Person Details

Birthday: 1931-01-05 14:16:59

Aliases: Robert Selden Duvall , Robert Duval , Robert S. Duvall

Gender: Male

Place of birth: San Diego, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 127

TV Involvements: 39


Most Famous Work

Biography

Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards over the course of his career. Duvall has been in some of the most acclaimed and popular films of all time, among them To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, MASH, Network, True Grit, Bullitt, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, The Natural and Lonesome Dove. He began appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small, supporting television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (as Boo Radley) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). He started to land much larger roles during the early 1970s with movies like MASH (1970) (as Major Burns) and THX 1138 (1971). This was followed by a series of critical successes: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Network (1976), The Great Santini (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), and True Confessions (1981). Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies (1983) (for which he won an Academy Award, The Natural (1984), Colors (1988), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989), Stalin (1992), The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996), A Family Thing (1996), The Apostle (1997) (which he also wrote and directed), A Civil Action (1998), Gods and Generals (2003), Broken Trail (2006) and Get Low (2010). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Duvall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Most Famous Work

Naked City
Average
5

Naked City

(1958) Barney Sonners
Route 66
Average
6

Route 66

(1960) Lee Winters
The Fugitive
Average
7

The Fugitive

(1963) Eric Christian
The Virginian
Average
7

The Virginian

(1962) Johnny Keel
American Experience
Average
8

American Experience

(1988) Narrator (voice)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Average
8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(1955) Bart Collins
Stoney Burke
Average
6

Stoney Burke

(1962) Joby Pierce
Run for Your Life
Average
7

Run for Your Life

(1965) Richard Fletcher

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2022 Jean-Pepe
Rex Merrick
2021 Mason Hawk
2020 Self (archive footage)
2019 Self
2018 Tom Mulligan
2017 Reader - Declaration of Independence
2016 Chris Bolton
2015 Self
Scott Briggs
2014 Joseph Palmer
Self - Actor
Self
N/A
Self (archive footage)
2013 Red
Jim Caldwell
Self
2012 Martin Cash
Self
Russian General (uncredited)
2011 Johnny Crawford
Self
Self
2010 Self
Felix Bush
Self
2009 Wayne
Old Man - Eli
2008 Howard McVie
2007 Dep. Chief Albert 'Burt' Grusinsky
L.C. Cheever
Self
Himself
Taking Chance (voice)
2006 Prentice Ritter
Himself
Self (archive footage)
2005 The Captain
Self
Self
Buck Weston
2004 Self
Self
2003 Hub
Boss Spearman
John J. Anderson
Gen. Robert E. Lee
2002 Lt. Frank Grimes
2000 Dr. Griffin Weir
Otto Halliwell
Gordon McCloud
1998 Jerome Facher
Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
Dixon Doss
Self
1997 Euliss Dewey
1996 Adolf Eichmann
Karl's Father
Self
Doc
Earl Pilcher Jr.
1995 Roger Chillingworth
Mr. Cox
Wyly King
1994 Bernie White
1993 Walter
Chief of Scouts Al Sieber
Self - Guest
Prendergast
1992 Josef Stalin
Tom Hagen
Joseph Grand
Joseph Pulitzer
1991 Self
Mr. Hillyer
Soll Gautier
1990 Self
Self / Tom Hagen
Harry Hogge
Howard
Commander
1989 Augustus "Gus" McCrae
1988 Narrator (voice)
Entrevistado
Bob Hodges
1987 Carrasco
1986 Shrike
The Preacher
1985 Calvin Caspary
1984 Max Mercy
Joe Hillerman
1983 Bill Vigars
Mac Sledge
1982 Nimon
1981 Gruen
Det. Tom Spellacy
Tom Hagen
1979 Bull Meechum
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self
1978 Preist on Swing (uncredited)
Loren Hardeman III
1977 Tom Hagen
Bill McDonald
1976 Col. Max Radl
Frank Hackett
Dr. John H. Watson
1975 George Hansen
Jay Wagner
1974 Tom Hagen
The Director (uncredited)
1973 Earl Macklin
Eddie Ryan
Ford Pierce
1972 Frank Harlan
Jesse James
Jackson Fentry
Tom Hagen
1971 Vernon Adams
THX
Self
1970 Despard
Maj. Frank Burns
1969 Gordon
Ned Pepper
1968 Himself
Cabbie Weissberg
N/A
Nestor
1967 N/A
N/A
Chiz
1966 N/A
Eddie Franchot
N/A
Tom Gary
Raul Nimon
Dick
Edwin Stewart
1965 Joseph Maurice Walker
Gerald Wilson
Joseph Troy
Ernie Milden
Johnny Albin
Dr. Horace Humphries
Richard Fletcher
Motorcyclist
1964 Zar
1963 Capt. Paul Cabot Winston
Harvey Farnsworth
N/A
Eric Christian
Leslie Sessions
Adam Ballard
Louis Mace
Morton Ware
N/A
1962 Boo Radley
Peter Halsman
Michel
Karl
Joby Pierce
Johnny Keel
1961 Tom Nugent
Luke Jackson
Bill Andrews
Al Rogart
1960 N/A
Lee Winters
N/A
1959 N/A
1958 Lewis Nunda
Barney Sonners
Johnny Meigs
L. Francis Childe
1955 Bart Collins
1953 Self
Gload
Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2015 Writer
2003 Writer
1997 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2013 Producer
2009 Producer
2006 Executive Producer
2003 Producer
1997 Executive Producer
1996 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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