
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).

The Godfather
1972 · as Tom Hagen

The Godfather Part II
1974 · as Tom Hagen

Apocalypse Now
1979 · as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

Jack Reacher
2012 · as Martin Cash

Falling Down
1993 · as Prendergast

The Road
2009 · as Old Man - Eli

Open Range
2003 · as Boss Spearman

We Own the Night
2007 · as Burt Grusinsky

Crazy Heart
2009 · as Wayne

Sling Blade
1996 · as Karl's Father

Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 · as Otto Halliwell

Deep Impact
1998 · as Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner

Phenomenon
1996 · as Doc

The Judge
2014 · as Joseph Palmer

The 6th Day
2000 · as Dr. Griffin Weir

To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 · as Boo Radley

John Q
2002 · as Lt. Frank Grimes

True Grit
1969 · as Ned Pepper