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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).
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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).
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Twilight Zone
The F.B.I.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Virginian
The Fugitive
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Route 66
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Run for Your Life
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Wild Wild West
The Defenders
The Daily Show
Cain's Hundred
Cimarron Strip
The Lieutenant
CBS Playhouse
CBS News Sunday Morning
Hemingway & Gellhorn
12 Mighty Orphans
The Conversation
The 6th Day
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
The Pale Blue Eye
Jack Reacher
Hustle
Apocalypse Now
The Handmaid's Tale
Widows
True Grit
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
The Godfather
A Show of Force
Newsies
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
The Road
Phenomenon
We Own the Night
Crazy Heart
Something to Talk About
Four Christmases
The Natural
Colors
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
Falling Down
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Kicking & Screaming
The Terry Fox Story
The Godfather Part II
A Civil Action
Open Range
Filmmaker
The Judge
Badge 373
Stalin
Broken Trail
Deep Impact
Lonesome Dove
Production Credits
Crazy Heart
Broken Trail
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