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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. Thi…
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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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June
as Self
The Pale Blue Eye
as Jean-Pepe
Hustle
as Rex Merrick
12 Mighty Orphans
as Mason Hawk
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
as Self (archive footage)
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
as Self
Widows
as Tom Mulligan
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
In Dubious Battle
as Chris Bolton
Wild Horses
as Scott Briggs
The Judge
as Joseph Palmer
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor
A Night in Old Mexico
as Red
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Jim Caldwell
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
as Self
Jack Reacher
as Martin Cash
Casting By
as Self
Hemingway & Gellhorn
as Russian General (uncredited)
Seven Days in Utopia
as Johnny Crawford
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
as Self
Get Low
as Felix Bush
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
as Self
Crazy Heart
as Wayne
The Road
as Old Man - Eli
Four Christmases
as Howard McVie
We Own the Night
as Burt Grusinsky
Lucky You
as L.C. Cheever
Brando
as Self
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
as Taking Chance (voice)
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
as self
The Making of 'Network'
as Self (archive footage)
Thank You for Smoking
as The Captain
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
as Self
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
as Self
Kicking & Screaming
as Buck Weston
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
as Self
No Poster
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
as Self
Beyond the 'Open Range'
as Self
Secondhand Lions
as Hub
Open Range
as Boss Spearman
Assassination Tango
as John J. Anderson
Gods and Generals
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'
as Self
John Q
as Lt. Frank Grimes
The 6th Day
as Dr. Griffin Weir
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Otto Halliwell
A Shot at Glory
as Gordon McCloud
A Civil Action
as Jerome Facher
Deep Impact
as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
The Gingerbread Man
as Dixon Doss
Fearful Symmetry
as Self
The Apostle
as Euliss Dewey
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
as Adolf Eichmann
Sling Blade
as Karl's Father
Phenomenon
as Doc
A Family Thing
as Earl Pilcher Jr.
The Scarlet Letter
as Roger Chillingworth
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
as Mr. Cox
Something to Talk About
as Wyly King
The Paper
as Bernie White
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Walter
Geronimo: An American Legend
as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
Falling Down
as Prendergast
Stalin
as Josef Stalin
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Tom Hagen
The Plague
as Joseph Grand
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
as Self (uncredited)
Newsies
as Joseph Pulitzer
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
as Self
Rambling Rose
as Mr. Hillyer
Convicts
as Soll Gautier
No Poster
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
as Self / Tom Hagen
Days of Thunder
as Harry Hogge
A Show of Force
as Howard
The Handmaid's Tale
as Commander
Tango: Our Dance
as Entrevistado
Colors
as Bob Hodges
Hotel Colonial
as Carrasco
Let's Get Harry
as Shrike
Belizaire the Cajun
as The Preacher
The Lightship
as Calvin Caspary
The Natural
as Max Mercy
The Stone Boy
as Joe Hillerman
The Terry Fox Story
as Bill Vigars
Tender Mercies
as Mac Sledge
Aliens From Another Planet
as Nimon
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
as Gruen
True Confessions
as Det. Tom Spellacy
The Great Santini
as Bull Meechum
Apocalypse Now
as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Ike
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Priest on Swing (uncredited)
The Betsy
as Loren Hardeman III
The Greatest
as Bill McDonald
The Eagle Has Landed
as Col. Max Radl
Network
as Frank Hackett
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Dr. John H. Watson
The Killer Elite
as George Hansen
Breakout
as Jay Wagner
The Godfather Part II
as Tom Hagen
The Conversation
as The Director (uncredited)
The Outfit
as Earl Macklin
Badge 373
as Eddie Ryan
Lady Ice
as Ford Pierce
Joe Kidd
as Frank Harlan
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
as Jesse James
Tomorrow
as Jackson Fentry
The Godfather
as Tom Hagen
THX 1138
as THX
Lawman
as Vernon Adams
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
as Self
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
as Self
The Revolutionary
as Despard
M*A*S*H
as Maj. Frank Burns
The Rain People
as Gordon
True Grit
as Ned Pepper
Filmmaker
as Self
Bullitt
as Cabbie Weissberg
The Detective
as Nestor
Countdown
as Chiz
Fame Is the Name of the Game
as Eddie Franchot
The Chase
as Edwin Stewart
Nightmare in the Sun
as Motorcyclist
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
To Kill a Mockingbird
as Boo Radley
John Brown's Raid
as Oliver Brown
No Poster
The Making of We Own the Night
as Self