Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall
Date of Birth: 05 Jan 1931
Country: USA
Biography: Robert Selden Duvall 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. 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) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). He started to land much larger roles during the early 1970s with movies like MASH (1970) and THX 1138 (1971). (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 113 (Actor), 4 (Director), 4 (Writer)
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The Apostle
He was touched by the power and filled with the spirit. A man of faith. A man of the flesh. A man plagued by the darker side of human desire, and rage. Robert Duvall is Sonny, a gifted Southern preacher loved by his community. When Sonny loses control and commits a crime of passion, he is forced to run from the law. Hiding out in the small town of Bayou Boutte, Sonny adopts a new identity and sets out on a new mission ' to find the road to redemption. (Universal)
Assassination Tango
From acclaimed actor, writer, and director Robert Duvall comes Assassination Tango, a complex thriller, fascinating character study, and provocative look at the intoxicating world of Argentine tango. (United Artists)
A Civil Action
Jan Schlichtmann, a tenacious lawyer, is addressed by a group of families. When investigating the seemingly non-profiting case, he finds it to be a major environmental issue that has a lot of impact potential. A leather production company could be responsible for several deadly cases of leukemia, but also is the main employer for the area... (imdb)
Colors
Set in the East L.A. barrio, Colors stars Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as very different cops, both in age and temperment, hand picked for the city's anti-gang campaign. As partners, they daily drive their unmarked car through the warring Los Angeles neighborhoods. Their simple code of endurance: Keep peace in the streets at any price! [MGM]
Deep Impact
As a comet is on a collision course with earth, humans have to prepare for their survival. They randomly select eight hundred thousand people to be saved in order to keep the human race alive. (imdb)
The Gingerbread Man
He knew the law, but he forgot the rules: Never get involved with a client. And never put your family in danger. Step into the courtly world of Savannah's top-tier law firms. Meet one of the brightest young stars of the bar, Rick Magruder (Branagh). And witness how his obsession with a beautiful, mysterious client (Davidtz), stalked by her deranged father, plunges him into a world of terrifying intrigue and deadly deceit. (Universal)
The Godfather
Francis Ford Coppola's epic features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone's family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged... (Paramount Pictures)
The Godfather: Part II
The sequel to "The Godfather" continues the saga of two generations of successive power within the Corleone family. Coppola tells two stories in Part II: the roots and rise of a young Don Vito, played with uncanny ability by Robert De Niro, and the ascension of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. (Paramount)
Gods and Generals
Gods and Generals, the screen adaptation of Jeff Shaara's heralded best-selling novel and prequel to the acclaimed drama "Gettysburg," is and epic and sweeping portrayal of a nation divided at the start of the Civil War. (Warner Bros.)
Gone in 60 Seconds
Car theft in Long Beach went down 47% when Randall "Memphis" Raines walked away from the life. He gets dragged back into it by assuming the job his brother Kip screwed up for stolen-car broker Raymond Calitri: steal 50 exotic cars and have them on a container ship by 8 AM Friday morning, and he got this news on a Monday. With Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip, and the police GRAB unit breathing down his neck, Memphis reassembles his old crew and attempts to pull off the logistically impossible. (imdb)
John Q
John Q. Archibald (Washington) is an ordinary man who must face the fact that his health insurance will not pay for the emergency heart transplant that is his son's only hope. Vowing to do whatever it takes to keep his son alive, John Q decides his only hope is a desperate gamble, and he takes the emergency room hostage. (New Line Cinema)
Kicking & Screaming
Welcome to that cutthroat, hyper-competitive, do-or-die sport of...little league soccer, a world where kids and their victory-crazed suburban parents find themselves on a high-stakes collision course-all in the name of good, clean, athletic fun. (Universal)
Open Range
Academy-Award winning director Kevin Costner ("Dances with Wolves") helms this traditional Western tale of a way of life that is quickly disappearing. (Touchstone Pictures)
Secondhand Lions
When the introverted young Walter (Osment) finds himself forced to spend the summer with a pair of eccentric great-uncles (Caine, Duvall) on a remote ranch in Texas, he's understandably unnerved. But left to their own devices, this mismatched threesome begins to forge an unlikely bond. A heartwarming comedy about adventures, discoveries, growth and trust. (New Line Cinema)
A Shot at Glory
Gordon McLeod (Duvall) is the manager of a second tier Scottish football team. Faced with pressure from his American owner (Keaton), he is forced to bring on a marquee player to improve the fortunes of the team and prevents its being moved from the fiercely loyal town it's been for a century. (Revere Pictures)
Sling Blade
A southern gothic tale about a man named Karl, who's just been released from an asylum - some 25 years after he committed a gruesome crime. He returns to the southern town of his youth, where his quiet, gentle manner and simple charm land him a job and lead him to an unlikely friendship with a young boy and his widowed mother.
THX 1138
George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people. THX 1138 stops taking the drugs, and gets LUH 3417 pregnant. They are both thrown in jail where they meet SEN 5241 and start to plan their escape. (imdb)
The 6th Day
A provocative, high-octane look at what happens when technology falls into destructive, corrupt hands -- and when one man refuses to be a pawn in the deadly conspiracy. (Columbia TriStar)
Thank You for Smoking
Thank You for Smoking is a fiercely satirical look at today's "culture of spin." The hero of the film is Nick Naylor (Eckhart), chief spokesman for Big Tobacco, who makes his living defending the rights of smokers and cigarette makers in today's neo-puritanical culture. (Fox Searchlight)
Network
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. (IMDB.com)
Apocalypse Now
We follow Captain Willard on his mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe (imdb)
The Conversation
A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Falling Down
An unemployed defence worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them. (imdb)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge and his kids against prejudice. (imdb)
Bullitt
An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. (imdb)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. (imdb)
MASH
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. (imdb)
Stalin
Stalin (1992) - TV Movie
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. (imdb)
The Paper
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent... (imdb)
The Great Santini
The four Meechum kids and their mother move from Marine post to Marine post, following their father... (imdb)
The Chase
The escape of Bubba Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town. (imdb)
Days of Thunder
A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level. (imdb)
Tender Mercies
Alcoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career. (imdb)
Phenomenon
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis. (imdb)
The Detective
Police detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs. Based on the Roderick Thorpe novel (imdb)
The Natural
An average baseball player comes out of seemingly nowhere to become a legendary player with almost divine talent.
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove (1989) - TV Mini-Series
True Grit
A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn young woman track down her father's murderer in Indian territory. (imdb)
True Confessions
De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute. (imdb)
Newsies
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike. (imdb)
Joe Kidd
An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader. (imdb)
The Eagle Has Landed
Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin. (imdb)
A Family Thing
Bowlegged cracker, Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. (imdb)
The Scarlet Letter
In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England... (imdb)
Convicts
In 1902 Texas, 13-year-old Horace goes to work on old Soll's farm to earn enough money to buy a headstone for his father's grave. Unfortunately for Horace, Soll's senility, ill health, and obsession with the convict labor he uses to work the farm, make it unlikely that Horace will ever be paid the $12.50 Soll owes him for 6 months work. (imdb)
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends... (imdb)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud. (imdb)
The Killer Elite
Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend. (imdb)
Rambling Rose
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men. "Daddy" Hillier soon grows tired of Rose's rambling ways. (imdb)
Lucky You
A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems. (imdb)
Geronimo: An American Legend
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs. (imdb)
Something to Talk About
Grace Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie deceives her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae's house for a while, to make up her mind. Breaking out of her everyday life, she starts to question the authority of everyone, especially her father's, thus causing a stir in her parent's marriage, too. (imdb)
Countdown
The Apollo 3 crew are training when it is discovered that the Russians plan a moon landing. The Americans enact a makeshift plan to land a man on the moon first, using an older style Gemini spacecraft... (imdb)
We Own the Night
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men. (imdb)
Lawman
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken, trail-weary cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death... (imdb)
The Rain People
Having discovered that she is pregnant, Natalie Ravenna (Shirley Knight), a Long Island housewife panics and leaves home to see if she might just possibly have made something different out of herself; if she can manage to unshackle her grocery list worth of responsibilities that add up to a life with a husband she loves... (imdb)
The Handmaid\
Set in a Fascistic future America, The Handmaid's Tale tells the story of Kate, a handmaid. In this America, the religious right has taken over and gone hog-wild. Kate is a criminal, guilty of the crime of trying to escape from the US, and is sentenced to become a Handmaid. The job of a Handmaid is to bear the children of the man to whom she is assigned... (imdb)
Broken Trail
Broken Trail (2006) - TV Mini-Series
Set in 1898, Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte become the reluctant guardians of five abused and abandoned Chinese girls. Ritter and Harte's attempts to care for the girls are complicated by their responsibility to deliver a herd of horses while avoiding a group of bitter rivals intent on kidnapping the girls for their own purposes. (imdb)
Breakout
A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner. (imdb)
Tomorrow
A lonely farmer in backwoods Mississippi takes in a pregnant wayfarer who has been abandoned by the father of her child and the farmer looks after her. (imdb)
Captain Newman, M.D.
A World War II Army psychiatrist tries to help his battle-shocked patients. (Turner Classic Movies)
The Outfit
When the small criminal Macklin is released from prison, he learns that shortly before his brother was shot by two killers. They didn't know that the bank they robbed was owned by the syndicate. When he's almost offed by a killer too, he pays the mobster Jack Manner a visit and demands reparation. His friend Cody helps him to gratify his thirst for revenge. (imdb)
Four Christmases
A couple struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. (imdb)
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, MN. (imdb)
The Revolutionary
A well-meaning student tries to fight against a corrupt society that practices a form of "repressive tolerance." He moves from one form of protest to another, finding defeat and frustration each time, and escalating his militancy in the hopes of making a difference next time. (imdb)
The Road
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
Get Low
A man in a small town plans his own funeral in order to resolve an old murder case.
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
The legendary hijacker hits the backroads to evade capture from a determined insurance agent.
Crazy Heart
When small town reporter Jean Craddock seeks out Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- for an interview, they make a connection, and hard-living Blake sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young boy. Is he ready to leave behind a life playing in the shadow of Tommy, the upstart kid he once mentored?
The Godfather: A Novel for Television
The first two Godfather films were re-edited together in chronological order with additional footage added. (imdb)
The Stone Boy
A tragic accident changes a family forever in this drama set in Montana. When 12-year-old Arnold (Jason Presson) accidentally kills his 17-year-old brother Eugene, Arnold's father (Robert Duvall) angrily vents his grief, his mother (Glenn Close) hides in fear, and his mean uncle (Frederic Forrest) gets in the way. Luckily, Arnold's wise grandfather (Wilford Brimley) tries to help the shattered family adjust.
Badge 373
A suspended cop sets out to avenge his partner's murder. (TCM.com)
The Greatest
Muhammad Ali risks his championship status by speaking out against the Vietnam War. (TCM.com)
Lady Ice
An insurance investigator romances a wealthy young beauty when he suspects she may be involved in fencing stolen jewels. (imdb)
Let\
When Harry Burck (Harmon), an American engineer on loan to Colombia, is taken hostage and held for ransom, his brother Corey (Schoeffling) and friend Jack (Busey) are among a group of men, lead by Shrike (Duvall), who go deep into the jungles of Colombia to rescue Harry and an American ambassador. (imdb)
Apocalypse Pooh
Apocalypse Pooh (1987) - Short Film
A collage of scenes from Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons overlain with dialogue from Apocalypse Now (1979). (imdb)
La peste
In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city an idealistic doctor decides to stay and help the sick. In the ever changing circumstances he puts up a brave fight, being helped by others but also involving them without being able to control the situation. Based on the novel by Albert Camus "the Plague". (imdb)
The Lightship
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back. (imdb)
The Betsy
The aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuel-efficient car.
Ike: The War Years
Ike: The War Years (1979) - TV Mini-Series
Made-for-TV biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. (imdb)
Seven Days in Utopia
After a disastrous debut on the pro circuit, a young golfer finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas and welcomed by an eccentric rancher.
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
A documentary on the making of the three Godfather films, with interviews and recollections from the film makers and cast... (imdb)
A Show of Force
An American journalist in Puerto Rico in 1978 investigates the death of nationalists who may have been murdered by the police. (imdb)
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost? (imdb)
Jayne Mansfield\
The drama is about two families from different countries whose cultures clash. The drama takes place in the 1960s. (imdb)
Hemingway & Gellhorn
A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and WWII correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer. (imdb)
Jack Reacher
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims. Based on a book in Lee Child's crime series. (imdb)
Belizaire the Cajun
This inexpensive but effusively energetic film is set in Louisiana's Cajun country of the 19th century. Belizaire (Armand Assante), unofficial spokesman for his people, butts heads with local bigots who want to rid the area of Cajuns. Belizaire's former girlfriend (Gail Youngs) is now the common-law wife of the film's main antagonist (Will Patton), the son of a wealthy landowner. When Patton is murdered, the locals try to pin the blame on the rabble-rousing Belizaire. (allrovi.com)
Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI
Released theatrically in Europe, Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI originated as "The Executioner", a two-part episode of the weekly TV series The FBI. The series' usual stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Philip Abbott and Stephen Brooks are joined on this occasion by guest artists Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm, Telly Savalas and Susan Strasberg-and, way down on the cast list, Robert Duvall. The story concerns double-crosses within the inner circles of La Cosa Nostra. (allrovi.com)
Casting By
The surprising, never-before-told tale of the indispensable yet unsung Casting Director - Iconoclasts whose keen eye, exquisite taste and gut instincts redefined Hollywood (imdb)
The Man Who Captured Eichmann
The story of the 1960 hostile extraction of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, by the Mossad to Israeli justice. (imdb)
A Night in Old Mexico
Forced to give up his land and his only home, cantankerous Texas rancher Red Bovie isn't about to go quietly to the dismal trailer park that's all he can now afford, and instead goes off with his grandson Gally - son of his long-estranged son Jimmy - for one last wild and woolly adventure during a night in Old Mexico. (imdb)
The Judge
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family. (imdb)
Wild Horses
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case and begins to suspect that the boy it belongs to was murdered - and that a local rancher was involved. (imdb)
The Terry Fox Story
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
The Outer Limits
In Dubious Battle
An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s. (imdb)
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980
The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family. (imdb)
Widows
Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
Francis Ford Coppola's masterful 1979 Vietnam War epic was previously expanded in 2001 into Apocalypse Now Redux by adding back 49 minutes of excised footage. This 2019 version of the film clocks in midway between the two prior releases by including just some of that added footage. In addition, the entire film has been remastered in 4K.
Nightmare in the Sun
A young man hitchhiking through the desert is picked up by a beautiful woman. They have an affair, and he finds out that she's married. The consequences of the affair lead to murder and blackmail.
12 Mighty Orphans
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
The Twilight Zone
The Time Tunnel
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Hustle
A washed-up basketball scout discovers a phenomenal street ball player while in Spain and sees the prospect as his opportunity to get back into the NBA. (imdb)
The Fugitive
Hotel Colonial
When a young Italian-American living in New York hears that his older brother, and infamous terrorist, committed suicide in South America after fleeing Italy, he flies to Columbia to identify and bring his brother's body home. Instead of finding him, he is lead into a hellish nightmare of violence and disillusionment.
The Pale Blue Eye
A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets' code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe. (imdb)
The F.B.I.
The F.B.I. (1965) - TV Series
Combat!
Combat! (1962) - TV Series
The Daily Show
Great Ghost Tales
The last regularly scheduled television series to be broadcast live in the U.S. Featured dramatizations of ghost stories and other tales of the supernatural, many of which were adapted from stories by famous authors like Conrad Aiken and Edgar Allan Poe.