
Robert Duvall
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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

Saturday Night Live

The Twilight Zone

The F.B.I.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Oscars

Golden Globe Awards

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Virginian

The Fugitive

The Graham Norton Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Route 66

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Run for Your Life

Kraft Suspense Theatre

The Wild Wild West

The Defenders

The Daily Show

Cain's Hundred

Cimarron Strip

The Lieutenant

CBS Playhouse

CBS News Sunday Morning

Hemingway & Gellhorn

12 Mighty Orphans

The Conversation

The 6th Day

The Godfather Family: A Look Inside

Hustle

Apocalypse Now

The Pale Blue Eye

Jack Reacher

Widows

The Handmaid's Tale

True Grit

The Godfather

The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980

Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television

A Show of Force

Gone in Sixty Seconds

Newsies

The Road

We Own the Night

Phenomenon

Crazy Heart

Something to Talk About

Four Christmases

The Judge

Open Range

Kicking & Screaming

Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around

A Civil Action

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Colors

The Natural

Filmmaker

The Godfather Part II

Falling Down

The Terry Fox Story

Stalin

Broken Trail

Badge 373

Lonesome Dove

Deep Impact
Production Credits
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