Robert Duvall
Born: 1931-01-05 in San Diego, California, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is 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), The Outer Limits (1964), The F.B.I. (1966), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), Joe Kidd (1972), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Great Santini (1979), Tender Mercies (1983) (which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor), The Natural (1984), Colors (1988), Lonesome Dove (1989), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Days of Thunder (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), Falling Down (1993), Secondhand Lions (2003), The Judge (2014), and Widows (2018).
Filmography
2023
- June as Himself
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)
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
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Wild Horses as Scott Briggs
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- The Judge as Joseph Palmer
- Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire as Self - Actor
2013
- Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around as Self
- Jayne Mansfield's Car as Jim Caldwell
- A Night in Old Mexico as Red
2012
- Jack Reacher as Martin Cash
- Casting By as Self
- Hemingway & Gellhorn as Russian General (uncredited)
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
- Crazy Heart as Wayne
- The Road as Old Man - Eli
2008
- Four Christmases as Howard McVie
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Lucky You as L.C. Cheever
- We Own the Night as Burt Grusinsky
- Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience as Taking Chance (voice)
- Brando as Self
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
- Kicking & Screaming as Buck Weston
- Thank You for Smoking as The Captain
- Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood as Self
- The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken as Self
2004
2003
- Secondhand Lions as Hub
- Assassination Tango as John J. Anderson
- Open Range as Boss Spearman
- Gods and Generals as Gen. Robert E. Lee
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
- Sling Blade as Karl's Father
- The Man Who Captured Eichmann as Adolf Eichmann
- Phenomenon as Doc
- A Family Thing as Earl Pilcher Jr.
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 Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Geronimo: An American Legend as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
- Falling Down as Prendergast
- Wrestling Ernest Hemingway as Walter
1992
- Newsies as Joseph Pulitzer
- The Plague as Joseph Grand
- Stalin as Josef Stalin
- The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 as Tom Hagen
1991
- Convicts as Soll Gautier
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse as Self
- Rambling Rose as Mr. Hillyer
1990
- Days of Thunder as Harry Hogge
- The Handmaid's Tale as Commander
- A Show of Force as Howard
- Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret as Self
- The Godfather Family: A Look Inside as Self / Tom Hagen
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
- Belizaire the Cajun as The Preacher
- Let's Get Harry as Shrike
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 Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959 as Tom Hagen
- The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper as Gruen
1979
- CBS News Sunday Morning as Self
- Apocalypse Now as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
- Ike as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The Great Santini as Bull Meechum
- Ike as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
1978
- The Betsy as Loren Hardeman III
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Priest on Swing (uncredited)
1977
- The Greatest as Bill McDonald
- Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television as Tom Hagen
- We're Not the Jet Set ... (Director)
1976
- The Eagle Has Landed as Col. Max Radl
- Network as Frank Hackett
- The Seven-Per-Cent Solution as Dr. John H. Watson
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 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
- Badge 373 as Eddie Ryan
- The Outfit as Earl Macklin
- Lady Ice as Ford Pierce
1972
- The Godfather as Tom Hagen
- Joe Kidd as Frank Harlan
- Tomorrow as Jackson Fentry
- The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid as Jesse James
1971
- Lawman as Vernon Adams
- THX 1138 as THX
- Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' as Self
- The Godfather: Behind the Scenes 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
- Bullitt as Cabbie Weissberg
- The Detective as Nestor
- The Mod Squad
- Filmmaker as Self
1967
- Countdown as Chiz
- Cimarron Strip as Joe Wyman
- Judd for the Defense
1966
- Felony Squad
- The Time Tunnel as Raul Nimon
- The Chase as Edwin Stewart
- Shane as Tom Gary
- CBS Playhouse
- Fame Is the Name of the Game as Eddie Franchot
- Hawk as Dick
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