Acting
Robert Duvall
EN, FR, ES cinema · 130 credits
Born
5 January 1931
Died
15 February 2026 (aged 95)
Birthplace
San Diego, California, USA
Also known as Robert Selden Duvall · Robert Duval
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).
Known for
Filmography
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)
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, Director, Writer
The Judge
as Joseph Palmer
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Jim Caldwell
A Night in Old Mexico
as Red, Producer
Hemingway & Gellhorn
as Russian General (uncredited)
Casting By
as Self
Jack Reacher
as Martin Cash
Seven Days in Utopia
as Johnny Crawford
Get Low
as Felix Bush
The Road
as Old Man - Eli
Crazy Heart
as Wayne, Producer
Four Christmases
as Howard McVie
Lucky You
as L.C. Cheever
We Own the Night
as Burt Grusinsky
Brando
as Self
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
as Taking Chance (voice)
The Making of 'Network'
as Self (archive footage)
Thank You for Smoking
as The Captain
Kicking & Screaming
as Buck Weston
Open Range
as Boss Spearman
Gods and Generals
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
Assassination Tango
as John J. Anderson, Writer, Director, Producer
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
Deep Impact
as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
A Civil Action
as Jerome Facher
The Gingerbread Man
as Dixon Doss
Fearful Symmetry
as Self
The Apostle
as Euliss Dewey, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Phenomenon
as Doc
Sling Blade
as Karl's Father
A Family Thing
as Earl Pilcher Jr., Producer
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
as Adolf Eichmann
The Scarlet Letter
as Roger Chillingworth
Something to Talk About
as Wyly King
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
as Mr. Cox
The Paper
as Bernie White
Geronimo: An American Legend
as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
Falling Down
as Prendergast
The Plague
as Joseph Grand
Newsies
as Joseph Pulitzer
Stalin
as Josef Stalin
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Tom Hagen
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
as Self (uncredited)
Rambling Rose
as Mr. Hillyer
Convicts
as Soll Gautier
Days of Thunder
as Harry Hogge
The Handmaid's Tale
as Commander
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
as Self / Tom Hagen
A Show of Force
as Howard
Colors
as Bob Hodges
Tango: Our Dance
as Entrevistado
Hotel Colonial
as Carrasco
Belizaire the Cajun
as The Preacher
Let's Get Harry
as Shrike
The Lightship
as Calvin Caspary
The Natural
as Max Mercy
The Stone Boy
as Joe Hillerman
Tender Mercies
as Mac Sledge, Co-Producer
The Terry Fox Story
as Bill Vigars
Angelo My Love
Director, Writer
True Confessions
as Det. Tom Spellacy
Apocalypse Now
as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
The Great Santini
as Bull Meechum
Ike
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Betsy
as Loren Hardeman III
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Priest on Swing (uncredited)
The Greatest
as Bill McDonald
Network
as Frank Hackett
The Eagle Has Landed
as Col. Max Radl
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
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
as Jesse James
Joe Kidd
as Frank Harlan
Tomorrow
as Jackson Fentry
The Godfather
as Tom Hagen
THX 1138
as THX
Lawman
as Vernon Adams
M*A*S*H
as Maj. Frank Burns
The Revolutionary
as Despard
True Grit
as Ned Pepper
The Rain People
as Gordon
Bullitt
as Cabbie Weissberg
The Detective
as Nestor
Filmmaker
as Self
Countdown
as Chiz
The Chase
as Edwin Stewart
Fame Is the Name of the Game
as Eddie Franchot
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