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Robert Duvall
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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, t…
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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).
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2023
June
Movie Self
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2022
The Pale Blue Eye
Movie Jean-Pepe
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2022
Hustle
Movie Rex Merrick
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2021
12 Mighty Orphans
Movie Mason Hawk
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2020
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Movie Self
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2018
Widows
Movie Tom Mulligan
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2017
The Words That Built America
Movie Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
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2016
In Dubious Battle
Movie Chris Bolton
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2016
The Godfather: The Complete Epic 1901–1959
Movie Tom Hagen
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Wild Horses
Movie Scott Briggs
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2014
The Judge
Movie Joseph Palmer
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2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Movie Self - Actor
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2013
A Night in Old Mexico
Movie Red
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2013
Jayne Mansfield's Car
Movie Jim Caldwell
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2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Movie Self
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2012
Jack Reacher
Movie Martin Cash
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2012
Casting By
Movie Self
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2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Movie Russian General (uncredited)
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2011
Seven Days in Utopia
Movie Johnny Crawford
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2011
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
Movie Self
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2010
Get Low
Movie Felix Bush
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2010
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
Movie Self
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2009
Crazy Heart
Movie Wayne
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2009
The Road
Movie Old Man - Eli
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2008
Four Christmases
Movie Howard McVie
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2007
We Own the Night
Movie Burt Grusinsky
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2007
Lucky You
Movie L.C. Cheever
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2007
Brando
Movie Self
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2007
The Graham Norton Show
TV show Self
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2007
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Movie Taking Chance (voice)
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2006
Broken Trail
TV show Prentice Ritter
- 2006
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2006
The Making of 'Network'
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2005
Thank You for Smoking
Movie The Captain
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2005
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
Movie Self
- 2005
