Robert Duvall
Born: 1931-01-05 in San Diego, California, USA
Died: 2026-02-15
Known For: Acting
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. 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
2023
- June as Self
2022
- Hustle as Rex Merrick
- The Pale Blue Eye as Jean-Pepe
2021
- 12 Mighty Orphans as Mason Hawk
2020
- The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder as Self (archive footage)
- The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone as Angelo Corleone
2019
2018
- Widows as Tom Mulligan
2017
- The Words That Built America as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2016
- In Dubious Battle as Chris Bolton
- The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 as Tom Hagen
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- Wild Horses as Scott Briggs
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
- The Judge as Joseph Palmer
- Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Actor
2013
- Jayne Mansfield's Car as Jim Caldwell
- A Night in Old Mexico as Red
- Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around as Self
2012
- Jack Reacher as Martin Cash
- Hemingway & Gellhorn as Russian General (uncredited)
- Casting By as Self
2011
- Seven Days in Utopia as Johnny Crawford
- Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides as Self
2010
- Get Low as Felix Bush
- Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself as Self
2009
- The Road as Old Man - Eli
- Crazy Heart as Wayne
2008
- Four Christmases as Howard McVie
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- We Own the Night as Burt Grusinsky
- Lucky You as L.C. Cheever
- Brando as Self
- Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience as Taking Chance (voice)
2006
- Broken Trail as Prentice Ritter
- Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western as self
- The Making of 'Network' as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Thank You for Smoking as The Captain
- Kicking & Screaming as Buck Weston
- Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood as Self
- The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken as Self
2004
2003
- Open Range as Boss Spearman
- Secondhand Lions as Hub
- Gods and Generals as Gen. Robert E. Lee
- Assassination Tango as John J. Anderson
2002
- John Q as Lt. Frank Grimes
2000
- Gone in Sixty Seconds as Otto Halliwell
- The 6th Day as Dr. Griffin Weir
- A Shot at Glory as Gordon McCloud
1998
- Deep Impact as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
- A Civil Action as Jerome Facher
- The Gingerbread Man as Dixon Doss
- Fearful Symmetry as Self
1997
- The Apostle as Euliss Dewey
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Phenomenon as Doc
- Sling Blade as Karl's Father
- A Family Thing as Earl Pilcher Jr.
- The Man Who Captured Eichmann as Adolf Eichmann
1995
- The Scarlet Letter as Roger Chillingworth
- Something to Talk About as Wyly King
- The Stars Fell on Henrietta as Mr. Cox
1994
- The Paper as Bernie White
1993
- Late Show with David Letterman as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Falling Down as Prendergast
- Geronimo: An American Legend as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
- Wrestling Ernest Hemingway as Walter
1992
- Newsies as Joseph Pulitzer
- The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 as Tom Hagen
- Stalin as Josef Stalin
- The Plague as Joseph Grand
- The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live! as Self (uncredited)
1991
- Rambling Rose as Mr. Hillyer
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self
- Convicts as Soll Gautier
1990
- Days of Thunder as Harry Hogge
- The Handmaid's Tale as Commander
- The Godfather Family: A Look Inside as Self / Tom Hagen
- A Show of Force as Howard
- Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret as Self
1989
- Lonesome Dove as Augustus "Gus" McCrae
1988
- American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- Colors as Bob Hodges
- Tango: Our Dance as Entrevistado
1987
- Hotel Colonial as Carrasco
1986
- Let's Get Harry as Shrike
- Belizaire the Cajun as The Preacher
1985
- The Lightship as Calvin Caspary
1984
- The Natural as Max Mercy
- The Stone Boy as Joe Hillerman
1983
- Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge
- The Terry Fox Story as Bill Vigars
- Angelo My Love ... (Director)
1982
- Aliens From Another Planet as Nimon
1981
- True Confessions as Det. Tom Spellacy
- The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper as Gruen
1979
- Apocalypse Now as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
- CBS News Sunday Morning as Self
- Ike as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The Great Santini as Bull Meechum
- Ike as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
1978
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Priest on Swing (uncredited)
- The Betsy as Loren Hardeman III
1977
- Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television as Tom Hagen
- The Greatest as Bill McDonald
- We're Not the Jet Set ... (Director)
1976
- Network as Frank Hackett
- The Eagle Has Landed as Col. Max Radl
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Dr. John H. Watson
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Various Characters
- Breakout as Jay Wagner
- The Killer Elite as George Hansen
1974
- The Godfather Part II as Tom Hagen
- The Conversation as The Director (uncredited)
1973
- The Outfit as Earl Macklin
- Lady Ice as Ford Pierce
- Badge 373 as Eddie Ryan
1972
- The Godfather as Tom Hagen
- Joe Kidd as Frank Harlan
- The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid as Jesse James
- Tomorrow as Jackson Fentry
1971
- THX 1138 as THX
- Lawman as Vernon Adams
- The Godfather: Behind the Scenes as Self
- Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' as Self
1970
- M*A*S*H as Maj. Frank Burns
- The Revolutionary as Despard
1969
- True Grit as Ned Pepper
- The Rain People as Gordon
1968
- The Mod Squad
- Bullitt as Cabbie Weissberg
- The Detective as Nestor
- Filmmaker as Self
1967
- Judd, for the Defense
- Cimarron Strip as Joe Wyman
- Countdown as Chiz
1966
- The Time Tunnel as Raul Nimon
- Felony Squad
- CBS Playhouse as Dr. Margolin
- Shane as Tom Gary
- The Chase as Edwin Stewart
- Hawk as Dick
- Fame Is the Name of the Game as Eddie Franchot
1965
- The Wild Wild West as Dr. Horace Humphries
- The F.B.I. as Joseph Maurice Walker
- Run for Your Life as Richard Fletcher
- Nightmare in the Sun as Motorcyclist
1963
- The Fugitive as Leslie Sessions
- The Outer Limits as Louis Mace
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Harvey Farnsworth
- Arrest and Trial as Morton Ware
- The Lieutenant
- Captain Newman, M.D. as Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
1962
- The Virginian as Johnny Keel
- Combat! as Karl
- To Kill a Mockingbird as Boo Radley
- Stoney Burke as Joby Pierce
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Defenders as Al Rogart
- Cain's Hundred as Tom Nugent
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Charley Parkes
- The Untouchables as Eddie Moon
1958
- Naked City as Lewis Nunda
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Bart Collins
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee