Robert Duvall

Born 1931 • San Diego, California, USA

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).

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2022

The Pale Blue Eye

as Jean-Pepe

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2022

Hustle

as Rex Merrick

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2021

12 Mighty Orphans

as Mason Hawk

The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder

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2020

The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder

as Self (archive footage)

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2019

The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash

as Self

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2018

Widows

as Tom Mulligan

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2017

The Words That Built America

as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence

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2016

In Dubious Battle

as Chris Bolton

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2015

Wild Horses

as Scott Briggs

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2014

The Judge

as Joseph Palmer

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2014

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

as Self - Actor

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2013

A Night in Old Mexico

as Red

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2013

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

as Self

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2013

Jayne Mansfield's Car

as Jim Caldwell

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2012

Casting By

as Self

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2012

Jack Reacher

as Martin Cash

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2011

Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides

as Self

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2011

Seven Days in Utopia

as Johnny Crawford

Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself

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2010

Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself

as Self

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2010

Get Low

as Felix Bush

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2009

The Road

as Old Man - Eli

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2009

Crazy Heart

as Wayne

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2008

Four Christmases

as Howard McVie

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2007

Brando

as Self

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

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2007

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

as Taking Chance (voice)

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2007

We Own the Night

as Burt Grusinsky

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2007

Lucky You

as L.C. Cheever

Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western

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2006

Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western

as self

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2006

The Making of 'Network'

as Self (archive footage)

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2005

Thank You for Smoking

as The Captain

The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

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2005

The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken

as Self

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2005

Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood

as Self

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2005

Kicking & Screaming

as Buck Weston

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

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2004

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

as Self

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2004

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

as Self

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2004

Beyond the 'Open Range'

as Self

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2003

Secondhand Lions

as Hub

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2003

Assassination Tango

as John J. Anderson

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2003

Gods and Generals

as Gen. Robert E. Lee

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2003

Open Range

as Boss Spearman

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2002

John Q

as Lt. Frank Grimes

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2000

The 6th Day

as Dr. Griffin Weir

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2000

Gone in Sixty Seconds

as Otto Halliwell

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2000

A Shot at Glory

as Gordon McCloud

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1998

Deep Impact

as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner

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1998

A Civil Action

as Jerome Facher

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1998

Fearful Symmetry

as Self

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1998

The Gingerbread Man

as Dixon Doss

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1997

The Apostle

as Euliss Dewey

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1996

Sling Blade

as Karl's Father

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1996

Phenomenon

as Doc

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1996

The Man Who Captured Eichmann

as Adolf Eichmann

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1996

A Family Thing

as Earl Pilcher Jr.

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1995

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

as Mr. Cox

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1995

The Scarlet Letter

as Roger Chillingworth

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1995

Something to Talk About

as Wyly King

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1994

The Paper

as Bernie White

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1993

Geronimo: An American Legend

as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber

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1993

Falling Down

as Prendergast

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1993

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

as Walter

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1992

The Plague

as Joseph Grand

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1992

Stalin

as Josef Stalin

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1992

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

as Tom Hagen

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1992

Newsies

as Joseph Pulitzer

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1991

Rambling Rose

as Mr. Hillyer

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1991

Convicts

as Soll Gautier

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

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1991

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

as Self

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1990

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

as Self

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1990

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

as Self / Tom Hagen

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1990

Days of Thunder

as Harry Hogge

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1990

The Handmaid's Tale

as Commander

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1990

A Show of Force

as Howard

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1988

Tango: Our Dance

as Entrevistado

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1988

Colors

as Bob Hodges

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1987

Hotel Colonial

as Carrasco

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1986

Belizaire the Cajun

as The Preacher

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1986

Let's Get Harry

as Shrike

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1985

The Lightship

as Calvin Caspary

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1984

The Stone Boy

as Joe Hillerman

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1984

The Natural

as Max Mercy

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1983

The Terry Fox Story

as Bill Vigars

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1983

Tender Mercies

as Mac Sledge

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1982

Aliens From Another Planet

as Nimon

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1981

True Confessions

as Det. Tom Spellacy

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

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1981

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

as Tom Hagen

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1981

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

as Gruen

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1979

Apocalypse Now

as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

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1979

The Great Santini

as Bull Meechum

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1979

Ike

as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

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1978

The Betsy

as Loren Hardeman III

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1977

The Greatest

as Bill McDonald

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1976

Network

as Frank Hackett

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1976

The Eagle Has Landed

as Col. Max Radl

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1976

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

as Dr. John H. Watson

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1975

The Killer Elite

as George Hansen

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1975

Breakout

as Jay Wagner

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1974

The Godfather Part II

as Tom Hagen

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1973

The Outfit

as Earl Macklin

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1973

Badge 373

as Eddie Ryan

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1973

Lady Ice

as Ford Pierce

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1972

The Godfather

as Tom Hagen

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1972

Joe Kidd

as Frank Harlan

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1972

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

as Jesse James

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1972

Tomorrow

as Jackson Fentry

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1971

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes

as Self

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1971

Lawman

as Vernon Adams

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1971

THX 1138

as THX

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1971

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

as Self

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1970

The Revolutionary

as Despard

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1970

M*A*S*H

as Maj. Frank Burns

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1969

True Grit

as Ned Pepper

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1969

The Rain People

as Gordon

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1968

The Detective

as Nestor

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1968

Filmmaker

as Self

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1968

Bullitt

as Cabbie Weissberg

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1967

Countdown

as Chiz

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1966

The Chase

as Edwin Stewart

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1966

Fame Is the Name of the Game

as Eddie Franchot

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1965

Nightmare in the Sun

as Motorcyclist

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1963

Captain Newman, M.D.

as Capt. Paul Cabot Winston

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1962

To Kill a Mockingbird

as Boo Radley

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1960

John Brown's Raid

as —