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Robert Duvall
Known for: ActingRobert 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 93
The Godfather
as Tom Hagen 
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Otto Halliwell 
The Godfather Part II
as Tom Hagen 
Apocalypse Now
as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore 
Network
as Frank Hackett 
Deep Impact
as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner 
Jack Reacher
as Martin Cash 
Open Range
as Boss Spearman 
Phenomenon
as Doc 
The Judge
as Joseph Palmer 
Days of Thunder
as Harry Hogge 
Falling Down
as Prendergast 
The Pale Blue Eye
as Jean-Pepe 
Bullitt
as Cabbie Weissberg 
The Road
as Old Man - Eli 
Lonesome Dove
as Augustus "Gus" McCrae 
The 6th Day
as Dr. Griffin Weir 
To Kill a Mockingbird
as Boo Radley 
Secondhand Lions
as Hub 
In Dubious Battle
as Chris Bolton 
We Own the Night
as Burt Grusinsky 
Four Christmases
as Howard McVie 
The Conversation
as The Director (uncredited) 
John Q
as Lt. Frank Grimes 
Widows
as Tom Mulligan 
Gods and Generals
as Gen. Robert E. Lee 
M*A*S*H
as Maj. Frank Burns 
The Eagle Has Landed
as Col. Max Radl 
True Grit
as Ned Pepper 
Joe Kidd
as Frank Harlan 
Colors
as Bob Hodges 
Geronimo: An American Legend
as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber 
Thank You for Smoking
as The Captain 
The Chase
as Edwin Stewart 
Crazy Heart
as Wayne 
Hustle
as Rex Merrick 
Sling Blade
as Karl's Father 
The Handmaid's Tale
as Commander 
The Natural
as Max Mercy 
Get Low
as Felix Bush 
The Scarlet Letter
as Roger Chillingworth 
A Civil Action
as Jerome Facher 
The Paper
as Bernie White 
Kicking & Screaming
as Buck Weston 
The Detective
as Nestor 
True Confessions
as Det. Tom Spellacy 
Lucky You
as L.C. Cheever 
Breakout
as Jay Wagner 
Newsies
as Joseph Pulitzer 
Wild Horses
as Scott Briggs 
Something to Talk About
as Wyly King 
Tender Mercies
as Mac Sledge 
THX 1138
as THX 
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence 
Assassination Tango
as John J. Anderson 
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Jim Caldwell 
Lawman
as Vernon Adams 
The Killer Elite
as George Hansen 
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Capt. Paul Cabot Winston 
The Apostle
as Euliss Dewey 
The Outfit
as Earl Macklin 
Rambling Rose
as Mr. Hillyer 
The Gingerbread Man
as Dixon Doss 
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
as Jesse James 
The Betsy
as Loren Hardeman III 
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Dr. John H. Watson 
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Walter 
A Family Thing
as Earl Pilcher Jr. 
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
as Gruen 
The Great Santini
as Bull Meechum 
The Greatest
as Bill McDonald 
A Show of Force
as Howard 
A Night in Old Mexico
as Red 
Stalin
as Josef Stalin 
Let's Get Harry
as Shrike 
The Rain People
as Gordon 
The Terry Fox Story
as Bill Vigars 
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
as Mr. Cox 
Badge 373
as Eddie Ryan 
A Shot at Glory
as Gordon McCloud 
Tomorrow
as Jackson Fentry 
Countdown
as Chiz 
Convicts
as Soll Gautier 
The Lightship
as Calvin Caspary 
Seven Days in Utopia
as Johnny Crawford 
The Revolutionary
as Despard 
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
as Adolf Eichmann 
Lady Ice
as Ford Pierce 
June
as Self 
The Stone Boy
as Joe Hillerman 
Hotel Colonial
as Carrasco