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Robert Duvall
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.
He began his career appearing in theatre during the late 1950s, moving into small to supporting television and film roles during the early 1960s...
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A Civil Action
A Civil Action is a 1998 film starring John Travolta (as plaintiff's attorney Jan Schlichtmann) and Robert Duvall, based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr. Both the book and the film are based on a true story that took place in Woburn,...
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. The plot revolves around two US Army special operations officers, one of whom, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) of MACV-SOG, is sent into the jungle to assassinate...
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Bee Movie
Bee Movie is a 2007 CGI-animated film starring Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, and Patrick Warburton. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, it is directed by Simon J. Smith and...
Bullitt
Bullitt is a 1968 American thriller film starring Steve McQueen. It was directed by Peter Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. The story was adapted for the screen by Alan Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the novel titled Mute Witness (1963) by...
Days of Thunder
Days of Thunder is an auto racing drama film released in 1990 by producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott. The cast includes Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes and Michael Rooker. The film...
Deep Impact
Deep Impact is a 1998 sci-fi-drama disaster film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks in the United States on May 8, 1998. The film was directed by Mimi Leder, and stars Elijah Wood, Téa Leoni, Morgan Freeman, and Robert Duvall. The plot...
Falling Down
Falling Down is a 1993 action/crime film directed by Joel Schumacher. The film stars Michael Douglas in the lead role as William Foster, a social outcast, divorcee, and former defense worker with what his ex-wife (Barbara Hershey) calls "a...
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Gone in 60 Seconds is a 2000 action film, starring Nicolas Cage, Giovanni Ribisi, Christopher Eccleston, Robert Duvall, Will Patton and Angelina Jolie. The film was directed by Dominic Sena, and written by Scott Rosenberg. It was produced by Jerry...
John Q
John Q is a 2002 film by Nick Cassavetes; starring Denzel Washington as John Quincy Archibald, a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover...
Lucky You
Lucky You is a 2007 drama directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, and Robert Duvall.
Huck Cheever (Eric Bana) is a young and talented poker player in Las Vegas haunted by his relationship with his estranged father, L.C....
MASH
MASH is a 1970 American Academy Award-winning satirical dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr. based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. It is the only feature film in the M*A*S...
Network
Network is a 1976 satirical film about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter...
Open Range
Open Range is a 2003 Western movie based on the novel The Open Range Men by Lauran Paine. The film is directed and co-produced by Kevin Costner, who stars with Robert Duvall and Annette Bening.
The movie properly belongs to the Western genre and has...
Phenomenon
Phenomenon is a 1996 drama, romance, and fantasy film written by Gerald Di Pego, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, and Robert Duvall.
In the film, an amiable, small-town everyman is inexplicably...
Secondhand Lions
Secondhand Lions is a family film about a introverted young man who goes to live with his eccentric bachelor uncles.
In the 1960s, 14-year old Walter Coleman (Haley Joel Osment) goes to live with his bachelor uncles, who are rumored to have a secret...
Tender Mercies
Tender Mercies is a 1983 American drama film directed by Bruce Beresford. The screenplay by Horton Foote focuses on Mac Sledge, a recovering alcoholic country music singer who seeks to turn his life around through his relationship with a young widow...
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Thank You for Smoking
Thank You for Smoking is a 2006 comedy-drama film satire directed by Jason Reitman and produced by David O. Sacks. It is based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Christopher Buckley.
The film was released in a limited run on March 17, 2006, and...
The Apostle
The Apostle is a 1997 film, written and directed by Robert Duvall, who stars in the title role. John Beasley, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, June Carter Cash, and Miranda Richardson also appear. It was filmed on location in and around Saint...
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The Betsy
The Betsy is a 1978 film made by the Harold Robbins International Company and released by Allied Artists. It was directed by Daniel Petrie and produced by Robert R. Weston and Emanuel L. Wolf with Jack Grossberg as associate producer. The screenplay...
The Gingerbread Man
The Gingerbread Man is a 1998 legal thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on a discarded John Grisham manuscript. The film stars Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr, Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, and Robert Duvall.
Divorced...
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American thriller film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the...
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The Godfather Saga
The Godfather Saga is a TV miniseries that combines The Godfather and The Godfather Part II into one film playing in chronological order. It originally aired on NBC over four consecutive nights (one three-hour segment and three two-hour segments) in...
The Great Santini
The Great Santini is a 1979 film which tells the story of a Marine officer whose success as a military aviator contrasts with his shortcomings as a husband and father. The film explores the high price of heroism and self-sacrifice. It stars Robert...
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is a 1990 film adaptation of the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff the film stars Natasha Richardson (Kate/Offred), Faye Dunaway (Serena Joy), Robert Duvall (The Commander, Fred), Aidan Quinn ...
The Paper
The Paper is a 1994 comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, and Glenn Close. The movie depicts 24 hours in a newspaper editor's professional and personal life.
Henry Hackett is the metro editor of the New...
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is a 1995 film adaptation of the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, The Scarlet Letter. It was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Demi Moore, Gary Oldman and Robert Duvall. This version was "freely adapted" from Hawthorne and...
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is a 1974 novel by American writer Nicholas Meyer. It is written as a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, and was adapted for the cinema in 1976. The novel's full title is The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint...
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THX 1138
This article is about the 1971 film. For the high fidelity sound company, see THX.
THX 1138 is a 1971 science fiction film directed by George Lucas, from a screenplay by Lucas and Walter Murch. It depicts a dystopian future in which a high level of...
The Godfather
The Godfather is a 1972 American thriller film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne (uncredited). It stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James...
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The Man Who Captured Eichmann
The Man Who Captured Eichmann is a 1996 movie about the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann by the Israeli secret service Mossad.
The film ends with the take-off of the El Al aircraft taking Eichmann to face trial in Jerusalem. In real life...
Gods and Generals
Gods and Generals is a 2003 film based on the novel, Gods and Generals, by Jeffrey Shaara. It is considered a prequel to the 1993 film Gettysburg, which was based on The Killer Angels, a novel by Michael Shaara, Jeff Shaara's father. The film stars...
A Family Thing
A Family Thing is a 1996 film starring Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones and Irma P. Hall. It was written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson and directed by Richard Pearce.
The film is a drama about a White American Southerner (Duvall) named Earl...
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
The Stars Fell on Henrietta is a 1995 drama film from Warner Bros., directed by James Keach and produced by Clint Eastwood.
A Shot at Glory
A Shot at Glory is a film by Michael Corrente produced in 1999 and released in 2001, starring Robert Duvall and the Scottish football player Ally McCoist. It had limited commercial and critical success. The film features the fictional Scottish...
The Outfit
The Outfit is a 1973 film directed by John Flynn. It stars Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker and Robert Ryan. The film is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Richard Stark and features the character of Parker introduced in The...
The 6th Day
The 6th Day is a 2000 action film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He plays family man Adam Gibson, who is cloned against his will. Schwarzenegger received a salary of $25 million for his role in the film.
The film...
The Killer Elite
The Killer Elite is an action thriller starring James Caan and Robert Duvall and directed by Sam Peckinpah.
The screenplay was written by Marc Norman and Sterling Silliphant from the Robert Rostand novel Monkey in the Middle. The editing was done by...
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers's Apocalypse
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) is an award-winning documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now.
The title is derived from the source material for Apocalypse Now, the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness. Using...
Breakout
Breakout is a 1975 action film starring Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North and Randy Quaid.
The character portrayed by John Huston frames the character portrayed by Robert Duvall. In order to keep him silent,...
Colors
Colors is a 1988 police procedural crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall and directed by Dennis Hopper. The story takes place in South Central Los Angeles, and is about an experienced LAPD cop, Bob Hodges (Duvall) and his rookie partner,...
The Eagle Has Landed
The Eagle Has Landed is a 1976 film version of the novel The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins. It was directed by John Sturges and starred Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall. It is also Sturges' final film for which Caine described...
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway is a 1993 drama-romance film directed by Randa Haines and written by Steve Conrad starring Richard Harris, Robert Duvall, Sandra Bullock, Shirley MacLaine, and Piper Laurie.
Frank (Richard Harris) is a retired Irish seaman...
True Confessions
True Confessions is a 1981 film directed by Ulu Grosbard, based on the Black Dahlia murder case in 1947. The film stars Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall. It was produced by Chartoff-Winkler Productions. It is based on the novel of the same name by...
Apocalypse Now Redux
Apocalypse Now Redux is an extended, definitive version of the 1979 epic war film Apocalypse Now. Unlike other new cuts of the film, Redux is usually considered by fans and critics, as well as director Coppola, as a completely new movie altogether....
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper is a 1981 film about infamous aircraft hijacker D. B. Cooper, who escaped with $200,000 after leaping from the back of a plane. The bulk of the film fictionalizes Cooper's escape (if he had lived) after he landed on the...
The Rain People
The Rain People is a 1969 film by Francis Ford Coppola. Among its leading players are James Caan and Robert Duvall, both of whom would later work with Coppola in The Godfather. Future film director and Coppola friend George Lucas worked as an aide...
Lawman
Lawman is a 1971 American Western film starring Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, and Robert Duvall.
The film is about the quest of a lone peace officer, Marshal Jered Maddox (played by Lancaster), to bring several men to justice. It was...
Joe Kidd
Joe Kidd is a 1972 American western film starring Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall, written by Elmore Leonard and directed by John Sturges.
The film is about an ex-bounty hunter hired by a wealthy landowner named Frank Harlan to track down Mexican...
The Natural
The Natural is a 1984 film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1952 baseball novel of the same name. The film was directed by Barry Levinson and stars Robert Redford. The film, like the book, recounts the experiences of Roy Hobbs, an individual with...
We Own the Night
Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) has turned his back on the family business. The popular manager of El Caribe, the legendary Russian-owned nightclub in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, he has changed his last name and concealed his connection to a long line...
Kicking & Screaming
Kicking & Screaming is a 2005 comedy film, directed by Jesse Dylan starring Will Ferrell. It focuses on the exploits of a boys soccer team and their new coach.
Phil Weston (Ferrell), is an average person who has had to endure his father Buck Weston...
Broken Trail
Broken Trail is a 2006 revisionist Western miniseries that originally aired on American Movie Classics as their first original movie. It stars Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church, and was directed by Walter Hill.
The screenplay for Broken Trail...
Something to Talk About
Something to Talk About is a 1995 film directed by Lasse Hallström, from a screenplay written by Callie Khouri. It stars Julia Roberts and Dennis Quaid as an estranged couple, Kyra Sedgwick as Roberts's sister and Robert Duvall and Gena Rowlands as...
Rambling Rose
Rambling Rose is a 1991 film set in Georgia during The Great Depression starring Laura Dern, Diane Ladd and Robert Duvall. Ladd and Dern in real life are mother and daughter, and both earned Academy Award nominations for their performances in this...
Bald: The Making of 'THX 1138
Bald: The Making of THX 1138 is a short film directed by George Lucas and released in 1971 to promote his first feature-length film, THX 1138, released the same year.
The film features a conversation between Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, producer...
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Lady Ice
Lady Ice is a 1973 crime film about an insurance investigator who becomes involved with a wealthy young woman he suspects of fencing stolen jewelry. The film was directed by Tom Gries, and stars Donald Sutherland, Jennifer O'Neill, and Robert Duvall....
A Show of Force
A Show of Force is a 1990 thriller, directed by Bruno Barreto. The film is based on events and theories surrounding the Maravilla Hill case in Puerto Rico adapted from Anne Nelson's book, "Murder Under Two Flags."
In 1978, Kate Melendez (Amy Irving)...
Geronimo: An American Legend
Geronimo: An American Legend is a 1993 film, starring Wes Studi as Geronimo, Jason Patric as 1st Lt. Charles B. Gatewood, Gene Hackman as Brig. Gen. George Crook, Robert Duvall as Chief of Scouts Al Sieber, and Matt Damon as 2nd Lt. Britton Davis....
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Mary Badham in the role of Scout and Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch.
In 1995, the film was...
Sling Blade
Sling Blade is a 1996 drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. It tells the story of a mentally impaired man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital where...
