Robert Duvall
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 5, 1931
- Died
- February 15, 2026 (aged 95)
- Birthplace
- San Diego, California, USA
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).
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Filmography
The Making of We Own the Night
Movie · as Self
June
Movie · as Self
The Pale Blue Eye
Movie · as Jean-Pepe
Hustle
Movie · as Rex Merrick
12 Mighty Orphans
Movie · as Mason Hawk
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Movie · as Self
Widows
Movie · as Tom Mulligan
The Words That Built America
Movie · as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
In Dubious Battle
Movie · as Chris Bolton
Wild Horses
Movie · as Scott Briggs
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Judge
Movie · as Joseph Palmer
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Movie · as Self - Actor
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Jayne Mansfield's Car
Movie · as Jim Caldwell
A Night in Old Mexico
Movie · as Red
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Movie · as Self
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Movie · as Russian General (uncredited)
Casting By
Movie · as Self
Jack Reacher
Movie · as Martin Cash
Seven Days in Utopia
Movie · as Johnny Crawford
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
Movie · as Self
Get Low
Movie · as Felix Bush
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
Movie · as Self
The Road
Movie · as Old Man - Eli
Crazy Heart
Movie · as Wayne
Four Christmases
Movie · as Howard McVie
Lucky You
Movie · as L.C. Cheever
We Own the Night
Movie · as Burt Grusinsky
Brando
Movie · as Self
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Movie · as Taking Chance (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Making of 'Network'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
Movie · as self
Broken Trail
TV · as Prentice Ritter · 2 eps
Thank You for Smoking
Movie · as The Captain
Kicking & Screaming
Movie · as Buck Weston
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Movie · as Self
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
Movie · as Self
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Movie · as Self
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Movie · as Self
Beyond the 'Open Range'
Movie · as Self
Open Range
Movie · as Boss Spearman
Secondhand Lions
Movie · as Hub
Gods and Generals
Movie · as Gen. Robert E. Lee
Assassination Tango
Movie · as John J. Anderson
John Q
Movie · as Lt. Frank Grimes
Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'
Movie · as Self
The 6th Day
Movie · as Dr. Griffin Weir
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Movie · as Otto Halliwell
A Shot at Glory
Movie · as Gordon McCloud
Deep Impact
Movie · as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
A Civil Action
Movie · as Jerome Facher
The Gingerbread Man
Movie · as Dixon Doss
Fearful Symmetry
Movie · as Self
The Apostle
Movie · as Euliss Dewey
Phenomenon
Movie · as Doc
Sling Blade
Movie · as Karl's Father
A Family Thing
Movie · as Earl Pilcher Jr.
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Movie · as Adolf Eichmann
The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
The Scarlet Letter
Movie · as Roger Chillingworth
Something to Talk About
Movie · as Wyly King
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Movie · as Mr. Cox
The Paper
Movie · as Bernie White
Geronimo: An American Legend
Movie · as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Movie · as Walter
Falling Down
Movie · as Prendergast
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Late Show with David Letterman
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Plague
Movie · as Joseph Grand
Newsies
Movie · as Joseph Pulitzer
Stalin
Movie · as Josef Stalin
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Movie · as Tom Hagen
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Movie · as Self
Rambling Rose
Movie · as Mr. Hillyer
Convicts
Movie · as Soll Gautier
Days of Thunder
Movie · as Harry Hogge
The Handmaid's Tale
Movie · as Commander
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Movie · as Self
A Show of Force
Movie · as Howard
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Movie · as Self / Tom Hagen
Lonesome Dove
TV · as Augustus "Gus" McCrae · 4 eps
Colors
Movie · as Bob Hodges
Tango: Our Dance
Movie · as Entrevistado
American Experience
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
Hotel Colonial
Movie · as Carrasco
Belizaire the Cajun
Movie · as The Preacher
Let's Get Harry
Movie · as Shrike
The Lightship
Movie · as Calvin Caspary
The Natural
Movie · as Max Mercy
The Stone Boy
Movie · as Joe Hillerman
Tender Mercies
Movie · as Mac Sledge
The Terry Fox Story
Movie · as Bill Vigars
Aliens From Another Planet
Movie · as Nimon
American Playhouse
TV · as Jackson Fentry, The Preacher · 1 ep
True Confessions
Movie · as Det. Tom Spellacy
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
Movie · as Gruen
Apocalypse Now
Movie · as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
The Great Santini
Movie · as Bull Meechum
Ike
Movie · as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
CBS News Sunday Morning
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Ike
TV · as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower · 3 eps
The Betsy
Movie · as Loren Hardeman III
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Movie · as Priest on Swing (uncredited)
The Greatest
Movie · as Bill McDonald
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
TV · as Tom Hagen · 4 eps
Network
Movie · as Frank Hackett
The Eagle Has Landed
Movie · as Col. Max Radl
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Movie · as Dr. John H. Watson
The Killer Elite
Movie · as George Hansen
Breakout
Movie · as Jay Wagner
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Self - Various Characters · 1 ep
The Godfather Part II
Movie · as Tom Hagen
The Conversation
Movie · as The Director (uncredited)
The Outfit
Movie · as Earl Macklin
Badge 373
Movie · as Eddie Ryan
Lady Ice
Movie · as Ford Pierce
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Movie · as Jesse James
Joe Kidd
Movie · as Frank Harlan
Tomorrow
Movie · as Jackson Fentry
The Godfather
Movie · as Tom Hagen
THX 1138
Movie · as THX
Lawman
Movie · as Vernon Adams
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Movie · as Self
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
Movie · as Self
M*A*S*H
Movie · as Maj. Frank Burns
The Revolutionary
Movie · as Despard
True Grit
Movie · as Ned Pepper
The Rain People
Movie · as Gordon
Bullitt
Movie · as Cabbie Weissberg
The Detective
Movie · as Nestor
Filmmaker
Movie · as Self
The Mod Squad
TV · 1 ep
Countdown
Movie · as Chiz
Judd, for the Defense
TV · 1 ep
Cimarron Strip
TV · as Joe Wyman · 1 ep
The Chase
Movie · as Edwin Stewart
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Movie · as Eddie Franchot
The Time Tunnel
TV · as Raul Nimon · 1 ep
Felony Squad
TV · 1 ep
Shane
TV · as Tom Gary · 1 ep
CBS Playhouse
TV · as Dr. Margolin · 1 ep
Nightmare in the Sun
Movie · as Motorcyclist
The F.B.I.
TV · as Joseph Maurice Walker, Johnny Albin, Ernie Milden, Gerald Wilson, Joseph Troy · 1 ep
The Wild Wild West
TV · as Dr. Horace Humphries · 1 ep
Run for Your Life
TV · as Richard Fletcher · 1 ep
Captain Newman, M.D.
Movie · as Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Harvey Farnsworth · 1 ep
The Fugitive
TV · as Leslie Sessions, Eric Christian · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · 1 ep
The Outer Limits
TV · as Louis Mace, Adam Ballard · 1 ep
Arrest and Trial
TV · as Morton Ware · 1 ep
To Kill a Mockingbird
Movie · as Boo Radley
Combat!
TV · as Karl, Michel, Peter Halsman · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Johnny Keel · 1 ep
Stoney Burke
TV · as Joby Pierce · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Cain's Hundred
TV · as Tom Nugent · 1 ep
The Defenders
TV · as Al Rogart, Luke Jackson, Bill Andrews · 1 ep
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
John Brown's Raid
Movie · as Oliver Brown
Route 66
TV · as Lee Winters, Roman · 1 ep
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Charley Parkes · 1 ep
The Untouchables
TV · as Eddie Moon · 1 ep
Naked City
TV · as Lewis Nunda, L. Francis Childe, Barney Sonners, Johnny Meigs · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Bart Collins · 1 ep
The Oscars
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Golden Globe Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee, Self - Winner · 1 ep