The best Robert Duvall movies include some of the most important and critically acclaimed films in history. Duvall got his career started on television with small roles in several TV shows before moving on to Broadway in the late 1960s. He remains notable for having his first-ever movie role in one of the greatest movies of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, in the important role of the mysterious Boo Radley. However, his true rise to fans came in the 1970s when he started signing onto roles in some incredibly noteworthy films.
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He appeared in the movie version of M*A*S*H, in George Lucas’s first-ever sci-fi movie before Star Wars, THX 1138, and then enjoyed the biggest breakout role of his career when he portrayed Tom Hagen in the cast of The Godfather. Since that time, Duvall has become one of Hollywood’s greatest actors, earning seven Oscar nominations and winning one, while also winning two Primetime Emmy Awards (5 nominations, 2 wins) and four Golden Globe Awards (7 nominations, 4 wins). He continues to act into his 90s.
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Secondhand Lions (2003)
Hub McCann
Secondhand Lions
PG
Comedy
Documentary
Drama
Family
Release Date
September 19, 2003
Runtime
111 minutes
Director
Tim McCanlies
Writers
Tim McCanlies
Cast
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Michael Caine
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Robert Duvall
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Haley Joel Osment
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Kyra Sedgwick
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While Robert Duvall has several award-winning movies to his name, he has also appeared in some fan favorites that showed his great talent without worrying about the awards journey. One of the more overlooked movies of his career came in 2003 when he starred in Secondhand Lions. The film starred Haley Joel Osment as he carried over his success from The Sixth Sense. Osment played 14-year-old Walter, a boy whose mother, who wasn’t responsible enough to raise him, sent him to live with his uncles.
Robert Duvall and Michael Caine starred as his uncles, two men who live on a small farm in Texas. Walter’s mother had ulterior motives, as she believes the uncles have a secret fortune amassed from previous adventures hidden somewhere on their land. They then buy a tamed circus lioness, who becomes Walter’s pet. The film was a small box office success and has a 61% positive Rotten Tomatoes score, with critics praising its “wholesome” but “schmaltzy” story.
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A Civil Action (1998)
Jerome Facher
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A Civil Action
PG-13
Drama
Release Date
December 25, 1998
Runtime
115 minutes
Director
Steven Zaillian
Producers
Rachel Pfeffer, Robert Redford
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John Travolta
Jan Schlichtmann
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Robert Duvall
Jerome Facher
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Tony Shalhoub
Kevin Conway
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William H. Macy
James Gordon
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A Civil Action was a John Travolta film, released in 1998 as Travolta continued his career resurrection thanks to Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. This, however, was a very different role for Travolta, who stars as a cocky Boston attorney named Jan Schlichtmann who works for a personal injury firm. When he is asked to represent a resident of a small town where toxic waste contaminated the local water supply and led to the death of local children, he has to put his ego to the test as he goes into battle with giant corporations.
Robert Duvall stars in A Civil Action as Jerry Facher, the attorney for Beatrice Foods, one of the companies responsible for all the children’s deaths. This is a rough movie to watch because it shows how the arrogance of one man can cause every victim in the movie to lose in the end (although a postscript showed that eventually justice was found). The film was a box office failure and received mixed reviews, but Duvall received an Oscar nomination for his performance, the sixth of his career.
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The Judge (2014)
Joseph Palmer
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The Judge
pg-13
Drama
Crime
5/10
Release Date
October 10, 2014
Runtime
141 Minutes
Director
David Dobkin
Writers
David Dobkin
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Robert Duvall
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Robert Downey Jr.
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In 2014, 83-year-old Robert Duvall earned his seventh Oscar nomination for his performance in the movie The Judge. In this film, Duvall plays the titular Judge Joseph Palmer, while Robert Downey Jr. plays his son, Hank, an attorney who defends powerful clients that he knows are guilty of their crimes. When Hank returns home for his mother’s funeral, he checks in on his dad and realizes that Judge Palmer is showing signs of memory loss and soon the judge is arrested and charged with first-degree murder after a hit-and-run death.
The Judge received mixed reviews, but even the critics who didn’t like the movie praised Duvall’s performance as the older judge who saw his career and life slipping away from him. Duvall also received a lot of awards attention for the performance. On top of his Oscar nod, Duvall also received Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, and Critics’ Choice nominations. He also won Supporting Actor of the Year from the Hollywood Film Awards.
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The Apostle (1997)
The Apostle E.F.
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The Apostle
PG-13
Drama
Release Date
December 19, 1997
Runtime
134 Minutes
Director
Robert Duvall
Writers
Robert Duvall
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Robert Duvall
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Farrah Fawcett
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Miranda Richardson
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John Beasley
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Released in 1997, The Apostle was a drama movie that Robert Duvall directed and starred in. In this movie, Duvall plays Euliss F. “Sonny” Dewey, a very charismatic Pentecostal preacher whose wife Jessie (Farrah Fawcett) begins an affair with a youth minister. When Jessie forces Sonny out of his position as the church’s preacher, and the congregation sides with her, he refuses to leave. Eventually, he attacks the youth minister and kills the young man before destroying evidence of his past and running away to Louisiana.
However, when he becomes a popular minister there, going by the name Apostle E.F., he ends up attracting attention and his ex-wife alerts the police to his location. The movie was a success, thanks to its low $5 million budget, and it received mostly positive reviews, with an 88% Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score. The movie won Best Film, Best Male Lead (for Duvall), and Best Director (for Duvall) at the Independent Spirit Awards, while the actor also received an Oscar nomination for his performance in the movie.
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M*A*S*H (1970)
Major Frank Burns
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R
Comedy
Documentary
Drama
War
Release Date
February 18, 1970
Runtime
116 minutes
Director
Robert Altman
Writers
Richard Hooker, Ring Lardner Jr.
Cast
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Donald Sutherland
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Elliott Gould
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Tom Skerritt
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Sally Kellerman
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M*A*S*H remains one of the most successful television shows of all time, and its finale had the most viewers of any television episode for many years. However, the TV series was based on a movie that was released in 1970. Unlike the series, which just focused on the doctors in the Korean War, the movie was a sports comedy-drama about the same doctors from the TV show, but with an emphasis on them putting together a football team for a competition between the 4077th and the 325th Evac Hospital.
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In M*A*S*H, Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould played Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre, the protagonists of the movie and the series. Robert Duvall plays Major Frank Burns, the main antagonistic force in the movie and TV show (Larry Linville played him on TV). The film was a huge success, making $81.6 million on a $3 million budget, while also earning five Oscar nominations. The Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry in 1996.
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Tender Mercies (1983)
Mac Sledge
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Tender Mercies
PG
Drama
Music
Romance
Release Date
March 4, 1983
Runtime
92 Minutes
Director
Bruce Beresford
Writers
Horton Foote
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Robert Duvall
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Tess Harper
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Betty Buckley
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Wilford Brimley
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One of Robert Duvall’s best performances came in Tender Mercies, a masterpiece of a film that people rarely talk about anymore. The film was written by Horton Foote, one of the greatest screenwriters in cinema history and the man who pitched the idea of Duvall playing Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, another script Foote wrote. Duvall stars as Mac Sledge, a former country music star whose career and family were destroyed by his alcoholism. Now recovering, he seeks to make a fresh start. Duvall also actually sang the songs in the movie.
Tender Mercies made a small profit, but nowhere near what the studio had hoped. However, it had a long-lasting legacy thanks to the script and Duvall’s award-winning performance. Critics mostly praised the film, with a high 82% Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score, with praise going to Duvall’s understated performance. The film received five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, and Duvall won his only Oscar for this performance, while Foote won for Best Screenplay.
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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Boo Radley
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Approved
Crime
Drama
Release Date
December 25, 1962
Runtime
129 minutes
Director
Robert Mulligan
Writers
Harper Lee, Horton Foote
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Gregory Peck
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John Megna
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Frank Overton
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Rosemary Murphy
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Robert Duvall’s first-ever movie role came in one of the best movies of all time. He starred as Boo Radley in the masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Based on Harper Lee’s seminal novel, the film is about a widowed attorney named Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) who agrees to take on the case of a Black man falsely accused of sexually assaulting a young white girl in the racist, segregated South. The key to the novel and the movie is that the story is seen from the eyes of the young Scout, Finch’s daughter.
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One of the key events in the movie has Scout coming across the local urban legend of a scary resident named Boo Radley that most people in the town have never seen outside of his home. However, when a man embarrassed in the court case comes for revenge against Finch, and almost kills Scout, Boo saves her life. It was a huge moment in a groundbreaking film that earned eight Oscar nominations, with Peck winning Best Actor.
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Network (1976)
Frank Hackett
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Network
R
Drama
Release Date
November 27, 1976
Runtime
121 Minutes
Director
Sidney Lumet
Writers
Paddy Chayefsky
Producers
Fred C. Caruso
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Faye Dunaway
Diana Christensen
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Peter Finch
Max Schumacher
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William Holden
Howard Beale
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Reality TV is one of the most prevalent forms of entertainment today. However, in 1976, it was still mostly seen as a fantasy and that makes movies like Network so impressive, as it really drives home how dangerous it can be, especially when looking at social media, which wasn’t even a thought in those days. Peter Finch stars as Howard Beale, a journalist who is driven to the edge by the social problems and depravity that exist in the real world and goes live on TV and says he will kill himself live on the air.
This leads to an increase in ratings as he becomes a star, with his mantra “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” However, as his messages get more extreme, the network decides they need to do something about it in the most extreme way possible. Robert Duvall plays Frank Hackett, a network exec who hires someone to assassinate Finch live on the air. Network has a 91% Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score, and it was nominated for 10 Oscars, with Finch winning Best Actor.
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
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Apocalypse Now
R
Drama
War
Mystery
10/10
9.6/10
Release Date
August 15, 1979
Runtime
147 minutes
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Writers
Joseph Conrad, John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
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Marlon Brando
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Martin Sheen
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Robert Duvall’s best movies have been with Francis Ford Coppola as director. Three movies were nominated for Best Picture in the 1970s that saw Coppola and Duvall teaming up. One of these was Apocalypse Now, which saw Duvall star as Lieutenant Colonel William “Bill” Kilgore. In this movie, Martin Sheen is Benjamin Willard, an assassin on his third tour of Vietnam who is sent to kill Colonel Walter Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a highly decorated Special Forces officer who went rogue.
Duvall’s Kilgore is one of the most colorful characters in the movie, and he has some great lines, including “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” during an all-out bombing attack.
Duvall’s Kilgore is one of the most colorful characters in the movie, and he has some great lines, including “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” during an all-out bombing attack. While this story was mostly about Willard’s journey into the “heart of darkness” and about Kurtz’s fall from grace and his disenchantment with the United States military efforts in the country, Kilgore is the face of the military and a strong indication of what it takes to lead an attack in the manner of the Vietnam War.
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The Godfather (1972)
Tom Hagen
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The Godfather
R
Drama
Crime
9/10
190
9.3/10
Release Date
March 24, 1972
Runtime
175 minutes
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Writers
Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Sequel(s)
The Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III
Cast
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Marlon Brando
Don Vito Corleone
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Al Pacino
Michael Corleone
Franchise(s)
The Godfather
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The best movies that Robert Duvall ever appeared in were Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpieces. This started with the first movie, The Godfather, which saw Duvall star as Tom Hagen. The film follows Don Corleone (Marlon Brando), a highly respected and powerful mafia don, and his son Michael, a military hero who doesn’t want to be involved in the family business, but soon finds there is no way for him to escape this life. Hagen is the Corleone consigliere, lawyer, and adopted member of the family.
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The Godfather |
March 15, 1972 |
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The Godfather Part II |
December 20, 1974 |
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The Godfather Part III |
December 25, 1990 |
Tom Hagen is one of The Godfather‘s more important characters, and while he is not a blood brother to Michael (Al Pacino) and Sonny (James Caan), he is treated as such. While The Godfather Part II is arguably the better of the two Oscar-winning movies, the first film is more important when it comes to Tom, as he serves his surrogate father and then helps Michael in his slow rise to power. Robert Duvall also received an Oscar nomination for the first Godfather movie.
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