Robert Duvall
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Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards over the course of his career.
Duvall has been in some of the most acclaimed and popular films of all time, among them To Kill a Mockingbird, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, MASH, Network, True Grit, Bullitt, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies, The Natural and Lonesome Dove.
He began appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small, supporting television and film roles during the early 1960s in such works as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (as Boo Radley) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). He started to land much larger roles during the early 1970s with movies like MASH (1970) (as Major Burns) and THX 1138 (1971). This was followed by a series of critical successes: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Network (1976), The Great Santini (1979), Apocalypse Now (1979), and True Confessions (1981).
Since then Duvall has continued to act in both film and television with such productions as Tender Mercies (1983) (for which he won an Academy Award, The Natural (1984), Colors (1988), the television mini-series Lonesome Dove (1989), Stalin (1992), The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996), A Family Thing (1996), The Apostle (1997) (which he also wrote and directed), A Civil Action (1998), Gods and Generals (2003), Broken Trail (2006) and Get Low (2010).
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To Kill a Mockingbird | Arthur 'Boo' Radley | 1962 |
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Captain Newman, M.D. | Capt. Paul Cabot Winston | 1963 |
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The Detective | Nestor | 1968 |
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Bullitt | Weissberg | 1968 |
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True Grit | Ned Pepper | 1969 |
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MASH | Major Franklin Archimedes 'Frank' Burns | 1970 |
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Lawman | Vernon Adams | 1971 |
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THX 1138 | THX | 1971 |
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The Godfather | Tom Hagen | 1972 |
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Joe Kidd | Frank Harlan | 1972 |
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The Godfather: Part II | Tom Hagen | 1974 |
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Breakout | Jay Wagner | 1975 |
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The Killer Elite | George Hansen | 1975 |
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Network | Frank Hackett | 1976 |
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The Eagle Has Landed | Col. Max Radl | 1977 |
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Apocalypse Now | Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore | 1979 |
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Tender Mercies | Mac Sledge | 1983 |
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The Handmaid's Tale | The Commander | 1990 |
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Days of Thunder | Harry Hogge | 1990 |
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The Godfather Saga: 1901-1980 | Tom Hagen | 1992 |
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Newsies | Joseph Pulitzer | 1992 |
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Falling Down | Detective Prendergast | 1993 |
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Geronimo: An American Legend | Chief of Scouts Al Sieber | 1993 |
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The Paper | Bernie White | 1994 |
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The Scarlet Letter | Roger Chillingworth | 1995 |
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Phenomenon | Doc Brunder | 1996 |
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The Apostle | Euliss Dewey | 1997 |
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The Gingerbread Man | Dixon Doss | 1998 |
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Deep Impact | Capt. Spurgeon 'Fish' Tanner | 1998 |
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A Civil Action | Jerome Facher | 1998 |
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Gone In Sixty Seconds | Otto Halliwell | 2000 |
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The 6th Day | Dr. Griffin Weir | 2000 |
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Apocalypse Now Redux | Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore | 2001 |
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Open Range | Boss Spearman | 2003 |
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Gods and Generals | Robert E. Lee | 2003 |
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Secondhand Lions | Hub | 2003 |
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Thank You for Smoking | Captain | 2005 |
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We Own the Night | Burt Grusinsky | 2007 |
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The Road | Old Man - Eli | 2009 |
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Crazy Heart | Wayne | 2009 |
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Seven Days in Utopia | Johnny Crawford | 2011 |
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Hemingway & Gellhorn | Russian general | 2012 |
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Jack Reacher | Cash | 2012 |
