Robert Duvall
American actor and director (1931-2026) · United States · Actors · Died at 95
Robert Duvall is read about 9,229 times a day, in 85 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?He slipped into other skins so completely that critics called him "the American Olivier" - the quiet technician who could play a reclusive neighbor, a mob consigliere, and a washed-up country singer with equal conviction, collecting Oscars and Emmys across seven decades without ever becoming a household face.
A life in dates
HustleFilm, Rex Merrick2016
In Dubious BattleFilm, Chris Bolton2015
The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSeries2012
Jack ReacherFilm, Martin Cash2007Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a MovieAward
The Graham Norton ShowSeries, 2007
We Own the NightFilm, 2007Burt Grusinsky2003Donostia AwardAward
Open RangeFilm, 2003Boss Spearman2000
Gone in Sixty SecondsFilm, Otto Halliwell1996
The Daily ShowSeries
PhenomenonFilm, 1996Doc1990
Days of ThunderFilm, Harry Hogge1988
American ExperienceSeries, Narrator (voice)1984Academy Award for Best ActorAward
The NaturalFilm, 1984Max Mercy1981“I don’t try to be a hard guy to work with … but I decide what I’m going to do with a character. I will take direction, but only if it kind of supplements what I want to do.”In their wordsInterview in American Film magazine (1981); as quoted in "Robert Duvall, a Chameleon of an Actor Onscreen and Onstage, Dies at 95" by Clyde1980BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleAwardGolden Globe AwardsAward1979
CBS News Sunday MorningSeries1978
Invasion of the Body SnatchersFilm, Priest on Swing (uncredited)1975
Saturday Night LiveSeries1974
The ConversationFilm, The Director (uncredited)1970
M*A*S*HFilm, Maj. Frank Burns1968
BullittFilm, Cabbie Weissberg1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler TheatreSeries1962
To Kill a MockingbirdFilm, Boo Radley1961
The DefendersSeries, Al Rogart1959
The Twilight ZoneSeries, Charley Parkes1944
Golden Globe AwardsSeries1931Born5 January 1931Also in Deutsch
Photos 8
Duvall with Diane Lane at the 41st Emmy Awards, September 1989
Duvall's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Joe Bowman with Duvall on the set of Lonesome Dove
Duvall (right) on the set of The Man Who Captured Eichmann, 1996
President George W. Bush stands with recipients of the 2005 National Medal of Arts, from left: Leonard Garment, Louis Auchincloss, Paquito D'Rivera, James DePreist, Tina Ramirez, Robert Duvall, and Ollie Johnston
Duvall with wife Gail Youngs, New York City apartment, 1984![Duvall, with Luciana Pedraza (right), shaking hands with a member of "The Black Stallions" of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron FOUR at the Taormina Film Fest in Sicily, Italy, 2003[70]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Robert_Duvall_Navy3.jpg/1280px-Robert_Duvall_Navy3.jpg)
Duvall, with Luciana Pedraza (right), shaking hands with a member of "The Black Stallions" of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron FOUR at the Taormina Film Fest in Sicily, Italy, 2003[70]In their own words 4
, The Western is our genre in the United States of America. The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the Russians have Chekhov, but we have the Western.
Sometimes what comes around the corner is better for you than what you're planning to do anyway.
I don’t try to be a hard guy to work with … but I decide what I’m going to do with a character. I will take direction, but only if it kind of supplements what I want to do.
Filmography 40
TEThe Pale Blue EyeHUHustle
WIWidowsIBIn Dubious Battle
TJThe JudgeJRJack Reacher
TRThe Road
CHCrazy Heart
FCFour ChristmasesWNWe Own the Night
TSThank You for Smoking
KSKicking & Screaming
SLSecondhand LionsOROpen Range
JQJohn QGSGone in Sixty Seconds
TDThe 6th Day
DIDeep Impact
AAA Civil ActionPHPhenomenon
SBSling Blade
TLThe Scarlet Letter
FDFalling DownDTDays of Thunder
TTThe Handmaid's Tale
COColorsTNThe Natural
ANApocalypse NowISInvasion of the Body Snatchers
NENetwork
TLThe Eagle Has Landed
TIThe Godfather Part IITCThe Conversation
TGThe Godfather
THTHX 1138MHM*A*S*H
TGTrue GritBUBullitt
TCThe ChaseTMTo Kill a Mockingbird205 credits on file
Television 24
TCThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TFThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
LMLate Night with Seth MeyersTSThe Graham Norton ShowTSThe Daily Show
LLLate Show with David Letterman
LBLate Night with Conan O'BrienAEAmerican Experience
APAmerican PlayhouseCMCBS News Sunday MorningSLSaturday Night Live
TIThe F.B.I.
TWThe Wild Wild West
TFThe Fugitive
TSThe Merv Griffin Show
TVThe Virginian
COCombat!
TSThe Mike Douglas ShowTDThe DefendersTZThe Twilight Zone
TUThe Untouchables
NCNaked CityGAGolden Globe AwardsAwards
Family
Parents
Robert DuvallPartners
Is this everyone?
Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong.
Correct this familyAbout this person
Robert Duvall started on summer stages in Long Island in 1952, then spent the sixties moving through television drama before slipping onto the big screen as the unseen Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. The 1970s brought the roles that proved his range: the cool consigliore in The Godfather, the surf-obsessed colonel in Apocalypse Now, the brutal father in The Great Santini. He won his Oscar in 1983 for Tender Mercies, playing an alcoholic country singer in a performance he built with technical precision, and kept working into his eighties - earning six more Academy Award nominations, two Emmys, and a reputation as the actor who disappeared completely into every part. He returned to stage work between films, including a Drama Desk-nominated turn in Mamet's American Buffalo, and never stopped. The work was the point.
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.