Robert Duvall
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).
174 acting credits · 5 directing credits
Acting · 174
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Fugitive
1963
The Godfather
1972
American Experience
1988
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Virginian
1962
Naked City
1958
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
Combat!
1962
The F.B.I.
1965
The Godfather Part II
1974
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Untouchables
1959
The Wild Wild West
1965
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
Route 66
1960
Run for Your Life
1965
The Outer Limits
1963
The Defenders
1961
The Oscars
1953
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
Apocalypse Now
1979
The Time Tunnel
1966
The Mod Squad
1968
Felony Squad
1966
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Arrest and Trial
1963
Cain's Hundred
1961
Jack Reacher
2012
Stoney Burke
1962
The Lieutenant
1963
Cimarron Strip
1967
CBS Playhouse
1966
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
Lonesome Dove
1989
True Grit
1969
Deep Impact
1998
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000
Falling Down
1993
Shane
1966
John Q
2002
The Road
2009
The Judge
2014
Widows
2018
Days of Thunder
1990
Hustle
2022
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
Bullitt
1968
The 6th Day
2000
M*A*S*H
1970
Network
1976
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
Phenomenon
1996
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016
Colors
1988
The Scarlet Letter
1995
The Conversation
1974
Broken Trail
2006
The Handmaid's Tale
1990
Open Range
2003
Thank You for Smoking
2005
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993
Hawk
1966
Secondhand Lions
2003
Four Christmases
2008
The Natural
1984
Crazy Heart
2009
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
In Dubious Battle
2016
The Paper
1994
Joe Kidd
1972
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
Kicking & Screaming
2005
Newsies
1992
Ike
1979
Sling Blade
1996
THX 1138
1971
Lucky You
2007
We Own the Night
2007
12 Mighty Orphans
2021
Gods and Generals
2003
Something to Talk About
1995
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
Lawman
1971
A Civil Action
1998
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
The Chase
1966
Rambling Rose
1991
The Detective
1968
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
The Words That Built America
2017
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963
True Confessions
1981
The Gingerbread Man
1998
The Outfit
1973
Tender Mercies
1983
A Show of Force
1990
Brando
2007
The Apostle
1997
Assassination Tango
2003
The Killer Elite
1975
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
Wild Horses
2015
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972
Get Low
2010
Stalin
1992
Breakout
1975
The Greatest
1977
Casting By
2012
Ike
1979
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
2004
A Shot at Glory
2000
The Great Santini
1979
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
2006
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
Seven Days in Utopia
2011
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996
Countdown
1967
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
The Revolutionary
1970
The Betsy
1978
The Rain People
1969
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
1992
Let's Get Harry
1986
A Family Thing
1996
The Stone Boy
1984
Convicts
1991
A Night in Old Mexico
2013
The Plague
1992
Nightmare in the Sun
1965
Lady Ice
1973
Tomorrow
1972
Badge 373
1973
Fame Is the Name of the Game
1966
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
2020
Hotel Colonial
1987
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971
June
2023
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
2007
The Ploughmen
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The Lightship
1985
Filmmaker
1968
The Making of 'Network'
2006
The Making of We Own the Night
—
Beyond the 'Open Range'
2004
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011
The Terry Fox Story
1983
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
2020
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971
John Brown's Raid
1960
Belizaire the Cajun
1986
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
2019
Aliens From Another Planet
1982
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2005
Fearful Symmetry
1998
Tango: Our Dance
1988
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
2010
