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).

Filmography

• 2022Hustle — Rex Merrick
• 2022The Pale Blue Eye — Jean-Pepe
• 202112 Mighty Orphans — Mason Hawk
• 2018Widows — Tom Mulligan
• 2016In Dubious Battle — Chris Bolton
• 2015Wild Horses — Scott Briggs, Writer, Director
• 2014The Judge — Joseph Palmer
• 2013A Night in Old Mexico — Red, Producer
• 2013Jayne Mansfield's Car — Jim Caldwell
• 2012Hemingway & Gellhorn — Russian General (uncredited)
• 2012Jack Reacher — Martin Cash
• 2011Seven Days in Utopia — Johnny Crawford
• 2010Get Low — Felix Bush
• 2009Crazy Heart — Wayne, Producer
• 2009The Road — Old Man - Eli
• 2008Four Christmases — Howard McVie
• 2007Lucky You — L.C. Cheever
• 2007Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience — Taking Chance (voice)
• 2007We Own the Night — Burt Grusinsky
• Broken Trail — Prentice Ritter, Executive Producer
• 2005Kicking & Screaming — Buck Weston
• 2005Thank You for Smoking — The Captain
• 2003Assassination Tango — John J. Anderson, Writer, Director, Producer
• 2003Gods and Generals — Gen. Robert E. Lee
• 2003Open Range — Boss Spearman
• 2003Secondhand Lions — Hub
• 2002John Q — Lt. Frank Grimes
• 2000A Shot at Glory — Gordon McCloud
• 2000Gone in Sixty Seconds — Otto Halliwell
• 2000The 6th Day — Dr. Griffin Weir
• 1998A Civil Action — Jerome Facher
• 1998Deep Impact — Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
• 1998The Gingerbread Man — Dixon Doss
• 1997The Apostle — Euliss Dewey, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 1996A Family Thing — Earl Pilcher Jr., Producer
• 1996Phenomenon — Doc
• 1996Sling Blade — Karl's Father
• 1996The Man Who Captured Eichmann — Adolf Eichmann
• 1995Something to Talk About — Wyly King
• 1995The Scarlet Letter — Roger Chillingworth
• 1995The Stars Fell on Henrietta — Mr. Cox
• 1994The Paper — Bernie White
• 1993Falling Down — Prendergast
• 1993Geronimo: An American Legend — Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
• 1993Wrestling Ernest Hemingway — Walter
• 1992Newsies — Joseph Pulitzer
• 1992Stalin — Josef Stalin
• 1992The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 — Tom Hagen
• 1992The Plague — Joseph Grand
• 1991Convicts — Soll Gautier
• 1991Rambling Rose — Mr. Hillyer
• 1990A Show of Force — Howard
• 1990Days of Thunder — Harry Hogge
• 1990The Handmaid's Tale — Commander
• Lonesome Dove — Augustus "Gus" McCrae
• American Experience — Narrator (voice)
• 1988Colors — Bob Hodges
• 1988Tango: Our Dance — Entrevistado
• 1987Hotel Colonial — Carrasco
• 1986Belizaire the Cajun — The Preacher
• 1986Let's Get Harry — Shrike
• 1985The Lightship — Calvin Caspary
• 1984The Natural — Max Mercy
• 1984The Stone Boy — Joe Hillerman
• 1983Angelo My Love — Director, Writer
• 1983Tender Mercies — Mac Sledge, Co-Producer
• 1983The Terry Fox Story — Bill Vigars
• 1982Aliens From Another Planet — Nimon
• American Playhouse — Jackson Fentry, The Preacher
• 1981The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper — Gruen
• 1981True Confessions — Det. Tom Spellacy
• 1979Apocalypse Now — Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
• 1979Ike — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Ike — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• 1979The Great Santini — Bull Meechum
• 1978Invasion of the Body Snatchers — Priest on Swing (uncredited)
• 1978The Betsy — Loren Hardeman III
• Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television — Tom Hagen
• 1977The Greatest — Bill McDonald
• 1977We're Not the Jet Set — Director
• 1976Network — Frank Hackett
• 1976The Eagle Has Landed — Col. Max Radl
• 1976The Seven-Per-Cent Solution — Dr. John H. Watson
• 1975Breakout — Jay Wagner
• 1975The Killer Elite — George Hansen
• 1974The Conversation — The Director (uncredited)
• 1974The Godfather Part II — Tom Hagen
• 1973Badge 373 — Eddie Ryan
• 1973Lady Ice — Ford Pierce
• 1973The Outfit — Earl Macklin
• 1972Joe Kidd — Frank Harlan
• 1972The Godfather — Tom Hagen
• 1972The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid — Jesse James
• 1972Tomorrow — Jackson Fentry
• 1971Lawman — Vernon Adams
• 1971THX 1138 — THX
• 1970M*A*S*H — Maj. Frank Burns
• 1970The Revolutionary — Despard
• 1969The Rain People — Gordon
• 1969True Grit — Ned Pepper
• 1968Bullitt — Cabbie Weissberg
• 1968The Detective — Nestor
• The Mod Squad
• Cimarron Strip — Joe Wyman
• 1967Countdown — Chiz
• Judd, for the Defense
• CBS Playhouse — Dr. Margolin
• 1966Fame Is the Name of the Game — Eddie Franchot
• Felony Squad
• Shane — Tom Gary
• 1966The Chase — Edwin Stewart
• The Time Tunnel — Raul Nimon
• 1965Nightmare in the Sun — Motorcyclist
• Run for Your Life — Richard Fletcher
• The F.B.I. — Joseph Maurice Walker, Johnny Albin, Ernie Milden, Gerald Wilson, Joseph Troy
• The Wild Wild West — Dr. Horace Humphries
• Arrest and Trial — Morton Ware
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
• 1963Captain Newman, M.D. — Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Harvey Farnsworth
• The Fugitive — Leslie Sessions, Eric Christian
• The Outer Limits — Louis Mace, Adam Ballard
• Combat! — Karl, Michel, Peter Halsman
• Stoney Burke — Joby Pierce
• The Virginian — Johnny Keel
• 1962To Kill a Mockingbird — Boo Radley
• Cain's Hundred — Tom Nugent
• The Defenders — Al Rogart, Luke Jackson, Bill Andrews
• 1960John Brown's Raid — Oliver Brown
• Route 66 — Lee Winters, Roman
• The Twilight Zone — Charley Parkes
• The Untouchables — Eddie Moon
• Naked City — Lewis Nunda, L. Francis Childe, Barney Sonners, Johnny Meigs
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Bart Collins

Appearances as themselves (39)

• 2023June — Self
• 2020The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder — Self (archive footage)
• 2019The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash — Self
• 2017The Words That Built America — Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 2014Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire — Self - Actor
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around — Self
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2011Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides — Self
• 2010Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself — Self
• 2007Brando — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western — self
• 2006The Making of 'Network' — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood — Self
• 2005The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken — Self
• 2004A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope — Self
• 2004Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' — Self
• 2004Beyond the 'Open Range' — Self
• 2002Behind the Scenes of 'John Q' — Self
• 1998Fearful Symmetry — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
• 1992The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live! — Self (uncredited)
• 1991Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse — Self
• 1990Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret — Self
• 1990The Godfather Family: A Look Inside — Self / Tom Hagen
• CBS News Sunday Morning — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Various Characters
• 1971Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138' — Self
• 1971The Godfather: Behind the Scenes — Self
• 1968Filmmaker — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Winner
• The Making of We Own the Night — Self