Robert Duvall
Acting
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).
Known for
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movieJune
2023
Self
movieThe Pale Blue Eye
2022
Jean-Pepe
movieHustle
2022
Rex Merrick
movie12 Mighty Orphans
2021
Mason Hawk
movieThe Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
2020
Angelo Corleone
movieThe Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
2020
Self (archive footage)
movieWidows
2018
Tom Mulligan
movieThe Words That Built America
2017
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
movieIn Dubious Battle
2016
Chris Bolton
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self - Guest
movieWild Horses
2015
Scott Briggs
movieThe Judge
2014
Joseph Palmer
movieMarlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
Self - Actor
tvLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Self - Guest
movieJayne Mansfield's Car
2013
Jim Caldwell
movieJack Reacher
2012
Martin Cash
movieHemingway & Gellhorn
2012
Russian General (uncredited)
movieSeven Days in Utopia
2011
Johnny Crawford
movieGet Low
2010
Felix Bush
movieCrazy Heart
2009
Wayne
movieThe Road
2009
Old Man - Eli
movieFour Christmases
2008
Howard McVie
movieWe Own the Night
2007
Burt Grusinsky
movieLucky You
2007
L.C. Cheever
movieBrando
2007
Self
movieOperation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
2007
Taking Chance (voice)
tvBroken Trail
2006
Prentice Ritter
movieThe Making of 'Network'
2006
Self (archive footage)
movieThank You for Smoking
2005
The Captain
movieKicking & Screaming
2005
Buck Weston
movieOpen Range
2003
Boss Spearman
movieAssassination Tango
2003
John J. Anderson
movieGods and Generals
2003
Gen. Robert E. Lee
movieJohn Q
2002
Lt. Frank Grimes
movieThe 6th Day
2000
Dr. Griffin Weir
movieGone in Sixty Seconds
2000
Otto Halliwell
movieA Shot at Glory
2000
Gordon McCloud
movieA Civil Action
1998
Jerome Facher
movieDeep Impact
1998
Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
movieThe Gingerbread Man
1998
Dixon Doss
movieThe Apostle
1997
Euliss Dewey
movieThe Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996
Adolf Eichmann
movieSling Blade
1996
Karl's Father
movieA Family Thing
1996
Earl Pilcher Jr.
movieThe Scarlet Letter
1995
Roger Chillingworth
movieSomething to Talk About
1995
Wyly King
movieThe Paper
1994
Bernie White
movieGeronimo: An American Legend
1993
Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
tvLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Self - Guest
tvLate Show with David Letterman
1993
Self - Guest
movieFalling Down
1993
Prendergast
movieStalin
1992
Josef Stalin
movieThe Plague
1992
Joseph Grand
movieThe Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
1992
Self (uncredited)
movieNewsies
1992
Joseph Pulitzer
movieRambling Rose
1991
Mr. Hillyer
movieConvicts
1991
Soll Gautier
movieThe Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
Self / Tom Hagen
movieDays of Thunder
1990
Harry Hogge
movieA Show of Force
1990
Howard
movieThe Handmaid's Tale
1990
Commander
tvLonesome Dove
1989
Augustus "Gus" McCrae
tvAmerican Experience
1988
Narrator (voice)
movieTango: Our Dance
1988
Entrevistado
movieColors
1988
Bob Hodges
movieHotel Colonial
1987
Carrasco
movieLet's Get Harry
1986
Shrike
movieBelizaire the Cajun
1986
The Preacher
movieThe Lightship
1985
Calvin Caspary
movieThe Natural
1984
Max Mercy
movieThe Stone Boy
1984
Joe Hillerman
movieThe Terry Fox Story
1983
Bill Vigars
movieTender Mercies
1983
Mac Sledge
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Jackson Fentry / The Preacher
movieTrue Confessions
1981
Det. Tom Spellacy
movieThe Great Santini
1979
Bull Meechum
movieApocalypse Now
1979
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
movieIke
1979
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
tvIke
1979
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
movieInvasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
Priest on Swing (uncredited)
movieThe Betsy
1978
Loren Hardeman III
movieThe Greatest
1977
Bill McDonald
movieThe Eagle Has Landed
1976
Col. Max Radl
movieNetwork
1976
Frank Hackett
movieThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
Dr. John H. Watson
movieThe Killer Elite
1975
George Hansen
tvSaturday Night Live
1975
Self - Various Characters
movieBreakout
1975
Jay Wagner
movieThe Godfather Part II
1974
Tom Hagen
movieThe Conversation
1974
The Director (uncredited)
movieThe Outfit
1973
Earl Macklin
movieBadge 373
1973
Eddie Ryan
movieLady Ice
1973
Ford Pierce
movieJoe Kidd
1972
Frank Harlan
movieThe Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972
Jesse James
movieTomorrow
1972
Jackson Fentry
movieThe Godfather
1972
Tom Hagen
movieLawman
1971
Vernon Adams
movieThe Revolutionary
1970
Despard
movieM*A*S*H
1970
Maj. Frank Burns
movieThe Rain People
1969
Gordon
movieTrue Grit
1969
Ned Pepper
movieBullitt
1968
Cabbie Weissberg
movieThe Detective
1968
Nestor
tvCimarron Strip
1967
Joe Wyman
CBS Playhouse
1966
Dr. Margolin
movieFame Is the Name of the Game
1966
Eddie Franchot
tvShane
1966
Tom Gary
tvThe Time Tunnel
1966
Raul Nimon
tvHawk
1966
Dick
movieThe Chase
1966
Edwin Stewart
tvThe F.B.I.
1965
Joseph Maurice Walker / Johnny Albin / Ernie Milden / Joseph Troy / Gerald Wilson
tvThe Wild Wild West
1965
Dr. Horace Humphries
tvRun for Your Life
1965
Richard Fletcher
movieNightmare in the Sun
1965
Motorcyclist
movieCaptain Newman, M.D.
1963
Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
tvKraft Suspense Theatre
1963
Harvey Farnsworth
tvThe Fugitive
1963
Leslie Sessions / Eric Christian
tvThe Outer Limits
1963
Louis Mace / Adam Ballard
tvArrest and Trial
1963
Morton Ware
movieTo Kill a Mockingbird
1962
Boo Radley
tvCombat!
1962
Karl / Peter Halsman / Michel
tvStoney Burke
1962
Joby Pierce
tvThe Virginian
1962
Johnny Keel
tvCain's Hundred
1961
Tom Nugent
tvThe Defenders
1961
Al Rogart / Luke Jackson / Bill Andrews
tvRoute 66
1960
Lee Winters / Roman
tvThe Untouchables
1959
Eddie Moon
tvThe Twilight Zone
1959
Charley Parkes
tvNaked City
1958
Lewis Nunda / L. Francis Childe / Johnny Meigs / Barney Sonners
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Bart Collins
tvThe Oscars
1953
Self
tvGolden Globe Awards
1944
Self - Nominee / Self - Winner
Production7
movieA Night in Old Mexico
2013
Producer
movieCrazy Heart
2009
Producer
tvBroken Trail
2006
Executive Producer
movieAssassination Tango
2003
Producer
movieThe Apostle
1997
Executive Producer
movieA Family Thing
1996
Producer
movieTender Mercies
1983
Co-Producer
Directing5
movieWild Horses
2015
Director
movieAssassination Tango
2003
Director
movieThe Apostle
1997
Director
movieAngelo My Love
1983
Director
movieWe're Not the Jet Set
1977
Director