Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 5, 1931
Place of Birth:
San Diego, California, USA
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Robert Duvall
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
Filmography
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2006 | Broken Trail | Prentice Ritter |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1989 | Lonesome Dove | Augustus "Gus" McCrae |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1979 | CBS News Sunday Morning | Self |
| 1979 | Ike | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 1977 | Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television | Tom Hagen |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad | |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip | |
| 1967 | Judd for the Defense | |
| 1966 | The Time Tunnel | Raul Nimon |
| 1966 | Felony Squad | |
| 1966 | CBS Playhouse | |
| 1966 | Shane | Tom Gary |
| 1966 | Hawk | Dick |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Joseph Maurice Walker |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West | Dr. Horace Humphries |
| 1965 | Run for Your Life | Richard Fletcher |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Johnny Albin |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Ernie Milden |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Joseph Troy |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Gerald Wilson |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Harvey Farnsworth |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Leslie Sessions |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | |
| 1963 | The Lieutenant | |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits | Louis Mace |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | Eric Christian |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial | Morton Ware |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits | Adam Ballard |
| 1962 | Combat! | Karl |
| 1962 | The Virginian | Johnny Keel |
| 1962 | Stoney Burke | Joby Pierce |
| 1962 | Combat! | Peter Halsman |
| 1962 | Combat! | Michel |
| 1961 | Cain's Hundred | Tom Nugent |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Al Rogart |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Luke Jackson |
| 1961 | The Defenders | Bill Andrews |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1960 | Route 66 | |
| 1960 | Route 66 | Lee Winters |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Charley Parkes |
| 1958 | Naked City | Lewis Nunda |
| 1958 | Naked City | L. Francis Childe |
| 1958 | Naked City | Johnny Meigs |
| 1958 | Naked City | Barney Sonners |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Bart Collins |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Winner |