Robert Duvall
Acting
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
2023 · Movie
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · Movie
Hustle
2022 · Movie
12 Mighty Orphans
2021 · Movie
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
2020 · Movie
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
2020 · Movie
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
2019 · Movie
Widows
2018 · Movie
The Words That Built America
2017 · Movie
In Dubious Battle
2016 · Movie
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Wild Horses
2015 · Movie
The Judge
2014 · Movie
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
A Night in Old Mexico
2013 · Movie
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013 · Movie
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013 · Movie
Jack Reacher
2012 · Movie
Casting By
2012 · Movie
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012 · Movie
Seven Days in Utopia
2011 · Movie
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011 · Movie
Get Low
2010 · Movie
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
2010 · Movie
Crazy Heart
2009 · Movie
The Road
2009 · Movie
Four Christmases
2008 · Movie
We Own the Night
2007 · Movie
Lucky You
2007 · Movie
Brando
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
2007 · Movie
Broken Trail
2006 · Series
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
2006 · Movie
The Making of 'Network'
2006 · Movie
Thank You for Smoking
2005 · Movie
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005 · Movie
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2005 · Movie
Kicking & Screaming
2005 · Movie
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004 · Movie
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
2004 · Movie
Beyond the 'Open Range'
2004 · Movie
Secondhand Lions
2003 · Movie
Open Range
2003 · Movie
Assassination Tango
2003 · Movie
Gods and Generals
2003 · Movie
Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'
2002 · Movie
John Q
2002 · Movie
The 6th Day
2000 · Movie
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 · Movie
A Shot at Glory
2000 · Movie
A Civil Action
1998 · Movie
Deep Impact
1998 · Movie
The Gingerbread Man
1998 · Movie
Fearful Symmetry
1998 · Movie
The Apostle
1997 · Movie
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996 · Movie
Sling Blade
1996 · Movie
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Phenomenon
1996 · Movie
A Family Thing
1996 · Movie
The Scarlet Letter
1995 · Movie
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995 · Movie
Something to Talk About
1995 · Movie
The Paper
1994 · Movie
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993 · Movie
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993 · Movie
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
Falling Down
1993 · Movie
Stalin
1992 · Movie
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992 · Movie
The Plague
1992 · Movie
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
1992 · Movie
Newsies
1992 · Movie
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 · Movie
Rambling Rose
1991 · Movie
Convicts
1991 · Movie
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990 · Movie
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990 · Movie
Days of Thunder
1990 · Movie
A Show of Force
1990 · Movie
The Handmaid's Tale
1990 · Movie
Lonesome Dove
1989 · Series
American Experience
1988 · Series
Tango: Our Dance
1988 · Movie
Colors
1988 · Movie
Hotel Colonial
1987 · Movie
Let's Get Harry
1986 · Movie
Belizaire the Cajun
1986 · Movie
The Lightship
1985 · Movie
The Natural
1984 · Movie
The Stone Boy
1984 · Movie
The Terry Fox Story
1983 · Movie
Angelo My Love
1983 · Movie
Tender Mercies
1983 · Movie
Aliens From Another Planet
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981 · Movie
True Confessions
1981 · Movie
The Great Santini
1979 · Movie
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Movie
Ike
1979 · Movie
Ike
1979 · Series
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979 · Series
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · Movie
The Betsy
1978 · Movie
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977 · Series
We're Not the Jet Set
1977 · Movie
The Greatest
1977 · Movie
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Movie
Network
1976 · Movie
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 · Movie
The Killer Elite
1975 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Breakout
1975 · Movie
The Godfather Part II
1974 · Movie
The Conversation
1974 · Movie
The Outfit
1973 · Movie
Badge 373
1973 · Movie
Lady Ice
1973 · Movie
Joe Kidd
1972 · Movie
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972 · Movie
Tomorrow
1972 · Movie
The Godfather
1972 · Movie
THX 1138
1971 · Movie
Lawman
1971 · Movie
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971 · Movie
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971 · Movie
The Revolutionary
1970 · Movie
M*A*S*H
1970 · Movie
The Rain People
1969 · Movie
True Grit
1969 · Movie
Filmmaker
1968 · Movie
Bullitt
1968 · Movie
The Mod Squad
1968 · Series
The Detective
1968 · Movie
Judd, for the Defense
1967 · Series
Cimarron Strip
1967 · Series
Countdown
1967 · Movie
CBS Playhouse
1966 · Series
Fame Is the Name of the Game
1966 · Movie
Felony Squad
1966 · Series
Shane
1966 · Series
The Time Tunnel
1966 · Series
Hawk
1966 · Series
The Chase
1966 · Movie
The F.B.I.
1965 · Series
The Wild Wild West
1965 · Series
Run for Your Life
1965 · Series
Nightmare in the Sun
1965 · Movie
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963 · Movie
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Series
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Series
The Fugitive
1963 · Series
The Outer Limits
1963 · Series
Arrest and Trial
1963 · Series
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 · Movie
Combat!
1962 · Series
Stoney Burke
1962 · Series
The Virginian
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
Cain's Hundred
1961 · Series
The Defenders
1961 · Series
John Brown's Raid
1960 · Movie
Route 66
1960 · Series
The Untouchables
1959 · Series
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
Naked City
1958 · Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
The Making of We Own the Night
Movie