Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 05, 1931
Died
Feb 15, 2026
Place of Birth
San Diego, California, USA
Credits
178 titles
Robert Duvall
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
Filmography
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
self
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