buck Weston
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope poster
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004 • Self
No Image
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
2004 • Self
Beyond the 'Open Range' poster
Beyond the 'Open Range'
2004 • Self
Secondhand Lions poster
Secondhand Lions
2003 • Hub
Open Range poster
Open Range
2003 • Boss Spearman
Assassination Tango poster
Assassination Tango
2003 • John J. Anderson
Gods and Generals poster
Gods and Generals
2003 • Gen. Robert E. Lee
John Q poster
John Q
2002 • Lt. Frank Grimes
The 6th Day poster
The 6th Day
2000 • Dr. Griffin Weir
Gone in Sixty Seconds poster
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 • Otto Halliwell
A Shot at Glory poster
A Shot at Glory
2000 • Gordon McCloud
A Civil Action poster
A Civil Action
1998 • Jerome Facher
Deep Impact poster
Deep Impact
1998 • Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
The Gingerbread Man poster
The Gingerbread Man
1998 • Dixon Doss
Fearful Symmetry poster
Fearful Symmetry
1998 • Self
The Apostle poster
The Apostle
1997 • Euliss Dewey
The Man Who Captured Eichmann poster
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996 • Adolf Eichmann
Sling Blade poster
Sling Blade
1996 • Karl's Father
Phenomenon poster
Phenomenon
1996 • Doc
A Family Thing poster
A Family Thing
1996 • Earl Pilcher Jr.
The Scarlet Letter poster
The Scarlet Letter
1995 • Roger Chillingworth
The Stars Fell on Henrietta poster
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995 • Mr. Cox
Something to Talk About poster
Something to Talk About
1995 • Wyly King
The Paper poster
The Paper
1994 • Bernie White
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway poster
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993 • Walter
Geronimo: An American Legend poster
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993 • Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
Falling Down poster
Falling Down
1993 • Prendergast
Stalin poster
Stalin
1992 • Josef Stalin
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 poster
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992 • Tom Hagen
The Plague poster
The Plague
1992 • Joseph Grand
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live! poster
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
1992 • Self (uncredited)
Newsies poster
Newsies
1992 • Joseph Pulitzer
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse poster
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 • Self
Rambling Rose poster
Rambling Rose
1991 • Mr. Hillyer
Convicts poster
Convicts
1991 • Soll Gautier
No Image
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990 • Self
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside poster
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990 • Self / Tom Hagen
Days of Thunder poster
Days of Thunder
1990 • Harry Hogge
A Show of Force poster
A Show of Force
1990 • Howard
The Handmaid's Tale poster
The Handmaid's Tale
1990 • Commander
Tango: Our Dance poster
Tango: Our Dance
1988 • Entrevistado
Colors poster
Colors
1988 • Bob Hodges
Hotel Colonial poster
Hotel Colonial
1987 • Carrasco
Let's Get Harry poster
Let's Get Harry
1986 • Shrike
Belizaire the Cajun poster
Belizaire the Cajun
1986 • The Preacher
The Lightship poster
The Lightship
1985 • Calvin Caspary
The Natural poster
The Natural
1984 • Max Mercy
The Stone Boy poster
The Stone Boy
1984 • Joe Hillerman
The Terry Fox Story poster
The Terry Fox Story
1983 • Bill Vigars
Tender Mercies poster
Tender Mercies
1983 • Mac Sledge
Aliens From Another Planet poster
Aliens From Another Planet
1982 • Nimon
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper poster
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981 • Gruen
True Confessions poster
True Confessions
1981 • Det. Tom Spellacy
The Great Santini poster
The Great Santini
1979 • Bull Meechum
Apocalypse Now poster
Apocalypse Now
1979 • Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Ike poster
Ike
1979 • Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Invasion of the Body Snatchers poster
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 • Priest on Swing (uncredited)
The Betsy poster
The Betsy
1978 • Loren Hardeman III
The Greatest poster
The Greatest
1977 • Bill McDonald
The Eagle Has Landed poster
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 • Col. Max Radl
Network poster
Network
1976 • Frank Hackett
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution poster
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 • Dr. John H. Watson
The Killer Elite poster
The Killer Elite
1975 • George Hansen
Breakout poster
Breakout
1975 • Jay Wagner