Robert Duvall profile
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Robert Duvall

5th January 1931 San Diego, California, USA Acting

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).

130 Movies 44 TV Shows 174 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

June poster
June 12th November 2023 as Self
Hustle poster
Hustle 3rd June 2022 as Rex Merrick
Widows poster
Widows 6th November 2018 as Tom Mulligan
The Road poster
The Road 25th November 2009 as Old Man - Eli
John Q poster
John Q 15th February 2002 as Lt. Frank Grimes
Stalin poster
Stalin 21st November 1992 as Josef Stalin
Newsies poster
Newsies 10th April 1992 as Joseph Pulitzer
Colors poster
Colors 15th April 1988 as Bob Hodges
Ike poster
Ike 3rd May 1979 as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Betsy poster
The Betsy 2nd February 1978 as Loren Hardeman III
Network poster
Network 27th November 1976 as Frank Hackett
Lawman poster
Lawman 11th March 1971 as Vernon Adams
M*A*S*H poster
M*A*S*H 18th February 1970 as Maj. Frank Burns
Bullitt poster
Bullitt 17th October 1968 as Cabbie Weissberg
Ike poster
Ike 3rd May 1979 as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Shane poster
Shane 10th September 1966 as Tom Gary
Hawk poster
Hawk 8th September 1966 as Dick