Robert Duvall
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).
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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).
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June
The Pale Blue Eye
Hustle
12 Mighty Orphans
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Widows
The Words That Built America
In Dubious Battle
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Wild Horses
The Judge
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
And the Oscar Goes To...
A Night in Old Mexico
Jayne Mansfield's Car
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Jack Reacher
Casting By
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Seven Days in Utopia
Lt. Dan Band: For the Common Good
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
14 Actors Acting
Get Low
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself
Crazy Heart
The Road
Four Christmases
We Own the Night
Brando
The Graham Norton Show
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Broken Trail
Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western
The Making of 'Network'
Thank You for Smoking
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Kicking & Screaming
A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope
Beyond the 'Open Range'
Secondhand Lions
Open Range
Assassination Tango
Gods and Generals
John Q
The 6th Day
Gone in Sixty Seconds
A Shot at Glory
A Civil Action
Deep Impact
The Gingerbread Man
Fearful Symmetry
The Apostle
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
Sling Blade
The Daily Show
Phenomenon
A Family Thing
The Scarlet Letter
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Something to Talk About
The Paper
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Geronimo: An American Legend
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Falling Down
Stalin
The Plague
Newsies
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Rambling Rose
Convicts
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
Days of Thunder
A Show of Force
The Handmaid's Tale
Lonesome Dove
American Experience
Tango: Our Dance
Colors
Hotel Colonial
Let's Get Harry
Belizaire the Cajun
The Lightship
The Natural
The Stone Boy
The Terry Fox Story
Angelo My Love
Tender Mercies
Aliens From Another Planet
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
The Godfather Epic: 1901-1959
True Confessions
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
The Great Santini
Apocalypse Now
Ike
CBS News Sunday Morning
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Betsy
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
We're Not the Jet Set
The Greatest
The Eagle Has Landed
Network
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Killer Elite
Saturday Night Live
Breakout
The Godfather Part II
The Conversation
The Outfit
Badge 373
Lady Ice
Joe Kidd
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Tomorrow
The Godfather
Lawman
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138'
The Revolutionary
M*A*S*H
The Rain People
True Grit
Filmmaker
Bullitt
The Mod Squad
The Detective
Judd for the Defense
Cimarron Strip
Countdown
Fame Is the Name of the Game
Felony Squad
Shane
The Time Tunnel
Hawk
The Chase
The F.B.I.
The Wild Wild West
Run for Your Life
Nightmare in the Sun
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Captain Newman, M.D.
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Fugitive
The Outer Limits
Arrest and Trial
The Lieutenant
To Kill a Mockingbird
Combat!
Stoney Burke
The Virginian
Cain's Hundred
The Defenders
John Brown's Raid
Route 66
The Twilight Zone
Naked City
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Oscars