Robert Duvall

Acting · Born 1931-01-05 in San Diego, California, USA

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…

Filmography

• Apocalypse Now as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
• The Godfather Part II as Tom Hagen
• Bullitt as Cabbie Weissberg
• Colors as Bob Hodges
• Open Range as Boss Spearman
• To Kill a Mockingbird as Boo Radley
• THX 1138 as THX
• M*A*S*H as Maj. Frank Burns
• Days of Thunder as Harry Hogge
• The Scarlet Letter as Roger Chillingworth