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Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall

Birthday: 1931-01-05 | Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA

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). ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Hustle

as    Rex Merrick

2020
Ye Sxn Goes to Chick-Fil-A

as    KTT2 Music Sxn User

2020
The Golden Hour: Making of Days of Thunder

as    Self (archive footage)

2018
Widows

as    Tom Mulligan

2016
In Dubious Battle

as    Chris Bolton

2015
Wild Horses

as    Scott Briggs

2014
The Judge

as    Joseph Palmer

2014
A Night in Old Mexico

as    Red

2013
Jayne Mansfield's Car

as    Jim Caldwell

2012
Jack Reacher

as    Martin Cash

2011
Seven Days in Utopia

as    Johnny Crawford

2010
Get Low

as    Felix Bush

2009
The Road

as    Old Man - Eli

2009
Crazy Heart

as    Wayne

2008
Four Christmases

as    Howard McVie

2007
We Own the Night

as    Dep. Chief Albert 'Burt' Grusinsky

2007
2006
Broken Trail

as    Prentice Ritter

2005
Kicking & Screaming

as    Buck Weston

2005
Thank You for Smoking

as    The Captain

2003
Open Range

as    Boss Spearman

2003
Gods and Generals

as    Gen. Robert E. Lee

2003
Secondhand Lions

as    Hub

2003
Assassination Tango

as    John J. Anderson

2002
John Q

as    Lt. Frank Grimes