Robert Duvall
103 movies · 30 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 5, 1931
- Died
- Feb 15, 2026 (age 95)
- Place of birth
- San Diego, California, USA
- Also known as
- Robert Selden Duvall · Robert Duval
Biography
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.
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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
Robert Duvall: movies and TV shows
Acting (131)
- 2022 The Pale Blue Eye
as Jean-Pepe
- 2022 Hustle
as Rex Merrick
- 2021 12 Mighty Orphans
as Mason Hawk
- 2018 Widows
as Tom Mulligan
- 2016 In Dubious Battle
as Chris Bolton
- 2015 Wild Horses
as Scott Briggs
- 2014 The Judge
as Joseph Palmer
- 2013 A Night in Old Mexico
as Red
- 2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Jim Caldwell
- 2012 Jack Reacher
as Martin Cash
- 2012 Hemingway & Gellhorn
as Russian General (uncredited)
- 2011 Seven Days in Utopia
as Johnny Crawford
- 2010 Get Low
as Felix Bush
- 2009 Crazy Heart
as Wayne
- 2009 The Road
as Old Man - Eli
- 2008 Four Christmases
as Howard McVie
- 2007 We Own the Night
as Burt Grusinsky
- 2007 Lucky You
as L.C. Cheever
- 2007 Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
as Taking Chance (voice)
- 2006
- 2005 Thank You for Smoking
as The Captain
- 2005 Kicking & Screaming
as Buck Weston
- 2003 Secondhand Lions
as Hub
- 2003 Open Range
as Boss Spearman
- 2003 Assassination Tango
as John J. Anderson
- 2003 Gods and Generals
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
- 2002 John Q
as Lt. Frank Grimes
- 2000 The 6th Day
as Dr. Griffin Weir
- 2000 Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Otto Halliwell
- 2000 A Shot at Glory
as Gordon McCloud
- 1998 A Civil Action
as Jerome Facher
- 1998 Deep Impact
as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
- 1998 The Gingerbread Man
as Dixon Doss
- 1997 The Apostle
as Euliss Dewey
- 1996 The Man Who Captured Eichmann
as Adolf Eichmann
- 1996 Sling Blade
as Karl's Father
- 1996 Phenomenon
as Doc
- 1996 A Family Thing
as Earl Pilcher Jr.
- 1995 The Scarlet Letter
as Roger Chillingworth
- 1995 The Stars Fell on Henrietta
as Mr. Cox
- 1995 Something to Talk About
as Wyly King
- 1994 The Paper
as Bernie White
- 1993 Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Walter
- 1993 Geronimo: An American Legend
as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
- 1993 Falling Down
as Prendergast
- 1992 Stalin
as Josef Stalin
- 1992 The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Tom Hagen
- 1992 The Plague
as Joseph Grand
- 1992 Newsies
as Joseph Pulitzer
- 1991 Rambling Rose
as Mr. Hillyer
- 1991 Convicts
as Soll Gautier
- 1990 Days of Thunder
as Harry Hogge
- 1990 A Show of Force
as Howard
- 1990 The Handmaid's Tale
as Commander
- 1989
- 1988
- 1988 Tango: Our Dance
as Entrevistado
- 1988 Colors
as Bob Hodges
- 1987 Hotel Colonial
as Carrasco
- 1986 Let's Get Harry
as Shrike
- 1986 Belizaire the Cajun
as The Preacher
- 1985 The Lightship
as Calvin Caspary
- 1984 The Natural
as Max Mercy
- 1984 The Stone Boy
as Joe Hillerman
- 1983 The Terry Fox Story
as Bill Vigars
- 1983 Tender Mercies
as Mac Sledge
- 1982 Aliens From Another Planet
as Nimon
- 1982
- 1981 The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
as Gruen
- 1981 True Confessions
as Det. Tom Spellacy
- 1979 The Great Santini
as Bull Meechum
- 1979 Apocalypse Now
as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
- 1979 Ike
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 1979
- 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Priest on Swing (uncredited)
- 1978 The Betsy
as Loren Hardeman III
- 1977
- 1977 The Greatest
as Bill McDonald
- 1976 The Eagle Has Landed
as Col. Max Radl
- 1976 Network
as Frank Hackett
- 1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Dr. John H. Watson
- 1975 The Killer Elite
as George Hansen
- 1975 Breakout
as Jay Wagner
- 1974 The Godfather Part II
as Tom Hagen
- 1974 The Conversation
as The Director (uncredited)
- 1973 The Outfit
as Earl Macklin
- 1973 Badge 373
as Eddie Ryan
- 1973 Lady Ice
as Ford Pierce
- 1972 Joe Kidd
as Frank Harlan
- 1972 The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
as Jesse James
- 1972 Tomorrow
as Jackson Fentry
- 1972 The Godfather
as Tom Hagen
- 1971 THX 1138
as THX
- 1971 Lawman
as Vernon Adams
- 1970 The Revolutionary
as Despard
- 1970 M*A*S*H
as Maj. Frank Burns
- 1969 The Rain People
as Gordon
- 1969 True Grit
as Ned Pepper
- 1968 Bullitt
as Cabbie Weissberg
- 1968
- 1968 The Detective
as Nestor
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967 Countdown
as Chiz
- 1966
- 1966 Fame Is the Name of the Game
as Eddie Franchot
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966
- 1966 The Chase
as Edwin Stewart
- 1965 The F.B.I. · TV
as Joseph Maurice Walker / Johnny Albin / Ernie Milden / Gerald Wilson / Joseph Troy · 5 episodes
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965 Nightmare in the Sun
as Motorcyclist
- 1963 Captain Newman, M.D.
as Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962 To Kill a Mockingbird
as Boo Radley
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960 John Brown's Raid
as Oliver Brown
- 1960
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958
- 1955
Behind the camera (10)
- 2015 Wild Horses
Writer, Director
- 2013 A Night in Old Mexico
Producer
- 2009 Crazy Heart
Producer
- 2006
- 2003 Assassination Tango
Writer, Director, Producer
- 1997 The Apostle
Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- 1996 A Family Thing
Producer
- 1983 Angelo My Love
Director, Writer
- 1983 Tender Mercies
Co-Producer
- 1977 We're Not the Jet Set
Director
Talk shows and appearances (41)
- Upcoming
- 2023
- 2020
- 2019
- 2017
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1 episode
- 2014
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2007
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
1 episode
- 2006
- 2006
- 2005
- 2005
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004
- 2002
- 1998
- 1996 The Daily Show
2 episodes
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1 episode
- 1993 Late Show with David Letterman
1 episode
- 1992
- 1991
- 1990
- 1990
- 1979 CBS News Sunday Morning
1 episode
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1971
- 1971
- 1968
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 episode
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show
1 episode
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
2 episodes
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
3 episodes