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 MD 1963 as Major Frank Burns in the blockbuster comedy MASH 1970 and the lead role in THX 1138 1971 as well as Horton Footes adaptation of William Faulkners 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 FBI 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 Handmaids Tale 1990 Days of Thunder 1990 Rambling Rose 1991 Falling Down 1993 Secondhand Lions 2003 The Judge 2014 and Widows 2018 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia