Acting · San Diego, California, USA · Born January 5, 1931
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).
MovieJune
2023
as Self
MovieThe Pale Blue Eye
2022
as Jean-Pepe
MovieHustle
2022
as Rex Merrick
Movie12 Mighty Orphans
2021
as Mason Hawk
MovieThe Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
2020
as Angelo Corleone
MovieThe Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
2020
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
2019
as Self
MovieWidows
2018
as Tom Mulligan
MovieThe Words That Built America
2017
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
MovieIn Dubious Battle
2016
as Chris Bolton
MovieThe Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
2016
as Tom Hagen
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
MovieWild Horses
2015
as Scott Briggs
MovieThe Judge
2014
as Joseph Palmer
MovieMarlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Actor
TVLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
MovieA Night in Old Mexico
2013
as Red
MovieJayne Mansfield's Car
2013
as Jim Caldwell
MovieJack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013
as Self
MovieJack Reacher
2012
as Martin Cash
MovieCasting By
2012
as Self
MovieHemingway & Gellhorn
2012
as Russian General (uncredited)
MovieSeven Days in Utopia
2011
as Johnny Crawford
MovieJeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011
as Self
MovieGet Low
2010
as Felix Bush
MovieMerle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
2010
as Self
MovieCrazy Heart
2009
as Wayne
MovieThe Road
2009
as Old Man - Eli
MovieFour Christmases
2008
as Howard McVie
MovieWe Own the Night
2007
as Burt Grusinsky
MovieLucky You
2007
as L.C. Cheever
MovieBrando
2007
as Self
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MovieOperation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
2007
as Taking Chance (voice)
TVBroken Trail
2006
as Prentice Ritter
MovieBroken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
2006
as self
MovieThe Making of 'Network'
2006
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThank You for Smoking
2005
as The Captain
MovieMr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005
as Self
MovieThe Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2005
as Self
MovieKicking & Screaming
2005
as Buck Weston
MovieA Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
2004
as Self
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
2004
as Self
MovieBeyond the 'Open Range'
2004
as Self
MovieSecondhand Lions
2003
as Hub
MovieOpen Range
2003
as Boss Spearman
MovieAssassination Tango
2003
as John J. Anderson
MovieGods and Generals
2003
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
MovieBehind the Scenes of 'John Q'
2002
as Self
MovieJohn Q
2002
as Lt. Frank Grimes
MovieThe 6th Day
2000
as Dr. Griffin Weir
MovieGone in Sixty Seconds
2000
as Otto Halliwell
MovieA Shot at Glory
2000
as Gordon McCloud
MovieA Civil Action
1998
as Jerome Facher
MovieDeep Impact
1998
as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
MovieThe Gingerbread Man
1998
as Dixon Doss
MovieFearful Symmetry
1998
as Self
MovieThe Apostle
1997
as Euliss Dewey
MovieThe Man Who Captured Eichmann
1996
as Adolf Eichmann
MovieSling Blade
1996
as Karl's Father
TVThe Daily Show
1996
as Self
MoviePhenomenon
1996
as Doc
MovieA Family Thing
1996
as Earl Pilcher Jr.
MovieThe Scarlet Letter
1995
as Roger Chillingworth
MovieThe Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995
as Mr. Cox
MovieSomething to Talk About
1995
as Wyly King
MovieThe Paper
1994
as Bernie White
MovieWrestling Ernest Hemingway
1993
as Walter
MovieGeronimo: An American Legend
1993
as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
TVLate Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
MovieFalling Down
1993
as Prendergast
MovieStalin
1992
as Josef Stalin
MovieThe Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
1992
as Tom Hagen
MovieThe Plague
1992
as Joseph Grand
MovieThe Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
1992
as Self (uncredited)
MovieNewsies
1992
as Joseph Pulitzer
MovieHearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991
as Self
MovieRambling Rose
1991
as Mr. Hillyer
MovieConvicts
1991
as Soll Gautier
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
as Self
MovieThe Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
as Self / Tom Hagen
MovieDays of Thunder
1990
as Harry Hogge
MovieA Show of Force
1990
as Howard
MovieThe Handmaid's Tale
1990
as Commander
TVLonesome Dove
1989
as Augustus "Gus" McCrae
TVAmerican Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)
MovieTango: Our Dance
1988
as Entrevistado
MovieColors
1988
as Bob Hodges
MovieHotel Colonial
1987
as Carrasco
MovieLet's Get Harry
1986
as Shrike
MovieBelizaire the Cajun
1986
as The Preacher
MovieThe Lightship
1985
as Calvin Caspary
MovieThe Natural
1984
as Max Mercy
MovieThe Stone Boy
1984
as Joe Hillerman
MovieThe Terry Fox Story
1983
as Bill Vigars
MovieTender Mercies
1983
as Mac Sledge
MovieAliens From Another Planet
1982
as Nimon
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as Jackson Fentry
MovieThe Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981
as Gruen
MovieTrue Confessions
1981
as Det. Tom Spellacy
MovieThe Great Santini
1979
as Bull Meechum
MovieApocalypse Now
1979
as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
MovieIke
1979
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
TVIke
1979
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
TVCBS News Sunday Morning
1979
as Self
MovieInvasion of the Body Snatchers
1978
as Priest on Swing (uncredited)
MovieThe Betsy
1978
as Loren Hardeman III
TVMario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977
as Tom Hagen
MovieThe Greatest
1977
as Bill McDonald
MovieThe Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Col. Max Radl
MovieNetwork
1976
as Frank Hackett
MovieThe Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976
as Dr. John H. Watson
MovieThe Killer Elite
1975
as George Hansen
TVSaturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Various Characters
MovieBreakout
1975
as Jay Wagner
MovieThe Godfather Part II
1974
as Tom Hagen
MovieThe Conversation
1974
as The Director (uncredited)
MovieThe Outfit
1973
as Earl Macklin
MovieBadge 373
1973
as Eddie Ryan
MovieLady Ice
1973
as Ford Pierce
MovieJoe Kidd
1972
as Frank Harlan
MovieThe Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1972
as Jesse James
MovieTomorrow
1972
as Jackson Fentry
MovieThe Godfather
1972
as Tom Hagen
MovieTHX 1138
1971
as THX
MovieLawman
1971
as Vernon Adams
MovieBald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
1971
as Self
MovieThe Godfather: Behind the Scenes
1971
as Self
MovieThe Revolutionary
1970
as Despard
MovieM*A*S*H
1970
as Maj. Frank Burns
MovieThe Rain People
1969
as Gordon
MovieTrue Grit
1969
as Ned Pepper
MovieFilmmaker
1968
as Self
MovieBullitt
1968
as Cabbie Weissberg
TVThe Mod Squad
1968
MovieThe Detective
1968
as Nestor
TVJudd, for the Defense
1967
TVCimarron Strip
1967
as Joe Wyman
MovieCountdown
1967
as Chiz
CBS Playhouse
1966
as Dr. Margolin
MovieFame Is the Name of the Game
1966
as Eddie Franchot
TVFelony Squad
1966
TVShane
1966
as Tom Gary
TVThe Time Tunnel
1966
as Raul Nimon
TVHawk
1966
as Dick
MovieThe Chase
1966
as Edwin Stewart
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Joseph Maurice Walker
TVThe Wild Wild West
1965
as Dr. Horace Humphries
TVRun for Your Life
1965
as Richard Fletcher
MovieNightmare in the Sun
1965
as Motorcyclist
MovieCaptain Newman, M.D.
1963
as Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
TVKraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Harvey Farnsworth
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
TVThe Fugitive
1963
as Leslie Sessions
TVThe Outer Limits
1963
as Louis Mace
TVArrest and Trial
1963
as Morton Ware
TVThe Lieutenant
1963
MovieTo Kill a Mockingbird
1962
as Boo Radley
TVCombat!
1962
as Karl
TVStoney Burke
1962
as Joby Pierce
TVThe Virginian
1962
as Johnny Keel
TVThe Mike Douglas Show
1961
as Self
TVCain's Hundred
1961
as Tom Nugent
TVThe Defenders
1961
as Al Rogart
MovieJohn Brown's Raid
1960
TVRoute 66
1960
TVThe Untouchables
1959
as Eddie Moon
TVThe Twilight Zone
1959
as Charley Parkes
TVNaked City
1958
as Lewis Nunda
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Bart Collins
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
The Ploughmen
as Gload
The Making of We Own the Night
as Self
