Robert Duvall
Acting
Born January 5, 1931 · 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).
Directed (5)
Acting (127)
June
2023
The Pale Blue Eye
2022
Hustle
2022
12 Mighty Orphans
2021
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
2020
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
2019
Widows
2018
The Words That Built America
2017
In Dubious Battle
2016
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016
Wild Horses
2015
The Judge
2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
A Night in Old Mexico
2013
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
Jack Reacher
2012
Casting By
2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012
Seven Days in Utopia
2011
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011
Get Low
2010
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
2010
Crazy Heart
2009
The Road
2009
Four Christmases
2008
We Own the Night
2007
Lucky You
2007
Brando
2007
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
2007
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
2006
The Making of 'Network'
2006
Thank You for Smoking
2005
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2005
Kicking & Screaming
2005
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
2004
Beyond the 'Open Range'
2004
Secondhand Lions
2003
Open Range
2003
Assassination Tango
2003
Gods and Generals
2003
John Q
2002
The 6th Day
2000
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000
A Shot at Glory
2000
A Civil Action
1998
Deep Impact
1998
The Gingerbread Man
1998
Fearful Symmetry
1998
The Apostle
1997
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996
Sling Blade
1996
Phenomenon
1996
A Family Thing
1996
The Scarlet Letter
1995
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995
Something to Talk About
1995
The Paper
1994
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
Geronimo: An American Legend
1993
Falling Down
1993
Stalin
1992
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
The Plague
1992
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
1992
Newsies
1992
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
Rambling Rose
1991
Convicts
1991
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
Days of Thunder
1990
A Show of Force
1990
The Handmaid's Tale
1990
Tango: Our Dance
1988
Colors
1988
Hotel Colonial
1987
Let's Get Harry
1986
Belizaire the Cajun
1986
The Lightship
1985
The Natural
1984
The Stone Boy
1984
The Terry Fox Story
1983
Tender Mercies
1983
Aliens From Another Planet
1982
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981
True Confessions
1981
The Great Santini
1979
Apocalypse Now
1979
Ike
1979
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
The Betsy
1978
The Greatest
1977
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
Network
1976
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
The Killer Elite
1975
Breakout
1975
The Godfather Part II
1974
The Conversation
1974
The Outfit
1973
Badge 373
1973
Lady Ice
1973
Joe Kidd
1972
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972
Tomorrow
1972
The Godfather
1972
THX 1138
1971
Lawman
1971
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971
The Revolutionary
1970
M*A*S*H
1970
The Rain People
1969
True Grit
1969
Filmmaker
1968
Bullitt
1968
The Detective
1968
Countdown
1967
Fame Is the Name of the Game
1966
The Chase
1966
Nightmare in the Sun
1965
Captain Newman, M.D.
1963
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
John Brown's Raid
1960