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

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2021
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2015
The Daily Show
2003
Late Show with David Letterman
2006
The Mike Douglas Show
1977
Saturday Night Live
1998
The Graham Norton Show
2014
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2003
CBS News Sunday Morning
2006
American Experience
2005
Golden Globe Awards
1999

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
189
Directing
5
Writing
4
Producing
7
2023
June
as Self
2022
The Pale Blue Eye
as Jean-Pepe
2022
Hustle
as Rex Merrick
2021
12 Mighty Orphans
as Mason Hawk
2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2020
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
as Self (archive footage)
2019
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
as Self
2018
Widows
as Tom Mulligan
2017
The Words That Built America
as Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence
2016
In Dubious Battle
as Chris Bolton
2015
Wild Horses
as Scott Briggs
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
The Judge
as Joseph Palmer
2014
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
as Self - Actor
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2013
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Jim Caldwell
2013
A Night in Old Mexico
as Red
2013
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
as Self
2012
Hemingway & Gellhorn
as Russian General (uncredited)
2012
Casting By
as Self
2012
Jack Reacher
as Martin Cash
2011
Seven Days in Utopia
as Johnny Crawford
2011
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
as Self
2010
Get Low
as Felix Bush
2010
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
as Self
2009
The Road
as Old Man - Eli
2009
Crazy Heart
as Wayne
2008
Four Christmases
as Howard McVie
2007
Lucky You
as L.C. Cheever
2007
We Own the Night
as Burt Grusinsky
2007
Brando
as Self
2007
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
as Taking Chance (voice)
2006
The Making of 'Network'
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
as self
2006
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
2006
Broken Trail
as Prentice Ritter
2006
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self - Guest
2005
Thank You for Smoking
as The Captain
2005
Kicking & Screaming
as Buck Weston
2005
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
as Self
2005
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
as Self
2005
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
2004
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
as Self
2004
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
as Self
2004
Beyond the 'Open Range'
as Self
2003
Open Range
as Boss Spearman
2003
Secondhand Lions
as Hub
2003
Gods and Generals
as Gen. Robert E. Lee
2003
Assassination Tango
as John J. Anderson
2003
The Daily Show
as Self
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
2002
John Q
as Lt. Frank Grimes
2002
Behind the Scenes of 'John Q'
as Self
2000
The 6th Day
as Dr. Griffin Weir
2000
Gone in Sixty Seconds
as Otto Halliwell
2000
A Shot at Glory
as Gordon McCloud
1999
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1998
Deep Impact
as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
1998
A Civil Action
as Jerome Facher
1998
The Gingerbread Man
as Dixon Doss
1998
Fearful Symmetry
as Self
1998
The Oscars
as Self
1998
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Various Characters
1997
The Apostle
as Euliss Dewey
1996
Phenomenon
as Doc
1996
Sling Blade
as Karl's Father
1996
A Family Thing
as Earl Pilcher Jr.
1996
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
as Adolf Eichmann
1995
The Scarlet Letter
as Roger Chillingworth
1995
Something to Talk About
as Wyly King
1995
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
as Mr. Cox
1994
The Paper
as Bernie White
1993
Geronimo: An American Legend
as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
1993
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as Walter
1993
Falling Down
as Prendergast
1992
The Plague
as Joseph Grand
1992
Newsies
as Joseph Pulitzer
1992
Stalin
as Josef Stalin
1992
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
as Tom Hagen
1992
The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, Live!
as Self (uncredited)
1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
as Self
1991
Rambling Rose
as Mr. Hillyer
1991
Convicts
as Soll Gautier
1990
Days of Thunder
as Harry Hogge
1990
The Handmaid's Tale
as Commander
1990
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
1990
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
as Self / Tom Hagen
1990
A Show of Force
as Howard
1989
Lonesome Dove
as Augustus "Gus" McCrae
1989
American Playhouse
as The Preacher
1988
Colors
as Bob Hodges
1988
Tango: Our Dance
as Entrevistado
1987
Hotel Colonial
as Carrasco
1986
Belizaire the Cajun
as The Preacher
1986
Let's Get Harry
as Shrike
1985
The Lightship
as Calvin Caspary
1984
The Natural
as Max Mercy
1984
The Stone Boy
as Joe Hillerman
1984
American Playhouse
as Jackson Fentry
1983
Tender Mercies
as Mac Sledge
1983
The Terry Fox Story
as Bill Vigars
1982
Aliens From Another Planet
as Nimon
1981
True Confessions
as Det. Tom Spellacy
1981
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
as Gruen
1980
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
1979
Apocalypse Now
as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
1979
The Great Santini
as Bull Meechum
1979
Ike
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
1979
Ike
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
1978
The Betsy
as Loren Hardeman III
1978
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
as Priest on Swing (uncredited)
1977
The Greatest
as Bill McDonald
1977
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
as Tom Hagen
1977
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1976
Network
as Frank Hackett
1976
The Eagle Has Landed
as Col. Max Radl
1976
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
as Dr. John H. Watson
1975
The Killer Elite
as George Hansen
1975
Breakout
as Jay Wagner
1974
The Godfather Part II
as Tom Hagen
1974
The Conversation
as The Director (uncredited)
1973
The Outfit
as Earl Macklin
1973
Badge 373
as Eddie Ryan
1973
Lady Ice
as Ford Pierce
1972
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
as Jesse James
1972
Joe Kidd
as Frank Harlan
1972
Tomorrow
as Jackson Fentry
1972
The Godfather
as Tom Hagen
1971
THX 1138
as THX
1971
Lawman
as Vernon Adams
1971
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
as Self
1971
The Godfather: Behind the Scenes
as Self
1970
M*A*S*H
as Maj. Frank Burns
1970
The Revolutionary
as Despard
1969
True Grit
as Ned Pepper
1969
The Rain People
as Gordon
1969
The Mod Squad
1969
The F.B.I.
as Gerald Wilson
1968
Bullitt
as Cabbie Weissberg
1968
The Detective
as Nestor
1968
Filmmaker
as Self
1968
Run for Your Life
as Richard Fletcher
1968
Judd, for the Defense
1968
The F.B.I.
as Joseph Troy
1968
CBS Playhouse
as Dr. Margolin
1967
Countdown
as Chiz
1967
The Time Tunnel
as Raul Nimon
1967
The Wild Wild West
as Dr. Horace Humphries
1967
The F.B.I.
as Ernie Milden
1967
Combat!
as Michel
1967
Cimarron Strip
as Joe Wyman
1966
The Chase
as Edwin Stewart
1966
Fame Is the Name of the Game
as Eddie Franchot
1966
Felony Squad
1966
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1966
Shane
as Tom Gary
1966
Hawk
as Dick
1966
The F.B.I.
as Johnny Albin
1966
Combat!
as Peter Halsman
1965
Nightmare in the Sun
as Motorcyclist
1965
The F.B.I.
as Joseph Maurice Walker
1965
Combat!
as Karl
1965
The Fugitive
as Leslie Sessions
1965
The Defenders
as Bill Andrews
1964
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Harvey Farnsworth
1964
The Outer Limits
as Louis Mace
1964
The Outer Limits
as Adam Ballard
1963
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
1963
The Virginian
as Johnny Keel
1963
The Defenders
as Luke Jackson
1963
The Fugitive
as Eric Christian
1963
Route 66
as Lee Winters
1963
Stoney Burke
as Joby Pierce
1963
Arrest and Trial
as Morton Ware
1963
The Twilight Zone
as Charley Parkes
1963
The Untouchables
as Eddie Moon
1962
To Kill a Mockingbird
as Boo Radley
1962
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Bart Collins
1962
Naked City
as L. Francis Childe
1962
Naked City
as Barney Sonners
1962
Naked City
as Johnny Meigs
1961
Cain's Hundred
as Tom Nugent
1961
Route 66
1961
Naked City
as Lewis Nunda
1961
The Defenders
as Al Rogart
1961
Route 66
as Roman
1960
John Brown's Raid
as Oliver Brown
The Making of We Own the Night
as Self