Robert Duvall

95, from San Diego, California, USA

Artwork for Deep ImpactImage of Robert Duvall

Biography

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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2023Aged 92

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2022Aged 91

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2021Aged 90

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2020Aged 89

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2019Aged 88

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2018Aged 87

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2017Aged 86

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    Self - Reader: Declaration of Independence

2016Aged 85

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2015Aged 84

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2014Aged 83

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2013Aged 82

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2012Aged 81

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2011Aged 80

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2010Aged 79

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2009Aged 78

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2008Aged 77

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2007Aged 76

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    Taking Chance (voice)

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2006Aged 75

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2005Aged 74

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    The Captain

2003Aged 72

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2002Aged 71

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2000Aged 69

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1998Aged 67

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1997Aged 66

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1996Aged 65

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1995Aged 64

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1994Aged 63

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1993Aged 62

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1992Aged 61

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1991Aged 60

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1990Aged 59

1988Aged 57

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1987Aged 56

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    Carrasco

1986Aged 55

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    The Preacher

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1985Aged 54

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1984Aged 53

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1983Aged 52

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    Bill Vigars

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1982Aged 51

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1981Aged 50

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1979Aged 48

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1978Aged 47

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1977Aged 46

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1976Aged 45

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1975Aged 44

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1974Aged 43

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1973Aged 42

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1972Aged 41

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1971Aged 40

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1970Aged 39

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1969Aged 38

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1968Aged 37

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1967Aged 36

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1966Aged 35

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1965Aged 34

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1963Aged 32

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    Capt. Paul Cabot Winston

1962Aged 31

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1960Aged 29

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