Robert Duvall
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 Duvall Movies
Discover the best Robert Duvall movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Robert Duvall ranked by year and score.
1
The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
Crime
Horror
Mystery
West Point, 1830. A cadet is found hanged, his chest cracked open and his heart removed. The military academy calls in Augustus Landor, a weathered former constable with a talent...
Score
6.8
2
Hustle (2022)
Comedy
Drama
Stanley Sugarman has spent years grinding through minor gyms and red-eye flights, scouting talent for an NBA franchise that barely notices he exists. When he stumbles upon a raw, fiercely...
Score
7.7
3
Widows (2018)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
When a botched robbery in Chicago ends in gunfire and body bags, four women are left holding the wreckage of their husbands' crimes. They never asked for this life, and...
Score
6.5
4
The Judge (2014)
Drama
A high-powered defense attorney arrives in his small Indiana hometown for his mother's funeral and collides with his worst fear: his distant father, a respected judge, becomes the primary suspect...
Score
7.3
5
A Night in Old Mexico (2013)
Drama
Red Bovie has just lost his Texas ranch to foreclosure and sees nothing but a depressing trailer park waiting for him on the other side. So he does what any...
Score
5.3
6
Jack Reacher (2012)
Action
Crime
Drama
A sniper's arrest follows a mass shooting in a quiet town, but the suspect leaves behind a cryptic message requesting Jack Reacher. The drifting former military investigator arrives skeptical of...
Score
6.7
7
Seven Days in Utopia (2011)
Drama
Luke Chisholm had everything mapped out until one catastrophic round at his professional debut unraveled it all. Stranded in the tiny Texas town of Utopia, he stumbles into the company...
Score
5.7
8
Crazy Heart (2009)
Drama
Music
Romance
Bad Blake has spent decades chasing whiskey and cheap motels, his once-promising country career now reduced to small venues and regrets. When a music journalist arrives to write his story,...
Score
6.9
9
The Road (2009)
Adventure
Drama
Ash falls like snow across a ruined America, and two figures push a shopping cart through the silence. A father and his young son move south, not because salvation waits...
Score
7.0
10
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Comedy
Drama
Nick Naylor sells cigarettes for a living, and he's disturbingly good at it. A silver-tongued lobbyist juggling the impossible task of being both an effective spin-doctor for Big Tobacco and...
Score
7.2
11
Open Range (2003)
Action
Drama
Western
Boss Spearman and Charley Waite have spent years grazing free-range cattle across the open plains, answering to no one. That peace ends when they ride into a small town ruled...
Score
7.2
12
Gods and Generals (2003)
Drama
History
War
Robert E. Lee's trusted lieutenant, Thomas Jackson, emerges as the Confederacy's most formidable military mind during the Civil War's opening campaigns. A man of profound faith and tactical brilliance, Jackson's...
Score
6.3
13
John Q (2002)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
When his son's heart condition demands an immediate transplant, John Q faces a medical system indifferent to his son's survival. Insurance denial, exhausted appeals, and the clock ticking push an...
Score
7.1
14
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Action
Crime
Thriller
Randall Raines walked away from a life of stolen cars and never looked back. Then his younger brother Kip got in over his head with Raymond Calitri, a ruthless crime...
Score
6.4
15
A Civil Action (1998)
Drama
Jan Schlichtmann starts out trying to dump a nuisance lawsuit as quickly as possible. Then the numbers shift, and what looked like a loser case starts looking like a fortune....
Score
6.5
16
Deep Impact (1998)
Action
Drama
Science Fiction
When a teenage astronomy student accidentally photographs something that shouldn't exist, a chain of events pulls together an ambitious TV journalist, an aging astronaut on one last mission, and a...
Score
6.2
17
The Apostle (1997)
Drama
Eulis 'Sonny' Dewey has spent his whole life saving other people's souls, but when his marriage collapses and his world falls apart, this fiery Texas preacher commits an act he...
Score
6.3
18
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Action
Drama
History
Forced onto reservation land and handed a farmer's life, Geronimo refuses to disappear quietly. When the U.S. government breaks its promises one too many times, he leads a small band...
Score
6.3
19
Falling Down (1993)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Bill Foster just wants to get to his daughter's birthday party. That simple goal, set against the gridlocked sprawl of Los Angeles, unravels into something far darker as a morning...
Score
7.4
20
Days of Thunder (1990)
Action
Adventure
Drama
Cole Trickle has raw talent and a lead foot, but NASCAR demands more than nerve. Veteran crew chief Harry Hogge takes the untested hotshot under his wing, and soon Cole...
Score
6.3
21
Colors (1988)
Action
Crime
Drama
Los Angeles in the late 1980s is a city divided by color, literally. Two LAPD officers patrol the gang-saturated streets of East L.A. and South Central, where red and blue...
Score
6.5
22
Tender Mercies (1983)
Drama
Music
Romance
Mac Sledge was once somebody in country music. Now he's sleeping off bad decisions at a rural Texas motel, owned by a quiet widow raising her boy alone. What develops...
Score
6.7
23
The Great Santini (1979)
Drama
Bull Meechum is the kind of father who turns a backyard basketball game into a war of wills. A decorated Marine fighter pilot with no peacetime battlefield to conquer, he...
Score
6.8
24
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Drama
War
Vietnam, 1969. Captain Willard has a new assignment the Army will never officially acknowledge: travel deep into the jungle and kill a decorated Special Forces officer who has gone rogue....
Score
8.3
25
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Horror
Science Fiction
San Francisco is quietly losing its soul. People seem off, their warmth replaced by something hollow and watchful, and two public health inspectors find themselves piecing together a conspiracy so...
Score
7.2
26
Network (1976)
Drama
After twenty-five years behind the anchor desk, Howard Beale gets pushed out by a network that sees him as a liability. His response is to go on air and announce...
Score
7.8
27
Breakout (1975)
Action
Adventure
Thriller
When an American man is wrongfully convicted and rotting in a Mexican prison, his desperate wife turns to the only option left: a reckless, cash-hungry bush pilot willing to fly...
Score
6.3
28
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Crime
Drama
Two timelines, one relentless verdict on power. In early twentieth-century New York, a Sicilian immigrant named Vito Corleone builds something from nothing, trading survival for influence one careful step at...
Score
8.6
29
The Conversation (1974)
Crime
Drama
Mystery
Harry Caul can record anything. What he cannot do is stop listening. Francis Ford Coppola's quietly devastating 1974 film follows a professional eavesdropper in San Francisco who becomes consumed by...
Score
7.5
30
The Godfather (1972)
Crime
Drama
Vito Corleone has spent decades building an empire held together by loyalty, fear, and carefully observed rules. When an assassination attempt leaves him near death, his family fractures under the...
Score
8.7
31
MAS*H (1970)
Comedy
Drama
War
Korea, 1950. Three Army surgeons stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital have decided that the only sane response to constant carnage is complete, gleeful absurdity. Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould,...
Score
7.0
32
Bullitt (1968)
Action
Crime
Thriller
A senator wants to prosecute a crime boss, but his star witness, a volatile mobster's brother, lands under the protection of San Francisco police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When professional killers...
Score
7.1
33
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Drama
Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s looks quiet enough through the eyes of six-year-old Scout Finch, a curious, sharp-tongued girl who spends summers with her brother Jem and their friend Dill,...
Score
8.0
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring Robert Duvall?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Robert Duvall are The Pale Blue Eye, Hustle, and Widows.
How many movies and TV shows has Robert Duvall starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 33 titles starring Robert Duvall, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
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Yes! The overall filmography starring Robert Duvall maintains a strong average user rating of 7 out of 10 across all tracked titles.