Robert Duvall
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).
Born: 05 January 1931 • Died: 15 February 2026
Played In
June
Self
The Pale Blue Eye
Jean-Pepe
Hustle
Rex Merrick
12 Mighty Orphans
Mason Hawk
The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
Angelo Corleone
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
Self (archive footage)
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Self
Widows
Tom Mulligan
The Words That Built America
Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
In Dubious Battle
Chris Bolton
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Tom Hagen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Wild Horses
Scott Briggs
The Judge
Joseph Palmer
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Self - Actor
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
A Night in Old Mexico
Red
Jayne Mansfield's Car
Jim Caldwell
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Self
Jack Reacher
Martin Cash
Casting By
Self
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Russian General (uncredited)
Seven Days in Utopia
Johnny Crawford
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
Self
Get Low
Felix Bush
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
Self
Crazy Heart
Wayne
The Road
Old Man - Eli
Four Christmases
Howard McVie
We Own the Night
Burt Grusinsky
Lucky You
L.C. Cheever
Brando
Self
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Taking Chance (voice)
Broken Trail
Prentice Ritter
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
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The Making of 'Network'
Self (archive footage)
Thank You for Smoking
The Captain
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
Self
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Self
Kicking & Screaming
Buck Weston
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Self
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Self
Beyond the 'Open Range'
Self
Secondhand Lions
Hub
Open Range
Boss Spearman
Assassination Tango
John J. Anderson
Gods and Generals
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'
Self
John Q
Lt. Frank Grimes
The 6th Day
Dr. Griffin Weir
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Otto Halliwell
A Shot at Glory
Gordon McCloud
A Civil Action
Jerome Facher
Deep Impact
Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
The Gingerbread Man
Dixon Doss
Fearful Symmetry
Self
The Apostle
Euliss Dewey
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
Sling Blade
Karl's Father
The Daily Show
Self
Phenomenon
Doc
A Family Thing
Earl Pilcher Jr.
The Scarlet Letter
Roger Chillingworth
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Mr. Cox
Something to Talk About
Wyly King
The Paper
Bernie White
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Walter
Geronimo: An American Legend
Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
Falling Down
Prendergast
Stalin
Josef Stalin
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
Tom Hagen
The Plague
Joseph Grand
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
Self (uncredited)
Newsies
Joseph Pulitzer
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Self
Rambling Rose
Mr. Hillyer
Convicts
Soll Gautier
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Self
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Self / Tom Hagen
Days of Thunder
Harry Hogge
A Show of Force
Howard
The Handmaid's Tale
Commander
Lonesome Dove
Augustus "Gus" McCrae
American Experience
Narrator (voice)
Tango: Our Dance
Entrevistado
Colors
Bob Hodges
Hotel Colonial
Carrasco
Let's Get Harry
Shrike
Belizaire the Cajun
The Preacher
The Lightship
Calvin Caspary
The Natural
Max Mercy
The Stone Boy
Joe Hillerman
The Terry Fox Story
Bill Vigars
Tender Mercies
Mac Sledge
Aliens From Another Planet
Nimon
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
Gruen
True Confessions
Det. Tom Spellacy
The Great Santini
Bull Meechum
Apocalypse Now
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Ike
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
CBS News Sunday Morning
Self
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Priest on Swing (uncredited)
The Betsy
Loren Hardeman III
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
Tom Hagen
The Greatest
Bill McDonald
The Eagle Has Landed
Col. Max Radl
Network
Frank Hackett
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Dr. John H. Watson
The Killer Elite
George Hansen
Saturday Night Live
Self - Various Characters
Breakout
Jay Wagner
The Godfather Part II
Tom Hagen
The Conversation
The Director (uncredited)
The Outfit
Earl Macklin
Badge 373
Eddie Ryan
Lady Ice
Ford Pierce
Joe Kidd
Frank Harlan
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Jesse James
Tomorrow
Jackson Fentry
The Godfather
Tom Hagen
THX 1138
THX
Lawman
Vernon Adams
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
Self
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
Self
The Revolutionary
Despard
M*A*S*H
Maj. Frank Burns
The Rain People
Gordon
True Grit
Ned Pepper
Filmmaker
Self
Bullitt
Cabbie Weissberg
The Mod Squad
The Detective
Nestor
Judd, for the Defense
Cimarron Strip
Joe Wyman
Countdown
Chiz
CBS Playhouse
Dr. Margolin
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Eddie Franchot
Felony Squad
Shane
Tom Gary
The Time Tunnel
Raul Nimon
Hawk
Dick
The Chase
Edwin Stewart
The F.B.I.
Joseph Maurice Walker
The F.B.I.
Johnny Albin
The F.B.I.
Ernie Milden
The F.B.I.
Joseph Troy
The F.B.I.
Gerald Wilson
The Wild Wild West
Dr. Horace Humphries
Run for Your Life
Richard Fletcher
Nightmare in the Sun
Motorcyclist
Captain Newman, M.D.
Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Harvey Farnsworth
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Fugitive
Leslie Sessions
The Fugitive
Eric Christian
The Outer Limits
Louis Mace
The Outer Limits
Adam Ballard
Arrest and Trial
Morton Ware
The Lieutenant
To Kill a Mockingbird
Boo Radley
Combat!
Karl
Combat!
Michel
Combat!
Peter Halsman
Stoney Burke
Joby Pierce
The Virginian
Johnny Keel
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
Cain's Hundred
Tom Nugent
The Defenders
Al Rogart
The Defenders
Luke Jackson
The Defenders
Bill Andrews
John Brown's Raid
Route 66
Route 66
Lee Winters
Route 66
Roman
The Untouchables
Eddie Moon
The Twilight Zone
Charley Parkes
Naked City
Lewis Nunda
Naked City
L. Francis Childe
Naked City
Barney Sonners
Naked City
Johnny Meigs
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bart Collins
The Oscars
Self
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
The Ploughmen
Gload
The Making of We Own the Night
Self