Robert Duvall
Biography
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is 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), The Outer Limits (1964), The F.B.I. (1966), Bullitt (1968), True Grit (1969), Joe Kidd (1972), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974), Network (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Great Santini (1979), Tender Mercies (1983) (which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor), The Natural (1984), Colors (1988), Lonesome Dove (1989), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Days of Thunder (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), Falling Down (1993), Secondhand Lions (2003), The Judge (2014), and Widows (2018).
Acting (122 movies)
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
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
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
John Brown's Raid
1960
Ike
1979
A Night in Old Mexico
2013
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
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
Directing (5 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Angelo My Love | 1983 | Writer |
| A Family Thing | 1996 | Producer |
| The Apostle | 1997 | Writer |
| The Apostle | 1997 | Executive Producer |
| Assassination Tango | 2003 | Writer |
| Assassination Tango | 2003 | Producer |
| Crazy Heart | 2009 | Producer |
| A Night in Old Mexico | 2013 | Producer |
| Wild Horses | 2015 | Writer |