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Robert Duvall
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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).
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The Godfather
As Tom Hagen
The Godfather Part II
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Days of Thunder
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Conversation
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Network
Appears in a KinoChain journey
A Shot at Glory
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Plague
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Apocalypse Now
As Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Reckless Edge - Talent as a Double-Edged Sword
Forty years after Top Gun roared into cinemas, Maverick's need for speed still feels as exhilarating as ever. But Pete Mitchell is part of a much bigger movie t...
7 films
The Camera as Weapon
From Chris Hansen's sting operations to the blood sport of nightly news, this chain traces the moral rot at the heart of spectacle.
8 films
When the World Catches Cold
From Contagion's clinical dread to the surreal end of days, a chain of films about outbreaks, science, and the fraying of society.
7 films
The Art of Listening
From the whisper of a surveillance tape to the roar of a wartime beach, these eight films prove that sound is not just heard, it is felt. A chain of masterpiece...
7 films
The Beautiful Game on Screen
From the favelas of Rio to the pitches of Glasgow, a journey through football's cinematic universe, where the sport becomes a mirror for society, identity, and...
8 films
Growing Pains: Sequels That Leap Through Time
From a Parisian afternoon to a boxing ring, these sequels skip years ahead and find their characters changed, challenged, and achingly familiar. A journey throu...
6 films
When the Sequel Outshines the Original
From gritty crime epics to mind-bending sci-fi, these sequels didn't just continue stories, they redefined them. Here's a chain of films that prove the second (...
8 films
20 Home Video Releases Every Film Obsessive Should Own
There was a brief, glorious period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when buying a film on home video felt less like acquiring a product and more like being han...
20 films
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The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · Jean-Pepe
Widows
2018 · Tom Mulligan
The Judge
2014 · Joseph Palmer
Jack Reacher
2012 · Martin Cash
Crazy Heart
2009 · Wayne
The Road
2009 · Old Man - Eli
Broken Trail
2006 · Prentice Ritter
Kicking & Screaming
2005 · Buck Weston
Gods and Generals
2003 · Gen. Robert E. Lee
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000 · Otto Halliwell
A Shot at Glory
2000 · Gordon McCloud
Deep Impact
1998 · Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner
Sling Blade
1996 · Karl's Father
The Paper
1994 · Bernie White
Falling Down
1993 · Prendergast
The Plague
1992 · Joseph Grand
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
1991 · Self
Days of Thunder
1990 · Harry Hogge
Lonesome Dove
1989 · Augustus "Gus" McCrae
Let's Get Harry
1986 · Shrike
Tender Mercies
1983 · Mac Sledge
Apocalypse Now
1979 · Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television
1977 · Tom Hagen
The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Col. Max Radl
Network
1976 · Frank Hackett
Breakout
1975 · Jay Wagner
The Godfather Part II
1974 · Tom Hagen
The Conversation
1974 · The Director (uncredited)
The Godfather
1972 · Tom Hagen
M*A*S*H
1970 · Maj. Frank Burns
Bullitt
1968 · Cabbie Weissberg
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 · Boo Radley