
Robert Duvall
Born: 1931-01-05
Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA
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).
Known For

The Godfather

The Godfather Part II

Apocalypse Now

Jack Reacher

Hustle

Gone in Sixty Seconds

Deep Impact

The Judge

We Own the Night

Phenomenon

Lawman

Get Low

The Chase

Falling Down

To Kill a Mockingbird

Secondhand Lions

Widows

Four Christmases

Breakout

Ike

The Road

Bullitt

The Plague

Network

The Outfit

The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder

Colors

Newsies

Days of Thunder

The 6th Day

John Q

Tender Mercies

Kicking & Screaming

Lady Ice

True Grit

The Pale Blue Eye

The Eagle Has Landed

The Betsy

True Confessions

The Natural

Open Range

Casting By

The Lightship

M*A*S*H

Lucky You

Assassination Tango

The Conversation

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Hemingway & Gellhorn

Hotel Colonial

The Detective

Stalin

June

The Terry Fox Story

Sling Blade

Countdown

The Scarlet Letter

The Revolutionary

Tomorrow

Thank You for Smoking

A Civil Action

Geronimo: An American Legend

Convicts

The Handmaid's Tale

Joe Kidd

Crazy Heart

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

Captain Newman, M.D.

12 Mighty Orphans

Something to Talk About

THX 1138

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Gods and Generals

Seven Days in Utopia

The Killer Elite

Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood

Filmmaker

The Man Who Captured Eichmann

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

Jayne Mansfield's Car

The Rain People

Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides

In Dubious Battle

Rambling Rose

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

The Great Santini

Wild Horses

The Gingerbread Man

The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959

The Apostle

The Paper

The Stone Boy

A Family Thing

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

The Greatest

A Show of Force

Let's Get Harry

Belizaire the Cajun

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Brando

The Words That Built America

A Night in Old Mexico

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

A Shot at Glory

Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western

Nightmare in the Sun

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

John Brown's Raid

Aliens From Another Planet

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper

A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope

The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash

Beyond the 'Open Range'

Badge 373

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

Fearful Symmetry

Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'

Fame Is the Name of the Game

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

The Making of 'Network'

Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself

The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
