Robert Duvall
Known For
Acting
Born
1931-01-05 in San Diego, California, USA
Died
2026-02-15
Biography
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).
Most Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
The Daily Show
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self (archive footage)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
The Godfather
as Tom Hagen
The Twilight Zone
as Charley Parkes
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
The Fugitive
as Leslie Sessions
The Fugitive
as Eric Christian
Apocalypse Now
as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
The Wild Wild West
as Dr. Horace Humphries
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
The Virginian
as Johnny Keel