
Robert Duvall
Department: Acting
Biography
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

Apocalypse Now
1979

The Godfather Part II
1974

Bullitt
1968

Colors
1988

Open Range
2003

To Kill a Mockingbird
1962

THX 1138
1971

M*A*S*H
1970

Days of Thunder
1990

The Scarlet Letter
1995

Lucky You
2007

We Own the Night
2007

The Apostle
1997

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991

Network
1976

The Road
2009

The Great Santini
1979

The Handmaid's Tale
1990

The Eagle Has Landed
1976

The Natural
1984

The Killer Elite
1975

The Chase
1966

The 6th Day
2000

Breakout
1975

John Q
2002

Deep Impact
1998

True Confessions
1981

The Making of 'Network'
2006

Crazy Heart
2009

Rambling Rose
1991

Four Christmases
2008

A Civil Action
1998

The Paper
1994

Phenomenon
1996

The Gingerbread Man
1998

Sling Blade
1996

Captain Newman, M.D.
1963

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016

Thank You for Smoking
2005

Kicking & Screaming
2005

The Outfit
1973

Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972

Secondhand Lions
2003

Countdown
1967

Geronimo: An American Legend
1993

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993

Tender Mercies
1983

A Family Thing
1996

Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012

Lawman
1971

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976

The Detective
1968

The Pale Blue Eye
2022

The Plague
1992

Joe Kidd
1972

Falling Down
1993

Newsies
1992

Get Low
2010

Hotel Colonial
1987

Gods and Generals
2003

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981

Assassination Tango
2003

True Grit
1969

The Ploughmen
—

Something to Talk About
1995

Casting By
2012

The Lightship
1985

Seven Days in Utopia
2011

Convicts
1991

A Shot at Glory
2000

Tomorrow
1972

Badge 373
1973

Stalin
1992

Jack Reacher
2012

Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013

The Betsy
1978

The Godfather
1972

The Rain People
1969

The Terry Fox Story
1983

Nightmare in the Sun
1965

The Stone Boy
1984

The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995

Fearful Symmetry
1998

The Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996

The Making of We Own the Night
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John Brown's Raid
1960

Ike
1979

A Night in Old Mexico
2013

Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
2004

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004

Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
2006

The Judge
2014

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971

Belizaire the Cajun
1986

The Greatest
1977

The Conversation
1974

Lady Ice
1973

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990

Fame Is the Name of the Game
1966

Wild Horses
2015

The Revolutionary
1970

Let's Get Harry
1986

June
2023

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013

Beyond the 'Open Range'
2004

The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971

In Dubious Battle
2016

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990

A Show of Force
1990

Brando
2007

Widows
2018

The Words That Built America
2017

The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2005

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014

Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
2010

Aliens From Another Planet
1982

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978

12 Mighty Orphans
2021

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
2007

The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
2019

Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005

Filmmaker
1968

Tango: Our Dance
1988

The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
2020

Hustle
2022

Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011

The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
1992

The Time Tunnel
1966

Cain's Hundred
1961

Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963

The F.B.I.
1965

The Daily Show
1996

Route 66
1960

Naked City
1958

The Mod Squad
1968

CBS News Sunday Morning
1979

Combat!
1962

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Felony Squad
1966

The Wild Wild West
1965

Run for Your Life
1965

The Fugitive
1963

The Virginian
1962

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963

Judd for the Defense
1967

CBS Playhouse
1966

The Lieutenant
1963

Broken Trail
2006

The Defenders
1961

The Defenders
1961

The Outer Limits
1963

The Defenders
1961

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015

The Oscars
1953

Shane
1966

The Fugitive
1963

Hawk
1966

Ike
1979

Lonesome Dove
1989

Route 66
1960

Naked City
1958

Naked City
1958

Naked City
1958

Stoney Burke
1962

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014

Arrest and Trial
1963

The F.B.I.
1965

The F.B.I.
1965

The F.B.I.
1965

The F.B.I.
1965

Combat!
1962

Combat!
1962

The Outer Limits
1963

American Experience
1988

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014

Saturday Night Live
1975

The Twilight Zone
1959

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

The Untouchables
1959

Cimarron Strip
1967

Golden Globe Awards
1944

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015